If Laurent was changed by what happened, there could be an untold number of people just like him hidden all over The Walking Dead’s world. After all, it’s important to note that while Laurent’s situation is new for the franchise itself, infected mothers going into labor is likely something that happens frequently. If, in any way, the nuns turn out to be right that Laurent is different from other people, such a development could have a wide-reaching impact on the future. ![]() It's hard to imagine Laurent being an actual divine figure, but Laurent possessing some sort of unique quality as a result of his unusual birth is a possibility that shouldn’t be ruled out. By revealing that his mother turned into a zombie while he was being born, Daryl Dixon is sending the message that this is why he’s special. He’s also being treated by the nuns as the future Messiah who will save humanity. According to the nuns, Laurent drew a prophetic picture that predicted Daryl’s arrival. While it’s true that Laurent hasn’t done anything unusual onscreen yet, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is strongly suggesting that the boy is unique in some way. In addition to providing the spinoff with a horrifying backstory for one of its principal characters, Isabelle’s flashbacks hold important implications not just for Daryl’s Walking Dead spinoff, but also for the franchise as a whole. For that reason, what would happen in that scenario has been open to speculation for over a decade. ![]() Of course, none of the aforementioned characters had to endure the dark circumstances explored in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 2. But while multiple babies have been born in the Walking Dead shows, the franchise has never put where the characters in a situation where they had to deliver a baby from a bitten mother. Lily is hardly the first woman to go into labor in the franchise, as The Walking Dead has also shown characters like Lori, Maggie, Rachel (Mo’s mother in Fear the Walking Dead) experiencing childbirth as well. ![]() But in spite of all the years the franchise has been around, The Walking Dead has managed to avoid answering the question. A person getting bit and turning into a zombie while giving birth is something that has surely happened before, albeit off-screen. In fact, it dealt with a predicament that actually feels quite relevant to life in the zombie apocalypse. While this was indeed a surprising direction for the episode, that’s not to say the story it told was completely unfathomable or unrealistic. The fact that the baby lived through the ordeal was the only bright moment in Isabelle’s entire flashback storyline. ![]() As if the death of the young woman wasn’t sad enough on its own, her child being trapped within a zombie only further added to tragedy of the scene. The entire sequence was incredibly dark, even by Walking Dead standards. Since she was only a zombie and incapable of cooperating, the nuns had to forcibly remove the baby from the body by cutting him out. When she reanimated, the nuns strapped down the zombie and proceeded with the delivery. Though she ultimately died in childbirth, her baby survived (much to the shock of the nuns in attendance). In the flashbacks, it was explained that Isabelle’s sister was pregnant. After hiding the two characters’ connection in the series premiere, the show revealed that Laurent is Isabelle’s nephew. The Walking Dead’s propensity for doom and gloom continued in Daryl Dixon episode 2, which explored Isabelle’s past, and in turn, Laurent’s origin story.
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