Elsewhere, Barbie realizes he left his dog tags at the cabin where he killed Julia’s husband Peter, and heads back to retrieve them, but is ambushed by Junior who continues to believe Angie is sexually involved with him.
Linda hears Coggins yell for help and pulls him out of the house, but the fire spreads when a nearby propane tank explodes, forcing the town to rally together to form a bucket brigade.
Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode a mixed to negative review, commenting on the lack of character build, saying, "Everything character-wise, at this point, is mostly surface level – with everyone pretty much just acting out in panic mode and very little room to go into their back-stories any further.
Junior's kidnapping of Angie, the episode's stress on non-dome side stories, and broadly painted characters really dragged down the second half of the premiere after a pretty solid start.
It makes sense—the show wants to be on for more than one summer (and it will be, if the ratings continue like they were for the premiere), so the writers can't blow it too early with having Big Jim go from zero to sixty in three episodes.