I mean, it's not as if we expected the "resolution" of the ridiculous mysteries to be anything less than ridiculous? But did anyone expect things to be that bad? The monarch butterfly emerges from its chrysalis and starts flitting around the mini-dome, turning it black as it does so, and the same think happens to the maxi-dome. Settling once and for all that Linda is the dumbest television cop ever who doesn't live in Hazzard County, the idiot teenagers trick Linda into touching the dome, and it fries her, but unfortunately leaves her alive, and the morons take the mini-dome over to the cement factory.

Meanwhile, Julia and Angie rescue Barbie and they head to the cement factory, where, when the teenagers put their hands on the blackened dome, it shatters, and the butterfly flits overs to Julia, which I suppose means she’s the monarch. Then the egg lights up and I guess causes an earthquake, but instead of evacuating with the others, Julia picks up the egg and calms it down.

Junior recaptures Barbie, who will not be getting a trial or anything, but is to just be HANGED in the GALLOWS THAT THE CITIZENS OF CHESTER'S MILL BUILD IN A COUPLE OF HOURS. And Linda seems to be OK with this, even though she knows Julia helped Barbie escape. You know, despite the fact that as far as Linda knew, Barbie shot Julia. But Big Jim has taken her to his dead wife's art studio, where he shows her the pink star and egg painting that she did, which makes Linda think Big Jim and his family must be Very Important. Oh, does that mean you're going to start blindly doing whatever Big Jim tells you to do? Well, that will be a nice change. In the woods, Samantha Mathis returns as Norrie's mom, only it's just an appropriation of her image by the ghost/alien/whatever that dropped the dome on them in order to communicate with them better. She explains that the dome is meant to protect them. Protect that from what, exactly? No idea. But they have to protect the egg or else it's curtains.

Julia, being the monarch, has to try to save Barbie from being hanged, and she takes her sweet time about it, before finally deciding to drop the mini-egg in Methane Lake. Pink stars start rising in lines towards the sky and then spreading over the underside of the dome's surface in bright, white light. From the outside (notice the lack of scorched earth from the mother of all bombs) the dome looks opaque, and we close the season on Big Jim screaming for Junior to pull the lever on the gallows and hang Barbie until he be dead. So I guess we're just going to have to wait until next year to see if this show kills off its hero.

Daniel is a writer in Newfoundland with a wife and a daughter. This is the worst show he's ever recapped that didn't have Bachelor/ette in the title. Follow him on Twitter (@DanMacEachern) or email him at danieljdaniel@gmail.com.