The firemen arrive to help them out the window. She jumps down to the ground floor and (off-stage) rides off on his back. Boeuf practical advice for dealing with this setback, but she is too devoted to her rhino-husband and vows to stay with him. Daisy telephones the fire station to rescue them. Boeuf recognizes the rhino as her husband. The rhino crushes the staircase it tries to ascend, stranding the workers. She tells them that she was just chased by a rhino, which is now downstairs. Boeuf rushes in and says her husband is sick and will be back in a few days. Botard claims the illusory appearance of the rhino is an example of 'collective psychosis.' They return to work, proof-reading law proposals, and wonder where co-worker Mr.
The employees ask Berenger if he saw the rhino. Berenger arrives late, but Daisy sneaks him in. In Berenger's office, the co-workers argue with Botard, an old skeptic who doesn't believe in the rhinos. Berenger expresses remorse for fighting with Jean, then says he's too upset to culture himself as planned and instead drinks. The townspeople ask the Logician to clear up confusion, but his lengthy analysis makes no progress. Berenger and Jean get in a fight over the physical specifics of the rhino, and Jean storms off after calling Berenger a drunkard. The townspeople debate whether or not it was the same rhino and what breed it was. Another rhino rushes by and tramples a cat. Jean recommends will-power and cultural self- improvement to garner Daisy's affections, and to improve his life in general. Berenger concedes that he has a crush on Daisy, a typist at his office, but worries that she favors Dudard, an up-and-coming co-worker. Jean lectures Berenger about will-power while a rational Logician explains the concept of a syllogism to an old man. Soon, a rhinoceros runs through the square (off-stage), shocking all the townspeople with the exception of the indifferent Berenger.
Jean upbraids Berenger for his drinking habits and his aimlessness. Rhinoceros begins in a small town square where Jean, an efficient, refined young man, meets his semi-alcoholic and fully apathetic friend, Berenger, for a drink.
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