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| “ | They only made me watch while they did their experiments and murdered the others. But they're martyrs now. For the cause. No one will doubt it after tomorrow. (...) Ceremony. To prove what we know. That Laurent is special. (...) Isn't this what you believed? That his birth was a miracle. That he represents a future where we can no longer be hurt by the hungry ones. (...) Tomorrow it will be proven. He will not succumb to the bite. And all doubt will be dispelled. (...) She said I'll be tempted. She said to be strong.
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Emile Thibault is a survivor of the outbreak and later an antagonist in AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. He is a resident at the Montmartre Rooftop Community and the boyfriend of Sylvie. He served as the primary antagonist of the episode "Moulin Rouge".
Overview[]
Emile is a brave man. He takes an interest in Sylvie when they first meet, and later becomes her boyfriend. However, Emile is deeply traumatized by his time as a prisoner of the Power of the Living and what he was forced to witness, particularly the experiments on turning people into Ampers. As a result, Emile becomes fanatical in his beliefs regarding Laurent due to his desperate need to believe in a world where they will be safe from becoming walkers where they will have a better future. As a result, Emile betrays and tries to kill his former friends, although Emile shows both hesitancy and remorse for his actions. When faced with his own death, Emile visibly accepted it, possibly seeing it as a release from the torment that he was experiencing.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
France[]
Nothing is known about Emile's life prior to or as the outbreak began.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Season 1[]
"Paris Sera Toujours Paris"[]
Emile is seen with Fallou as Daryl's group nears his community. As Fallou shows them around his community, Emile asks Sylvie if she had always wanted to be a nun, and she admits that she's never imagined anything else. Emile comments that Sylvie has never been to Paris before and it's a good place to imagine.
The group reaches the Demimonde nightclub where Fallou tells Daryl that people find all sorts of things there and since Daryl helped the Union of Hopethey will help him in return. Sylvie, and Emile enjoy her performance while Daryl and Isabelle admire a painting hanging on the wall that was saved from a museum. Sylvie and Emile dance together and Emile explains that his grandmother was an Argentinian refugee who had taught him two things: to dance and to fight for freedom.
"La Dame de Fer"[]
In the cemetery, Daryl ties Armand to a stair railing before he, Isabelle, Sylvie, Emile, Fallou, Bastien and Nadine gather to discuss their plan. Isabelle and Sylvie will go to Pont de la Tournelle where a man named Azlan from the Nest will be waiting for them with a boat. Fallou and his people will provide a distraction for Daryl's rescue mission, and Fallou declares that "a threat to one of us, is a threat to all of us. And so, we go into this fight as a unit. Working in defense of the Union of Hope. Go in as one, come back as one." The group splits up and Sylvie and Emile admit that they're both very scared. Sylvie kisses Emile before heading off on her task. Isabelle approaches Daryl to tell him something, but Daryl tells her to tell him at the river after Laurent is rescued. Daryl leaves with Armand as Isabelle and Sylvie watch him go.
Outside of the main entrance of the Demimonde, Fallou, Emile, Bastien, and Nadine launch a diversionary attack against the guards using rifles, Molotov cocktails and grenades, killing one man. As the firefight continues, Emile suffers a non life-threatening gunshot wound to his left thigh, but he insists that they have to finish the job. With the guards getting closer, Fallou throws a final grenade while Bastien and Nadine throw a Molotov cocktail each before they finally retreat.
Fallou and Emile join Isabelle and Sylvie at the Seine river and, as Sylvie tends to Emile, Fallou reveals that Genet is posting guards at the city limits and soon there will be no way out. Daryl arrives with Laurent who reunites with Isabelle and Sylvie. However, Isabelle tells Daryl that with the Guerrier overtaking and locking down the city, she needs someone with influence to make sure that Laurent will be allowed to escape. Quinn knows how to make things happen and he'll do it for her if she stays. Isabelle rejects Daryl's offer to go with her, telling him that no one will make it out of Paris if she stays and she must do it alone. While this isn't Daryl's fight and he should be on his way home right now, there is no one else to take Laurent to the Nest safely with both Isabelle and Sylvie remaining behind in Paris. Isabelle promises to find a way out once she knows that Laurent is safe, and Daryl agrees to complete the journey to the Nest with Laurent himself and departs with the boy and Azlan as Isabelle, Sylvie, Fallou and Emile watch.
"Deux Amours"[]
Isabelle and Quinn arrive at Maison Mère where numerous people are gathering for Genet's celebration. In the crowd, Isabelle notices Emile, Sylvie and Fallou who discreetly nod at her as Isabelle passes by her friends.
"Coming Home"[]
While Daryl and Quinn fight walkers together, Emile is seen in the gallery, Fallou orders Sylvie and Emile to go around while Fallou stays in his current position and Isabelle notices her friends moving through the crowd.
Later, having escaped from Maison Mère, Laurent sits in the back of the group's stolen truck looking at Azlan's pocket watch while Emile tells Sylvie that he and Fallou must go where they are most needed, and he hopes that she will join them one day. Emile and Sylvie kiss while Laurent reassures Fallou that they know where the Nest is. Fallou wishes them good luck and he leaves with Emile who briefly stops to exchange one last smile with Sylvie. Daryl hangs the pocket watch on the rearview mirror and the group - reunited at last - drives off to finish their long journey to the Nest. Daryl tries to reassure a worried Sylvie that Fallou won't let anything happen to Emile, but he doesn't respond to her question if Daryl has ever been in love.
Season 2[]
"La Gentillesse Des Étrangers"[]
In a meeting at the Nest, Losang reveals that the Montmartre Rooftop Community was raided by Power of the Living and three of their people were captured. Emile, Fallou, and Martin Fournier are revealed to be the ones who were captured.
Later that day, Daryl, Mathis, and a team of scouts prepare to ambush the Pouvoir convoy set to pass through a nearby deserted town. While the rigged explosives do not detonate as the convoy passes through, Daryl opens fire on the Guerriers, sparking a brief battle. The Guerriers are all defeated and the prisoners, including Emile, are rescued. Emile, along with Fallou and Martin, is brought back to the Nest for medical care.
"Moulin Rouge"[]
Bells toll as the rescue team triumphantly returns with Martin, Emile, and Fallou. Sylvie embraces her boyfriend who is visibly haunted by his experiences as a prisoner of the Power of the Living. Laurent hugs Daryl and gives him a figurine of a dog that Laurent had carved for his friend. Losang greets Daryl as everyone heads inside of the Nest.
Later, Sylvie cuts Emile's hair, reassuring her boyfriend that they don't have to talk about what he went through now, but if it would help him, she is willing to listen. Emile doesn't answer, so Sylvie asks what the Power of the Living did to him, but he still remains silent, a haunted expression on his face. Emile reluctantly allows Sylvie to open his shirt, revealing that he's physically unharmed, much to her surprise. As Sylvie tries to comfort him, Emile tells her that "I made a deal with God to bring me back to you." Sylvie reassures her boyfriend that God had heard both of their prayers.
The next day, Laurent vanishes, apparently kidnapped by Genet's men. A rescue team suits up, and Losang orders his men to bring Laurent home and to follow Daryl's lead. Jacinta gives one of the soldiers some rounds for Daryl's shotgun which he hands over to Daryl. Emile -- now with short hair -- objects to Fallou coming with them as the older man should rest and heal, but he insists upon going. Sylvie explains that she had told Fallou that she needs someone to keep an eye on Emile and she places her necklace on her boyfriend. Isabelle also joins the rescue mission despite Losang's objections that this could be dangerous, and the rescue team departs to find Laurent.
On the road to Paris, one of the soldiers stops the convoy, spotting an empty gas can on the side of the road and guessing that the Guerriers must've refueled. Daryl notices that two to three people went off on foot down a side road and the group moves down the road.
Outside of an abandoned mill, Daryl reports to the others that he has spotted at least two people, but it's hard to tell if Laurent is there. There's only one way in and Daryl orders everyone to follow him. Daryl's team moves in and spots movement on a higher floor so Daryl splits the team with Daryl and Tarim and one other man going upstairs while Emile and Isabelle stay at the entrance and Fallou and two other men search the bottom floor.
As the Union soldiers ambush Daryl's group, Fallou quickly kills one with his Bow and Arrow and grapples with the other one, struggling with him over a knife on the floor. Emile enters the room, but he refuses to help Fallou. Fallou finally shoves the soldier off of him, grabs one of his spilled arrows, and stabs the man in the neck with it, killing him.
Emile turns on Fallou, ordering his former friend on his knees at gunpoint and telling Fallou that he had asked him not to come. Daryl and Isabelle enter, and Fallou tells them to return to the Nest, having realized that Laurent was still there. Emile forces Daryl and Isabelle to disarm themselves and Isabelle demands to know what he's doing. Emile states that neither Isabelle nor Fallou were meant to be here as the ambush was only meant for Daryl. Daryl suggests that Emile could still let the others go and he and Daryl can work this out, but Emile apologetically refuses, explaining that the "they were worried Laurent would leave. Everything the Union had fought for would be lost. Meaningless. Everything we did." Fallou tells Emile that he's confused and not thinking clearly while Isabelle tells him that they understand after everything that he went through.
Tearfully, Emile finally explains what he went through in captivity that has left the once strong man so broken: Emile was not physically tortured, rather he was forced to watch as the Power of the Living conducted their experiments and murdered their other prisoners. Emile calls them martyrs for the cause and no one will doubt it after tomorrow when there will be a ceremony to prove what they know: that Laurent is special. Emile points out that Isabelle had believed that Laurent's birth was a miracle and that he represents a future where they can no longer be hurt by the undead. A horrified Isabelle realizes that the Union is going to test Laurent's possible immunity to the Wildfire Virus which Emile confirms, confident that Laurent will not succumb to the bite, and it will be proven, dispelling all doubt. Isabelle challenges the young man to look around at the chaos, asking if this looks like salvation to him. Emile hesitates and Fallou tells him that it still can be salvation, but Emile states that "she said I'll be tempted. She said to be strong." and turns his gun to kill Daryl. However, Fallou shoves the gun away as it goes off and quickly subdues Emile. Isabelle grabs the dropped gun and turns it on its owner who grabs Sylvie's necklace, apparently accepting and even embracing his end. After a moment's hesitation, Isabelle shoots Emile in the head, killing her former friend.
It's later revealed that Jacinta was the one who had ordered the assassination attempt on Daryl and had manipulated the traumatized Emile into turning on his friends.
Death[]
- Killed By
- Himself (Caused)
- Jacinta (Caused)
- Daryl Dixon (Caused)
- Fallou Boukar (Caused)
- Isabelle Carriere
After betraying and trying to kill his friends while on a mission to assassinate Daryl due to Jacinta's manipulation, Emile is disarmed by Fallou and then shot in the head with his own gun by Isabelle.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Emile has killed:
- Himself (Caused)
- Numerous counts of zombies and possibly unnamed people
Relationships[]
Allies[] |
Enemies[]
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Appearances[]
Daryl Dixon[]
Season 1[]
- "Paris Sera Toujours Paris"
- "La Dame de Fer"
- "Deux Amours" (No Lines)
- "Coming Home"
Season 2[]
- "La Gentillesse Des Étrangers" (No Lines)
- "Moulin Rouge"
Gallery[]
- For more images of Emile, please visit Emile Thibault (Daryl Series)/Gallery.
