Under The Dome Season 2 Episodes 2 Thru 3 Recaps: Thin The Herd Beginning With Lyle And Rebecca

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My Science God Is Better Than Your Pestilence God, Dwight Yoakum!

A lot is happening to/with the citizens of Chester's Mill. Here's the latest from episode 3 "Infestation" and episode 4 "Force Majeure". 

Angie is really dead and Lake Girl is the prime suspect. However I think Big Jim's brother-in-law (Sam) is the real culprit.

A large # of butterflies descend upon the town. Science Teacher (Rebecca) says the caterpillars will eat their crops and all the citizens will starve. Julia and Barbie have sexy times. Lots of butterflies look on through the window. Junior discovers Angie's body. The butterflies like it too. Big Jim asks Junior if he killed her. He says "No I loved her!" Dude, dont be all offended. You did lock her in a basement last season. Junior later finds Angie's bracelet under his bed so still thinks he had something to do with her death. 

Norrie and Joe kiss and dead butterflies fall from the sky. Apparently the butterflies dont like that. And poor Joe is having a hard time with his sister's death. Someone please give him a hug. Not you butterflies! You stay where you are. 

Next Science Teacher is being all pushy and making everyone fill out census forms. But what she's really doing is figuring out who they should kill (so there's not a drain on resources). Im thinking Rebecca should be at the top of that list. 

Big Jim gets a close shave from the local barber. We have never met Lyle before. He's one of those characters that pop up at opportune times. Seriously all your people should know each other by now! Anyway Big Jim and Lyle have a past. Apparently they both were competing for the hand of Pauline when they were young.  

Is it raining blood in the dome? Cause that looks like blood. Nope it's acid. Lyle says God is sending plagues. Rebecca says it's due to "science". Here we have the classic science vs religion argument. Religion initially wins out when Lyle makes Jim crash his car and then kidnaps Rebecca. He wants her to repent. The crew arrives just in time to save Rebecca. She throws a container or acid in Lyle's face. Science has won this round. 

Next Lyle is being held in jail and Big Jim's brother in law Sam shows up. He has some cryptic conversation with Lyle in which he says "what we buried 25 years ago was supposed to stay buried". What does it all mean? Are they talking about Lake Girl?

Next Joe, Norrie and Lake Girl head to the high school. Yes they are all required to start taking classes again. Blah! Junior is there lurking around. All of a sudden they have internet. A number of emails come from someone named Hounds Of Diana. Joe gets one from his father. That was sad. Junior opens one from Diana and finds out his mother is still alive. 

And in a somewhat related note, Lake Girl instinctively knows the combination to the locker that Angie touched before dying. When they open the locker its empty and their internet connection is gone. Next they check the list of the locker's owners in the past 50 years and cross reference that with old yearbooks (cause that's the logical thing to do when someone guesses a random number right...NOT). What do they find in the 1988 yearbook but someone named Melanie Cross. And she looks exactly like Lake Girl. Is Lake Girl a ghost or what? Bonus points if you noticed that Lake Girl didnt know what the internet was. And that locker number was Pauline's birthday wasnt it? 

Grade: 3 1/2 Monsters (out of 5). The last two episodes have held my attention more than some so that's a good sign. The writing is still at times horrible though. Who says "by my calculations" over and over again? By my calculations, I'd say that's no one. And any bets on how long before the Dome Dwellers start eating each other?

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