But since she died, it didn't happen then. There, they would have been able to view the town from within a large 'Queen-size' cocoon. Had she stayed alive longer, Melanie would have been infected by The Kinship, and a dome (a device that traps and protects life forms inside it) would have lowered over the town, while a mini-dome descended over the egg (an energy source), and Melanie and her friends, as the first life forms to have come into contact with the egg, would have been pulled underground, into a large cave which forms instantly. However, Lyle pushed her into the meteor, and she died. Attracted by the egg, Melanie picked it up. Each of them placed his or her hand on the meteor, which triggered it to open, revealing a glowing pink egg. As they approached it, four hand prints glowed, one on each side of the meteor.

Teenagers Melanie, Pauline, Sam and Lyle found the meteor in the middle of the woods. In 1980, The Kinship's meteor crashed in the center of Chester's Mill. They used an egg inside a meteor to transport themselves across the galaxy, hoping the meteor would crash on another inhabited planet. To survive, The Kinship abandoned their own world, hoping to live on another life-supporting planet. Another species had sought to take over The Kinship's world, during an event known as 'The Great Destruction'. The Kinship is an alien species that can take over any living person and control its actions. In the TV series, the dome exists to protect the egg that converts other species into The Kinship, an alien species, and to trap suitable subjects within the space to be converted.

Under the dome audio book