The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Finally Revealed How He Even Got to France 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is quite a unique spin-off to the original show. While adding a lot of details and characters and changing the backdrop dramatically, this series ultimately stays true to its mother show — and it’s a delicate balance.

The most noticeable change that immediately catches your eye when you start watching Daryl Dixon is the location. All of a sudden, we’re admiring the picturesque sceneries of post-apocalyptic France instead of the grim realities of the United States, and the difference is huge: even zombies are more charming in Marseille.

But at the same time, you can’t really focus on the views because every time something distinctly French appears on the screen, you can’t help but wonder: how in the world did Daryl cross the ocean and get to France? Wasn’t he in Maine?

The spin-off understands the significance of this mystery very well, so during the first four episodes, it literally drop-fed information to us in the form of short flashbacks from Daryl’s journey. You couldn’t really understand much from them, but at least you knew that the series was not going to ignore this issue altogether and would reveal the truth eventually.

Now, with Episode 5, we finally know the answer.

While in Maine, Daryl was captured by Pouvoir des Vivants, the French band that serves Genet. Daryl gets into conflict with one of Genet’s people and ends up on the band’s ship that goes to France as future fuel for…no, not the ship — for zombies. However, he manages to escape his captors on a lifeboat and gets washed onto the French shore.

Of course, this revelation raised even more questions — specifically, about the nature of Pouvoir des Vivants’ lab-ship and the experiments run there. But it would not have been The Walking Dead if unveiling one mystery didn’t cause five more to appear — so even in this sense, Daryl Dixon keeps the original TWD’s traditions.