Under the Dome 2x03 Recap

 All is not right Under the Dome. But then again is it ever? In this week’s episode, while the residents of Chester’s Mill were trying not to get burnt from the blood acid rain, we were also presented with more questions rather than answers, though we did finally get some insight into who our mystery girl really is.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Right from the get-go this episode sets up conflict between Barbie and Julia. Heaps of sadness for me since these guys are my definite OTP of this show but what can you do? This episode also launches directly into the idea of faith vs. science (sound familiar?), which I’m assuming is going to be a recurring theme throughout this season.

It’s fairly obvious that Barbie doesn’t trust our mystery girl, but Julia does. Oh and does anyone actually care that this is only the 13^th day they’ve known each other? Yet Barbie lays claim to the house in the first few minutes of the episode. I was half expecting Julia to turn around and say excuse me but who’s house is this?

Possibly one of the more cuter reveals of this episode... Big Jim has a crush on Rebecca! I’m not sure why I find this so adorable but I just really do, even though I still don’t like Rebecca one bit. She’s bossy and is forcing the entire town to fill out a form that will determine where they should work. Right.

Joe, Norrie and Melanie return to the high school to look up some specs for an experiment, while Junior returns in the hopes of jogging his memory of what happened the night Angie was killed. Though Junior has no luck with his memory, the teens find something even more interesting at the school. They have internet. Joe gets an email from his Dad and Norrie is getting twitter messages from the handle ‘houndsofdiana’. A few weeks ago Colin Ford and Mackenzie Lintz who play Joe and Norrie respectively, tweeted out for everyone to follow their friend ‘houndsofdiana’. Of course I did and now I can see that the tweets from that account are the actual tweets from the show. Cool. Joe’s email from his Dad makes him super sad and Melanie takes it upon herself to comfort him. Norrie doesn’t like that. She doesn’t like it one bit.

Of course while our teenagers are struggling with the internet, the rest of Chester’s Mill is busy battling the rain, which turns out to be acidic blood. Rebecca seems to think that it is caused by poison in the lake from the pesticide they dropped, however Lyle, everyone’s favourite neighbourhood barber, believes it is a test. In an attempt to change her mind, Lyle kidnaps Rebecca and tortures her with the burning rain to get her to stop interfering with the dome’s plans with her science. Luckily our heroes show up just in time to save her. Julia tries to use her belief to get him to give up the gun, and it almost works but Rebecca uses the acid rain bowl to burn his face instead. It is fairly obvious that Rebecca and Julia do not like each other one bit.

Back at the high school Junior finds he has an email from ‘houndsofdiana’ with a link to a video from his mom who tells him she’s alive and hopes to see him again but that if he needs answers he should talk to Lyle. Before she can say anything else the internet cuts out. Junior decides to find Lyle since he and Pauline had a history together.

Since the internet cut out, Joe, Norrie and Melanie decide to follow the signal to where it is strongest, which just happens to be at the locker where Angie was killed. Melanie is able to open the locker which causes Norrie to go off at her (which was awesome) and demand to know who she is and how she knew. Luckily Joe has an idea to stop the girls from killing each other.

Back at the diner Rebecca explains to Barbie, Jim and Julia that it may become necessary to “thin the herd”. Julia is outraged that the survey was a way to determine who is an asset and who’s a burden. She storms out and demands Barbie to follow her but he doesn’t, saying the belief will only get you so far. No not a Jarbie fight! I can’t deal with it!

Sam is just full of surprises this episode. First, he saves Big Jim’s life but then indicates that he wants to kill him at some point. Not that big of a surprise since I reckon most of Chester’s Mill wants Big Jim dead by now. Second he visits Lyle in jail and the two of them discuss how 25 years ago they agreed to keep something hidden. Unbeknownst to them Junior watches them on the security camera but can’t hear what they say. Lyle agrees to tell Junior everything if he’ll let him go.

Joe and Norrie discover that our mystery girl is actually Melanie Cross from 1988 by looking at the yearbook from that year and finding a picture of her the same age she is now. Earlier in the episode Barbie and Julia found a picture of Pauline, Sam and Lyle in the summer of ’88. With this show, I really don’t believe in coincidences, so I think that the three of them knew something about Melanie.

What did you guys think of the revelations surrounding this episode? Do you agree with me that Pauline, Sam and Lyle may know something about what happened to Melanie? Let me know in the comments below!

Stay random!

~ Jenna