Épisode Circonstances Aggravantes S01E12

The pink stars are falling in line on the egg.

Julia is sleeping at the clinic.

Barbie is hiding into the woods.

At the Sweetbriar.

Big Jim: We will hunt down the murderer Dale Barbara. We will bring him in, and we'll make him pay.

Miles: What if he's hiding in one of our homes?

Big Jim: Miles, I-I recognize the threat, believe me.

Miles: Then why aren't you knocking down doors?

Carolyn: Because that's illegal.

Big Jim: What would you have me do, Miles? House sweeps?

Miles: You can search mine.

Big Jim: Maybe you're right. But I will not stomp on people's rights. Our constitution still protects them. This is still the United States of America.

Miles: No, it's not. It hasn't been for two weeks. You got to do something, Rennie.

Big Jim: All right. I'm declaring a state of emergency. That bastard threatens all of us. So today we will perform house sweeps as a safety precaution only. And we'll bring Barbie to justice.

Linda: I am not turning our town into a police state just because you say so.

Big Jim: It's not me, Linda. It's the people. All right, everyone, listen up! This is not the end of Chester's Mill. This is just the beginning. For all of you who lost jobs when this dome came down, Lawyers and-and bankers like Miles, we've got jobs for you. We've got a reservoir that needs to be protected, crops that need tending, streets that need to be cleaned. Yes, it'll take sacrifice. But we will survive. This dome can't break us. Chester's Mill will live to see tomorrow. And the next year. And every year after that.

At the radio station. Dodee is still listening the conversations.

Radio: Sir, the satellites are still showing no visual on our target.

Dodee: NSA creeper.

Radio: Finding Dale Barbara is essential.

Dodee: Good luck, dude.

Radio: Until we make contact, the operation cannot move forward. I want eyes on that unidentified object. Sir, yes, sir. Any idea where the hell that egg thing is, soldier?

Dodee: Oh, my God. That's what burned me.

Radio: No coordinates on the egg, sir. But any new information will be delivered immediately. It won't mean a thing until we locate Barbara. He's the only one inside with the necessary expertise.

Into the barn.

Norrie: What's it doing?

Angie: I think it's mad we didn't kill Big Jim.

Joe: Angie, we can't do that.

Angie: We all saw the same vision at the big dome, Joe. It wants him dead.

Joe: Why?

Angie: I don't know. Maybe so that he doesn't kill your monarch.

Joe: You think Big Jim's gonna kill Barbie?

Angie: From what he's saying on the radio, it sure sounds like he wants to.

Joe: We need to help him, then.

Norrie: You guys, shut up. We don't even know that Barbie's the monarch anyway.

Joe: Come on. Who else could it be?

Norrie: Any one of us?

Angie: Well, we know it's not Junior. Not the way he ran off last night.

Joe: Trust me. It's Barbie. He's gonna get us out. When the butterfly hatches, you'll see.

Norrie: When the butterfly hatches?

Joe: The monarch will be crowned.

Norrie: I don't see how it crowns anybody if it's trapped inside that little dome.

Joe: I just feel when it comes out of its chrysalis, something's gonna change.

Carolyn enters.

Carolyn: What are you doing? No, no. Let me see. Oh, my God. What is that?

Norrie: It's, like... The dome's heart.

Carolyn: What do you mean… Heart ?

Joe: We think it's the source that powers the whole thing.

Carolyn: How long have you had this?

Norrie: We found it just before Mom died.

Carolyn: This... Is the thing in the woods? That showed you Alice?

Norrie: Yeah. And it sent me home so I could tell her good-bye.

Carolyn: All right, you need to move this. They're gonna be searching all the houses. Hide it.

Norrie: You're not mad?

Carolyn: Norrie, honey, I'm on your side. Always. And I don't trust Big Jim with anything. Especially this.

Angie: Take it to Ben's. We can trust him.

Joe: You're not coming?

Angie: I have business with Big Jim.

At the Sweetbriar.

Linda: All volunteers, you do not treat any of your neighbours with disrespect. You do not damage property. And you do not kill Dale Barbara… Go serve and protect.

Phil: Morning, Sheriff.

Linda: Tank's empty. Sorry. But thanks for the use of your car.

Phil: No worries. You need an extra hand today?

Linda: Sure do. Let's go.

Phil: All right.

Linda and Phil leaves, Junior comes in.

Junior: Dad!

Big Jim: What's going on, Junior?

Junior: Dad... I-I was looking for you all night… Dad, you're in danger. Someone's gonna try to kill you. Maybe Barbie, maybe someone else.

Big Jim: How do you know this?

Junior: Uh... I-I just know.

Big Jim: You got to... Get a hold of yourself, Junior. Focus. Listen, I got a job for you. Barbie shot Julia Shummway yesterday.

Junior: That son of a bitch.

Big Jim: So I sent some people over to the clinic, keep an eye out, make sure he doesn't... Show up to finish what he started. But I need somebody I can trust on the inside, guarding her door, protecting her. Can I count on you?

Junior: Yes, sir.

Big Jim: Now, it's, uh, iffy she's ever gonna regain consciousness, but, by chance, if she does wake up and start talking, you need to get on that walkie and let me know. No one else. Just me.

Junior: Okay. But, Dad... Just be careful today.

Big Jim: Okay.

Junior leaves.

Dodee: Big Jim, got a minute?

Big Jim: Pretty busy this morning, Dodee.

Dodee: No, you have to come to the radio station.

Big Jim: Ah, I don't want to overwhelm the public with more announcements.

Dodee: My receiver picked up the military. They're searching for Barbie.

Big Jim: Barbie?

Dodee: They're searching for something else, too.

Barbie catches Angie.

Barbie: Shh! Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Hey, hey. Please don't scream.

Angie: Look, there is a lot of people looking for you.

Barbie: I know, I know. Listen. Everything that they're saying about me... None of it is true. It's Big Jim, to...

Angie: I believe you.

Barbie: You do?

Angie: Got a lot of good reasons not to trust Jim Rennie.

Barbie: Julia's still at the clinic. Now, if she wakes up, he's gonna kill her.

Angie: Why?

Barbie: Look, if she tells people that it wasn't actually me that shot her, his whole story falls apart. Now he doesn't have me to use as his scapegoat anymore.

Angie: Okay, so what do you want me to do?

Barbie: Candy stripers. You guys have key cards to the clinic's back entrance. Am I right?

Angie: Yeah.

Barbie: Yeah. So help me save Julia.

At the Clinic, in Julia’s bedroom.

Junior: How's she doing?

Nurse: She was lucky to survive. There's no telling what kind of neurological damage she might have.

Junior: You think she'll come out of it?

Nurse: I'm not a doctor, Junior.

Junior: Yeah, but... You're kind of as close to a doctor as we've got.

Nurse: And I have other patients to check on.

Junior: I'll keep an eye on Julia.

Outside the clinic.

Angie: So what's the plan?

Barbie: I'm gonna hot-wire the ambulance.

Angie: Then what?

Barbie: And then we use your key card to get us in, we get Julia out... You drive us away.

Angie: Okay, what about the guards?

Barbie: Oh, they'll swing around to the front sooner or later.

Angie: No, not them. What about the guards inside? Big Jim must know you're coming for her. He might have moved her already.

Barbie: Yeah, maybe.

Angie: There are a lot of ifs here.

Barbie: Listen. Big Jim has taken out every single person that stood in his way. Julia is his last loose end. Now, are you in... Or are you out?

At the radio station.

Big Jim: No sign of the military for over a week… Not since they tried to blow us to kingdom come. Now they want Barbie?

Dodee: I told you, all right? He's only part of it.

Big Jim: The military's looking for an egg?

Dodee: Yeah, and... And I've seen it.

Big Jim: What's it do?

Dodee: I'm not sure, but it burned the crap out of my hand. One second. I promised Phil I'd keep the music going. All right, just... Just don't touch anything.

Radio: ...On the move. Thermal photography shows the unidentified object has been transported from the woods to two miles northeast of town center.

Big Jim: Holy hell.

Radio: Any sign of Barbie? Negative, sir. Any idea who's in charge in there? Sir, the ranking official is a James Rennie… Is he a viable contact for this mission? ...Cox, I would not recommend that. Your reasoning, soldier? Sir, right after the missile hit, our UAVs did a full perimeter sweep on the dome wall. One drone caught surveillance of this Rennie murdering the town reverend at the bridge roadblock.

Outside Ben’s house

Ben: New job, Mr. Alcott?

Mr. Alcott: No need for banks anymore, Ben. There's always garbage, though.

Joe: Ben. Ben! Come on.

Ben: What's that? We have something we have to hide from the sweeps. The Gestapo hit my house a while back.

Norrie: Any chance we can stash it?

Ben: My stash house is your stash house.

Barbie and Angie enter in the Clinic.

Angie: More guards?

Barbie: Junior.

Angie: Doing Big Jim's dirty work. Coward.

Barbie: He's got a walkie. But I think I can take him out before he uses it.

Angie: No.

Barbie: No, what?

Angie: Let me.

At the radio station.

Big Jim: Calm down, Dodee.

Dodee: I am calm. Really. But what they said you did... I thought what happened to Reverend Coggins was an accident.

Big Jim: No, he was an accident waiting to happen. I mean, he almost... Burned down the whole town the day after we got stuck here. He's a liability. You don't know the whole story, Dodee. And neither do those Peeping Toms with their eyes in the sky.

Dodee: How many accidents have there been? Those other people? The ones that you said Barbie killed...

Big Jim: Barbie is no saint, believe that.

Dodee: But he didn't do it, did he?

Big Jim: Oh, he did more than enough to deserve whatever punishment he's got coming to him. Every one of those people got... What they had coming to them. They were threats to Chester's Mill. And all I've ever done was protect the people of this town. Think I'd hurt them? Are you...?

Dodee: No. I don't think that.

Big Jim: Oh, good. So let's help each other out here, focus on this egg. You have that photograph of it. Wh-Where'd you take it?

Dodee: It was at Joe McAlister's barn. I didn't even remember until this morning. I was thinking... It could even be the generator.

Big Jim: The generator? For what?

Dodee: The dome. Look, maybe if you get this thing, you could bring down the dome. I can get it for you. I can help. All right, I can be useful.

Big Jim: Well, Dodee... You're already very useful. But that dome can't come down. Not now.

Dodee: Big Jim?

Big Jim: Yeah, what is it, honey?

Dodee: You're a sick... Bastard. And one day, everyone's gonna know it. And they're gonna smile when you die.

Big Jim shoots Dodee, destroys the radio and burns the radio station.

Big Jim is back to the town hall.

Big Jim: Linda? Linda, it's Jim. Where are you?

Linda: Sweeping the southwest quadrant.

Big Jim: The radio station's on fire.

Phil: What? Dodee was covering for me. Is she okay?

Linda: Jim, any word on Dodee?

Big Jim: I don't know. It's a mess. The, uh, fire volunteers are gathering, but you need to get down there.

Linda: Could it be arson?

Big Jim: No idea.

Phil: It's Barbie. We've been broadcasting info about him night and day.

Linda: Jim, I'm on it.

Big Jim: All right, be careful, Linda. When you find Barbie, you call me. Roger. Phil, come on.

In Ben’s bedroom.

Ben: So, you really think this is the engine?

Joe: It could be our way out of here.

Ben: It's awesome. It's like a lava lamp.

Joe: Hey, don't touch it!

Norrie: Last person who did got hurt.

Joe: All you have to do is keep it covered, keep your parents away from it and keep an eye on it.

Ben: Where you gonna be?

Joe: Home. I got to stop Angie from doing something stupid.

Ben: It's in good hands.

Norrie: Thanks, Ben.

Joe: We'll be back to get it later.

In Julia’s bedroom.

Angie: Hey.

Junior: Angie. What are you doing here?

Angie: Just helping out like I used to. Are you okay after what we saw last night?

Junior: Sure.

Angie: Then why'd you run off?

Junior: To protect my dad. To stop anyone from hurting him.

Angie: Do you trust your dad?

Junior: Of course I do.

Angie: You didn't always. When we were going out, you called him a fraud… Are you guarding Mrs. Shumway?

Junior: Barbie shot her yesterday.

Angie: Is that what your dad said?

Junior: He wouldn't lie to me about that.

Angie: But if Barbie didn't shoot her, then Julia's the only witness, right? Did Big Jim tell you what to do if she woke up?

Junior: Leave me alone, Angie.

Angie: Junior, I'm sorry. My head is a mess. I... I don't know what anything means anymore. I just need someone to talk to.

Junior: Someone... Or me?

Angie: You. You're the only one who understands what I'm going through… But can we go somewhere private? I feel like she can hear everything we say.

Junior: I said I'd watch her.

Angie: Just for a minute… Please… Hmm… I need you.

Angie leaves with Junior. Barbie enters.

At the radio station.

Man: We found her body in the station. There was nothing we could do.

Linda: Thanks… Phil... I'm so sorry.

Phil: Why'd he do it? Why did he do it? Dodee never hurt anyone.

Linda: I don't know. But Barbie won't get away with it. I promise.

At the Clinic.

Angie: I just don't know how much more of this I can take.

Junior: Hey, you don't have to do it alone. I'm always gonna be with you…

Angie hugs Junior.

Junior: It feels so good just to hold you again.

Angie: Mmm. I know. It does.

Junior kisses Angie.

Junior: You taste like cigarettes.

Angie: Junior?!

Junior runs back to Julia’s bedroom, it’s empty. Angie leaves.

Near the barn.

Big Jim: Miss Hill, let me tell you how much we don't have time for this.

Carolyn: Let me tell you, Mr. Rennie, how much a lawyer knows about illegal searches. If you don't have a search warrant, which you do not, you're gonna need one of four things: consent from the owner, clear visibility of the inside, a suspect already under arrest...

Big Jim: Or exigent circumstances. I don't know what you call a murderer on the loose, ma'am, but I call that extremely exigent.

Carolyn: I call it just one more day in this damn hellhole... And respectfully request that you leave.

Big Jim: Request respectfully declined.

Men arrest Carolyn.

Carolyn: No! Stop this now! Stop it! Get off of me!

Norrie and Joe arrive.

Norrie: Hey ! Leave her alone! Don't you touch my mother!

Joe: Norrie, no! Back away now!

Norrie starts to fight.

Joe: Norrie!

Carolyn: Norrie!

Joe: Let them go!

Carolyn: Norrie! Norrie, stop!

Big Jim: Wonder what you're so bent out of shape me seeing in here.

Big Jim opens the barn.

Big Jim: What the hell? Where is it?

Joe: Where's what?

Big Jim: Don't play games with me on this one, little buddy. That damn egg. I know all about it, and I know what it's for.

Norrie: We have no idea what you're talking about.

Big Jim: Take these two to the station.

Carolyn: On what charges?

Big Jim: Obstruction of justice.

Norrie: Mom!

Carolyn: Norrie! Let her go! I'll fix it! I'll get you out!

Barbie puts Julia in the ambo. Angie arrives, Junior follows her.

Angie: Barbie!

Junior: Linda, Barbie's at the clinic! Barbie's at the clinic!

Barbie fights with Junior, wins and pick up his walkie.

Linda: Junior, I'm 30 seconds away!

Barbie gets in the ambo.

Barbie: I love you.

Angie: Barbie, we got to go!

Barbie: Drive fast! Go! Stay hidden!

Angie: What? Why?!

Barbie: They're not gonna come looking if they've got me! Go!

Angie: What are you doing?! What are you doing?!

Barbie: Go! Go! Get her out of here now!

The ambo leaves. Linda arrives.

Linda: Put your hands on your head! Get your ass to the ground!

Phil hits Barbie.

Linda: Hey! Get-get back… Jim, got him.

At the McAlister’s place.

Big Jim: Good.

Linda: But Angie McAlister took off with Julia.

Big Jim: Don't worry. We'll get her, too.

In jail.

Joe: Norrie? Norrie, come over here and talk to me, please.

Norrie: Angie was right.

Joe: Angie was right about what?

Norrie: We should've killed Big Jim when we had the chance.

Joe: Why would the dome want us to do that?

Norrie: Look what he's doing, Joe. Pulling all these Nazi moves? Breaking into your barn like he owns the place?

Joe: That doesn't mean we should kill him.

Norrie: Really? What do you think's gonna happen when he finds Barbie? Your monarch won't be crowned, Joe. It's more like "the monarch gets his head chopped off." You know that quote? "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." That's us, Joe.

Big Jim arrives.

Big Jim: Well, well, look at Little Miss Well-Behaved. Joe? Joe, I've known you your whole life. You're a decent kid. A smart kid. Not like your sister.

Joe: Angie's smart.

Big Jim: She's helping Barbie, throwing in all her chips on a losing hand. Aiding and abetting a violent fugitive. She may be past help, but you... You, Joe... You can fix this. Tell me where it is... And we'll forget any of this happened. I'll let you go home, both you and your, uh... Your new friend. If this... Egg thing really is the generator of the dome like… I've heard, you keeping it squirreled away is a very serious offense: impeding a lawful investigation.

Norrie laughs.

Big Jim: You got something to say, little lady?

Norrie: So why do they call you Big Jim? You're just some loser trying to scare kids.

Big Jim: I'm sorry.

Big Jim enters in Norrie’s cell.

Big Jim: I didn't quite hear that. You want to say that again?

Norrie: You... Don't... Scare... Me.

Big Jim: You're old enough to understand how this goes. The easy way is you tell me what I want to know, you walk out that door, you're free. Now, the hard way... Well, let's just say your mother has come to so much grief already. It'd be a shame if you caused her any more misery.

Norrie attacks Big Jim.

Joe: Norrie!

Big Jim: I gave you kids a chance. You want to burn with Barbie... Be my guest.

Parked on a road, Angie is listening to the walkie.

Linda: Heading back to the station now. We have Barbie in custody. No eyes yet on Julia Shumway. Last seen in an ambulance being driven by Angie McAlister away from the clinic.

Linda puts Barbie into a cell.

Barbie: That really necessary? Big Jim tell you to do it? All of these things that I'm being accused of? I would never hurt Julia. You got to know that.

Linda: Yeah? What about her husband? That's what I thought.

At the sheriff’s station.

Big Jim: Here to report a crime?

Carolyn: I won't leave the premises until my daughter and Joe McAlister are released.

Big Jim: It's a public building. You stay as long as you like.

In Linda’s office.

Big Jim: So, what's the good word?

Linda: Nothing on Julia and Angie McAlister, but we got an APB out. Sooner or later, we'll get them.

Big Jim: Okay, well, sooner would be better than later. A woman in Julia's condition needs watching. Do we know if she's come out of her coma yet?

Linda: No clue.

Big Jim: What about Barbie?

Linda: He's downstairs in lockup.

Big Jim: Good.

Linda: Now what?

Big Jim: We let him sweat.

The egg broadcasts an horrible noise.

Men bring Joe and Norrie.

Norrie: What are you doing?! Get off me! Barbie, don't tell him anything!

Joe: We'll be okay.

Barbie: Hey. Where are you taking them?

Big Jim: Let's just call it an undisclosed location.

Barbie: I swear, if you hurt those kids...

Big Jim: Tell you what, seeing as you're in no position to make any threats, how about I do the talking? So, here's the situation. You're going to confess to the charges and you're going to do it in public.

Barbie: It's not going to happen.

Big Jim: Well, that's your prerogative. I'll tell you what will happen if you choose not to cooperate. Won't be long before we catch up with Angie McAlister. And when we do, we'll charge her as an accessory to your crimes, seeing as she's been so helpful to you. Her brother Joe and that little firecracker he's been rubbing noses with, it's no leap to link them to the death of Dodee Weaver, seeing as Dodee knew all about this mysterious object that they're taking such great pains to keep to themselves. And there's your redhead. If she ever comes out of her coma, she'll go down for hiring a known criminal to murder her husband for the insurance money. Now, that's as cold as cold-blooded gets. So what do you say, Barbie? We got a deal?

Barbie: You let the kids go... And you leave Angie and Julia alone... And I'll say what you want me to say.

Big Jim: I'd say we shake hands, but...

Barbie: Hey, Jim. How do I know you're going to keep your word?

Big Jim: You don't.

At the sheriff station.

Carolyn: Are you all right? If that man did anything to you...

Norrie: I'm all right, Mom.

Norrie, Joe and Carolyn leave.

Norrie: We need to check on the mini-dome, make sure it's safe.

Big Jim: Put a tail on those kids.

Linda: Why?

Big Jim: They're hiding something. Something that might help us understand why we're trapped under this thing.

Linda: Something like what?

Big Jim: It's tough to say, but... Could be our way out.

Linda: You really think so?

Big Jim: If we're lucky.

In the hallway.

Big Jim: What happened at the clinic, Junior?

Junior: I'm sorry. I tried my best...

Big Jim: All right, well, you get a second chance now.

Junior: I...

Big Jim: Get out there and find your little girlfriend, bring her and Julia Shumway back here, pronto… What's the problem, Junior?

Junior: What's so important about finding Julia? Barbie's locked up. He can't hurt her anymore.

Big Jim: Well, he can't, that's true. But who knows what other traitors he's got out there ready to pull the trigger for him? Better safe than sorry, I say.

Junior: I love you, Dad. But don't lie to me. That would be very bad for both of us.

Big Jim: He confessed, son. He confessed everything. And soon, he's gonna stand in front of the town and confess to them, too. Okay? Let's get back to work… Oh, I was gonna ask you: last time you saw her… Uh, Julia... Was she conscious? Okay. Okay.

Near Ben’s house.

Joe: What's wrong?

Ben: Your freaky sphere is going crazy, man.

Norrie: Show us.

Angie: Julia? Hey, hey, it's Angie. You need to be quiet. Here. Shh...

Julia: Somebody shot me.

Angie: Do you remember who?

Julia: A woman… I never seen her before… Where are we?

Angie: We're in the clinic. In the storage room. It may be stupid, but... I thought it was the last place they'd look for us. Barbie and I snuck you out of the clinic in an ambulance earlier. But I-I doubled back and left the ambulance behind a billboard on the road. Got you down here on a service elevator.

Julia: Why?

Angie: Big Jim has been telling everyone Barbie's the one who shot you.

Julia: What? He's...

Angie: Okay, okay.

Julia: He's lying.

Angie: What you just said... Is exactly why we have to hide you.

Julia: Where's Barbie?

At the Town Hall.

Big Jim: Listen up. Please, can I have your attention? We've all been through a hell of a lot these past two weeks. Lived through this unprecedented event. Suffered some terrible losses. And it may seem like the rules that all of us were raised with no longer apply. Let me tell you this. Even though we may be separated from the world outside, even though there's no government beyond this hall that you see in front of you today, rules are necessary. And when rules are broken... There must be justice. And where appropriate, punishment. Dale Barbara stands accused of the murders of Maxine and Agatha Seagrave, Otto Aguilar and Peter Shumway, and for the attempted murder of Julia Shumway. I've brought him before you here today to answer for those crimes.

In Ben’s bedroom.

Ben: Cover your ears!

The eggs is turning orange.

Junior looks for answers by touching the dome.

Junior: What do I do?

At the clinic.

Angie: Here, lay back. What do you think they'll do to him?

Julia: They're gonna kill him.

At the town hall.

Big Jim: To the charges brought against you, Mr. Barbara... How do you plead?

In Ben’s bedroom.

Linda: What is that?