Survival of the Fittest

## "**Survival of the Fittest**"*Season two, episode six*

"**Survival of the Fittest**" is the final episode of the second season of *The Rain*, and the fourteenth episode overall. Directed by Josefine Kirkeskov, and written by Simon Oded Weil, the episode premiered on May 17, 2019.

## Synopsis

In the wake of their grim encounter, Martin and Patrick race back to the base. Meanwhile, a grief-stricken survivor plots revenge.

## Plot

Patrick and Martin race back to the base to warn everyone not to try to cure Rasmus; too late, although they don't know it. As they run, Patrick trips and injures his leg, slowing them enough that Apollon is able to intercept and capture them. At the base itself, Rasmus learns that he killed Lea by accident, becoming distraught and finding comfort from Sarah. Jean, however, has no one, and stands praying and crying near Lea's grave.

In Sten's custody, Martin demands release so he can stop Simone from trying to cure Rasmus, demanding to know why Sten would try to capture Rasmus if no cure is possible. Sten assures him that he wants Rasmus for his resistance and ability to adapt to the virus, which Martin finds insane, but Sten doesn't care and simply orders their deaths. Kira takes them away for execution. At the base, Rasmus apologizes to Jean, who hates Rasmus and blames Rasmus for Lea's death. Fie also tries to make up with Sarah, and succeeds somewhat, smoothing their relationship.

In the woods, Kira does not execute Patrick and Martin as instructed, but instead has them head toward the base. In the base itself, Simone and Fie are jubilant that Rasmus is supposedly cured. At the same time, bounty hunters looking for Rasmus (in exchange for Apollon releasing them from the zone) come before Jean, who happily directs them to where Rasmus is, in revenge for his murder of Lea. They capture Rasmus and Sarah, escaping through the base with them in custody.

Simone, unable to find Rasmus, goes to Jean to ask where he is. Eventually, he reveals that he betrayed their locations to bounty hunters, and that he hopes Rasmus dies. While Simone searches, Patrick, Martin, and Kira narrowly avoid an Apollon patrol. Kira reveals that she wishes to destroy Apollon, so Martin agrees to work with her. Meanwhile, the bounty hunters are about to leave the base when Sarah and Rasmus trick them into fearing his contagion, so they run in terror. Simone and Fie then find both Rasmus and Sarah, with Simone revealing that Rasmus is at last cured.

The rest of the bounty hunters continue toward the base at the same time that Kira, Martin, and Patrick do. Patrick intends to enter through the secret entrance, so Kira leaves him a gun to guard their way out as she and Martin enter. Inside, Sarah and Rasmus are nearly together, now that he's cured, but they are interrupted by Simone — the bounty hunters have arrived to invade the base. Martin and Kira try to find Rasmus, but Jean stops them from his control room, threatening to sound the alarm if they don't do his bidding. Kira stays as insurance while Martin presses on.

Simone, Fie, Rasmus, and Sarah attempt to flee, but they are already boxed in by the incoming bounty hunters, and are forced back, deeper into the base. Martin meets them en route, and he makes up with Simone. Kira tries to reason with Jean, to no avail, so Martin also tries to reason with Jean. He nearly succeeds, but Rasmus walks into plain view, so Jean throws the deadly alarm that killed so many in the past. Kira, however, knows the base and shoots the speakers, weakening its deadly sound and allowing them to flee.

Hurt by the sound and the pain of Lea's loss, Jean returns to his controls. There, he sees Lea on the screen, near her grave, telling Jean that what he's doing is wrong. Realizing his mistake, he disables the alarm and flees the control room to follow after Rasmus. The bounty hunters get there first, however, and their bullets mortally wound Sarah before Kira can kill them all with return fire. As she dies, she has Rasmus kiss her, "just like *Romeo and Juliet*".

In a blood rage, his "cured" virus comes flooding back through his veins and begins to emit from his body. He sends a black cloud of death at more incoming bounty hunters, killing them all, before stalking forward through their corpses to look for more of them. As he continues, the black cloud writhes about him, killing everyone he encounters, much to Simone's horror, as she is trying to follow him. After killing every last one of them, Simone comes to him with a gun pointed at him.

Simone justifies herself, saying that Frederik Andersen warned her to kill Rasmus if he could not be cured. Betrayed, and asserting that Simone didn't understand him or even truly know him, he advances toward her with the virus about himself. Martin arrives, drawing Rasmus' ire towards himself instead, but before Rasmus can blast him with the virus, it suddenly stops; Simone has shot Rasmus in the back. Miraculously, his wound heals, so he leaves, ripped apart with the knowledge that his own sister tried to kill him.

At the end, Sarah's corpse suddenly opens her eyes and gasps for breath, the virus spreading through her veins.

## Flashback

Kira remembers her last moments with her mother, as they flee to the edge of the zone. They end up surrounded by Apollon soldiers, so Kira's mother makes Kira shoot her, so that Kira could join Apollon as a double agent. Although distraught, Kira hides her emotions as she is brought before Sten, who welcomes her to Apollon for her act of killing her insurgent mother. As soon as she has some time alone, Kira screams in rage and pain at the death of her mother.