Awakening

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

Synopsis
Big Jim assumes the role of Sheriff and apologizes to Rebecca for his behavior. Barbie meanwhile gives his father a message for Julia, but is unaware that it has been modified by him. When Julia receives the message she has her doubts. Worried for Lyle, but believing he has the answers they need, Pauline pressures Sam into helping him, but Sam is confused about his own situation. In Zenith, Barbie confronts a man tailing him and learns that his father had doctored the message to Julia. At the school, Julia, Joe, Norrie and Melanie discuss Barbie's message, and decide to respond in a way he would understand. Junior meanwhile is shocked by his fathers decision to become Sheriff, but is called away by a fire. While there, Big Jim tells him someone is targeting him. At his fathers home, Barbie breaks into his fathers computer with the help of a Hounds of Diana hacker, and makes a shocking discovery. Now at his fathers company, Barbie sends a cryptic message to Julia, who is waiting at the cliff edge that confirms he's alive but doesn't want her to jump, but instead wants her to meet him. With Hunters help, Barbie assumes a false identity of an Aktion employee and makes his way through the checkpoints towards the Dome. In Zenith, Sam and Pauline attempt to talk with semi lucid Lyle after giving him the drug, and learn about the postcards and the red door. Julia meanwhile makes her way to Joe's house to meet Barbie, and is briefly stopped by a curious Big Jim who gives her a radio. Attacked and handcuffed by Phil, Big Jim is saved by Junior and Rebecca, and then imprisons Phil. That night, Barbie reunites at the Dome wall with Julia and gives her a message, but is captured by armed men while Big Jim watches on.