Stay Strong

## "**Stay Strong**"*Season three, episode three*

"**Stay Strong**" is the third episode of the third season of *The Rain*, and the seventeenth episode overall. Directed by Kaspar Munk, and written by Lasse Kyed Rasmussen, the episode premiered on August 6, 2020.

## Synopsis

Simone refuses to leave unless Daniel gives her the flower extract. Sten wants to test Fie's theory and threatens Rasmus to ensure his cooperation.

## Plot

After betraying his father, Daniel rushes for help, and finds Kira and Jean. He has them go after his father, who is chasing Simone. Simone finds some survivors and begs their help, but the father runs them off and corners Simone. Kira arrives just in time to take the father hostage, freeing Simone. They demand that Daniel hand over their nectar and bring them to the flower, to which Daniel agrees — although they are being watched.

In Apollon, Rasmus is set to give the virus to Olivia next, to test Fie's hypothesis about administering the virus with a compromised immune system. Rasmus is hesitant because Olivia might die, even with Olivia's enthusiastic consent and desire to do the procedure given her stage 4, terminal cancer. Simone herself has a cure of her own, which she demonstrates to everyone as she returns to the flower, stunning them. Back with Rasmus, he is awake at night because he wants to give Martin the virus, but Sten wants to receive the virus himself. Rasmus fears Sten, although Sarah assures him that he can force Sten to cooperate using his power.

In Fie's quarters, Martin reveals to Patrick that he intends to be the one to receive the virus first, since Simone is no longer alive. Sten, eavesdropping on the recording, learns of Rasmus' plan and hatches his own — capture Sarah to ensure Rasmus' cooperation. With Jean, en route to the flower, he laments how the important people like Simone never seem to die while secondary people such as himself and Lea die and stay dead. Kira, tired of his nonstop depressed mood, urges him to "stop feeling sorry for [himself]". He confesses that he feels uniquely affected in an apocalyptic wasteland, which is stunning to Kira, so she once again says to stop feeling sorry for himself, before continuing on.

Once more with Martin, he tells Patrick to destroy Simone's tracking device, since she's surely dead. However, before Patrick can do so, guards enter the room and take them to another secure area. Rasmus confronts Sten, but Sten knew Rasmus would come. He claims to have singularly created Rasmus in his personal pursuit of glory, and yet Rasmus would deny him the virus for himself, in favor of Martin. In retaliation, he reveals Sarah, being torched and burned, which the virus hates. Through his link to her, he feels her pain and begs that Sten stop; Sten is in control. He intends for Rasmus to give Olivia the virus, raw, rather than via syringe.

Having finally reached Daniel's home, Simone assures Daniel's father that they won't take the plant from them, only a sample. The father still insists that his family reveal nothing, but Daniel willingly offers to extract a sample for them. They leave, with only Jean remaining behind to guard the family. While they go, Sten tortures Sarah to force Rasmus to infect Olivia, and afterward they wait. By now, Daniel has reached the flower with Simone and Kira. Daniel begins taking flasks, warning that the flower could kill them all if they aren't careful. The flower reacts, which terrifies Daniel, but it relaxes and allows more samples to be taken.

Back with Rasmus, Olivia seems dead, but at the last moment she comes back to life, the virus inside her but not killing her. Sten intends to be given the virus next, but Rasmus pretends to be overcome once again, giving him an excuse to leave. Once out of sight, he threatens to kill the doctor attending to him, forcing her to bring him to Martin. While they search, Daniel has just filled his fourth flask of nectar, and cautions that no more can be safely extracted, but Simone insists that he extract a fifth anyway. When he does, he accidentally touches a pistil, at which point the flower begins snapping closed all of its petals rapid, while Daniel screams at everyone to run. Everyone just barely manages to reach safety before thorns are blasted away from the plant at bullet speed in all directions, peppering the walls and nearly killing them.

Back with Daniel's family, the father hears the local wild men communicating in the woods. He tries to find them, but gets shot by a makeshift crossbow, and has to fall back. Jean eventually opens fire blindly at the unseen attackers, which is heard by Simone, so everyone rushes to see what's happening, the four vials collected now more than sufficient in light of the danger of getting a fifth. They round everyone up and head toward the main house, while Kira turns the hunt inside out. In Apollon, Rasmus frees Martin and sends him to free Sarah, while he pretends to work with Sten.

In the woods, Kira downs one of the wild men with a precision shot, and realizes that it's hardly a teenager. Hating herself, she returns to find Daniel's father with the bolt removed from his shoulder, but he insists that Kira should have killed them all. In Apollon, Sten is taking immunosuppressants in preparation for the virus from Rasmus, but it will be an hour before his immune system is entirely suppressed. He compares himself to Jesus, dying first and then being reborn. He professes to love Rasmus as a son, but Rasmus instead asserts that he actually loves the "concept" of Rasmus, of how he can use Rasmus to live forever. Rasmus disagrees that he should live forever, reveals that Sarah has been freed, and gives Sten the virus before his immune system is fully suppressed, killing him.

Jean goes to find Luna, who was hiding, and attempts to reassure her. She ends up comforting him however, realizing how sad he was, and assures him that it'll get better because she got over the death of her dog. Jean very awkwardly tries to say that it isn't comparable because she wasn't dating her dog, but Luna takes it well. Daniel goes to Simone and gives her her tracking beacon, which he repaired and that she is appreciative of. In Apollon, Martin prepares to receive the virus, not yet knowing that Simone is alive. Simone herself is visited by Luna, and although Simone sends Luna back, Luna gets lost.

Returning to camp, Luna isn't there, so everyone panics and begins to search for her. In Apollon, Patrick also panics when Simone's tracking beacon goes live again, revealing that she's not dead. He sprints to the operating room to tell Martin, so that he doesn't go through with getting the virus, but just as he arrives he sees Rasmus in the process of infecting Martin.

## Flashback

Rasmus remembers a time where he and Simone are in a bathroom together, and he wonders if he resembles his father. Simone assures him that it doesn't matter, only who he inside. When he asks who he is, she says he is her little brother, and that she would love him always.