Be the Change You Want in the World

## "**Be the Change You Want in the World**"*Season three, episode four*

"**Be the Change You Want in the World**" is the fourth episode of the third season of *The Rain*, and the eighteenth episode overall. Directed by Kaspar Munk, and written by Christoffer Barfred Krustrup, the episode premiered on August 6, 2020.

## Synopsis

Simone's group approaches a camp of young survivors. Rasmus's thirst for power spirals out of control, and Martin leaves Apollon to search for Simone.

## Plot

Coming out of her reverie, Kira interrupts Simone and Daniel's argument about how to recover Luna. Jean discovers that the wild men who captured Luna just want food, so everyone puts together a supply cache to give to them as a peace offering. The wild men themselves turn out to be a large gang of teenagers under the leadership of a single adult, who desires their ability to hold the virus at bay. Meanwhile in Apollon, Martin rises from his procedure to receive the virus, suddenly feeling boundless energy and good health. Rasmus, who gave him the virus, assumes command of Apollon by murdering the scientists who question him.

As Kira, Simone, Daniel, and Jean head out to recover Luna, Simone questions Kira's motivations for turning against Apollon to suddenly caring out children. Kira asserts that Simone isn't the only one with a moral compass, and they continue on. In Apollon, Rasmus is concerned over Fie's reaction, who witnessed him murdering a scientist, so Sarah reassures him. Patrick and Fie are uncertain if they're the "good guys" anymore, and Martin discovers that they are hiding the fact that Simone is alive.

In the ruins of an old city, Simone's group continue to search for the wild men. Although they attempt to offer food, the wild men continue to attack them regardless, boxing them into a room covered in virus. Left with no way out, they use the flower's nectar to banish the virus so that they can enter the main building, confirming to the wild men that they have a cure for the virus. While this happens, Martin reveals to Rasmus that Simone is alive, and although Rasmus wants to go after her, Martin goes instead to allay Sarah's concerns.

Back in the ruins, Simone's group continue to search through the building that is the wild men's base, eventually discovering a dead end. A ladder scales the side of the building leading up to their lair in the upper floors, but Jean is terrified of heights, and so stays behind. Everyone else confronts the wild men, but they are disarmed and captured. They demand the nectar to banish the virus, and will not release Luna until they receive it.

Rasmus discovers strange lacerations cropping up all over his body, but dismisses them as unimportant. Martin, meanwhile, regrets contracting the virus now that he knows Simone is alive. He scratches at his arms to make the black veins of virus sink back beneath his skin, to no avail. With Martin continuing on after Simone, Rasmus is able to eavesdrop on him from afar, viewing the world through Martin's eyes, through the virus. With Sarah's help, he selects five new people to receive the virus as well.

Simone comes to an agreement with the wild men to supply them with regular quantities of the nectar in exchange for peace, but the leader has her drink poisoned Coca Cola to knock her out, allowing her and her companions to be imprisoned. In Apollon, Rasmus summons Fie to oversee the infection of five new patients, but he staggers after infecting the third. Fie wishes to help, but Rasmus waves it off as unimportant. Later, he tells Fie that she will get the virus next, despite her pregnancy. This terrifies Fie, who cries in Patrick's arms, wanting to flee.

Jean breaks Simone and her group out of confinement, as he was still in the lower levels, afraid of heights, and was not captured. They rush back to the flower, freeing Daniel's parents along the way, but they discover a blood bath at the flower itself. Ignorant, the wild men attempted to harvest the flower's nectar without precaution, and fell victim to its terrible defensive mechanism. Bodies of teenagers are strewn about the area, impaled by its deadly thorn projectiles. The leader is barely alive, protesting that he only wanted to give the children hope, before dying of his injuries.

In the process of killing all the wild men, the flower seemingly died. Simone's group discover a single healthy survivor of the wild men, the same girl that Kira shot by accident before. The group takes her in, but when they return to Daniel's parents, Daniel's father viciously derides Simone for ruining everything. Although Simone protests that she was trying to help, the father simply says, "you didn't". Kira also admonishes Simone that not everyone can be saved, and that she must face reality.

That night, Daniel kisses Simone just as Martin arrives, who witnesses the whole thing (as does Rasmus, through Martin's eyes).

## Flashback

Kira remembers her youth in India, with her boyfriend Memo. Memo gives Kira a custom necklace he made himself, and expresses his desire to be with her forever, even as she must leave with her mother for Sweden. 15 years later, Memo has also moved to Sweden, having married a woman named Natasha. Kira attempts to visit Memo and rekindle their relationship, but learning of his relationship with Natasha hurts Kira, so she leaves.