The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 4, “La Paradis Pour Toi,” which premiered Sunday, Oct. 20 on AMC.

Season 2, Episode 4 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon starts out with the titular character right where the previous episode left off: beaten and bloodied in the most unsanitary bathroom stall in France. Little does he know is that right outside his place of captivity, Carol is the lone survivor of Genet’s massacre on her own people. Genet has all the corpses injected with a serum that turns them into “hybrids,” the experimental variant of walkers with increased speed, strength and agility.

To avoid being ripped apart by the crowd of energetic hybrids, Carol hijacks a vehicle with Codron strapped onto the back. Although she’s trying to save Daryl, Carol also unintentionally leads the hybrids right to him at the Nest. The plan wasn’t exactly as Genet intended, but it’s the same end result. A soldier fires a cannon into the Nest, welcoming in Carol, Codron and the hybrids. It’s a worse slaughter than Genet did to her own people. Soldiers from both sides are fighting each other with hybrids making everyone their dinner. When Carol sets him loose, Codron stays behind to fight the hybrids and asks her to tell Daryl that he helped her for Laurent.

Inside and oblivious to the outside battle, Losang interrogates Isabelle about Laurent’s location. Losang blames Isabelle’s rebellion on Daryl’s influence, but she asserts that Daryl awakened her. She no longer believes in false prophets. She still believes Laurent is special, but he’s also a human being who can bleed and die, just like so many spiritual leaders before him. Losang doesn’t take this, nor Isabelle’s attempt to murder him nicely. He stabs her in the stomach, in a way that is nearly fatal. The “flock” as they call themselves, leave Isabelle bleeding out on the floor to escape the attack.

The wounded Isabelle still awakes, but she’s sluggish and barely holding on for dear life. She narrowly avoids the fighting as she makes her way out of the Nest, except for a lone hybrid killed by Carol. The two women quickly make introductions while Carol cleans her wound. Unfortunately, the shivering and excessive bleeding symptoms don’t place the odds in Isabelle’s favor. In the meantime, Daryl gets released by a young member of the flock to sort out the hybrid mess in the lower parts of the Nest. This one time, Daryl gets helped by Carol, and they have an emotional reunion, nearly as heartfelt as their reunion in the Season 5 premiere of The Walking Dead.

Just as Carol arrives, however, Isabelle is out. Daryl has an emotional goodbye with Isabelle before she dies on the bench, effectively reducing her role to how she is valued by Daryl, rather than how complex Isabelle is as her own character. Her final wish is for Laurent to be taken care of by Daryl, and for the boy to always remember that she’ll be spiritually with him. Daryl and Carol escape the Nest on the beach, while Losang gets captured by Genet. Carol is preoccupied with getting Daryl home and ensuring him that Connie, Judith and everyone else misses him. But Daryl doesn’t care about that; he just wants to make sure Laurent’s safe.

By the time they reach the cave, Laurent and Fallou are gone. Laurent was smart enough to leave behind his Rubik’s Cube to start a trail, which Daryl and Carol start following. They catch up on the road about their travels and the people they’ve met along the way. Carol fulfills her promise to Codron by telling Daryl he helped her for Laurent’s sake. Genet interrogates a broken down but defiant Losang about Laurent’s location. The consensus seems to be that whichever group has the boy, has God on their side. If Genet wants the entirety of France to back her, she needs Losang’s people as well. Thus, the search for Laurent commences.

Daryl and Carol are already on Laurent’s trail but are having much more fun, even in light of Isabelle’s death. Carol’s funny story about her strict French teacher is good for the heart. The question on everybody’s mind is who Carol was talking about on the radio back in Season 1. The obvious answer was Rick Grimes, especially now that he’s returned to the safety of the Commonwealth with Michonne and his children. But Carol regrets informing Daryl that her radio call was a classic, but frustrating bait. The person she said came back wasn’t actually a person. It was a feeling.

All of Carol’s past trauma started haunting her again when life at the Commonwealth became quiet. Daryl and Carol follow some tracks to an old neighborhood guarded by walker scarecrows. The dynamic duo crash the place, guns at the ready, to only see an older couple enjoying dinner. The couple, Didi and Theo, know Daryl by name and tell them over dinner that Laurent and Fallou were there but have already moved on. The next morning, Daryl and Theo try to fix up a car while Carol and Didi work away in the kitchen.

Didi mistakenly believes that Carol is Isabelle, whom Laurent believes Daryl loves but won’t admit it. Daryl Dixon holds up an obvious mirror to Carol and Daryl, and Didi and Theo. The latter couple are just platonic but love each other dearly, very similar to the former couple. Carol, Daryl and Theo go into the village where all the resident walkers still lurk around. Theo thinks that keeping them alive in their home is a sign of respect.

Carol is more than happy to bring Laurent back to the Commonwealth, but Daryl would rather him stay in France with people he knows. He doesn’t want to lose anybody else, and Carol thinks it’s because Daryl doesn’t want to end up like her. In truth, Carol is insecure about how she appears as a woman who’s lost multiple children. She believes she’s being judged more than she actually is. She has a moment of panic when she comes across a barn door, which Didi helps her out of with a much-needed hug and words of assurance.

The Guerrier, Genet’s soldiers, arrive in the village to question Didi and Theo over Laurent’s location while Daryl and Carol hide. There’s some more catching up. Judith apparently didn’t want Carol to leave, but couldn’t stop her. Carol is surprised that Daryl got close to people, and possibly even a little jealous that he found a new family outside the one he’s had for years. When the duo get ready to leave the next morning, Theo insists that they stay for Didi’s famous truffle eggs that are like “sex on the tongue.”

Didi and Theo become suspicious when they inquire about Daryl’s intentions with Laurent, just as the Guerrier shows up. But from the looks of Theo holding them at gunpoint, Didi wasn’t aware of the sell-out. His explanation is that “armies come and go, but you don’t survive by picking a losing side,” which doesn’t show much growth since his ancestors who sided with the Nazis decades ago. This time around, Genet is with the Guerrier.

Didi takes the gun and gives it to Daryl and Carol, instructing them to hide in the basement. Genet has her own helping of the “sex on the tongue” eggs, making herself comfortable while she questions them about any children knocking on their door. Didi takes a bold and brave shot at Genet by equating her to Nazis who came to this same village looking for children to put on trains. Of course, that’s not the type of insult Genet takes lightly.

She orders her men to turn Didi and Theo into hybrids right when Daryl and Carol ambush the soldiers. Genet and Carol get into the former’s standoff. All the time, she just wanted to protect the people the government refused to help when the world fell to the virus. But her goal doesn’t justify the horrible person she becomes. Carol then shoots the hybrid serum in Genet, and she grossly morphs into flesh-eating creature until she succumbs to the injection.

Carol and Daryl later bury Didi who died in the fight, leaving Theo to reckon with his mistake. Daryl and Carol are ready to hit the road, but not before he lets everything out. He loved Isabelle, despite not thinking much of her when they met. Laurent was the glue of the group, and Daryl still needs him at the Commonwealth. But at the end of the day, he never stopped trying to get home to Carol. She at least needs to know that.

At the Nest, Sabine informs Losang that Genet was killed by Daryl, which is proof to Losang that God’s on his side. Apparently, it’s also proof for Genet’s own people. Sabine recruits Losang to merge the two groups, on the promise that they try a new approach that’s neither Losang nor Genet’s way. But how different will this new group be if Losang is asking them to still search for Laurent to achieve the dream of the promised land?

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