The Egg

The Egg showing falling pink stars

"This is where it began, and this is where it ends. For all of us."

—Melanie during Pauline's vision in the tunnel vortex.

The Egg is a mysterious object linked to the Dome and believed to be its energy source.

Overview

The Egg, was first discovered during a summer night in 1988, in a meteor crash site, which was found in the woods near Chester's Mill by four teenagers Sam, Lyle, Pauline and Melanie (the original "four hands"). In the process Melanie dies. Scared and confused the others covered her death and left site forgotten.

Six days after the Dome appeared, the Egg is rediscovered by Joe and Norrie at the center of the dome with a second mini-dome surrounding it. The next day Joe then tells Julia about the mini-dome who sees a vision of Joe saying that "The monarch will be crowned." That night Joe moved the mini-dome\Egg from the woods to his barn to hide and safeguard it, but he doesn't remember doing so. There the mini-dome reveals fourth handprint, and Joe, Norrie, Junior and Angie realized they are connected to the dome somehow (The "four hands"). The "four hands" discover a caterpillar in the mini dome. After a while the caterpillar is in a chrysalis to become a monarch butterfly.

Later while the town is searching for Barbie because of Big Jims lies, Big Jim discovers the egg exists. He learns it is the power source for the dome and believes if it is found the dome can be brought down. Because of the murders he committed he doesnt want this to happen, so he disguises his search for the egg as if it is the search for Barbie. The mini dome gets moved to Bennys house because his house has already been searched. While it is there the monarch butterfly emerges from the chrysalis. While the butterfly is flying around it runs into the walls of the mini dome. Each impact with the domes barrier creates a black spot that slowly grows. As this happens, the big dome around the town gets growing black spots as well until eventually both the mini dome and big dome are shrouded in blackness. Benny warns the others that Big Jim is coming so they decide to move the mini dome. While in Junior's truck they decide to take it to the cement factory, and they send out a cryptic message over the police/ambulance radios for Angie to meet them there.

At the cement factory the mini dome shows 4 red hand prints. The "four hands" put their hands on the mini dome, and the mini dome turns a bright white then dissipates. The monarch butterfly seems dead at first, but hen it begins to move and fly around. At first it flies around Barbie, and Joe thinks he was right: Barbie is the "monarch" to be crowned. The egg turns a bright white, begins shaking uncontrollably, makes the loud piercing sound again, and the cement factory starts shaking. Worried that it may collapse, the others begin to run. Instead of running Julia picks up the egg. The cement factory stops shaking, and the egg becomes black again. The monarch butterfly lands on the egg revealing that Julia is actually the monarch to be crowned. Junior is skeptical of the "monarch" being a real thing and insists they need to take the egg to "the real authorities" meaning his dad, Big Jim. The others know this is a bad idea, and they run off with the egg while Barbie fights with Junior.

In the woods, Julia, Angie, Joe, and Norrie talk to the egg and ask the egg to tell them what to do. An apparition in the form of Alice appears and tells them they have to protect the egg, but it disappeared before telling them how. Seeking to safeguard the Egg from Big Jim and others, Julia drops the egg into the lake. This caused pink stars to rise from the lake, and it caused the black curtain that covered the Dome to be replaced with piercing bright light.

A few days later, the egg was recovered from the bottom of the lake, by the four hands. Then at Joe house, it starts to glow to their touch and release pink stars that form the outline of an obelisk which Junior recognizes from his dream. Melanie says that it's from her home town of Zenith. This scene repeated the next day in the newly discovered tunnel/cliff in the school basement.. (which leads to Zenith, and from there the way back to Chesters Mill goes through a root cellar on Barbies familys property putting passengers back into the lake).

A few days later when Big Jim decides to turn over the egg to the outside, Junior and Melanie decide to keep it safe by hiding it under his nose, in his underground bunker. The next day, the egg starts to glow and vibrate emitting high pitched sounds which affects Pauline above, and leading her to draw one of her visions. Big Jim finds the egg, when he tries to pick it up, he is zapped clear across the room. Later Joe and Norrie arrive and the egg "calms down". Big Jim wakes up and force them to take it to the tunnel under the Chester's Mill School, where he drops it into the chasm, and an earthquake hit Chester's Mill. Paulines visions stop and Melanie Becomes ill.

In episode Black Ice after being thrown into the chasm, the egg appears in Zenith. Don Barbara's team examines the egg that has appeared in the middle of the playground. When a scientist picks it up using a pair of tongs the egg turns white and rings, and then it releases a burst of energy blasting the scientist back.

In episode Turn after discovering that the only way to save Barbie and Melanie is to bring the egg back to the Dome, Don goes to the Zenith playground where he's able to pick up the egg without it causing him any harm. Unfortunately as he tries to leave with the egg, Don is stopped by Malick and his mercenaries.

In episode But I'm Not Don brings the egg back to the Dome. There Melanie meets him, but then kills him and takes the egg with her. Later Melanie brings the egg to the cacoon cave where she puts it on the main cacoon. In the end Big Jim comes to the caves and with a positive nod from Julia, breaks it.

Characteristics

the "four hands" and the mini-dome

The egg is a little bit smaller than an ostrich egg in size and is completely black, but on certain occasions it glows in various colors. At close inspection, it seems to be made of obsidian or a similar material. Initially, the egg was surrounded by a protective mini-dome, which can only be touched only by a few chosen colloquially referred to as the "four hands" (Joe McAlister, Norrie, Junior, Angie). If anyone else try to touched it, they are shocked by electricity.

The Egg and the mini-dome are linked and it's believed to be the energy source for the dome.

• Joe theorizes that the mini dome egg could be the dome's energy source. It is what the military and the Aktaion energy company believe.
• In Curtains, when a monarch butterfly starts to smash into the mini-dome and leaving black patches, the same thing happens to the larger dome. When Julia drops the Egg into lake, it causes the Dome to become completely white.
• It's revealed in Alaska that the egg is indeed the power source of the Dome.
• In Caged it's revealed that the egg created the Dome after Christine Price's interaction with it.

The Egg shows the ability to create apparitions of people that tell strange prophetic things and also can be used as a communication link with owners of the egg and the Dome. The big Dome has this ability too but it created apparitions do not speak and only appear on the surface of the Dome.

• The egg first showed Norrie her mother Alice, who died soon after.
• In Thicker Than Water, when Julia touches the mini-dome ,the egg shows the apparition of Joe McAlister which says the phrase "The Monarch will be crowned".
• In the Season 1 finale Curtains, when Norrie touches the mini-dome, the Alice apparition appears again.

Throughout the series, the egg is shown to be concetrating some sort of energy in the shape of pink stars rising up the egg. It can also enduce seizures to the fourth hands in which they repeat cryptic words.

• Joe, Norrie and Angie experience seizures repeating the phrase, "The pink stars are falling". They appear to be the same stars that appear in Junior's mother dreams and are foreshadow both the pink stars on the egg and the events of Ejecta.
• When Joe tried to record the seizures, the Egg warns Joe and Norrie to keep the egg between themselves and other seizure sufferers.
• After the egg was recovered from the lake, it shows pink stars falling in lines, which took shape of a monolith which Melanie confirms is from her hometown Zenith. Later she sees vision of Zenith again, in the tunnel beneath school.
• In Redux, it's revealed that the egg's purpose is to transmit and share that life energy to people.

The Egg is also able to emit a high-pitched noise as well as releasing a burst of electric energy, blasting those trying to touch it. The mini-dome protecting the egg shares this ability too.

• InLet the Games Begin, when Dodee Weaver touches the mini-dome, she is shocked and forcefully pushed away.
• In The Fall, the egg blasts away Big Jim with an energy surge after he finds it and tries to pick it up.
• In Zenith, when a scientist tries to examine the egg, trying to pick it up using a pair of tongs, the egg turned white and ringed, releasing a burst of energy which blasted the scientist.

The egg is also presumed to be able to take control of weather under the Dome  and could be the cause of all strange events that happen under it (strange weather changes, apparitions).

• In The Fourth Hand, it's shown that the mini-dome can be unlocked but only if the four hands of the chosen ones (Joe, Norrie, "Junior" and Angie) are placed on it. 

Melanie Cross is shown to have a deep connection to the egg to an extent that she even would sacrifice her life to protect it. She is presumed to be the first protector, as she was the first human to touch the egg.

• When the egg is thrown into the chasm, Melanie immediately faints and becomes ill.
• When scientists in Zenith try to pick it up, Melanie experiences seizures.

In But I'm Not, it's revealed that there were multiple meteorites with eggs inside of them found all over the world. Only the one found in the Alaska and the one in Chester's Mill were intact and only Chester's Mill egg seemed to be functional.

• In episode Legacy it's shown that each individual egg has different characteristics to each other. For example egg found in Alaska was shown to be emitting blue energy and blue stars instead of purple ones shown in Chester's Mill egg.
• Also only Chester's Mill egg seems to be able to create Dome as Alaska one only shared life energy.
• In the series finale it's revealed that there is a new egg in an unnamed location.

Gallery

The Egg in its original state.

The Egg glowing

The four hands touch the mini-dome for the first time.

The egg emits pink stars all over, which create a constellations map.

Julia Shumway drops the Egg to the bottom of the lake.

The Eggs last moments before being destroyed by Big Jim

The egg with glowing pink stars on it

The egg in the meteor