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Under the Dome Questions & Answers: Killer Caterpillars and a Murder Mystery

We ponder who killed Angie, why there's so many caterpillars, how everyone is letting Jim off the hook and just how useless Sam from the woods really is this week. 

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Under the Dome remains by far the silliest show on television, and this week it included clouds of butterflies, a gang of vigilante teens trying to dispense justice, a teacher setting whole farms on fire and, perhaps, evidence that the Dome was brought about by a rejected Romney clone (that last theory is all me, I’ll admit. What answers did we get from the Dome this week?

All those butterflies are coming from a whole lot of caterpillars.

For some reason, Chester’s Mill has been beset with butterflies since

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