Save Yourself

## "**Save Yourself**"*Season two, episode four*

"**Save Yourself**" is the fourth episode of the second season of *The Rain*, and the twelfth episode overall. Directed by Kasper Gaardsøe, and written by Rune Schjøtt and Simon Oded Weil, the episode was premiered on May 17, 2019.

## Synopsis

Simone, Martin and Fie pursue Rasmus and Sarah, whose bond deepens while they're on the run. Patrick makes another discovery. Jean tries to console Lea.

## Plot

Fie, Martin, and Simone leave after Martin, following the pockets of black decay that Rasmus left in his wake. Rasmus, meanwhile, continues on with Sarah on their way to the Bakken amusement park. Sarah frequently coughs and has to wait due to her illness, and only has a limited quantity of serum to keep her immune system strong, but she doesn't care; she wants to have a happy few days before committing suicide. Meanwhile, Lea suddenly cannot make up her mind regarding whether to leave or not, not wanting to let the rest of the group down.

Patrick manages to escape, takes the video cartridges from Dennis' corpse, and watches them, learning of how Kira and her mother sought to find a way to remove the nanocapsules from their bodies so that they could leave the zone. Rasmus and Sarah continue on, with Sarah painting Rasmus to look like a clown for a prank when they stop at a small shop. After waiting for the Apollon soldiers to pass by, they depart the area, although Fie and her companions are hot on their heels. Unfortunately for them, however, Klaus catches up to them and takes them hostage at gunpoint, tying them up. Klaus wants Rasmus, so Martin offers to guide Klaus in exchange for his freedom, leaving Fie and Simone behind.

Rasmus and Sarah decide to stay in a cabin for the night so that Sarah can rest. Inside, Sarah prepares to use an IV of orange serum used to sustain her immune system. She tells Rasmus that she could go into anaphylactic shock if she does it improperly, and to "call 911" (jokingly) if she begins to have a seizure. She inserts the IV, begins to shake, but then suddenly laughs and reveals that it was a prank. However, Rasmus was so alarmed by this that he began emitting the virus, and had to go outside lest it infect Sarah. Afterward, she comforted him, telling him to accept himself, to accept what amounts to a superpower.

Klaus and Martin arrive at the cabin long after Sarah and Rasmus had left, and although Martin helps Klaus when his wounded leg gives out, Klaus makes it clear that they aren't friends. Meanwhile, Simone and Fie are still tied up, but Simone manages to convince Fie to help her save Rasmus rather than give him over to Apollon, so together they defeat their binds and head after Rasmus, to Bakken. They arrive at the same time Klaus does, who hears Simone calling for Rasmus and ambushes her with a shotgun.

A Mexican standoff ensues when Fie holds a gun to Klaus while Klaus holds a gun to Simone. He wants to find Rasmus so he can kill him, to torture Simone emotionally, but is happy to risk death at his chance to kill Simone in revenge if he can't have Rasmus. However, to the surprise of everyone, the relatively unnoticed Martin suddenly disarms Klaus and shoots him with his own gun, ending the threat.

Rasmus himself has already arrived at Bakken after a long journey with Sarah, where he came to understand a bit of her immune disorder and to care for her. Atop a decommissioned roller coaster, Sarah wants Rasmus to kiss her, but he cannot without infecting and killing her. She reveals that she just wants a single happy day that ends in a kiss, even if she dies afterward, but he refuses to do that to her. Without options, Sarah prepares to jump to her death, but Rasmus convinces her that she can have many more happy days before she inevitably dies, so she comes back down for him.

Rasmus and Sarah link up with Simone, Fie, and Martin when they finally notice each other, but the entire group comes under attack by Kira, who demands that Rasmus come with her. When she gets no where, she kidnaps Sarah to force Rasmus' hand, but instead he summons forth a viral cloud which he sends at her, frightening her away. Later, Simone formally ends her relationship with Martin, who leaves in anger to join up with Patrick as a two-man team. Patrick, it turns out, had learned much of how to remove nanocapsules, and after killing the invading Apollon agents in order to save Lea and Jean, revealed what he knew to Martin.

Lea and Jean had, throughout this time, formed a stronger relationship — with Jean building Lea a chapel and comforting her in the face of the agents Patrick had killed. In the aftermath, they kissed each other, and resolved to keep their garden and home safe from disease and danger, respectively. Finally, when Rasmus wakes up the next day, he sees Simone crying and begging him to understand that she never abandoned him or sought to turn him over to Apollon. He understands, and comforts her as she cries.