How Do You Solve A Problem Like A Mini-Dome?

While Under The Dome's big Dome is a nuisance, trapping all of Chester's Mill's residents, completely cutting them off from the outside world, and requiring the now-useless lawyers to become volunteer sanitation workers, apparently, the mini-Dome is turning into kind of an intriguing companion to the select few Chester's Millions who know about it. It can send them cryptic messages in a language they don't entirely understand. It can make its moods known to them. And when the fuzz, in the form of Big Jim (Dean Norris), starts conducting house-to-house searches for Barbie (Mike Vogel), the fugitive so dangerous that his escape is cause for Jim to order an official state of emergency when the appearance of an enormous dome over the whole town evidently was not, well, then the mini-Dome's only friends have to take it on the road and find it a safe hiding place.

Screen: CBS

The mini-Dome is E.T., basically.

And with one episode left, odds are that Mini-Dome's human friends/protectors/minions (?) will have to get a little creative with their concealment strategies. Whichever ones they don't use next week can be recycled for next season -- that is, if...does anyone know if CBS picked up Mini-Dome's option?

• Cover Mini-Dome with animal skins and say it's a model wigwam.
• Put Mini-Dome in a physics classroom at the local high school and say it's a Van de Graff generator donated by an alumnus.
• Take Mini-Dome to the lake that suddenly exists, turn it upside down, climb on the bottom and grab a couple of paddles: now it's a pleasure craft.
• Position Mini-Dome in the lake that suddenly exists and throw a few bread crusts on it: now it's a bird sanctuary.
• Hold a garage sale. Cover Mini-Dome with Marianne Faithfull LPs. No one will ever see what's underneath.
• Put Mini-Dome on a bed at the clinic, drape it with a sheet, and dummy up a chart that says it's scheduled for bariatric surgery.
• Move Mini-Dome to the middle of the town square and hide it in plain sight as a public art project created by bored citizens.
• Dress Mini-Dome up in a Big Jim costume (I mean, they are both bald) (and not even those dimwits Junior or Linda will be able to tell the difference).
• Put Mini-Dome on the counter at the diner; claim it's a pastry display and that the thing inside is a fruitcake. Even if everyone knows it's the town's last dessert, no one will try to order it.
• Park Mini-Dome at the public library; none of the dummies who live in this town is going to go there.
• Stick a pair of enormous eyeglasses and a novelty nose on Mini-Dome. Ladies and gentlemen, who knew we were trapped under this enormous Dome with Mister Gene Shalit?
• Take the nose off Mini-Dome. Say hello to Miss Zooey Deschanel!
• Ask Mini-Dome what it wants its human friends to do. If it can control the weather, maybe it can actually protect itself?
• Take Mini-Dome to the farmer's market. Cover it with zucchini. No one will ever see what's underneath.