Under the Dome Recap: “Speak of the Devil”

by Kelly M. Smith:

Under the Dome Recap: “Speak of the Devil”
Original Air Date (CBS): Monday September 2, 2013
Season 1 Episode 11

“Some people have secrets you couldn’t imagine.” -James “Big Jim” Rennie

After the display of the pink stars the night before, teens Norrie Calvert-Hill, Joe McAlister, his older sister Angie, and James “Junior” Rennie spend the night in the barn where they are hiding the mini-Dome, trying to map the strange constellations the stars made.

Joe notices for stars standing alone and thinks that each star represents one of them.

Inside the mini-Dome, Junior sees that the chrysalis has turned clear and it is ready to hatch…into a monarch butterfly. They wonder if this “monarch” Joe’s apparition spoke of to Julia Shumway might be a real person.

In the police station, Sheriff Linda Esquivel is questioning Second Selectman James “Big Jim” Rennie (farther of Junior) about the extra propane he, Maxine Seagrave and deceased sheriff Howard “Duke” Perkins apparently acquired for the production and distribution of a drug called Rapture.

Big Jim becomes defensive, saying the extra propane was what was keeping Chester’s Mill going now that the Dome had cut them off. He then pays his trump card: trying to implicate town newbie and ex-military commander Dale “Barbie” Barbara. Linda is unsure if she believes him or not.

Meanwhile, Barbie is waking up on Julia’s couch. When Julia comes downstairs, she admits that she was lonely in the bed. (The night before she had found out just why Barbie had killed her husband, Peter.) She then asks Barbie to take her to her husband’s grave for closure.

Back in the station, Jim tells Linda that Barbie was working for Max as her enforcer and goes so far as to mention that Peter Shumway disappeared right after he was seen with Barbie.

Julia’s doorbell rings and she answers it to see Max standing outside her door.

“Can I help you?” Julia asks.

“Right now, you can’t even help yourself,” Max tells her as she calmly pulls out a handgun and shoots Julia in the chest.
Barbie races to the sound of the shots and finds Julia in a pool of her own blood with no perp to be found. He radios in to Linda (no cell service, but he is a temporary cop till the Dome goes away do he can use the police band radios).

Linda gets the call, but Jim is still there, implying that Barbie is lying, that maybe he shot Julia, not some unknown person.

In the barn, Junior and Angie are alone, and Junior begins to talk in a loving manner how about how they are both linked together by fate thanks to the Dome. Angie becomes upset, reminding Honor that he held her captive for six days in his father’s bomb shelter. She says they well never be together again.

She then says what is the final mail in the coffin for Junior: that once they’re out of the Dome she wants nothing to do with him ever again.

He storms off, declaring that he’s done helping with the mini-Dome and would rather die still trapped inside than be without her once it’s gone.

Linda decides to go to Barbie, but some human siphoned her gas, so she has to hitch a ride with the local radio DJ, Phil Bushey.

Before they get there, Barbie sees Joe walking down the street and calls him over to help. He asks Joe if he can drive him to the clinic and Joe says he can. As they go, Barbie keeping pressure on Julia’s wound, they notice a swirl of angry-looking clouds gathering near the top of the Dome.

At the town hall, Max visits Jim and tells him Barbie said “no” to her plans (see last episode recap) in favor of being with Julia. While they talk, Junior shows up and Max introduces herself. She then proceeds to make lightly veiled threats towards him and is pleased when she sees how uncomfortable Jim is.

The storm steadily progresses as Joe dodges falling trees on the way to the hospital. Julia is also progressing in the same manner: getting worse.

Joe states that he thinks the Dome is angry.

They finally reach the clinic. The nurse says that the bullet tore through Julia’s chest but not her heart. She is called away, but Barbie knows what to do. Using Joe as his assistant he tries to relieve the pressure on her chest using a pen barrel and a plastic bag.

Jim and Junior manage to extricate themselves from Max’s presence and Jim takes Junior to the bomb shelter, where Jim had been stockpiling gubs, though he wasn’t supposed to. He tells his son that Max wants to hurt him by hurting Junior. He then arms Junior, tells him to stay there and not open the door for anyone but him.

Outside, the lightning begins as the clouds gather and get darker.

Dodee Weaver, the tech at the radio station, finds she can get outside transmissions again and hears one from the military saying that Barbie is the one they’re searching for inside the Dome.

Angie goes to find Junior and she tries to convince him to rejoin the group. “The Dome is telling you what to do!” she says, as it seems to get worse by the second. “We need you!”

Junior asks her of she needs him and she tells him yes, she does. It is then he she’s to rejoin the teens and, as soon as the words are out of his mouth, the storm stops.

In the clinic, a branch breaks the window before the storm stops and nearly beheads Barbie. As that happens, Julia’s heart stops.
He continuously tries to get her heart going again, but it doesn’t. He keeps trying, though he feels hopeless. Suddenly, her heart starts working again: a miracle.

As Joe watches this, he starts to think that maybe Barbie is the “monarch” they seek.

Max goes back to her home on the island and notices something floating on the water. It is her mother, Agatha, with her lips blue and her hands tied.

Barbie leaves Julia with the nurse at the clinic to “take care of something”. Jim meets him outside, ready to put a stop to Max, as they both know she is the one who hurt Julia. Barbie says he’ll work worth Jim, but “I’m knocking you off your throne next”.

The teens gather back at the barn, and Joe tells then his theory about Barbie and maybe his saving Julia made the storm stop, but Junior takes credit for that.

Barbie and Jim go to the cement factory, but before they enter Barbie sets an alarm to the electrical outlet for 10 minutes.

Phil and Linda go to Julia’s house to see the shooting scene. Phil reveals to Linda about Barbie, and Linda starts to believe that maybe he killed Peter and Julia found out so he shot her to cover his tracks, as Jim hinted.

Jim and Barbie go through the cement factory in the dark, but Max and one of her “bodyguard” surprise them and train their guns on them, ready to shoot at a mere twitch from either man.

Max states that she knows Jim killed her mother. She then offers Barbie another chance if he agrees to be with her, but he refuses vehemently.

As the timer reaches 0 Barbie tells Jim to get down. The lights go out, surprising Max, so Barbie can disarm her. He says they’re leaving. As he goes to walk to his car, he hears gunshots. He turns to see Jim kill both Max and her goon.
Jim turns a gun on Barbie, but Barbie easily disarms him and points the gun at him in self-defense.
Phil suggest to Linda that they look for Barbie at the cement factory, so she goes and sees him standing over Jim with a gun in his hands.

Jim blames Barbie for the shootings of Julia, Max and the man. Linda really has no choice but to believe the man, who is on the ground, with a gun at his head.

She tells Barbie to drop the gun but he runs.

Jim goes to the radio station where Dodee tells him what she heard the military say about Barbie.

He makes a radio broadcast saying that barbie is wanted in the shooting deaths of Max, a “reputable businesswoman”, and her mother. He says he will get the death penalty when he is finally found.

The four kids go to the spot at the Dome where their stars were marked in the barn and touch it like they touched the mini-Dome. they see a vision of Big Jim with a bunch of bleeding stab wounds outside of the Dome. All 4 kids are holding bloody knives that were not there before.

Jim and the knives disappear when they take their hands off the Dome. Junior goes running in search of his dad.

The three remaining kids glance at each other worriedly.

“Maybe the Dome is coming down?” Norrie says.

“But first Big Jim has to die,” Angie observes.

“And I think we are supposed to do it,” Norrie says, giving the episode a very ominous finish.