Rain of Sorrows

Roused by a dream of his dead mother and of Nina, Edward heads to East City headquarters with Alphonse to learn what awaits Shou Tucker, only for Hawkeye to report that both the alchemist and his daughter were slain by an unidentified attacker. Hughes and Armstrong travel in from Central to look into it, and their weary certainty that the killer stays a step ahead prompts Mustang to wonder why they speak as though they expected it.

In Reole, a figure who looks like Father Cornello incites the townsfolk into open warfare. Watching from the belfry, Lust and Gluttony mock how easily people fall to hatred, and the fake priest sheds his form to reveal Envy, the third of these operatives. A witness named Cray is silenced when Gluttony devours him, and the three note that Fullmetal must be kept alive as a valuable Human Sacrifice.

Returning to East City, the pair brief Mustang that the murderer, dubbed Scar for his forehead marking, has cut down numerous State Alchemists nationwide. As the brothers sit in the rain, Scar ambushes them, destroying whatever his right hand touches. He tears open Alphonse's side and obliterates Edward's automail arm, and a frozen Edward offers his own life if Scar will let his brother flee. Mustang and his forces arrive just in time to interrupt the killing.

Armstrong engages Scar and deduces that his ability is alchemy stopped at the deconstruction stage. When a grazing shot from Hawkeye reveals Scar's red eyes, Mustang recognizes him as an Ishvalan, and the killer escapes into the sewers. Afterward Mustang recounts the civil war in Ishval, the extermination campaign carried out by State Alchemists, and his own role in it. Edward, with his arm gone, resolves to seek out his automail mechanic.

The episode adapts the manga chapters dealing with Scar's destructive right hand and the calm following the rain. The transmutation circles behind the title card belong to Armstrong's gauntlets and Mustang's flame array. Edward's line about his aching leg is dropped here, and unlike the manga, no military policeman is shown being killed before the ambush. Where the source has Hawkeye fire once at Scar, this version shows her shooting three times.