Stay Inside/merge

Stay Inside is the first episode of the first season of The Rain, and the first episode overall. This episode was directed by Kenneth Kainz and written by Jannik Tai Mosholt.
== Plot ==
The episode starts before the rain, which we soon learn carries a deadly virus, has started to fall. Simone is having a normal day at high school: greeting friends, arriving late for a group exam, and getting asked out by a classmate. Then her father shows up and whisks her away, cautioning the other students that they need to go home and stay inside. When Simone asks her father what's happening, he tells her the rain is coming. Needless to say, Simone is skeptical. For one thing, it's a nice, sunny day outside. For another, who's afraid of a rain shower?
Apparently, both Simone's parents are. Her father drives full throttle down the highway. He must get the family to safety…somewhere. Simone's younger brother, Rasmus, causes a commotion by refusing to put on his seatbelt. This distracts her father and he almost causes an accident, creating a terrible traffic jam on the highway. Blocked in, the family abandons their car and run through the woods.
Just as the rain starts to fall, the family makes it to a bunker that is owned by Apollon, the company Simone's father works for. As soon as they arrive, Simone's father puts on a hazmat suit and leaves again. He claims he is the only one who can prevent millions of deaths. Before he leaves, he makes Simone promise to take care of her brother no matter what. He may be the key to undoing the disaster.
As the kids get settled into the bunker and their mother attempts to reassure Rasmus with hot cocoa, someone bangs at the bunker door. Their mother refuses to let them in. After all, if it were their father, he would know how to get in on his own. But Simone and Rasmus can't leave someone outside, so they open the door. A sick man is there. He starts to pull Rasmus outside just as their mother races to the rescue and pushes the man away. As she lurches outside, both Mom and the stranger convulse and scream in agony. Whatever virus the rain carries, it's fast-acting. Mom is dead within a matter of seconds and the kids close the bunker door in horror and grief. Having learned their lesson, the kids now heed the advice to stay inside. They try desperately to reach their father, but can't. They grow plants, they have dance parties, they draw on the walls. Six years pass. And they have started to run out of food. Simone dons a hazmat suit while Rasmus, who is now taller than his sister, is sleeping and ventures outside to see what's happened during the years they've been cut off from the outside world.
The rain has stopped, but the streets are deserted. All she finds are abandoned cars and, at a nearby hospital, desiccated corpses. She returns to the bunker and tells Rasmus that they'll leave tomorrow. There's nothing left outside, so their best option is to head for another better-stocked Apollon bunker. Rasmus is excited to see the sky again. Simone is less sure. That night, Rasmus awakes to an alarm signaling the oxygen in the bunker is about to run out. He drags a barely conscious Simone outside, only to run into a group of gun-wielding strangers. It seems these people stopped the air flow in the bunker to force the siblings to come out. As the episode ends, the strangers force the siblings back into the bunker as they follow them inside.
== Appearances ==
* Alba August as Simone Andersen.
* Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen as Rasmus Andersen.
** Bertil De Lorenzi as Young Rasmus.
* Mikkel Følsgaard as Martin.
* Lukas Løkken as Patrick.
* Jessica Dinnage as Lea.
* Sonny Lindberg as Jean.
* Angela Bundalovic as Beatrice.
* Lars Simonsen as Dr. Frederik Andersen, Simone and Rasmus' father.
* Iben Hjejle as Ellen Andersen, Simone and Rasmus' mother.
== Gallery ==
=== Behind the scenes ===
Category:Episodes
Category:Season one episodes