Under the Dome 2x05 Recap

JARBIE! Angie’s killer revealed! Plus have our heroes found a way out of the dome? Episode five of Under the Dome sure makes it look that way, but this show has definitely been known to throw some red herrings at us in the past whenever we start getting too close to an answer.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

This episode was definitely dominated by Big Jim’s ploy to get out of jail and Julia’s attempt to rally the town behind her. Although Julia only managed to get half the town on her side, Jim did manage to get himself and Rebecca out of jail, though all signs point to him no longer seeing eye to eye with Rebecca after she decided not to go through with the genocide scheme in the previous episode. My guess? Those two won’t be working together for much longer.

At the town meeting Julia asks people to participate in a voluntary food share program, but Jim’s presence for his trial complicates things and a riot breaks out, causing Phil to kill a man in front of everyone. Julia and Barbie force him to step down as sheriff, something he doesn’t take too lightly as we later see him very drunk and wanting to let Jim out of jail.

JARBIE IS BACK TOGETHER! Yes! I know they haven’t really been together very long (the dome has only been up just over two weeks!) but I really like this pairing. I just feel like they make each other better. Their reconciliation comes at a cost though, as it is only after all the food Julia collected for the food share program was blown up that they realise they were both wrong and decide to hug it out behind the burning building.

As it turns out Phil was the one who blew up all the food, though Carolyn unwittingly stumbles upon a hidden room containing the food they thought to have been blown up. Unfortunately once she catches on Phil can’t let her go and she is used as a hostage until Barbie is able to defuse the situation by shooting Phil in the shoulder. I don’t think we’ll be seeing much of him for the next couple of episodes.

In addition to the food share program food, Julia discovers that Andrea has a stockpile of food at her house since her late husband was a survivalist and had a lot of food just hanging around at home. I find this a bit hard to swallow but hey - anything to keep the town going under the dome for another couple of months right? Julia decides to release Jim and Rebecca from jail, a decision that could either be very good or very bad. I guess we’ll find out in the coming episodes.

Big Jim vs. Julia wasn’t the only storyline going on in this episode though. Junior takes it upon himself to tell Sam that Pauline is still alive and that he believes Lyle was the one to kill Angie, all because of what Pauline put in her journal. The two of them go looking for clues as to where Lyle could have gone. Sam plants evidence in Lyle’s barber shop and then just happens to “find” the missing pages from Pauline’s journal, which causes Junior to reveal to Sam that he, Joe and Norrie are the other four hands and that he believes Lyle will kill them all in order to bring down the dome.

Back at the Rennie household Sam manages to get Junior drunk to the point that he passes out. Sam reveals that he was the one to kill Angie and that he is planning to kill the other four hands. He attempts to murder Junior but (luckily) Junior sleepily thanks Sam for looking out for him and that he loves him. This causes Sam to get angry because he can’t murder his own nephew and he knocks down a painting down by Pauline. The painting reveals a hidden painting behind it of the obelisk in Zenith and the number 1821, which is the locker number where Angie was killed.

The last storyline going in this episode revolves around Melanie. We found out who she was in the last episode but that wasn’t enough for her, so in this episode she, Joe and Norrie head out to talk to the dome. The show is really pushing the love triangle between these three and it only gets stronger after Norrie tells Melanie she’d trade her rotting in the ground if it meant she could have her mom back. Ouch. Joe didn’t particularly like that and somehow ends up smooching with Melanie, leading to a catfight between the girls. Luckily Joe broke up the fight with one of the brilliant ideas he appears to have in each and every episode.

Joe and Melanie take samples of their blood to see if it differs but they can’t tell. Joe points out that Ms Pine would know. Luckily Melanie runs into her at the diner and casually mentions they left the blood at the high school. Joe tries to smooth things over with Norrie by telling her that he loves her but she isn’t having any of it. Rebecca returns to the high school to examine the blood, but instead finds Sam and Junior at the locker where Angie died. The episode ends with the three of them looking down into a tunnel below the locker.

So what did you think? I had a feeling that Jim and Rebecca weren’t going to be in jail for very long, and it turns out I was right. I can’t wait to see where they are planning on taking the tunnel storyline. Could it really be a way out? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

Stay random!

~ Jenna