Welcome back, Multiversity readers, to the third episode of TWD: Daryl Dixon. Last episode was a mix of background information about Sister Isabelle and a side quest, but now we’re getting back on track. Laurent needs to get to Paris, and Daryl needs to find a radio or find some way to get back home. Are we going to get more zombies? Or will we get some interactions with the gurriers on Daryl’s trail? Let’s find out in, “Paris Sera Toujours Paris.”
1. Welcome to Paris
The episode starts with a “Cold Open,” usually reserved for comedy sitcoms. Daryl and his crew detour on their trip to Paris to check in with an older man with a radio to see if they can get any information about their path. Daryl is dead-set on the radio while Sister Isabelle tries to understand this crazy old man by simply explaining, “he’s a musician,” so he’s merely eccentric. He took parts of his radio out to plug into an amplifier so he could be a conductor for his makeshift zombie band playing “Bolero.” They both roll their eyes at this being alone for too long, man, and head straight for Paris. Maybe it’ll come back to play with the guy since they left right in the middle of his “show,” but as for now, it feels a little odd for the usual tone of the show. After the opening credits, they move into Paris seamlessly and find the connection they need, led by a man named Fallou.
2. Enemy Of My Enemy
Our mystery gurrier finally gets a name, Stéphane Codron, and he’s a man on a mission. Revenge for killing his brother isn’t the newest update since we learned that from the jump. No, we finally get a connection to the head of his movement, Genet. She is the mystery woman from the end of the first episode who has also been looking for Daryl since he escaped her ship. (Still unknown the exact reason he got captured). Now, it seems like he won’t be limping to the finish line to find Daryl; now, he will have more resources and be all the more dangerous. Especially given that he knows their route.
3. Past Information
Now that they’ve gotten to Paris, and that’s where Sister Isabelle grew up, Daryl figures she might have some connections to help get him a boat back to the United States. Fallou might know some people but quickly reminds them that for something like transportation or even information in general, they will need something trade. Isabelle and Daryl return to her old apartment to look for something to barter with. Now we get a smirk and head nod for paying attention to the full flashback from last week’s episode. At the very beginning, she’s at a nightclub swiping watches from men and packing them in a little box filled with other things she steals. It’s a good reminder of her past for the audience and accessible info dumb for Daryl since he had no idea how she was before the world ended and she became a nun.
4. Old Friends, New Revelations
With some drugs in their bag for negotiating, Daryl and Isabelle follow Fallou to a post-apocalyptic nightclub on the other side of the Paris catacombs to find information about getting Daryl back home. Things quickly go sideways when the guys they’re negotiating with not only demand payment first but pull out a knife, thinking it’ll be enough to take out Daryl. The club owner stops the fight before it gets too hairy, and shocker, it’s Quinn, AKA the guy that tried to ditch Isabelle’s sister in last week’s flashback. The real surprise is that he isn’t still upset about her ditching him for her sister’s sake. However, with a surprise visit from Laurent to the club, they both find out some interesting news. Quinn discovers Lily could give birth before she dies, and Isabelle discovers he is the father. It’s a twisted fact that makes that flashback even worse for that guy, knowing that he wasn’t only trying to get rid of her sister and knew it was his child. Quinn tries to play the victim card by saying she should have told him, but given that neither of them was sure the other was alive, it feels like a pretty good excuse.
5. Another Showdown
Things between Daryl and Isabelle are tense after he bails on negotiating with Quinn once he realizes how much of an a-hole Quinn is. Daryl is on his way out to try and find a way back home on his own since he did his part to bring Laurent to the camp, but similar to the first episode, once he’s on his way out, Codron shows up guns a-blazing. It becomes a quick game of cat and mouse once Daryl is spotted, but he’s not going out easy, even if we’re halfway through the season already. Daryl almost finishes the deal and is choking out Codron on the roof before the other soldiers shoot at him to get back on the defense. The real kicker from this sneak attack is Laurent getting away from both of them and is now missing.
