I keep threatening to quit this show but these episodes were my favorites to date... so I'll watch a while longer. When we last saw the Chester Mill's residents, a missile has just been lobbed at the dome by the military but to no avail.
In episode 5 everyone is starting to feel the drain on resources. Food supplies are low. There's a riot at the grocery store. A truck accidentally hits the water tower emptying its contents. They also can't drink the water in the lake because its polluted with methane. It starts to rain inside the dome for some miraculous reason. Everyone grab a trash can and fill it up!
Angie escapes from Junior and runs to the diner. Just then two men (the Dundee brothers) break in and beat Rose to death. Alice is dying because she's out of insulin. Her daughter Norrie breaks into someone's house to get insulin. Next the Dundee's carjack Julia who is driving Harriet to the clinic to deliver the baby. Those Dundee's are real upstanding citizens..NOT. Finally they get theirs when Linda and Junior attempt to arrest them. They put up a fight and are shot dead. I'm ashamed to say this but I'm happy they died. They were a waste of oxygen. Finally a use for Junior's psychopathic urges.
Norrie and Joe discovery a mini-dome with something that looks like an egg inside. Several people have had hallucinations about loved ones. Norrie sees a vision of Alice and runs back to the house. Alice (who is a doctor) has just helped Harriet deliver her baby. The child was named Alice. Old Alice dies in a touching scene with Carolyn and Norrie. That was heart breaking.
I read somewhere that Old Alice had to die because the head count inside the dome can't go above ~100. If that was true Old Alice would be safe though because several other people died recently.
Big Jim is up to his usual scheming self. He recaptures Angie at the diner but says she can leave at any time but don tell anyone about Crazy Junior. He also blew up that guy that wouldn't give him access to his stolen propane tanks. Julia and Barbie shack up. Yeah! Joe and Angie are finally reunited.
In the last scene the egg inside the mini- dome turns reddish. I hope it's a weirdo alien lava lamp.
Grade: 3 3/4 Monsters (out of 5). Lots more action than usual. "Under The Dome" has apparently been renewed for a second season... so does that mean these poor people are going to be stuck under the dome for yet another year?
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