TWD: Daryl Dixon Recap: Carol Finally Tastes The Local Wine — But Will It Be Her Last Sip?
Carol's flirtation with Antonio turned into something more this week on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. (Valentina will be thrilled!) But is that the beginning of their love story... or the end?
In Sunday's episode, Antonio shows Carol old home movies he shot of Roberto learning to ride a bike. He always wanted to be a filmmaker, but his late wife Maria was the only one who understood his dream. Roberto is still ailing in bed, and Fede catches on that Daryl isn't out working on his boat — and that Carol lied to him. While Carol walks in on Antonio taking a shower (muy caliente!) and Valentina gives her a Spanish phrase book to better connect with him, we learn that Fede did once have a woman he loved: Antonio's wife Maria! Ah, their feud makes a lot more sense now.
Antonio helps Carol practice her Spanish phrases, but they come back to find Roberto very sick with a fever. Carol asks Fede for aspirin, but Fede refuses, saying he has to ration for the whole town and Roberto endangered them all when he ran off. Carol won't take no for an answer, though, so she sneaks into Fede's place at night and unlocks his cabinet to fetch aspirin for Roberto. Doña Marga catches her and holds her at gunpoint, but Carol pleads with her in broken Spanish — that phrasebook is helping! — saying that Fede has been lying... and poisoning Roberto to keep him sick, too. That's enough to get Doña Marga to relent.
With the medicine, Roberto's fever breaks, and Carol wants to leave town ASAP, taking Roberto and Antonio with her. But Antonio insists he can't leave Solaz, and he shows Carol why with another home movie: Antonio was filming a protest, using Maria as an on-air reporter, when a car bomb went off, killing Maria. (Now we know why Antonio's face is scarred.) Fede knows the truth, but Roberto doesn't, and Fede has held that over Antonio ever since, with Antonio bitterly blaming himself for his wife's death. But now Roberto sees the movie and storms off upset. Carol hides him in the back of her jeep and packs up to leave town, and Antonio promises to join them at Valentina's lighthouse — and they share a tender kiss. How's that local wine taste, Carol??
Fede stops Carol as she's leaving to examine her jeep... with Roberto hidden in the back. But Antonio distracts him by accusing him in the town square of sending Justina off to El Alcazar and poisoning his son. Fede allows Carol to pass, with Roberto in tow. But now we're worried that Antonio won't live long enough to reunite with her at that lighthouse. Oh, and we also see a snippet of his home movie where he sits with a dead Maria in an ambulance — and she turns into a walker.
Meanwhile, Paz catches up with Daryl on the road to Barcelona, and they head to a refugee community where Paz used to live. It's an oasis for women escaping El Alcazar, and Daryl wants to put a stop to the medieval practice before the next ofrenda. They hatch a plan to ambush Guillermo and the El Alcazar men as they reach a narrow passageway where hundreds of hungry walkers roam nearby behind walls. Paz also opens up to Daryl about her love affair with Guillermo's wife Elena, and she senses something in him: "I think maybe you lost someone, too. Someone you can't get back." Is this connected to the flashbacks to Daryl's childhood, maybe?
Daryl and Paz lead the refugees in an all-out assault on Guillermo and his men, attacking their convoy and trying to free Justina. (Elena is there, too, and catches a glimpse of Paz.) One of the refugees, Laia, is dead-set on taking out Guillermo, and she points a bazooka at his transport — but that would kill Elena, too, so Paz knocks her aside, and the errant bazooka blast frees the captive walkers, sending the whole plan into chaos. Laia gets eaten by walkers, and Daryl can't free Justina in time, so she's carted off along with Guillermo and company as they escape through the passageway. Daryl isn't ready to give up, though: He heads back on the road to take on El Alcazar — and Paz joins him.
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