season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon concluded last weekend and gave fans a future with Daryl and Carol to look forward to as they travel a new path.

It was amazing to see them reunite and we’re not done with them yet. After a tense finale, they look to head to another European city, although knowing where they’re filming season 3, it looks like they’re facing a detour.

So what’s in store for the couple? Showrunner and executive producer David Zabel talked about the season finale, as well as the future of the show, telling The Hollywood Reporter:

“We loved the revitalization we experienced going to France and wanted to continue doing it. On a story level, the characters should not calm down. It should be a traveling show.

“They have to keep moving (to return home). At the end of the second season, they go somewhere. we don’t know exactly where, and it’s not a direct line to the next place they go. But the idea is to keep the characters fighting and struggling to get home and move.”

He continued: “On another level, we can bring a completely different culture, history, flavor, color, light and architecture. It will be very exciting to reinvent the program.

“It seemed like all signs pointed to us continuing to move and get to the next place. In seasons five and six, it might be a different place. They’ll keep moving until they get home!

another country beyond Spain? What’s next on Daryl and Carol’s survival sightseeing tour, a trip to Italy? Zabel said:

“I can’t tell you, but I do have a plan I’ve spoken to Norman about it. There is a very good plan. But we don’t even know if we’re going to do the fourth season yet…”

What’s more, future plans surrounding Daryl and Carol could come down to a wild card factor of the Daryl Dixon hands of the team, the whims of the elders walking Dead franchise. Zabel explained:

“I have had a lot of freedom. I talk to (franchise creative director Scott M. Gimple) all the time and he says, ‘You have free reign, at least for now.’ Keep doing what you’re doing.’

“But at some point, I imagine some things might be determined by what other characters are doing and where they are. “So, I don’t know if Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is going to get on a raft on the Hudson and end up (in Europe).”

Could that mean that maybe we could even see Rick (Andrew Lincoln) reunite with Daryl? That would be epic!

Whatever the future holds, as long as The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon continues, it will depend on Daryl and Carol’s relationship moving forward. Zabel says:

“There are so many things they haven’t seen or experienced. They’re both characters—landlocked Americans—and in that way, they’re these classic Americans in a sense who never traveled the world.

“They both had reasons to stay close to home. That was part of what I thought was exciting from the beginning: taking those characters and exposing them to these things that maybe they saw in a book once, or maybe they saw a picture, and now they’re in the middle of it.

He continues: “From the audience’s point of view, it’s a chance to see what the apocalypse looks like in these other parts of the world and hopefully the audience will be able to experience the same thing as these characters.

“It’s like, ‘Wow, I’ve only seen the Eiffel Tower in photographs, and now I’m standing next to it…and also, there are walkers standing next to it.'”

It’s been great to see the series live in a new country with these characters we’ve known and loved since the beginning. You can catch up on the first two seasons of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon on AMC+.