Daryl Delivers a Thrilling Comeback in ‘The Book of Carol’

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The first season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon focused solely on Daryl (Norman Reedus), but with a second season now carrying the added title of The Book of Carol, we were promised a reunion between Daryl and Carol (Melissa McBride). This series has done a great, and purposely frustrating, job of keeping these best friends apart, a decision that is the exact opposite of what happened in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Lived, where Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) were reunited at the end of the very first episode.

Daryl Dixon has been focused on Carol trying to find her friend all the way across the ocean in France. She has been getting closer and closer, but Episode 3 saw a turn, with Carol being taken in by Marion Genet (Anne Charrier) and her army. As she has often been doing of late, Carol lied, saying she was in France to kill Daryl, prompting Genet to bring her along on her mission to raid the Nest where Daryl lives so that she can do just that. There’s just one small catch: Genet is also building a supercharged army of the undead and wants to turn Carol as well. Just how is she going to escape with her life intact in Episode 4, “Le Paradis Pour Toi (Heaven for You),” and find the BFF she traveled halfway across the world for?

Carol Barely Escapes Becoming One of Genet’s Super Walkers in Episode 4

As the episode begins, Genet’s men are readying cannons to fire at the Nest, while another group of soldiers begins firing into the crowd. A scared Carol is among them, but as the innocent start to fall, Carol gets to the ground, out of the way of the bullets, and pretends to be dead. Dozens lay dead around her as they are given injections of the serum that will bring them back stronger than ever. Carol takes one to the arm as well but quickly pulls it out before it can take effect. Meanwhile, Stephane Codron (Romain Levi) is brought in, tied to the back of a jeep as bait for the now-waking dead to follow to the Nest. Carol makes a run for it, getting to the jeep and gunning it, outrunning the walkers with Stephane still attached to the back. When she reaches the outer wall of the Nest, Carol stops, right as a cannon blows part of it open, fittingly giving Carol room to drive through. The Nest soldiers are there, shooting at her jeep and missing. Carol stops and cuts Codron loose. The two separate, with Codron wanting to fight for Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi).

Deeper inside the Nest, Isabelle (Clémence Poésy) is tied to a chair as Losang (Joel de la Fuente) tells her again about how special of a Messiah Laurent is. Isabelle tells Losang that he’s a desperate savage and Daryl has shown her the truth. She knows that Laurent is just a human who can die. His faith unable to be swayed, Losang demands to know where the boy is just as a soldier comes in to let him know that the gate has been …Laurent, who can take them to the promised land.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol is available to watch on AMC+ and every Sunday on AMC.

Daryl’s journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home.

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