Let the Games Begin (Under the Dome)

Linda (Natalie Martinez) takes Julia (Rachelle Lefevre) to help investigate Duke's (Jeff Fahey) involvement with criminal activity in Chester's Mill.

Julia then finds out that her husband Peter (R. Keith Harris) filed a five-year life insurance policy on himself.

She later finds out that Barbie (Mike Vogel) killed him, but she interprets it as Peter wanting to die due to his overwhelming debt.

Maxine proves to Barbie that she intends on taking over the town after she shows him an underground black market fight club.

Jim begins to look through the house, with Agatha eventually pulling a gun and revealing she is Maxine's mother, having given birth to her at age 16 and dropping out of high school.

That night, he heads home to find Linda waiting for him, telling him to meet her at the police station the next day for questioning.

Joe (Colin Ford), Angie (Britt Robertson), and Norrie (Mackenzie Lintz) touch the mini-dome in their barn simultaneously with the egg in the middle beginning to glow.

The "darkness inside" type material is arriving messy and late, but it's what the show's been best at so far—Junior's radical transformation into a chess piece of dome destiny just makes it seem like the showrunners didn't plan this out very well.

"[3] Andrea Reiher of Zap2it also gave the episode a mixed to negative review, saying "The Big Jim-Agatha storyline seemed rather superfluous.

"[4] Ashley Knierim of The Huffington Post said regarding the show's plot "We're only three episodes away from the end of the season, and it's pretty clear the writers have decided to have a few drinks and write whatever pops into their minds.