Reunited
Daryl finds himself running all throughout the night in pursuit of this car who must have been miles away by now. He falls exhausted in the middle intersection of 3 roads. In that road he sat in exhaustion, he didn't know where Beth was taken, he didn't know who, had taken her. All he could think about was that she was gone.
After a couple moments of sitting on that road, Daryl was then confronted by a group of 6 men with guns. The leader spoke to Daryl and found interest in him allowing him to join their group if he'd like. Daryl looked at the men and didn't think he had much to lose. He knew they were bad, he just didn't know how bad.
Daryl and Beth had lost Rick and everyone at the prison weeks ago when they were attacked by the governor. He didn't have hope in ever finding anyone at the prison, he didn't know if they had even survived.
Daryl spent a couple days with these men, learning their ways and adapting to their "rules". He thought they were stupid but, "It was something" he thought. It wasn't until the group of men had found the man who had killed one of their own, that Daryl knew the situation wasn't going to be an easy one, so he left.
But before he left something drove Daryl to at least, see who it was that these men were looking for and had now found.
It was Rick! It was Rick, Carl, and Michonne!
Immediately Daryl intervenes, to stop the situation from escalating and gives himself up in place of Rick.
Daryl is then beat half to death while Rick has a gun pointed to his head.
Rick then takes control of the situation and does what needs to be done, those men are dead and Rick, Carl, Michonne, and Daryl are all alive.