"Avoid The City" is the third episode of the first season of The Rain, and the third episode overall. It was premiered on May 4, 2018.
Summary
Simone and Rasmus venture into the city of Copenhagen as they travel toward Sweden. They are soon joined by Beatrice, Lea, and Jean. Lea believes that Simone's search represents hope and calls Simone "their guiding star." Emotionally connected to Beatrice, Martin later follows along with a frustrated Patrick. Separated, each finds shelter during a rain storm. Simone helps a small child, only to later see him attacked and killed by a desperate group of starving scavengers. Beatrice and Rasmus take shelter in an expensive house, with Beatrice claiming that it is the house she was born in. Martin and Patrick take shelter inside a bus. Playing with a piece of tech he took off the dead "strangers", the device activates—revealing itself to be a map. Martin's group meets up after the storm, but a scavenger follows them and takes Rasmus hostage. The scavenger threatens to slit Rasumus's throat if the group doesn't give up their food supply to him. Martin and Patrick arrive and the scavenger stabs Rasmus before escaping with a bag of food supplies. The group arrive at a third bunker only to find it stripped bare. In a flashback, Beatrice tells Martin a story about her family house, similar to the one she told Rasmus, revealing that she is not being truthful. In the present, Martin shows Simone the map and they determine it is of the quarantine zone. Because the map shows a wall to the north, Martin concludes the spread of the virus was stopped. The wall, he declares, is where they need to go.
Guest cast
- Johannes Kuhnke as Sten
- Bertil Smith as Ragged Boy
- Nicolai Dahl Hamilton as Ragged Father
- Elvir Ramovic as Ragged Person
- Dennis Haladyn as Urban Survivor
| Season 1 | "Stay Inside" · "Stay Together" · "Avoid The City" · "Trust No One" · "Have Faith" · "Keep Your Friends Close" · "Don't Talk To Strangers" · "Trust Your Instincts" |
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| Season 2 | "Avoid Contact" · "The Truth Hurts" · "Stay in Control" · "Save Yourself" · "Keep It Together" · "Survival of the Fittest" |
| Season 3 | "Don't Give Up" · "Never Let Go" · "Stay Strong" · "Be the Change You Want in the World" · "Love Yourself" · "And This Too Shall Pass" |