Is what is happening on that boat connected to a scene from another TWD spinoff?

Until the premiere’s final scene, that is.

The scene takes place at a port in Le Havre on the northern coast of France.

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Norman Reedus on ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’.Emmanuel Guimier/AMC

It was beyond our control."

Genet then asks a doctor what the status is.

“Our research is largely destroyed,” answers the doctor in French.

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Norman Reedus on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.AMC

“Some of the test subjects may still be of use.

Whoever did this made a real mess of things for us.”

Could those experiments be linked to the final scene of anotherWalking Deadspinoff,World Beyond?

Well, at least this partly solves how Daryl ended up passed out on a lifeboat at sea.

Because all he says in the first episode is it’s a ‘series of bad decisions.'"

“It’s kinda wild.”

And what can the executive producer say about the mysterious Genet and the roleshewill play moving forward?

Whether those strings are attached to a new breed of super zombies remains to be seen.