| This article is about the Daryl Series character. For other pages with the same name, see: Lou |
| “ | The day it started, the older ones were dropped off at school. Some of our friends go home at the end of the day, but the rest of us, our parents never came. (...) Orphans that we find through the years. Carine was left here in a basket. And we found Dmitri lost in the woods. (...) We hunt, we grow food, we fix old clothes. And we keep our lessons.
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Lou is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. She is the leader of École Maternelle Simone Veil.
Overview[]
Lou is shown to be a brave, capable, and caring young woman. She had been taking care of the children at the preschool since Monument Day, and been teaching them how to survive for many years. Lou is at first somewhat untrusting towards Daryl, but gradually gains each others' trust. She also tried to acquire medicine for the sick DuBois, and is shown to be saddened when she died. She and Daryl's group leave on good terms.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
France[]
Nothing is known about Lou's life prior to or as the outbreak began.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Season 1[]
"Alouette"[]
Having captured the entire group and their cart, the children lead them to a fortified preschool where they chant and howl as their leader Lou comes to join them. Isabelle explains that they're religious people whose mule broke down and they got stuck. After Isabelle clarifies that they're nuns, Lou challenges them to be able to recite St. Joseph's prayer for mothers and fathers which Isabelle, Sylvie and Laurent immediately do, although Daryl, unable to understand the conversation, doesn't. When questioned about Daryl, Isabelle claims that he's an American priest named Father Daryl who was sent to France on a mission long, but he doesn't speak French, even after all of this time. Satisfied, Lou has Daryl released and his weapons returned, announcing to the children that they will practice their English out of respect to Daryl. Daryl is unamused about being dubbed Father Daryl by Isabelle.
Lou shows the group around the classrooms, explaining that there's 18 children now. The day that the outbreak started, the older children were dropped off at school, but while some of them were picked up at the end of the day, the parents of the rest never came. After briefly stopping to admonish Criquet who is supposed to be helping to cook dinner, Lou tells Isabelle that the younger children, two of whom attach themselves to Daryl, are orphans that they've found over the years. Carine was left at the school in a basket and Dmitri was found lost in the woods. They survive by hunting, growing food and fixing old clothes as well as keeping up with their lessons. Daryl compliments that they're "not bad for being little road bandits."
Lou takes them into a room where an old woman, Madame DuBois, lies in a bed. Lou explains that she is their parents and nurse and taught them everything before she got sick six months ago. The children read to Madame DuBois and sing and recite a prayer from Isaiah for the sick and dying, although Lou believes that their prayers will be answered, and Madame DuBois will be saved. Although Daryl and Isabelle don't say anything, the grave look that they share with each other shows that they know that Madame DuBois won't survive.
Everyone sits down together to a dinner cooked by Aline, the children's chef. Laurent tries to sit next to Moof and make conversation with him, but Moof angrily rejects Laurent's overtures, telling the younger boy that the chair is for his brother. Lou apologizes, explaining that two of their brothers are off on a mission right now. Lou asks "Father Daryl" to lead them in a prayer of thanks which he awkwardly does: "um, Lord... I'm sure you have your reasons for turning the whole world upside down. Maybe we deserve it, for being so mean to each other. We probably do deserve it. But not tonight. No. Tonight is good. And if this isn't good enough for you, I don't know what is. Amen." The kids are impressed as Daryl sounds like Madame DuBois who says that their manners are like a mirror that shows their portrait. Daryl proceeds to just slurp his soup with the kids following suit with a laugh.
After dinner, Lou asks what they will do now that they've lost their mule, but Laurent tells her that the mule isn't lost but eating apples, causing the other kids to laugh at him before Aline leads Laurent away. Daryl asks where they can find another one and Moof suggests La Tarasque which Sylvie explains is a lizard, like a dragon from old stories. However, this one is not a story, but rather he's a real man, although he's still a monster. La Tarasque lives in a nearby castle and he has horses that he used to take everything from the village such as food and fuel from every house and every shop. The kids once tried a raid to get supplies, but it didn't work out well for them. Lou refuses to tell Daryl where this castle is, telling him that it's too dangerous and they won't go there again. Daryl suggests that they could save Madame DuBois since if La Tarasque raided all of the drugstores, then he's got all of the medicine. The kids can pray all that they like, but Madame DuBois will die without proper medicine. Moof wants to join them, and he angrily storms off when Lou refuses to let him join them, agreeing to go with Daryl by herself in the morning.
In the present, on the road the next morning, Lou reveals that she knows that Daryl's not a priest as it's pretty obvious. Daryl tells the girl that how he got to France is a long story and the only part that matters is that Daryl gets home to his people. Lou quotes Madame DuBois that family are the people that you're with, and Daryl admits that she sounds like she was a good teacher. However, Lou still believes that Madame DuBois will get better thanks to Daryl and Lou tells him that they're almost there.
As they come within sight of La Tarasque's Castle, Daryl asks Lou about the raid that she had talked about, and she explains that three of the kids, including herself, went after La Tarasque and only she ever came home. One of the others who went was Moof's brother and Lou has been lying to the others that Moof's brother and the other kid went for help and that they'll come back. With Madame DuBois sick, she didn't know what else to say which Daryl gets. The two find the castle's drawbridge up and the moat filled with a herd of walkers.
In a toolshed, Daryl and Lou look for something to help them cross the moat. Although they find a rope and something to use as a hook, Daryl asks Lou to find a bigger one, and then locks her in, telling Lou that she'll be safer in there and Daryl is better off on his own. Daryl uses his makeshift rope and hook to climb the drawbridge, and finds a storeroom loaded with supplies that he begins gathering. Daryl hears a voice from another room yelling at La Tarasque to be let out, and finds a teenage boy locked in a dungeon who reveals that he speaks English. Daryl realizes that it's one of the kids from the raid and the boy introduces himself as Hérisson which Daryl has trouble pronouncing, leading him to call the boy Hedgehog - the English translation of his name - instead.
As they try to leave, La Tarasque opens fire on them from a window. Daryl shows Hérisson how to use his rifle and orders the boy to keep La Tarasque busy while Daryl rushes inside to confront the man. In the toolshed, Lou is found and released by a hooded figure. As La Tarasque exchanges shots and insults with Hérisson, Daryl sneaks up on the man and forces him to disarm himself at knifepoint. The surprised man reveals himself to be an American from Giddings, Texas named R.J. Gaines. Although R.J. offers Daryl some of the amenities that he has, Daryl furiously confronts R.J. about stealing it from people who need it. R.J. defends himself as just doing whatever it takes to stick it out long enough until he can get back home to the ones that he loves, just like everyone else which is all that matters. Daryl drags R.J. outside where he claims to have never laid a hand on a furious Hérisson, but the boy points out that R.J. had threatened to shoot him if he tried to leave. While Hérisson wants to push R.J. into the moat, Daryl decides to take him back to Lou and let her decide what to do with R.J.. R.J. begs him not to as the kids will kill him and he's got a wife and four kids of his own waiting for him back home, but Daryl tells him that "there ain't no home, asshole" as he's been there and that "East Coast, Midwest, even Texas. Everybody you know back home is gone. They've been gone a long time."
Daryl and Hérisson lead a horse-drawn cart full of supplies over the lowered drawbridge, dragging R.J., tied by a long rope to the back of the cart, behind them. R.J. desperately continues trying to bribe an uninterested Daryl before the side of the cart falls open and several large fuel tanks roll out and into the moat. As R.J. taunts them, Daryl goes to secure the remaining supplies and try to fix the damaged wheel and he orders Hérisson to shoot R.J. if he tries anything. R.J. continues taunting the two, offering to help them if they let him go. R.J. makes a run for Daryl's gun and the two men struggle over it, eventually falling off the edge of the drawbridge and into the moat.
Daryl immediately draws his knife and morning star to fight the walkers, but R.J. is left dangling helpless within the herd's reach from the rope that he's still attached to. The walkers devour R.J. while Daryl retrieves his rifle and shoots the fuel canisters, causing a large explosion that blows up a large number of the walkers, including the walkers gathering behind Daryl while Daryl is protected by crouching behind the corner of the wall. Moof tosses down a rope from the top of the wall while Lou and Hérisson cover Daryl from the surviving walkers with bows. Once Daryl's tied onto the rope, Moof has the horse pull him out of the moat. Lou sarcastically asks Daryl if he's still better off by himself and notes that Daryl at least got his horse. Hérisson shows a grateful Lou that Daryl got them the medical supplies that they need too. A horrified Moof recognizes one of the walkers in the moat as his brother Julien and realizes that Lou had lied to him about Julien being off on a mission. Moof refuses to leave his brother like that, and an emotional Lou raises her bow, but struggles to bring herself to shoot her friend. Sympathetic, Daryl shoots Julien with his crossbow instead and saves Lou from having to put her friend down.
Daryl, Lou, Moof and Hérisson triumphantly return to the school where the other children celebrate the return of their lost friend. Isabelle notes that Daryl's lie worked and Daryl quips that "well, I ain't a nun" as they watch the celebration. Sylvie comes out with the news that Madame DuBois has died of her illness, and Daryl apologetically admits to the devastated Lou that the meds were never going to help her and that he had lied to get a horse. Lou wonders what they're going to do without her, and Daryl tells the girl to keep doing what they've been doing. The other kids look up to Lou and that's a good thing. Daryl offers to take care of putting Madame DuBois down, but Lou decides to do it herself as she owes it to the old woman. Daryl, Isabelle and Sylvie leave Lou alone as she draws her knife and says goodbye to Madame DuBois before stabbing her in the head. The children build a memorial to their beloved teacher and Laurent comforts Hibou, telling her that his teacher is also with the angels and then leads the kids in doing "nanu-nanu" from Mork & Mindy.
It is currently unknown if Lou and the children are still alive.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Lou has killed:
Relationships[]
Allies[]
Appearances[]
Daryl Dixon[]
Season 1[]
- "Alouette"