'Under the Dome' Sneak Peek: Eriq La Salle Pulls the Resistance Out of the Frying Pan…

What’s a day in Chester’s Mill without a daring rescue and some valuable information about the eggs? We’ve got two clips from this week’s Under the Dome that are good news for the Resistance but bad news for Julia and Barbie.

“This is where we make our stand,” said Big Jim last week. And as the Kinship closed in on them, torches in hand, you have to admit that dying in a funeral home is — if nothing else — convenient for the town’s undertaker. But they’re saved by ER’s Eriq La Salle — er, Aktaion’s Hektor Martin. Big Jim avoids being caught in a burning house for the second time this season; once more and he’ll get a free cup of coffee.

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That’s the good news. The bad news, we find out when Julia returns, is that Barbie’s breaking free of the mind control may not be permanent. Hektor says he’s just “in a dormant phase.” Aktaion has brought a cure for the infection, but you know what they say about paramilitary energy corporations bearing gifts…

Under the Dome airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on CBS.