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NARRATOR:
Chester's Millie a place like any other.
At least it used to be,
until we were cut off
from the rest of the world
by a mysterious dome.
Invisible, indestructible,
and completely inescapable.
We're trapped.
NARRATOR: We don't know
where it came from or why it’s here,
but now that we're all trapped
under the dome together,
none of our secrets are safe.
Hi, Jimmy.
JIM:
Rapture is your product, Max.
Which I never could've gotten
off the ground
without my secret ingredient.
Liquid propane.
This town seems to have a lot of it.
- Duke knew about this?
- He didn't want you to know.
Duke? What the hell
were you up to?
The pillow talk between you and Julia
is gonna be done
when she finds out
you murdered her husband.
- You're not bulletproof, Max.
- I have an insurance policy in place.
Anything bad happens to me,
your secrets still come out.
JUNIOR: Angie.
- The pink stars are falling in lines.
Norrie and I have had
the exact same seizure.
The yagi stopped working
after Joe and Norrie touched the dome
the other day.
I still don't trust those two.
JOE:
Guess I was sleepwalking.
But why did I bring this thing here?
No sleepwalking. Good boy.
- What the...?
NORRIE: Sorry.
Joe, look what's inside
the mini-dome.
Whoa.
ANGIE: Will you guys shut up?
- Angie, the egg has a visitor.
That's a caterpillar.
But it wasn't there last night.
Maybe it was under the dirt.
Trapped in there
like the big dome trapped us.
JOE: Wherever it came from,
it was no accident.
Look at those black and white
and yellow stripes.
Yeah. And?
It's a caterpillar that will turn
into a monarch butterfly.
The monarch will be crowned.
Julia heard that when she touched
this thing out in the woods.
JOE:
Maybe she'll know what this means.
We agreed not to tell her we have it.
She might be the fourth handprint
this mini-dome needs
to do whatever it's gonna do.
Like turn off the dome.
Okay, but Julia hasn't had seizures.
Yeah.
Okay.
[MINI-DOME HUMMING]
[ENERGY CRACKLING]
We still have to find whoever
the fourth handprint belongs to.
Someone with seizures.
We should find others
who've had them.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[DOOR OPENS]
Barbie. You're up early.
We need to talk about Max.
Sounds like someone's not too happy
to see her yesterday.
And you were?
Woman's a piece of work, isn't she?
Yeah, more than I knew.
Care to, uh, share exactly how it is
you two are in business together?
Sure. Right after you do.
[CHUCKLES]
Well, then, enemy of my enemy,
what are we gonna do?
We can't move against her with the dirt
she says she has on the both of us.
Unless we get rid of whatever
this insurance policy is.
But where would that be?
Yeah,
she says she's staying at a house
whose owners got trapped
outside the dome.
No. No, she's too smart for that.
You know, she's got this, uh,
legitimate real estate company.
The Osiris Corporation.
Buys homes mostly in Westlake,
but I know she's got a few here.
That's worth a look.
You know which houses are hers?
The town clerk's office got a record.
I'll, uh, go check it out.
You mean,
so you can bury your secrets
and leave mine out there in the open
for the world to see.
You think I'd screw you over?
You're a used car salesman, Jim.
Sure. We'll go together.
Yeah, I'm seeing
at least a dozen houses here
that were purchased
by the Osiris Corporation.
Most of those Max remodeled
and flipped them within a year,
but not this one.
Bought it in 2005.
Never put back on the market.
- It's on Bird Island?
- Yeah.
It's in the middle of Lake Eastpoint,
but still under the dome.
Only a few vacation homes
out there, right?
Not a bad place to hide
whatever it is she says she's got on us.
Probably shouldn't go unarmed.
You don't think I let Max
have all the guns, do you?
Uh-oh. What are you two doing?
Should I be worried?
JIM:
No, just some town business.
You know, there are things
going on here that don't involve you.
For now anyway. Here you go.
"Espresso, dark chocolate,
silk-infused conditioner"?
I like my luxuries.
Just because this damn dome
came down
doesn't mean I'm gonna do without.
There's abandoned houses.
You can find some of that stuff.
- No, I'm not doing your shopping.
- No, just Jimmy.
You and I have other business
to attend to.
Or if you want,
I can reveal all your dirty laundry
and then we can see how that goes.
Barbie, let's go.
[CAMERA CLICKING]
[MINI-DOME HUMMING]
[SHRIEKS]
- What the hell was that?
- It sounded like thunder.
JOE:
Dodee.
[MOANS]
Dodee? Are you all right?
Where am I?
NORRIE: We're at the clinic.
We brought you here.
What happened to me?
You don't remember?
DODEE:
I remember electricity.
Was it the generator
outside the radio station?
Right. We found you by your generator
outside the radio station.
JOE: We were passing by
and we heard a noise.
- We found you with that burn.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I guess that's the last thing
I remember,
- was being there.
- Dodee. What happened to her?
We think she got zapped
by a generator.
- Did she lose consciousness?
- For, like, 20 minutes.
All right, well, thanks for bringing
her in. I'll take good care of her.
Nurse Adams.
Do you know anyone else
who's had seizures lately?
Besides Joe and I.
Not since your 10th grade dance,
Angie.
What does that mean?
- What's wrong?
- Angie!
Hello?
Anyone here?
[CLATTERING]
Hello?
Hello?
- Linda.
- Hey.
I'm just looking for Barbie.
Is he around?
I haven't seen him.
What's going on?
A while back,
you spoke with Andrea Grinnell
about some weird stuff going on
- at the propane warehouse, right?
- Yeah.
Did you ever follow up on it?
Honestly, I thought
she was kind of loopy.
And then everything went to hell
and I just forgot about it.
Why?
Andrea wasn't so loopy after all.
Look at this.
I don't know who this woman is.
Here comes Duke.
JULIA:
She's handing him money.
All of which has something to do
with a drug being made
using propane called Rapture.
You think Duke
was involved with drugs?
Reverend Coggins too.
I think Coggins burned down
Duke's house to hide evidence.
Now they're both dead,
and I've driven myself crazy
searching this place for an answer.
You knew Duke better than anyone.
Where else would he stash
something?
All he really cared about
was fly-fishing, bourbon and that hat.
The tackle box was burned
in the house,
he never left a bottle unfinished
and he never took that hat
off his head.
Well, hello there.
What do you unlock?
Safe-deposit box.
- Bank of Chester's Mill.
- I'll drive.
Yeah, you're not acting suspicious.
[SIREN CHIRPING]
- Where you going so fast?
- Nowhere.
- Ow!
- Shut up before I add
damaging police property to what
you obviously ripped off from someone.
Salt?
I might've shoplifted it
from the convenience store.
- Yeah, but why steal that?
- You kidding?
Better than cash if you wanna get
into the cement factory.
MAX:
Word of advice, Barbie.
Whatever you and Big Jim
were huddling about at Town Hall,
be careful.
You can't trust him.
You mean, kind of like
how I can trust you?
I have never lied to you, Dale.
I'd like to think the same about you.
So, what's this business
we need to attend to?
Guessing these people
aren't here for church service.
No, just a little adult entertainment.
It's been, what, nine days
since the dome came down?
There's been no TV, there's been
no Internet, there's been no fun at all.
Right, so now you smell an opportunity
for your usual ***, cards, brothels.
Hey, I don't deal in prostitution ever.
You got that?
Come on.
[ROCK MUSIC
PLAYING ON SPEAKERS]
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[CROWD CHEERING]
Welcome to my brave new world.
[HUMMING]
[CLATTERING]
[FLOORBOARD CREAKS]
- Who are you?
- Sorry for the intrusion, ma'am. I...
Wait. "Big Jim" Rennie?
From the car commercials?
[SINGS] Small price, big savings
- That's me.
- Well, then it's hardly an intrusion.
I like your ads.
You don't scream from the TV
like the rest of them.
That's not my style, ma'am.
Please, call me Agatha.
Agatha, nice to meet you.
- This your house?
- No.
I'm just the caretaker.
Gardening and such.
For, uh...?
For Maxine Seagrave?
Don't know a Maxine.
The owner is Oliver Luckland.
He's on the other side of the island,
tending to his boat.
I came here because,
more important than selling cars,
I'm a councilman for Chester's Mill,
and I'm making my way around
to see if our citizens
need anything in this time of crisis.
Yes, it is shocking, isn't it?
I'm glad to be here
amid the peace and quiet.
Is Mr. Luckland gonna be long?
Uh... Can I wait for him?
Inside?
We'll have a nice cup of tea.
Great.
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
MAX: What do you think
of my grand opening?
I think it's a lot smaller
than you're used to, isn't it?
Oh, in time,
we'll have the whole town here.
How'd you put all this together?
By not sitting on my hands
for the past week.
Some of these people
owed me from before.
I'm sure you'll recognize a few familiar
faces from your collection duties.
Say somebody needs eggs
for his family
and he's got some spare batteries.
He comes in here, tries his luck.
If he wins, he trades up.
If he loses, I win.
Uh... People are already bartering
around town.
Yeah, that's for needs.
In here, it's about vices.
Come on. Everybody's got them.
Even you.
- You realize survival's at stake.
- Yeah, mine.
If I'm gonna be trapped in this hellhole,
I am gonna live as well as I can.
- What's going on?
- I don't wanna talk about it.
Angie, come on,
you're obviously upset.
I think Junior is the fourth hand.
- You're joking.
- My 10th grade dance.
Junior got rushed to the clinic
for passing out.
And everyone said
he had been drinking,
but Nurse Adams just said
someone had a seizure.
But it can't be Junior.
That guy weirds me out.
You think that I'm happy about it?
After what he did to me?
JOE:
What does that mean?
You remember how you couldn't
find me after the dome came down?
Wait.
You were with him?
He said he hadn't even seen you.
It wasn't voluntary.
What?
He kept saying
that the dome was making me sick,
and the only way that I could get better
is if I stayed with him.
So he kidnapped you?
He had these reasons
that seemed really weird...
Where is he? I'm gonna kill him.
No. If anyone's gonna kill him,
it's gonna be me.
- Not before I do. Get out of my way!
- Joe, stop! Stop it! Both of you, stop!
Look, I'm all for kicking Junior's ***
if he kidnapped you, Ange,
but if he's the fourth hand...
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Are you sure what Junior had
way back then was a seizure?
Yeah.
And that's not the only reason
I think it's him.
JOE:
It's not?
I should show you something.
JULIA: Looks like everyone left the bank
in a hurry after the dome came down.
We could take all the cash in here,
it wouldn't mean a thing.
And to think it was money
that ruined my marriage,
forced my husband to run off.
Is that why Peter left town?
After draining our bank accounts,
putting our home in foreclosure
to pay off his gambling debts.
I think deep down
I knew something was wrong.
I just didn't wanna see it.
Damn it.
There must be a key to the
safe-deposit room
around here somewhere.
Hey, maybe one of these...
[CLANGING]
Got it.
MAN:
Thank you.
[CHUCKLES]
- Big Junior Rennie.
- Just Junior.
- What's going on inside?
- Nothing for you.
Come on, Duncan. I got these.
Look, I know you're a cop now.
Means you don't belong here.
Hey, I got what's on the list.
Let me in.
Let's go, let's go.
[CROWD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN:
Get him!
MAX:
See?
People have fun,
they collect their winnings,
I skim a little off the top,
everybody's happy.
BARBIE:
So, what do you need me for?
A lot of chaos in this crummy town
since it all went to hell,
but the one thing I've heard
over and over again is:
"That Barbie is a real badass."
You're the main event.
No, no, no. I am not gonna fight.
You must've forgotten everything
we talked about yesterday then.
About how you killed
Peter Shumway.
And how Julia would hate
hearing about that.
Besides,
think of it as a reunion because...
You remember your opponent,
Victor Rawlins, right?
Yeah, he gambled his way
down the drain a couple months ago.
He lost his wife, his kids.
His whole life, really.
No, you're his ***, okay?
Not me.
But you were the one knocking
on his door forcing him to pay up.
Only this time you don't have a gun
and Victor really looks ready
to even the score.
You take sugar, Big Jim?
Yes, ma'am.
Mr. Luckland doesn't mind us
being here?
Oh, no.
Oliver's as hospitable as they come.
I was under the impression
somebody else owned this house.
No, I'm certain he does.
But he's not here much.
He spends a lot of time
out at his other properties.
That's why he has me
taking care of things.
Sure is lucky
to have a neighbor like you, Agatha.
That's my daughter Maxine.
Now, do me a favor
and drop that gun
that's tucked in the back of your belt.
- Slowly.
- Okay.
Maxine didn't learn
to be the way she is from her father.
Who's ready for the main event?
[ALL CHEERING]
Well, your wait is over
because here it is,
Victor Rawlins versus
your Special Forces veteran
Dale "Barbie" Barbara!
The rules are simple.
There aren't any.
There's no rounds, no time limits.
You fight till you lose.
May the best man win.
Disappoint me at your own risk.
[ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[GRUNTING]
Sit. Make yourself comfortable.
Maxine should be here
after sundown.
Or maybe tomorrow.
Well, that's a long time
to hold a rifle on someone.
I hope I don't get drowsy,
somehow pull the trigger.
You don't remember me, do you?
Well, give me a hint.
We were in the same
high school class.
Well, until I dropped out.
There's only one student
I remember dropping out.
Her name was Claire.
I changed my name.
I'm sure you can imagine why.
It was quite the scandal.
You got pregnant.
With Maxine.
I was only 16,
and people treated me
like my life was already over.
- That's not true.
- I was a pariah.
I had no way
to support my daughter.
Except by starting
to let men in my bed.
Men who would turn around
and publicly shame me
for being the immoral one.
Still, you're here.
Far enough away
to keep the stink out of our hair.
Maxine moved to Westlake,
and I came here to be close to her.
But neither of us will ever forget
the real Chester's Mill.
The sharp teeth
behind the friendly smile.
Well, there are teeth
behind the smile.
It's the only way to get things done.
Like the propane, you mean?
My daughter tells me everything.
Gave me every bit of evidence
I need on you and Duke,
that nutty Reverend Coggins.
So she must have told you
about Barbie too, huh?
Oh, yeah. About him breaking legs.
Killing that Dr. Shumway.
It's no surprise he got stuck here.
This town.
It always has been a magnet
for the worst of humanity.
Like your son.
Junior's turning out to be just as crazy
as his mama, isn't he?
- Shut your mouth.
- Sit down.
Or I'll put a bullet
through your chest.
Have you ever killed someone,
Agatha?
I mean,
I know you got your sob story and all,
but have you ever really rolled up
your sleeves and murdered someone?
- Stop.
- Because I have.
And even with all that hate
in your eyes,
I'm not seeing what it takes to kill.
But go ahead,
prove me wrong.
Now we're gonna do something
about your family.
So this place belonged
to Junior's mother?
Yeah.
He brought me here yesterday.
To show me this.
Pink stars.
This and the fact
that he's had seizures?
I'm still gonna kill him.
The guy's a psycho.
No, Joe,
it doesn't matter what we want.
It matters what the dome wants.
Now we just need to find Junior.
I'm right here.
What the hell
are you doing with that?
- You son of a ***!
NORRIE: Joe!
ANGIE: Joe! No, no, no! Stop!
NORRIE: Stop.
- Stop!
JUNIOR: You're attacking me?
You're the one who's trespassing.
- You kidnapped my sister.
- Junior!
You promised my dad
you wouldn't tell anyone about that.
I had to.
Just like you have to help us now!
JUNIOR: What?
- Look, first let him go.
Let him go! Let him go!
Junior, no! Let him...
Why should I help you
with anything?
I brought you here
because I trusted you.
These are the only things
I have left of my mother.
Junior, you said yesterday
that something bigger is going on,
right?
Something that connects all of us
to what's happening?
Yeah. So?
So I need you to come with us
to our barn.
- Why?
- Because all of us...
The four of us are connected
to something amazing.
[ALL CHEERING]
MAN 1:
Come on!
MAN 2:
Go!
WOMAN 1:
Come on, Barbie!
MAN 3:
Finish him!
MAN 2:
Come on, get up!
MAN 1:
Fight! Come on! Fight!
Get up.
Hey, big man. Hey!
No wonder
your wife and kids left you.
Hit me as hard as you can.
[CROWD BOOING]
WOMAN 2: Get up!
MAN 3: Get up!
WOMAN 1:
Come on, Barbie!
[CROWD BOOING]
WOMAN 2:
Come on!
MAN 4:
Yeah, there's the winner! Winner!
I guess the best man won.
[CHUCKLES]
You threw the fight
just like I knew you would.
Oh, like hell I did.
Everyone here bet on the hero
and lost their ***.
I bet on Victor
because I know you.
And I know that you would do anything
except let me win.
Here it is, Duke's safe-deposit box.
Oh, my God.
What is that?
When Duke woke up
from his heart surgery,
when he had his pacemaker put in,
I gave him this. Heh.
I told him the doctors found it
where his heart should have been.
I can't believe he kept it.
There's a letter here.
I can't.
You read it.
"To whom it may concern.
My name is Duke Perkins,
sheriff of Chester's Mill,
the only place
I've ever been able to call home.
That's the reason I did what I did."
His confession.
"Nineteen years ago,
I lost my son to drugs.
I watched helplessly
as he was swept away
by his addiction."
- Did you know this?
- He never talked about it.
"The only thing that kept me
from turning my gun on myself
was a promise I made:
To do everything I could
to keep drugs out of Chester's Mill.
So I made a deal with a devil
by the name of Maxine Seagrave."
That's gotta be the woman
in the video.
"The deal was simple.
The town bought the liquid propane
she needed
under the guise
of emergency reserves
so the DEA wouldn't look into it,
and she'd pay us enough
to shore up the town's coffers
and keep her drugs, all drugs,
out of Chester's Mill."
He did it to save us.
"I sold my soul
for the people of this town.
People like my son.
People like Linda Esquivel.
There were two other people
in this deal:
Lester Coggins,
who laundered our proceeds,
and the man who was the front,
saying he was buying the propane
for our town,
'Big Jim' Rennie."
Of course he was involved.
Why didn't Duke tell me?
Because he loved you.
Maybe the same reason
Peter didn't tell me.
You think you could hold
a flashlight for me?
[SIGHS]
I need to talk to Barbie.
So, what are you planning
on doing with me?
My experience has been
that with a little patience,
the world reveals
the right course of action.
You think the world
is just looking out for you, don't you?
As if whoever and whatever
is behind that curtain
is pulling strings just for you.
There's nothing behind that curtain
but darkness.
Sit down.
Agatha!
Hey!
Jim! Help me!
Help me, please.
[GURGLING]
My hands are tied. Jim!
Please, help me.
What are you doing?
Help!
Help me! No!
No, help!
Help! Help!
MAX:
Cheer up, Barbie.
You know the house always wins.
[GROANS]
Tonight was rather successful,
wasn't it?
I won.
You, mmm, helped me win.
I've always known,
and I think you have too,
that we make a damn good team.
As long as this dome is around,
I could see us making this town
our playground.
These people
aren't gonna let you win.
Yeah, you got a few
that owe you something now,
but at the end of the day,
that ain't a whole hell of a lot.
Yeah, until more people owe me
and then more people on top of them.
I'll live the way I want, Barbie.
We will live the way we want.
What if you don't get more?
You don't get your whiskey.
You don't get me.
Then I'll burn the place down.
[SIGHS]
- What are you doing?
- What I should've done a while ago.
Oh, you do not
wanna *** me off, Dale.
Not when under your feet lies
a body belonging to Peter Shumway.
You do everything I say
or the truth about him will come out.
That's it. That's the old Barbie.
We're finished, Max.
Didn't expect to see you here.
I didn't expect to be here.
You and I need to talk.
Sure. Come on in.
Hell, I'll even cook us up
some dinner.
How's something
medium-rare sound?
Actually, let's do this at the station.
I've had a hell of a day, Linda.
Whatever it is you think
we need to talk about,
it can wait till the morning.
Think I've earned
that much respect in this town, right?
Come by first thing
or I come back
and these cuffs don't stay on my belt.
I need to say something.
Like why your face is all cut up?
Look.
I told you
when I first came to this town
that I went out to the cabin
to meet Peter, but that...
That he wasn't there.
But he was, wasn't he?
Yeah.
He told me that he didn't have
the money he owed,
so I said I'd be back the next day...
And he pulled a gun on you.
How do you know this?
Because I brought this down
from our bedroom closet
and found his gun missing.
No gun, all the bullets.
So...
You know.
I didn't wanna believe it.
He needed you to kill him.
I found
this life insurance policy today.
You know, in some weird way, I think
he did all this to try to protect me.
Because this would be void
if he committed suicide.
I'm so sorry.
For everything.
Me too.
Barbie, I've seen you sacrifice yourself
for total strangers.
But in the future,
there can be no more lies.
The future?
You sure?
Maybe.
Is that an egg?
With a mini-dome around it.
Hey, look.
The caterpillar's in a cocoon now.
It's actually a chrysalis.
He's a nerd.
[MINI-DOME HUMMING]
And you think I'm supposed
to be part of this too?
Yeah. We do.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
Oh, my God.
It's the pink stars.
JOE:
And they're making constellations.
It's beautiful.
But what does it mean?