The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Recap: Mon Dieu! Laurent’s Dad Is [Spoiler]
Just when The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon has us thinking that Laurent’s origin story can’t get any more crushing, along comes episode No. 3 and a double whammy of a reveal.
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“Paris Sera Toujours Paris” starts off “routinely” enough, with a mad conductor and his walker orchestra convincing even Isabelle that she and her entourage will have to visit her old hometown. There, Daryl & Co. connect with a man named Fallou and a whole group of people that believes Laurent is basically Jesus 2.0. Since Team Fallou will help Isabelle and Sylvie get Laurent to Le Havre, Daryl’s part of the bargain is complete. But to obtain intel about a boat to take him back to America, they’ll need valuables.
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As luck would have it, Isa still has a stash in her old apartment, where she also grabs a photo of Lily to show Laurent. Now armed with items to barter, our travelers go with Fallou to the Demimonde, an underground nightclub that gives off heavy-duty Mos Eisley Cantina vibes. There, as Isa tries to make a deal with a couple of lowlifes, Daryl smells a rat, a weapon is drawn, and a punch thrown. When management intervenes, who is it but Quinn, aka the boyfriend whose car Isa stole when he wanted to dump her pregnant sister in the middle of doomsday!
When Isa introduces Laurent as Lily’s boy, Quinn tells the nun that she should have told him he had a son. Isa is stunned. She had no idea that he’d hooked up with her kid sister; Lily had never said a word. When Quinn intimates that knowing his son is the price of the info Daryl needs, he gets Isa out of there. But “I don’t need a hero,” she tells him. “I never did.” She would shortly, however…
IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS | Codron meets with Genet, uses Daryl’s recording to prove to her that he’s still alive and gets hired to capture him. (Something tells me he’s eager to see his brother’s killer used in Genet’s experiments, the purpose of which remains unclear — to me, at least. A scientist times how long it takes a walker to break its restraints… but why, exactly?) Codron’s next stop is the Demimonde, where Quinn presumably blabs everything that he knows about Daryl’s possible whereabouts.
That evening, back at Fallou and his peeps’ hideout, our grizzled protagonist is about to take off when he gets caught up in an argument with Isa about whether she’s going to tell Laurent that Quinn is his father — an argument that the youngster overhears. As he runs away, Codron shows up with a bunch of Genet’s soldiers. Isa gets separated from Laurent, Daryl gets into a battle royale with Codron on a rooftop, and as the hour concludes, the roof on which Daryl is standing collapses beneath his feet!
So at this point, which way do you think the show is going to go? Is Laurent just a kid who got lucky, as Daryl theorizes? Or is he some kind of messiah?
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