Under the Dome: Season Two, Episode Ten – “The Fall”

First aired September 1st, 2014.

Now that all the major players are back inside the dome they’re working on a plan to get everyone out fast because the temperature is getting colder, despite the fact that it’s July. “Barbie” (played by Mike Vogel) comes up with a (not-that-great) plan to get everyone out past his father Don (played by Brett Cullen) and his black ops squad.

His plan is to jump off the cliff first and demand that the entire town be allowed to go free in exchange for the egg, although he and Julia (played by Rachelle Lefevre) can’t decide who should jump first. This was the same idea “Big Jim” (played by Dean Norris) had last episode (which was rejected), but Barbie has what he thinks is his ace in the hole. It turns out that Melanie (played by Grace Cox) visited Barbie when he was a kid because she’s his half-sister, and that she’s Don’s illegitimate daughter. Barbie thinks Don would be more willing to cooperate after seeing his daughter back from the dead. Big Jim also gets in on the plan because he now has the incentive of protecting his newly reunited family, following the shock of finding out his wife, Pauline (played by Sherry Stringfield), is alive and in Chester’s Mill.

Barbie and Melanie are related, there’s a twist I honestly never saw coming. Although now it makes sense why she visited him as a kid instead of making it somehow related to the dome. It was weird how these two so easily fell into the brother and sister relationship with almost no real awkwardness. Melanie being related to Don and Barbie changes nothing though; he was willing to sacrifice Barbie for that egg. I’m sure he would do the same for the daughter who already died once. Big Jim’s motives for wanting to help in the escape plan are noble but deep down he’s a bad person and he would find a way to ruin everything. The working theory behind the crazy weather is that the dome has accelerated the seasons for some reason. Why, I have no idea. Maybe it’s a way of bringing Christmas early.

Meanwhile, at the Rennie house, Big Jim is initially super pissed that Pauline faked her death but is glad to have his family back together. Pauline has no intention of getting back together with him and only came back to rescue Junior (played by Alexander Koch). Unfortunately, the hidden egg starts making a screeching sound that sends Pauline into a frenzy and, next thing you know, she’s painting a new disaster that will involve her family. Big Jim locks her in the garage to keep her safe and heads out to track down the egg.

Later, after hearing that his uncle is back, Junior goes to Sam’s (played by Eddie Cahill) to kill him for murdering Angie (played by Britt Robertson). Angie then appears to him and warns that he can’t kill Sam because he still has work to do inside the dome, so Junior settles for beating the hell out of him.

The look on Jim’s face I swear I thought he was going to kill Pauline right on the spot, is it any wonder why this woman won’t stay with him? I used to think her connection to the dome and her visions were a useful tool but not after seeing how it drove her insane. From what I can tell it looks like the dome is going to crack open and everyone will burn in a huge fire, unless maybe the pink stars can save them again. It was cool to see Angie again especially since she’s one of the few people who could talk Junior down whenever he went psycho. Sam’s work inside the dome started with him saving Melanie after she collapsed from a seizure, which is ironic considering his business was killing the people connected to the egg. Also, Sam is an original hand, so if another one dies he could be used as a replacement.

Elsewhere, Joe (played by Colin Ford) and Norrie (played by Mackenzie Lintz) are searching for the egg too. They bump into Hunter (played by Max Elrich), the latest citizen of Chester’s Mill. Hunter is thrilled for the chance to live inside the dome and study it and builds a device to help Joe and Norrie find the egg (after hearing them loudly discuss it in the hall). They find it in Big Jim’s bunker, but he holds them at gun point and forces them into the high school. Because the egg is hurting Pauline, he throws it over the cliff. The second it goes over there is a huge earthquake which helps Phil (played by Nicholas Strong) escape jail. He knows the cliff leads out of town after hearing Joe and Norrie (again super loudly) talking about it in the station. So, he runs to the school and jumps off the cliff and Barbie and Julia discover that there is now a bottom and Phil is impaled on a large rock, the way out of the dome has now been closed.

Well, now we know why Pauline had that vision of destruction. The dome lost its egg and it is pissed. See, this is what happens when Big Jim gets involved. I’m thrilled about the portal being closed though because, with their hope of leaving gone, everyone has to give up hope for escape (for now anyway) and worry about survival. Killing off Phil was a good move because, after his failed attempt to discredit Julia, the show ran out of ideas to develop his character. At least here he goes out in a memorable way.

Hunter acting like a kid in a candy store over being trapped under the dome was hilarious but he had better change his tune or he’ll likely be one of the next to die. Being in the dome won’t seem so fun and cool when it starts acting up and brings a plague of locusts or magnetizes itself again.

Quotes & Thoughts

“You want help tracking down that egg?” “Are you a mind reader?” “You guys were loud coming down that hallway.”

Joe and Norrie should really learn to use their inside voices.

“You came here on purpose?” “I wasn’t about to turn down the chance to check out the dome.”

You know how I know that Junior likes Melanie? He hasn’t tried to lock her up (at least not yet). Once he starts to get possessive over her like he did with Angie though, all bets are off.

“I told you about my visions, you saw my paintings. I knew something terrible was coming.” “So you ran away and left me and Junior?”

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