The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 3, “L’Invisible,” which premiered Sunday, Oct. 13 on AMC.

In the opening scene of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 3, a crowd of tourists awe over the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. It’s pre-apocalyptic times before the outbreak took its toll on the world. It’s obvious that it’s a flashback because teenagers are playing video games on their phones and Genet has bangs. Genet wasn’t the museum security guard she claimed to be in the first season. She was a janitor working alongside Sabine, who’s her right-hand woman in the present day. Sabine and other janitors encourage Genet to join them in a strike for better healthcare and treatment, but Genet is less than enthusiastic about it. Neither the government nor tourists care about their healthcare.

Everybody’s phones started going off. They assume it’s another bomb threat, probably like the false threat at the Eiffel Tower in September 2010, the same year as the outbreak. The panic sets in two hours later. Marion tries to reunite with her partner outside, but the museum security won’t allow anyone in or out. Through the window, Marion watches a walker devour her partner to death. Genet cries while admiring the Mona Lisa following his death. Many years later, Genet thinks she has the Mona Lisa all figured out. While Carol says she looks sad, Genet says there’s something withheld in her smile.

A soldier interrupts Genet and Carol’s conversation when he insults the food and throws it on the ground. Before the cook goes to clean it up, Genet insists that he do it himself by eating it off the ground. Food is a precious resource after all. Watching this man licking up the soup as everyone tries not to stare is as humiliating as Succession‘s Boar on the Floor game. At least this guy deserves it. Genet may be cold, but she looks out for the little guys because she was the little guy.

Carol and Rémy are assigned their places of work — sheis in the kitchen and he’s in the stables. The two watch as a bunch of subjects are executed like cattle and give them a mysterious shot. Rémy provides some interesting exposition that reveals the burners may have been created by Genet’s experiments, but accidentally got loose. Two of the subjects turn instantly and are put down. They’re not easy enough to control as soldiers, which is exactly what Genet wants: an army of enhanced walkers.

At the Nest, Sylvie escapes captivity but is immediately caught in the courtyard where preparations for the celebration are being made. She tries to convince everyone that Losang will kill Laurent, but they don’t believe her. For years, Losang has ingrained the idea in everyone’s minds that the boy is immune to the virus. Sylvie’s pleas end terribly when she fatally falls off the balcony during a struggle against the soldiers. Losang accounts her death to her weak faith, which Jacinta is happy to hear. Fallou, Daryl and Isabelle make their way into the Nest without alerting the soldiers.

Before they make the climb, Isabelle inquires about what her life would be like in Ohio at the Commonwealth. Laurent is excited about proving his immunity to the people of the Nest, but he may not be entirely clear about what has to be done to prove it. His willingness to go along with the ceremony isn’t enough, however. Losang gives him a valerian root and honey tea to “relax” him. In other words, Losang drugs Laurent. The boy is on another plane of existence when he groggily arrives at the ceremony.

During a passionate speech, Losang brings out a zombified Sylvie whose love for Laurent will “deliver” his immunity confirmation. Everyone is shocked by the appearance of a dead Sylvie. Not everyone was on board with this plan. Just in time, Daryl kills the zombified Sylvie. Laurent, Daryl, Isabelle and Fallou make their way out of the Nest, but it’s a maze filled with soldiers. While they’re hiding, Daryl trusts Laurent to bring Isabelle and Fallou to a safe place while Daryl deals with the soldiers. But as spaced out as Laurent is, he may not be the best person for this job.

Fallou and Laurent are forced to leave Isabelle behind when she gets backed into a corner. On that note, Daryl cleans house pretty well until he’s caught by the guards, with no other choice but to surrender. Meanwhile, Carol helps the cook from before by serving food and asking about Daryl at the same time. No one knows or cares about Daryl as they shove food down their throats, except for Codron. He’s certainly seen better days; his eye is swollen shut and his left hand is missing two fingers from Genet’s torturous amputation. Carol thinks it’s a sign that they met, that she’s meant to find Daryl again.

When Codron doesn’t give in to avoid more torture, she lies again and says he’s her brother. At this point, it’s becoming so hard to keep up with all these lies. Codron tells her he’s at the Nest, but warns Carol that she should find him before Genet does. Otherwise, he’s a dead man. Carol later confides in Rémy about the Nest. She wants him to come with her, but he can’t leave his husband behind. However, she finds herself in a predicament similar to Daryl’s. Rémy sold her out to Genet for his husband’s life.

Carol doesn’t even make it past the front gates without a line of soldiers threatening to kill her. Genet basically gives Carol an option: become a subject to Genet’s experiments or start spilling the beans. The experiments will bring peace to the world, says Genet. Carol’s responds with, “The war to end all wars. I’ve heard that one before.” Carol has a point: how exactly do enhanced walkers — a stronger and deadlier variant of what ended the world — save humanity and create peace?

It seems like Carol is finally going to come clean when she tells Genet the truth about how she got here. But then she says she came here to kill Daryl. Carol does what she must to survive, but this is exhausting. The women form an alliance to attack the Nest and “kill” Daryl. But chances are, Losang might beat them to it. Losang has him kidnapped, and questions how Daryl has made it this long without any source of faith. Before making their way to the Nest, Genet and Carol stop by the Louvre. Genet recalls looking at all the pieces in the museum about apocalyptic disasters, in which people deciphered as a way to understand humanity’s own destruction.

People wanted a higher power to save them, but no one answered their prayers. As people wallowed in the museum, waiting for that higher power, she stepped up. Genet insists that religion is a fairytale designed to control people. Carol doesn’t disagree, but also believes that religion can be a source of hope for people. On a similar note, Laurent feels ashamed that he liked being perceived as special by the masses. Fallou doesn’t blame him for Sylvie’s death, and says that hope can still help them survive, just as Carol said. While Laurent and Fallou are safe in the cave, Isabelle and Daryl are chained up in the bathroom.

Isabelle wants to hear a story from Daryl just to hear his voice. He tells the story of himself, saying he didn’t know why he left or what he was looking for, until he found people to care about in the place “far away from home.” Like Carol’s constant lies, it’s frustrating that Daryl Dixon has changed Daryl’s reason for leaving to find Rick Grimes as an ambiguous decision. Daryl’s journey can naturally evolve; there’s no reason to change canon to appeal to the current story. Regardless, he admits that he found something worthwhile in France and Isabelle proclaims she loves him.

Isabelle is taken into a different room for questioning just as Genet, Carol and more of the Power of the Living’s people arrive to attack. When Genet starts giving a speech about them being remembered as heroes on this day, and the scientist starts preparing shots, Carol realizes they’re all fresh meat for the slaughter. Genet insists that these people have trained to serve her as walkers. She’s still upholding her end of the promise, so Carol can kill Daryl, but didn’t specify whether she’d be alive or dead to do it.

New episodes of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon air every Sunday at 9:00 PM ET on AMC and AMC+.