Force Majeure

 is the third episode of the second season of Under the Dome.

Synopsis
Rebecca and Big Jim decide to conduct a census on the town to decide who will get to live and who will die. Meanwhile Chester's Mill is faced with acid rain that looks like blood and all people are forced to stay indoors. At the school, Joe, Norrie and the unknown girl detect the internet connection which is afterwards cut short. Junior receives a message from his mother telling him that she is alive and to trust only the town's barber, Lyle. Rebecca and Big Jim are going to clear the lake when they are attacked by Lyle who leaves Big Jim in the acid rain and kidnaps Rebecca. Lyle tortures Rebecca to try to make her agree that they must accept their fate and stop finding solutions to survive. Barbie, Sam and Julia save Big Jim, and then Barbie, Julia and Junior set out to find Rebecca. Sam threatens Big Jim that one day he will kill him. Julia finds a photo of Sam, Lyle and Pauline during the summer of 1988. They find Lyle and imprison him. Meanwhile Joe, Norrie and the unknown girl open the locker that Angie closed just before dying, they find nothing. They decide to check the owners of the locker and come across a photo of the unknown girl during in the 80's and find that her name is Melanie. Sam goes to meet Lyle in jail and tells him to keep his mouth shut. Junior has witnessed the scenes and demands answers from Lyle, who tells him that in time he will have all his answers. In the end Rebecca and Big Jim decide they will have to reduce the population of Chester's Mill which outrages Julia, but Barbie accepts Big Jim and Rebecca's plan.