If 'The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon' Season 2 Is Anything To Go By, Season 3 Will Be Devastating

Less than a year after Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, the third season is coming on September 7, 2025. The Walking Dead spin-off series finally reunited fan-favorite characters Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) in Season 2, and the pair continue their journey together in Season 3. How did they get there, where are they going, and what happened? As it turns out, a lot of love, loss, violence, and even hallucinations were experienced along the way.

Daryl and Carol’s Reunion Is Bittersweet

For the first half of the season, we got to see concurrent stories. Daryl was acclimating to his new life at The Nest and helping to ward off threats. Meanwhile, Carol tried to track down her best friend, worried something was wrong since she hadn’t heard from him in some time.

When they do finally reunite, it’s bittersweet because it comes with the death of a love, but also leads to the savior of a young boy. Carol brings Daryl to Isabelle (Clémence Poésy), who is lying on the ground dying. Just after she declares her love for him, she dies in Daryl’s arms. She begs him to take care of Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) as her dying wish, and Daryl is determined to oblige. She’s especially concerned about her nephew because Losang (Joel de la Fuente) brainwashed everyone in The Nest into believing that Laurent would not die or turn if he was bitten. He planned to hold a public ceremony to prove this to his followers, who had been growing increasingly skeptical.

The search for Laurent takes them to an elderly couple, where the pair face off with Genet (Anne Charrier) and her group. Carol shoots Genet with her own Amper serum, which causes a painful and gruesome death. Laurent, meanwhile, is safely with Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney) in his community, but Losang finds them. In a surprising move, Codron (Romain Levi) helps Laurent escape when Losang arrives looking for the young boy. Daryl later has a face-to-face with Losang, and they battle until Daryl gets the upper hand and kills him by smashing a skull into his head.

That threat is out of the way, but there’s still Jacinta (Nassima Benchicou), Losang’s right-hand woman, who's even more deeply committed to the cause than he was. She manages to capture Anna (Lukerya Illyashenko), owner of the Demimonde, to force information out of her. But Anna purposely leads Jacinta and her people into a parking garage filled with walkers. Jacinta is bit, and she angrily locks Anna inside, causing her to be eaten alive. Later, Jacinta shoots herself in the head, unable to deal with the inevitability of her death, nor seeing Laurent escape to safety since she viewed him as humanity’s only hope.

Laurent Is En Route to The Commonwealth With Ash

While Jacinta is being led to the garage by Anna, Daryl and Carol have arranged for Laurent to fly back to The Commonwealth with Ash (Manish Dayal). Initially, the hope was that they would all go back together. But Ash delivered harrowing news: the plane could only hold three people. Someone had to stay behind. Carol was determined that it should be her, but Daryl argued that he knows people, he knows the city, and it makes more sense for him to stay. He would find his way back home somehow. Ash agreed.

While it’s a close call, Carol’s refusal to listen and decision to stay behind helps fend off the attackers long enough for Ash to take off to a safe altitude in the sky where their bullets can no longer reach him. She and Daryl would travel back home together, dealing with whatever came their way on route, and that was that.

Hallucinations, Goodbyes, and an Onward Journey

Off they went with Fallou and the others, introduced to a couple that could guide them through the 31.5-mile-long Channel Tunnel, a railway tunnel that runs under the English Channel and connects the UK and France. Fallou decides that he will stay in France, having fallen in love with Akila (Soraya Hachoumi). So, Daryl, Carol, and Codron head out with Angus (Matt Swift) and Fiona (Sarah McCardie) on foot through the dark, damp depths of “the Chunnel.”

Soon, however, strange things start happening. That’s because the bat guano in the tunnel has spawned a fungus that is causing psychoactive effects. Codron suddenly becomes violent and angry, thinking Daryl is a walker. He eventually runs off after they fight, and it’s unclear where he ends up and if he survives. Daryl keeps seeing visions of Isabelle and his grandfather, but manages to kill Angus and Fiona in self-defense while trying to maintain his faculties.

Carol is hallucinating, seeing both a walker who looks like her and a vision of Sophia. It’s the closure Carol desperately needed. Before she can wrap her arms around a real walker, thinking it’s her daughter, Daryl arrives to save her. He has two gas masks so they can continue the journey safely until they arrive at the other end of the tunnel and into England. The season ends poignantly, with them walking away together.