Darryl Philbin

**Darryl Philbin** is a fictional character played by Craig Robinson.

Ref sheet for Everything Dies

## Overview

Darryl Philbin (born 1971, age, 50), is an office and aquarium worker (in Orlando, Florida) that currently resides in Malibu, CA.

Although he is dry and humorless when dealing with his boss he seems to be a much more relaxed, silly person in social situations. Unlike his boss, Michael , Darryl is competent, ambitious, and innovative, and on several occasions, he promotes ideas to corporate that seem to benefit the company greatly. However, during the apocalypse, he gradually became more serious and protective but still silly. He can't do much of his hobbies such as playing the keyboard and singing due to the danger it would pose. Darryl acted as the de-facto co-leader of the Motel Survivors, alongside Lee Henderson and Lilly, though he eventually acknowledged Lee as the true leader. While he is known for taking action and showing initiative, his sometimes short temper and failure to think things through often get the better of him. However, he is also shown to be kind and selfless as he has been willing to give his life to save someone else's, but can be emotionally unstable towards those who do him wrong, yet he is aware of this and has admitted to be frightened by it. Darryl is also known to be very emotionally involved with the events in the story. He is loyal to those who treat him well, but unforgiving to those who don't. He has proven to be a rather tough survivor of the apocalypse being able to handle himself in most situations. Most of the group respects him for this. He also possesses fairly good leadership qualities, having been a captain of a commercial fishing ship.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Chicago, Illinois

Darryl was born in Chicago, Illinois to Flora and Fraser Philbin/Robinson but moved to Malibu, CA as a toddler as a right-side neighbor to Fly and his family. He was rarely mocked by racist bullies for being born to white parents but after explaining that he wasn't adopted, people started to show more respect towards him. He hated school and often fell asleep in class his parents did not approve of this, but were always calm during conversations with him. He was on the wrestling team at one point, but quit after he broke his leg and arm. He began his aquarium job at age 22 and has been doing 2 jobs ever since. Darryl often went sailing to the open sea for months at a time, separated from his family, which he admits to be a fact that he deeply regrets after their deaths.

## Post Apocalypse

### Everything Dies

At the onset of the outbreak, Darryl and his family were on the road at a gas station when Darryl notice a man grabbing his son. Thinking that he was trying to abduct him, Darryl quickly pounced upon the man and discovered him to be a Kamo'o'hali. Following this, Darryl urged his son back into their truck and drove away. Jayde noted that they had passed many people during their escape from the area, many of whom needing help that they did not give. They found a house with an owner willing to let them bed down in his barn for the night.

### A New Day

When Lee and Sylvester (in kid form) enter the barn. In the morning, Darryl wakes Lee up. He jokes to Sylvester about him being lucky to not have spiders in his hair because Lee scared them off. He introduces himself and his family, asking Lee if he wanted to ride with him into Long Beach for safety in numbers on their way back to Florida. Kenny sets to working on his truck, trying to ensure it was capable of making the drive. When Justin shouts from the tractor, Darryl runs to save his son from the walkers. Despite Justin's cries, Darryl and Kenny run from the walkers with their sons in arms, regrettably leaving Justin behind to be devoured with Lee unable to save him. William discovers his son dead and wholeheartedly blames Kenny and Darryl for letting him die. Lee defends both of them, but William ultimately decides to send all of them off of his farm. Kenny, Darryl and Lee share a remorseful glance, Kenny telling Lee that he could go with them. Lee accepts, taking Sylvester to the truck.

### Starved For Help

Three months after the drugstore attack, Darryl was out with Lee and a new survivor named Mark, hunting for food. Lee and Mark discussed how Kenny had been getting into arguments with Lilly over the last few months, since they disagreed on how to lead the group. When Lee and Mark hear screams and find Ben, Travis, and David Parker, Kenny was right behind them to assist the situation. They find the eldest amongst them to have stepped in a modified bear trap, to which Kenny responds with incredulity that there is a bear trap in the middle of nowhere. Lee agrees to help them, but Mark and Kenny notice that David's screams had attracted walkers. Kenny offered to hold off the approaching walkers as Lee attempted to free David from the bear trap. Should Lee take too long to free David, Kenny regretfully grabs Lee and tells him that they must leave. Kenny forces Ben to move, but when Travis is accidentally shot by Mark, he returns, demanding to know what had happened. After a hasty explanation, Kenny orders Mark to pick him up and move, doing his best to ignore David's begging. Alternatively, should Lee cut off David's leg to remove him from the bear trap, Kenny orders Mark to pick him up and move. Travis, however, is cornered by walkers and devoured, much to Ben's horror. Lee forces Ben to move as Kenny leads them back to the motel.

Back at the camp, Kenny calls Katjaa over to a truck bed near the gate, asking if she could fix up the injured survivor. Lilly and Kenny get into yet another argument over bringing more people into the group. This caused Lilly to become frustrated and forced Lee to divide the rations for that day. Lee can talk to Darryl during this time, which he will discuss how he planned to head to the coast with his family once he repaired the RV they had discovered. Whether Lee supported his decision or attempted to persuade him to stay, Darryl's mind was made up by that point. He also discussed the current state of their friendship, which is either good or bad based on Lee's decisions in "A New Day". Darryl refused to accept any rations until his son was fed. Lee fed Duck and Clementine Kenny supports his decision since it is what "a real man does" and offers a place on the RV when the time came. He then notes that some people would not be happy with not being fed. If Larry was not fed, he storms over and demands to know why he was not fed. He threatens Lee, but Kenny voices his appraisal of Lee's choices.

When Katjaa and Lee were attacked by a reanimated Travis/David, *(Determinant)* Kenny began accusing Ben of not telling the group that the person was bit. At this point, Ben revealed that simply dying, and not being bitten, was how a person turned. Everyone was already infected and true death only came through destroying the brain. It is then that the group encountered the brothers, who offered to trade food for gasoline. The group agreed that Lee, Mark, Ben and Doug/Carley should go to investigate their dairy to prove their story.

When Ben and Doug/Carley came back from the dairy, Kenny and Darryl came with the rest of the group to check it out. They arrived right when Mark was attacked by bandits, however, which lead Kenny to be a bit concerned. He was seen later pushing Jayde on the newly rebuilt swing, where Lee talked to him about the current situation of their friendship. Whatever their state is, Kenny mentioned about how there would come a time where Lee would have to pick sides. When Lee returned from scouting Jolene's camp, Kenny was found with Katjaa, Duck, Sylvester, and Andrew St. John tending to the family's cow. Kenny had been in another argument with Lilly over his suspicions of the house. He mentioned that there was a locked door that Andy was particularly fast to lock up and he had heard metallic sounds from there. With Lee's help, they distracted Andy long enough to retrieve tools to break the lock. Unfortunately as soon as they broke the lock, the family called everyone for the dinner they had prepared. Kenny told Lee that he would make an excuse for him while Lee broke the lock and looked inside.

Kenny and Darryl were eating at the dinner table with the rest of the group when Lee discovered that Andy, Danny and Brenda were cannibals and had cut off Mark's legs to serve for dinner. The brothers knocked Lee unconscious and threw him, Kenny, Larry, Lilly, and Sylvester into the barn's meat locker. Kenny became distraught over knowing the family had kidnapped his family. When Larry suffered a heart attack and his pulse had stopped, Kenny came to the conclusion that he was dead and that they needed to kill him before he reanimated. Kenny picked up a salt lick and crushed Larry's head with it. Though shocked that he went through with it, Kenny justified himself that he did what was necessary to protect the group. Kenny's relationship with Lee would be seriously affected by what Lee chose to do here and he would either appreciate Lee for backing up him on making a hard and morally questionable decision, or resented him for leaving him alone to do it. Immediately after, Sylvester crawled through an air vent and freed them, Kenny and Darryl rushing out to save their family. When Danny caught them sneaking up, Lee engaged in a fight with him. Kenny and Darryl would come to Lee's rescue, and afterward, Kenny rushed to the house.

As the group walked back, Kenny took a moment to discuss with Lee about what had happened. And the two of them would be on good terms. When the group discovered an abandoned car, Kenny was the first to propose looting the car for the abundance of supplies it contained. Lee either agreed with the looting and Darryl and Kenny participated in the looting, nevertheless.

### Long Road Ahead

At the beginning of the episode, he and Lee scavenged for supplies. Darryl remarks that he is pleased by the lack of visible walkers in the area. He asks Lee as they walk what he thinks about leaving the motel, and Lee gives an affirmative answer that generates a positive response from. Darryl climbs a ladder of a big rig trailer and snaps the hinges, forcing Lee to find an alternative route to the top of the rig. He eventually pulls a jeep to the trailer via a motorized winch. Darryl discusses how Jayde still blamed himself for Justin's death, though Lee says that they've all seen worse. As Lee tries to get up to Kenny and Darryl, they encounter a girl who was being attacked by Kamo'o'hali. Kenny urges Lee to not shoot her, stating that she would buy them more time to scavenge. Lee had a choice to leave her, or to put her out of her misery.

Kenny will be grateful. They enter the drugstore through the alley door and scavenge the inside of the pharmacy. When Kenny and Darryl take the supplies from Lee and tells him to hop over the counter, Lee is knocked over by the office door falling upon him with walkers on top of it. Kenny will r consider taking the supplies and will rush to help lift the door. Regardless of what Kenny does, Lee is able to free himself and retreat to Kenny's position before following him out of the drugstore.

Back at the motor inn, Kenny and Lilly get into another fight over whether or not to leave the inn. Depending on how many supplies Lee was able to gather, Lilly will either be excited about being able to make it through the winter should they continue their ways or upset that they would be forced to ration their supplies. Darryl will either point out how they would freeze in the run-down motel or how they could always find more supplies elsewhere. Lilly rebukes his claim, saying that she has no desire to listen to him after what he had done to her father. Kenny picks at Lilly's nerves when he talks about how Larry was gone and they no longer needed his medicine that could only be found. Katjaa and Doug/Carley arrive at the scene of the argument, sarcastically asking if either of them will ever stop arguing. Kenny talks about the bandits in the woods and how they had been quiet recently, but could always spring up and attack if they ever felt the need to. He then abruptly brings up Lee's previous decision to shoot the girl in Macon or let the walkers have her. Lilly is not happy to hear that she had suffered and that they hadn't even tried to save her (a completely different perspective than what she had taken toward Ben), but Kenny is solely focused on how she had represented an opportunity to get what they had needed. Lilly snaps at him and begins raving about how someone had been stealing their supplies before demanding that everyone leave her room. Kenny's demeanor becomes less stable when Lee agrees with Lilly that each day was getting harder.

### Around Every Corner

The group got off the train and made their way to the riverfront. darryl leads them to River Street, He was single-mindlessly obsessed about finding a boat. Along the way, a church bell rings, and the voice spoke up on the walkie-talkie, telling them to get out of the street for their own safety, and this angered Kenny, who felt the man was toying with the group. Suddenly, dozens of walkers began pursuing the group. Kenny took many of them out, but was tripped and nearly bitten by a walker. He was saved by Lee. When more walkers arrived, Chuck was surrounded, Darryl leading the group to the back of a house. . He, Lee, and Ben searched for a way inside the house. Once inside, the group decided that they needed to escape, as the radio man was stalking them. Seeing the house as a temporary safe-zone, Ben and Kenny searched the upstairs for walkers. He heard something and headed to the attic. Inside, he discovered a child walker who reminded. He stared at it, paralyzed, and couldn't bring himself to kill it.

Lee came up and saw the child walker as well. Kenny admitted that he was a coward, and that he couldn't kill another kid. Lee then kills it, Kenny asked Lee to bury the kid. While Lee buried him in the backyard, a man was seen watching him. Becoming worried, Kenny, Darryl and Lee decided to go find a boat at the riverfront. Along the way. another church bell went off, and Kenny drew his gun. He thought the radio man was luring the walkers toward them, but he and Lee quickly discovered that the walkers were being lured away. Reaching the riverfront, the duo find all of the boats destroyed or stripped of parts, almost completely crushing Kenny's hopes. In desperation, he ordered Lee to help search the area, although Lee considered it a hopeless undertaking. While he and Lee searched, they spotted an unknown survivor nearby. They believe it was the radio man, and planned to capture him. Kenny hid around the corner with his gun, while Lee snuck up on him. When the survivor was about to kill Lee, Sylvester showed up and begged them not to. The survivor stopped and revealed herself as Molly. Kenny appeared from behind the corner, gun drawn, but Lee told him not to shoot. Molly knocked Kenny over in self-defense, causing his gun to fire. She explained to them that other people took all the boats, fuel, and batteries when the apocalypse began.

### No Time Left

Darryl accompanied Lee's group, he was present when the stranger contacts him. He assured Lee that it was okay. As walkers forced themselves in, he blocked the door and told Lee to find a way out. After discovering a way, Lee passed out from the symptoms of his bite. When he awakened, he found Kenny about to chop his arm off. Lee prevented him from committing the act, but had the choice of cutting off his arm or not. If he chose to do it, Kenny will do it . Once that is done, the group and Christa escaped to the roof. On the roof, Kenny searched for a way down and noticed Crawford in the distance and cursed it. When Lee managed to use Molly's bell-ringing philosophy to distract the walkers, the group headed back to the manor house. Back at the house, they found that the boat was taken by Vernon and his cancer survivor group. Vernon left a note. Kenny stayed behind, he will be beaten up by Vernon's group and tossed in the shed, being locked in by a braced shovel. Lee will free him from the garage. He will be shocked by Lee's arm.

He and Christa get into a fight on where to head. And he yells at Ben, causing Ben to snap on him and tell him off. Kenny will nearly apologize to Ben if he does so, but is interrupted by a large host of walker quickly encroaching on the mansion. Walkers quickly approached and the group took shelter in the house. They attempted to deal with the walkers, but were forced to take shelter in the attic. In the attic, he and Lee got into a fight, due to Kenny panicking on what to do with Lee, calling it another "Larry situation." Lee throws something at the wall. They discover that they could break through the corroded wall. They took shifts on breaking it, and Kenny went first. On his break, he and Lee discussed what happened in the previous episodes and will make up for anything that had happened. Kenny says that even though he is angry about his situation regarding Ben, he never thought things the way Ben did. He, Lee, and Christa then all share a drink. Once through the wall, they made their way into the neighbor's house and discover a couple who had committed suicide. Kenny reflected on how suicide was bad, and will reflect on how Katjaa did the same. He took a moment, and Lee discovered a way out of the house. Before they left, he uncovers one clip for his gun.

## Shark Island

### All That Remains

Darryl and Kenny are seen briefly cooking meat for the group. Darryl tells Sylvester they've been cooking for the group and that the chimney was plugged to avoid attracting Kamo'o'hali with the smell of meat.

### A House Divided

Kenny first appears in this episode at the ski lodge, along with Sarita and Walter. Initially, they are arguing with the cabin survivors once they are spotted, but as soon as Kenny sees Sylvester (in kid form) once more, the argument ends and Sylvester's group is allowed inside the ski lodge.

Sylvester and Kenny sit down in front of the fireplace and catch up with each other. He explains that after he was separated from Lee, Christa and Omid, he managed to evade the walkers, and escape. After a time, he holed himself up in an old restaurant, and was found by Sarita. The two traveled together looking for safety and overtime the two developed a relationship. Several weeks prior to "A House Divided", they found a ski lodge somewhere, where two men were living, Walter and Matthew. They then formed a group at the lodge. A survivor named Troy is present and said he was formerly a "bad man" and joined Kenny and Darryl's group.

### In Harm's Way

Darryl is saved from being bitten by Sylvester after a Kamo'o'hali breaks through the window.

### Amid The Ruins

The three will begin running towards the woods, eventually getting separated from one another within the herd. After arriving at Parker's Run with Jane , Sylvester will be greeted by Bonnie and Mike. After returning to Parker's Run with Luke and Sarah, Bonnie will also ask Sylvester Kenny, and Darryl if they had experience with delivering babies, where Sylvester says yes. They head upstairs to see the pregnant woman, Jane, whom they saved, is in pain. The group will split to find supplies and an area to help deliver Jane's baby, where Kenny has agreed to help. After helping Jane, Mike and Bonnie and returning to the group, it's revealed that Jane's water has broke and her screams of pain has attracted a herd of Kamo'o'hali. Bonnie, Mike and Sylvester will help take Jane to the ship deck while Kenny and Darryl will handle the herd of walkers. . The group voices their concern as they watch it from afar. After Sylvester sees Kelly and Luke, who were supposed to keep watch but had sex at the observation deck, Kenny lashes out at Luke. He accuses him and Jane of acting like a pair of teenagers pointing out they 'got God knows how many walkers / Kamo'o'hali out there that you were supposed to be keeping an eye out for' and they begin to argue. The herd arrives and they start to climb the stairwell, piling themselves against the iron gate to break through. With Jane's water broken, Darryl, Sylvester, and Kenny rushto her side to help deliver the baby. Sylvester stays and reassures Jane with the spirit of his brother, Dante holding off the walkers outside. Once the walkers were held off, Sylvester will deliver Jane's child, a baby boy.

The group looks distraught at the baby in Sylvester's arms, who appears to have died in childbirth. Fortunately, the baby coughs and the group is relieved to see him alive, especially Sylvester, Darryl and Kenny who are brought to tears at the sight of the newborn. He gives him to Jane who dotes over her new son. Later that night Jane asks Sylvester if he would like to hold her baby, which Sylvester accepts Jane begins to fall asleep and Darryl takes the child off her hands. He angrily confronts Kenny about his behavior toward the baby, convinced Kenny thinks Jane's son is his own child. Kenny denies this but comes to terms with his feelings for the baby. He is convinced that the group needs to keep moving to find proper food and shelter for Jane's son, so he orders the group to leave at first light. Later Jane is visibly weak and Darryl tells the group she needs rest before she can move.

The group begins their journey the next day and are greeted by snow as the temperature has dropped to a chilling cold. Jane struggles to keep up and has to stop at a burned out car to regain her strength. While the group waits for her, they spot Arvo approaching them. Kenny and the others draw their weapons and conceal them behind their backs while he limps over to them. Arvo greets them warmly and asks the group for help with his sister, who is in need of bandages. During the conversation, Arvo's group surrounds them from the woods and he explains what happened at the Observation Deck. He claims that Sylvester stole from them and demands all of their supplies in exchange. Kenny aims at Buricko. During the standoff, Sylvester notices that Jane has fallen unconscious with her head slumped over. To his horror, Jane died of hypothermia and childbirth and reanimated in only a few minutes. Sylvester calls the group over and shoots Jane.

### No Going Back

Darryl points out how quickly she died from childbirth and Kenny tells him they need to be more careful. Sylvester notes how odd the baby looks and sees it's a shark human hybrid much like the Kamo'o'hali but it is alive and not undead. The group stumble across an abandoned power station as dusk approaches. Kenny argues with Arvo and demands to know if this was the place he was leading them to, thinking that he is leading them nowhere to prolong his own life. Arvo explains that the house is a few hours distance away, and Kenny snaps that Arvo was lying again. Sylvester (shortly before shifting to his elder form) says that the fences might make the power station a good place to stay for the night so Darryl and Kenny go and scout the station to ensure it is safe. Jayden. begins to cry in Sylvester's arms, and Sylvester calms him. Sylvester looks after Jayden. while Kenny is gone before handing him to Bonnie. Soon after, Kenny and Darryl return and call the rest of the group to get settled at the station.

### Ties That Bind

Sylvester chooses to be with Kenny, a flashback will ensue more than two years after the events of "No Going Back" where Kenny is teaching then kid Sylvester how to drive a manual stick shift as they head for Florida. He ponders on the ideal life they are going to live there but worries as to why Jayden is unable to utter a single word yet, stating it is rather unusual for his age.

### Thicker Than Water

Darryl appears if Sylvester stayed with Kenny, set a month before the events of "Ties That Bind". Kenny is busy getting firewood as Clementine plays shadows with Jayden. They're attacked by a walker which Sylvester quickly kills. Kenny will then have a talk about family, AJ, Darryl and future plans with Sylvester. He mentions how good of a dad figure he is, and that Jane would be proud of him. They discuss past events, and Kenny says that they can't survive out there waiting for Wellington to take them in, mentioning they should move on to Florida, saying they could use some company, especially Jayden. Sylvester says he loves him and hugs him. Kenny and Darryl will later play with them, making shadows.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Darryl / Craig Robinson has killed:

* Numerous counts of Kamo'o'hali *(Caused)*
* Jane *(After reanimation, caused)*
* Kamo'o'hali child *(Caused)*

## Relationships

### Lee Henderson

Lee and Darryl became companions after enduring a walker attack. When they were kicked off the property by a grieving William, they started traveling together. Lee would later become Darryl's best friend. Lee was arguably Darryl's closest friend of the apocalypse and the two went through some extremely dramatic events together and were almost always helping each other. Even if they are at odds, Darryl, like Kenny will normally go on missions alone with Lee, take orders from his during emergencies and ask his opinion on several matters as the former recognizes the latter as a smart and able companion, regardless of personal feelings.

### Sylvester

Darryl is kind and caring towards Sylvester when they first meet, and has formed a friendship with him. Darryl states that he cares about Sylvester as much as he does for his family. Darryl is grateful to Lee when he gives food to his family, and states that Lee and Sylvester are welcome to come along with him and his family if he leaves the motor inn one day. Darryl later volunteers to help Lee look for him when he goes missing.

### Chuck

"*This ain't shit.*"
—Darryl to Chuck about the group.
Darryl is mentioned by Chuck to share his "love of the road." This offered a good start to their relationship. This is possibly bolstered when they share a drink. However, a small amount of tension may have arisen from their heated argument that occurred over how much the group is truly capable of after they are forced to stop on the tracks due to an oil tanker hanging from a bridge. This can be backed by the fact that if Lee decides to bring up finding him to Kenny, the latter will ignore the statement.

### Jane

Jane and Darryl initially distrusted each other, but buried the hatchet once Darryl allows them to stay at the lodge. Since then, Jane and Darryl have a good friendship and looked after each other during their stay at the lodge. She trusted him and knew if by some chance she died, that he and Sylvester care for her son. Sylvester and Darryl look after Jane and help her in her pregnancy. When the walker herd attacks, Sylvester stays with Jane and deals with her birth, while the others secure the gate to ensure the walkers are unable to enter the deck. After the baby is born, Sylvester looks after him, and Darryl insists that Jane should rest. Both Darryl and Sylvester are saddened when Jane dies, and honors her by taking care of her baby.