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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...