Under The Dome Prepares To Welcome Its Royal Baby

Let's Not Rule Out All Options Out Of Hand, Though

After Julia and Norrie return to the day care, Big Jim lays into Norrie for taking off without telling anyone where she was going and compromising the safety of their location as if hanging out on the front porch hadn't already done that, Julia snaps that no one followed them (how would she know), Norrie saved her life, and they have bigger problems.

Sometimes killing is the answer, SOMETHING YOU YOURSELF WERE ON BOARD WITH THREE EPISODES AGO. YOU WERE TORTURING THE MAN YOU LOVE TWO EPISODES AGO. BUT SURE, WHY NOT.

Did The Dome Make A Sociopath, Or Was A Sociopath Just Trapped In A Dome?

Alert Type: Dead-Eyed Assassin Alert.

Issue: After privately showing Norrie his video of Lily's father Patrick in his containment tube or whatever the fuck, explaining that he hasn't figured out how to tell Lily about it yet since she thinks her dad is dead, he wants to know what Julia was talking about when she said Norrie had saved her life.

Complicating Factors: Norrie doesn't want to talk about it, and stomps out of the room.

Resolution: Norrie goes to Beau, the main Aktaion tactical expert and the one who taught her to shoot (uh, pretty well, considering he never actually let her pull the trigger), to ask him how he felt after he made his first kill. He tells her that since he never killed anyone who hadn't done something to warrant killing, his conscience has been clear on that score. When he asks how she feels, Norrie tells him she doesn't feel guilty: "I don't feel anything at all."

Spoiler: If Norrie had been planning to check in with Beau on some future date to take her emotional temperature again, she shouldn't.

He Deafened Us With Science

Who called the meeting? Barbie.

What's it about? You know, Dome stuff.

How'd it go? After kissing on Eva at the end of the last episode, Barbie's brought her back to the bed & breakfast suite at Town Hall and heard from Christine that he doesn't even have to try to kill off The Resistance anymore: The Kinship's two main projects -- namely, Joe's development and construction of the De-Dome-inator, and the imminent birth of the Queen -- are now both under the same roof at Town Hall, so Barbie's only job is to stay with Eva until the new Queen is born. So he goes to check in on Joe in his new lab, outside his jail cell, to tell Joe to stall as much as he can on the De-Dome-inator: he tells Joe how Aktaion representatives are inside the Dome working on a cure, so they have to try to get that to the infected before the Dome comes out, or...else? I guess? Joe's like, cool. Good meeting.

Humans vs. Drones

Big Jim's finally gotten around to trying to collect some of Christine's DNA like he told Hektor he was going to do in the last episode, and Julia's come with him I guess so they can bicker about everything? Actually, she seems to be there to show that us all that she still has a vestige of her old Monarch powers because she finds like two of Christine's hairs on the floor of A BARN. Anyway, Big Jim recaps the evolution in Julia's thinking on curing the alien-infected from "Love Will Lead Them Back" to "Shots! Shots! Shots Shots Shots! Shots!" (I'm paraphrasing). She tells him about the Dome calcifying, and for some reason, that he believes immediately. He asks if Hektor knows; Julia's not sure. "If we're all going to suffocate, what's the point of a cure?" Just then, Junior enters with a couple of henchmen, looking menacing...for about three seconds, until Beau & Co. swoop in behind them and take out both Junior's goons. They're about to kill Junior too, but Big Jim makes himself a human shield, and then announces that Junior's going to be the guinea pigs for Hektor's serum. I guess Big Jim doesn't know much about the history of experimental medicine and how often first waves of test subjects have positive outcomes, but sure, pin your hopes on this to heal your fractured relationship, why don't you?

Winner: Humans.

That Boy Is Poisoned

Who's causing a family crisis? Fucking Junior.

How? Being infected with alien whatever.

Which relatives have a problem with it? Big Jim, who's decided he loves Junior now.

Who's an unlikely ally? Aktaion, which sure is synthesizing its serum quickly given that Big Jim just returned with Christine's hair like twenty minutes ago!

Spoiler: Trying to do anything nice for Junior is always, always a wasted effort.

The Quick And The Dad

Alert Type: Undead Dad Alert.

Issue: Norrie has shown the Patrick Walters video to Julia, who's stomped in to confront Hektor about it right in front of Lily.

Complicating Factors: This breach of her trust by a guy she met earlier today has caused Julia to be dubious, again, about the serum Aktaion's girl scientist JUST finished. Also, Lily is upset that the man who's been like a second father has been lying to her about her actual father.

Resolution: Hektor defends himself in classic Dome style, gibberishly describing Patrick as "a kind of energy infused with consciousness, but it wasn't his." He goes on to tell Lily later that he didn't want to corrupt her memories by letting her see what Patrick had become, and just figured if he could find a cure he could return her father to her whole...but he didn't want to give her false hope if he couldn't. He asks her how Hunter had the video to show Julia at all, and she says she sent it to him. Hektor reminds her that he told her to "destroy" them, which, they're digital, maybe just "delete"? He anxiously adds, "The reason why the government wants us dead is in those files," but she thinks that what she now knows about Patrick changes everything, and that if Hektor can, in fact, deliver an antidote that will cure everyone in the Dome, he'll walk out a hero: the files are his insurance policy. He promises her that if the cure works, he'll totally get them out of the Dome.

Spoiler: No one needs to worry about packing for their departure from Chester's Mill just yet.

This Crusted Dome

Who called the meeting? Christine.

What's it about? What's at risk if Joe doesn't quit fucking around and finish the De-Dome-inator.

How'd it go? After walking in on Joe in his new lab and catching him rocking out/singing along to "Love Is A Battlefield" -- a song I really don't think a kid his age would know, and it's obviously not the radio so I still don't know what's powering the tape deck or whatever is playing it but ANYWAY. Christine has been swooning periodically through the episode because her cycle is almost over, so she doesn't have time to waste and has brought Joe to the edge of the Dome to see where it's getting all crusted up with this calcification we keep hearing about and make him understand the urgency of his current task. But also: a whole bunch of new information about Christine's motivations with two more episodes left in the season? DOME MIND IF THEY DO! Why, exactly, is whatever is currently inhabiting Christine actually there? "You still think we want to be here -- that we wanted to travel hundreds of thousands of light-years through a cold, harsh vacuum -- that we wanted to leave our home, our history, behind. Earth is a wonderful place, but it's not that great....We had no choice. And now neither do you. Right now, somewhere, up in the sky, they're coming....They destroyed our world, and they'll destroy yours. This isn't just about the survival of The Kinship. It's about humanity's survival too. Whether you want to recognize it or not, our fates are tied together. And the only way we stand a chance is for us to get out of this Dome. That rests entirely in your hands." Joe is stunned, obviously, and although I'm not sure why he buys this story when Christine lies all the time, the message seems to land, so it's a pretty effective meeting from Christine's perspective.

Parenting Really Is Stressful!

Barbie having already tried to connect with the Eva he met in his cocooma by getting her to feel anything about all the fertile women she sucked dry (or whatever) to accelerate her pregnancy -- and totally failed, of course, as she told him they just did their duty for The Kinship, just as she is by being the vessel for the next Queen -- he's brought her some tea and tried again. This time she's more receptive and in A Mood as she tells a very symbolic story about how her earliest memory is of seeing the aftermath of her mother having thrown a piece of china at her dad, which he bled on: "A broken piece of him on a broken piece of her." After one delaying-the-inevitable summer vacation, her parents were divorced within the year; she doesn't want the same thing to happen to them and their baby. Barbie immediately rushes into the opening she's left (ew, not like that, she's not in labour yet), urgently telling her they can run away together and live every day like she and her parents did in that cabin that time! But, of course:

"I knew you weren't one of us," Eva says, her eyes dead. She assumes Julia is still alive, too, but she can't really do much about it because...the tea. "What did you put in the tea?" Yes, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT TOO. How are there still any kind of drugs in this Dome?! Yeah, yeah, The Kinship, but people were just scared and desperate humans until a week ago, and they would have already hoovered up everything by now, including, like Pepto-Bismol and Anbesol. BUT WHATEVER: he obviously doesn't answer, instead telling Eva he's not going to let her do anything to their baby. She passes out. That might not be healthy for the baby either, unless all you dosed the tea with was a shitload of melatonin, but hey, far be it from me to tell any parent how to raise his child! (To his face.)

Sam having heard that Junior and some of his goons were digging around looking for a fresh Julia grave earlier and found none, Christine immediately gets suspicious of Barbie and goes into the bed & breakfast suite to find him and Eva gone! EVERYONE PANIC!!!

Barbie puts Eva, now in labour, on a bed at the motel, Eva snarling at him all the while to take her back to Town Hall! Julia, having compromised on meeting Barbie here after Big Jim wouldn't let her tell Barbie where The Resistance has holed up, shows up, and Eva is piiiiiissed! "I knew she wasn't dead, you coward!" Julia wants to relocate as soon as possible, since The Kinship isn't going to rest until it has its Queen, but Barbie's not going to abandon his baby!

Big Jim finds Hektor to thank him for giving Big Jim back the Junior he knew! After an initial high fever (which Hektor said was a good sign), Junior's stabilized! He and Big Jim have been talking companionably about going into business together post-Dome; Big Jim even thinks he could let Junior out of his restraints! Hector cautions Big Jim that they have to be cautious, so I'm sure Big Jim absolutely will be given how much he respects the authority of others!

Barbie whines at Julia that Eva's baby should be there by now -- I mean, it's been minutes -- and instead of telling Barbie she has no fucking clue how long a human woman normally labours with an alien queen, she jumps to the conclusion that Eva is HOLDING IT IN because she hopes Christine's going to get there soon and clear out Barbie and Julia!

So Barbie jams up Eva's legs, and Julia starts SHOVING THE FETUS DOWN with her arm on Eva's abdomen, like she's trying to get the last squirt of her curl de-frizzer out of a fucking tube, AND IT FUCKING WORKS! The baby pops right now, looking human and gigantic (like all TV newborns)...

...and covered in what seems to be K-Y jelly and mini-marshmallows and definitely not anything like blood! Julia covers her mouth so we have even less idea than usual what emotion Rachelle Lefevre is trying to convey! Barbie coos at the baby and certainly doesn't CLEAN HER OFF or anything!

Since he needs seven pieces of the one last amethyst to run the De-Dome-inator, Joe's gotten Kyle, one of the drones, to drill into it at strategic points! He jams a chisel into one score and the whole thing falls apart perfectly! Joe sure is good at...whatever the fuck this is!

When Junior gets a little sloppy with the can of soda Big Jim's trying to let him drink from -- seems like this DAY CARE CENTER might contain A SIPPY CUP -- Big Jim gets protective of Junior's dignity or something, and pulls out a little knife to cut Junior's restraints! Junior thanks him, and Big Jim grins pathetically, and Junior adds, like we all knew he would, "But you shouldn't've done that"! Junior chucks Big Jim clear across the room; Big Jim's barely gotten onto his knees to threaten Junior with his tiny knife when Beau and another redshirt come in! As Big Jim hauls ass, Junior uses the nameless Aktaion guy as a human shield, and once he's down, he wrestles Beau to the ground and breaks his neck before taking off! Bye, Junior! You're going to be even harder to empathize with now that you apparently have Hulk strength!

Julia tells Barbie they need to take the baby and leave, but Eva asks to hold her once, pointing out to them that she needs to be fed! Naturally, Eva's stomach is completely flat again, and there's no blood anywhere on her white outfit or on the also white bedding! That's one considerate queen! Julia obviously doesn't think this is a great idea, but she tells Barbie it's his decision, and he duly brings the baby over to nurse!

Julia looks from the approaching flashlights outside back at Eva, who is filling up the baby with purple ooze from her very visible veins! Julia quietly tells Barbie to go get the baby, but Eva's not having it, telling Barbie, "She's not yours: she is my Queen!" With one hand, Eva shoves Barbie through the window...and yet Barbie STILL doesn't want to leave what, against all logic and reason and the evidence of his eyes, he insists upon calling his daughter! Julia, for once, keeps her head, telling Barbie that isn't his daughter, and that if they don't leave, they'll die! Hard to know what to root for!

"So much for your miracle cure," grumps Big Jim to Hektor after Junior's escape. Hektor sciences that whatever's infected Junior is mutating too quickly: "It's like it's smarter than the treatment." I just can't believe any infection could be "smarter" than a serum that took literally tens of minutes to produce, but you're the expert! Hektor's suddenly so bearish on the serum, in fact, that he thinks they need to change tack entirely: "Listen to me, Jim. We don't have a choice. We have to kill them all. Everyone that's carrying the infection." While Lily, on the other side of the door, eavesdrops, Hektor totally sells out her father and the promises he made to her like half an hour ago, telling Big Jim that a genocide of Chester's Millions is the only way to make sure the life force never gets outside the Dome. Is Big Jim cool with that?

Hey, me too! But Lily's not, and with a stricken look, she drifts toward Hunter and Norrie, both of whom have now been marked for extermination!

R.I.P. Eva Sinclair

Christine makes it to the motel room just behind Julia and Barbie, and comes to the bed with a huge smile, telling Eva how proud she is of her. Christine does a check of the mirror and immediately sees that things have changed.

"She's taking what she needs," Christine tells Eva of little Queenie. Christine takes the baby from Eva's arms, and now that Eva's snapped back to being fully human, she has NO fucking idea what's happening, asking Christine, "What's happening? Where am I? Is that my baby? What are you doing with my baby?" "She's not your baby," Christine informs her, "and you're no longer one of us." She sets the baby on the next bed and, while loudly singing the traditional Brahms lullaby, she...smothers Eva to death with a pillow. Bye, Eva! Your boobs are flying around unfettered with the angels now!