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In the pre-season promotion for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol, Norman Reedus repeatedly said he believed the finale was the best hour of The Walking Dead that had ever been made. Inevitably, it isn’t, but it’s a shame because while it cannot compete with the likes of "The Grove "or "Terminus," it’s not a bad episode. “Au Revoir Les Enfant” (Goodbye Children) gives us some vastly needed closure and the promise of a better future.

Much of the first half of the episode takes place at the racetrack where Daryl and Carol (Melissa McBride) are deciding who will go on Ash’s (Manish Dayal) plane back to the US with Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi). As with so much of this season, Daryl’s motivations for offering to stay behind remain muddy. Is he offering to stay behind out of nobility, or does...

As Carol (Melissa McBride) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) get closer to reuniting in France, the religious and militaristic factions in the area also come closer to meeting in the middle, as similar-but-different tyrannical, murderous cults. This amping up of the action in the Nest — with the impending "test" to prove Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) would survive a walker bite and and Carol’s infiltration of Genet’s (Anne Charrier) group — gives the story more cohesion and forward motion than the fractured first two episodes, where the French storylines were often the least interesting ones.

Genet’s story opens the episode. We learn more about her past working as a janitor at the Louvre. Her disdain for the visitors who don’t appreciate the art to her satisfaction gives us a hint of the Genet she would become; it’s interesting to see a female dictator’s “villain origin” focus on...