The cause of Daryl’s group’s hallucinations is not obvious, but it is probably related to a combination of bat guano, mold, and humid air from a damp hole in the ground filled with corpses. It’s a perfect storm of bad news; As the air quality worsens and the effects of exposure to guano and its pathogens begin to take effect, the group encounters a horde of moldy, glowing walkers that they are forced to fight. Add adrenaline and violence to lingering survivor’s guilt and a head full of what is essentially acid, and you get a bad mix (and an opportunity for the show’s special effects teams to show off with big, distorted zombie faces).

Hallucinations affect everyone differently. Codron is locked in combat with his deceased brother Michel, until Daryl appears and sends the zombie at Codron, prompting the one-eyed former warrior Pouvoir to attack him in retaliation. Carol loses her way, literally, by the hallucinated ghost of Sofía. Sophia takes Carol to a disused service tunnel, and after the two hug and Carol says goodbye (sort of), Sophia leaves her mother to carry on without her in a very moving performance and scene from the underrated Melissa McBride.

As for Daryl, his hallucination does not turn him against his comrades-in-arms, nor does it allow him to make peace with Merle or tie up any other loose ends. The living dead. Instead, Daryl finds himself hit on the head and betrayed by his Scottish Chunnel tour guides because there are only two gas masks intact and they have friends waiting on the other side of the water. He is about to lose consciousness when his hallucination, Isabelle (Clémence Poésy), appears above him. She tells Daryl that her job isn’t done and she’s not going to do it. die in a field in France like his grandfather (who also shows up to take care of his hallucinated grandson). Isabelle gives Daryl the strength to get up, hit the two Scots with a shovel and kill them.

Reunited, Carol and Daryl breathe clean air in their gas masks. Their trip to England may have been canceled due to a couple of bad trips, but the two seem undaunted. In classic guru/shaman/hippie fashion, they both got something they needed emotionally from the hallucinations and learned something about themselves. Most importantly, Daryl and Carol remain by each other’s side, with a renewed desire to return home.

How will Daryl and Carol arrive in Spain in season 3?

How that winding journey takes them from France to Spain: the setting announced for season 3–has not been seen yet. But if I had to guess? Daryl will have to prepare for another transatlantic ship trip.

Once upon a time, Christopher Columbus and his group of sailors made their way from the sunny shores of Spain to the West Indies thanks to the ocean current and prevailing winds. I imagine even walkers are no match for the power of the Gulf Stream. With Daryl’s haircut, Carol’s knife skills, and (possibly) Codron’s one-eyedness, they’d make a pretty good pirate crew for a wayward Spanish galleon.