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[[File:Jim_Rennie_Jr.png|right|300px|Alexander Koch as Jim Rennie, Jr.]]'''Jim "Junior" Rennie, Jr.''' (''d. 26 Oct 2012'') is the son of [[Jim Rennie]], and a resident of [[Chester's Mill, Maine]]. He is friends with [[Frank DeLesseps]], [[Melvin Searles]], and [[Carter Thibodeau]]. |
[[File:Jim_Rennie_Jr.png|right|300px|Alexander Koch as Jim Rennie, Jr.]]'''Jim "Junior" Rennie, Jr.''' (''d. 26 Oct 2012'') is the son of [[Jim Rennie]], and a resident of [[Chester's Mill, Maine]]. He is friends with [[Frank DeLesseps]], [[Melvin Searles]], and [[Carter Thibodeau]]. |
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==Portrayal== |
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| − | ===Joe's Blog: My First Video=== |
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| − | Junior Rennie's first appears is in a short video blog made by [[Joe McAlister]], where Joe is making his first blog video with his smartphone. This happens before the day the dome comes down as Junior seems to still have his sanity and is still going out with Angie. Junior is making out with Joe's sister when Joe comes into Angie's bedroom. He immediately stops and sits on the side of the bed. Joe asks Angie why she is in her old bedroom when she moved out. She says it was none of his business. Joe then introduces Junior to the camera where Junior says "What's up world". It is revealed by Joe that Angie had slept with not one but three boyfriends, to which Junior is shocked to hear but Angie claims to be untrue. Joe then leaves the bedroom. |
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| − | At the Rennie Residence, [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Angie_McAlister Angie McAlister] and [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Rennie,_Jr. Jim Rennie, Jr.] have sex. Junior professes his love for Angie, announcing that he's dropped out of [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot_(Under_the_Dome)# college] to be with her, claiming that she is the only person who truly knows him. Angie rejects Junior, who roughly grabs her arm as she attempts to walk out; Angie slaps Junior, inciting a silent fury in him, before she leaves the house. |
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| − | Junior experiences the earthquake of the dome lowering on his front porch as windchimes ring. |
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| − | Later in the day, Junior listens to WYBS and mindlessly fiddles with a butterfly knife; he prepares to cut himself just before his [[Jim Rennie|father's]] voice takes over the radio station. |
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| − | Outside the Clinic, [[Dale Barbara]] smokes next to a dumpster before being approached by Angie, who asks for a cigarette. A block away, Junior watches Angie and Barbie from inside his pick-up truck, fiddling with his butterfly knife. Angie questions Barbie about what he saw, and tells him that some of her patients believe that the town is trapped in a giant fishbowl; she tells him that she once had goldfish, but when one got sick, the other ate it. Junior climbs out of his truck to approach Angie, believing that she is flirting with Barbie, but stops as Carolyn and Alice arrive at the Clinic in a rush with Norrie still suffering from her seizure. Angie helps Norrie from the car, and Barbie leaves the Clinic as Junior watches him. |
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| − | Later that night, in the field, Barbie retrieves his handgun from the glovebox of his Charger, and is approached by Junior, who asks if they know each other. Barbie ignores Junior, angering him, and Junior becomes aggressive, but Barbie advises him not to start an altercation. Moments later, Shumway arrives and Junior leaves. He later arrives at Angie's house and sneaks in and waits for Angie to come home. When she does, he attacks her and holds her at knifepoint, she fights back and runs for the door, but Junior tackles her, hitting her head against a countertop and knocking her unconscious. He apologizes and kisses the wound on her forehead. |
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| − | Hours later Angie awakens, and finds herself in a locked room as Junior arrives. She screams for help until Junior shouts for her to stop because no one can hear her: he has locked her in his father's "old fallout shelter." Angie insists that Junior has lost his mind, but he counters that only he truly understands "what's going on around here" before asking for her patience. She lunges at him instead, but he exits the room and bolts the door before she can escape, leaving her inside as he climbs back to the surface and locks the hatch. |
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| − | In the backyard, Rennie discovers his son at the hatch to the fallout shelter, and Junior claims that he checked the bunker to find it completely flooded. When Junior insists that he wants to help his father manage the town, Rennie gives his son an awkward hug, and the two leave the backyard as Junior glances back to the fallout shelter hatch. |
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| − | In the Rennie's fallout shelter, [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Angie_McAlister Angie] searches for a means of escaping, but hides as [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Rennie,_Jr. Junior] arrives with a tray of food. She rushes him, knocking him aside and forcing her way out the door, only to climb the stairs in the hall outside and find the stormdoors locked. Angie beats at the door and screams for help until Junior forcibly picks her up and carries her back into the bunker, chaining her ankle to the cot. Junior insists that the Dome has scrambled Angie's brain and made her sick; when Angie asks Junior to take her to the hospital, he responds that "Barbie" might be there. Angie initially denies being involved with Barbie, but later attempts to goad Junior by claiming that Barbie "screwed [her] brains out," and that Junior "will never be the man that he is." Junior leaves without a word and locks the door. |
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| − | At [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Mill_Gas_%26_Grocery Mill Gas & Grocery], Barbie purchases a bottle of water and three packs of cigarettes before spotting Norrie shoplifting. He says nothing, holding the door for her to leave, and explains that the cigarettes are an investment. As Barbie leaves, he is spotted by Junior, who follows him. |
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| − | He follows Barbie to an abandoned cabin and accuses Barbie of taking Angie to the cabin for sex before insisting that Angie belongs to him. Junior punches Barbie before Barbie pushes Junior out the door and off the porch; Junior tackles Barbie and the two grapple before Barbie punches Junior repeatedly. He warns Junior to stay away from him, threatening "not...to stop" next time before leaving Junior on the ground outside the cabin. |
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| − | In the Rennie's fallout shelter, Angie struggles with the chain around her ankle until Junior returns, explaining the bruises on his face by claiming that he "took care of" Barbie by killing him. Angie refuses to believe that Junior could kill someone, claiming that she's known him since the third grade; Junior responds by handing her an envelope and telling her that "this is what [they're] working for." He leaves, and Angie finds a strip of photobooth pictures inside showing her and Junior together. |
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| − | Later that morning at the Rennie residence, Rennie confronts [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Rennie,_Jr. Junior] about his absence during the Perkins housefire, insisting that the appearance of the Dome is an opportunity that must not be squandered. Rennie then notices the bruises on Junior's face, and Junior admits that Barbie beat him while claiming that Barbie is "totally insane"; Jim simply tells his son to "tough up now, Junior." |
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| − | In the Rennie's fallout shelter, [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Angie_McAlister Angie] manages to tune in [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/WYBS WYBS] on a portable radio and hears [http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Phil_Bushey Phil Bushey] discuss the Perkins housefire, but hides the device as Junior arrives with a tray of food. She ingores him even as he tells her that she is only angry because of the Dome, claiming that everything will go back to normal once they "get out from under this thing"; Angie asks if anyone has attempted to go under the barrier, suggesting the abandoned tunnels beneath the town's cement factory. As Angie appears to soften to Junior, he leaves. |
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| − | At the WYBS station headquarters, Julia reports on the Dome before Phil turns back to the music, and Julia spots Junior through a window passing by the building. Phil suggests that Junior, as the councilman's son, might have an "inside scoop," and Julia rushes outside, but Junior dismisses her questions and walks off. |
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| − | At the abandoned cement factory, Junior pries a door open and heads inside while Julia follows him into the facility. Inside, Junior descends a flight of steps, with Julia in his wake. Junior desends further into the facility as Julia continues to follow him. Junior reaches the lowest tunnel and believes that he's "found a way out." Behind him, Julia witnesses as he walks straight into the invisible barrier; he drops his flashlight, and Julia reveals herself to stop him from picking it up moments before it explodes. Junior threatens that she shouldn't have followed him. |
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| − | Julia claims to have followed Junior in the hopes that he'd find a way out, and Junior beats futilely against the barrier, screaming that he hates it. Finally he collapses on the floor, telling Julia that the tunnels are unsafe, but Julia explains that she wrote a story once on coal miners trapped underground during which she learned that striking a match will reveal the direction of airflow in a tunnel. She then strikes a match, and invites Junior to "go home." |
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| − | Julia leads Junior through the tunnels before he sits against a wall, insisting that he "just wanted to do something good today." He insists that "a man doesn't screw up," but Julia claims that everyone screws up, and explains that she wound up back in Chester's Mill after publishing bribery allegations against a mayoral candidate in Chicago based on forged documents. She insists, however, that she will never make that mistake again, and strikes another match. As she continued to lead Junior through the tunnels, Junior insists that the Dome appeared when Barbie arrived in town; he shows Julia his bruises, claiming that that Barbie "attacked [him] out of the blue" because Barbie is "a psychopath," and insisting that Dale "has to answer some questions." Moments later, Julia's last match goes out as the pair arrive at the steps to the surface; back outside, Julia offers to give Junior a ride back to his house. On the road, Julia agrees to keep the incident in the tunnels secret, and Junior asks her to call him James. |
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| − | They arrive at the Rennie Residence, where Barbie and Jim Rennie were talking outside on the sidewalk. Junior gets out and strodes silently past Barbie into the house. |
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| − | Later that night, Jim questions his son's activity, and Junior admits that he looked for a way out of the Dome through the cement factory. Junior then demands to know what his father was doing with Barbie, but Rennie refuses to answer, insinuating that Jim and Barbie are adults while Junior is a child. |
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| − | In the Rennie's fallout shelter, Angie sleeps until Junior returns; she wakes, and asks if Junior succeeded in going under the barrier, but he admits that he failed and concedes that "there's no way out." Angie spots Junior's bruised hands, and tends to them with a first aid kit, while surreptitiously sliding a pair of scissors under her blanket. |
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==Appearances== |
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| − | * ''[[Under the Dome (television series)|Under the Dome]]'': |
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| − | * "[[Joe's Blog]]": "[http://www.cbs.com/shows/under-the-dome/joes-blog/1000830/ My First Video]" |
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Revision as of 02:04, 19 July 2013
- This article pertains to the character as he appears in print. You may be looking for his small-screen counterpart.
Jim "Junior" Rennie, Jr. (d. 26 Oct 2012) is the son of Jim Rennie, and a resident of Chester's Mill, Maine. He is friends with Frank DeLesseps, Melvin Searles, and Carter Thibodeau.
He suffers intense migraines, for which he was prescribed Imitrex by Dr. Haskell; the headaches are, however, a result of a brain tumor that Haskell failed to diagnose. The migraines are partially responsible for his propensity for violence.
On 20 October 2009, he and his friends beat up Dale Barbara in the parking lot of Dipper's Roadhouse, leading to Barbara's attempted exodus from Chester's Mill. The next day, he visited Angie McCain at her parents' house, slapping her and throwing her against a table so hard that she had a seizure. Rennie responded by strangling her in the kitchen, then fleeing the residence. He returned home and slept until after nine o'clock, then took cash from his father's office safe with the intention of going on the run.
He returned to the McCain residence to clean up the scene, in the midst of which Dodee Sanders arrived at the house; Rennie then killed Sanders as well. After storing both bodies in the kitchen pantry, he returned home again and waited for his father to return, prepared to shoot and kill his father and himself should his father show any suspicion, but his father instead offered Junior, as well as DeLesseps, Searles, and Thibodeau, temporary jobs as police officers.
The four of them, along with Georgia Roux, were sworn in the next morning as Special Deputies, and worked security at the joint protest/prayer-group held in the field of Dinsmore's farm that afternoon. After finishing his shift that day, he turned down overtime to return to the McCain house, where he molested the corpses of Angie McCain and Dodee Sanders. In the early hours of the next morning, he returned home to find his father beating Lester Coggins, and stepped in to strangle Coggins; he then wrapped the body and took it to the McCain residence, stowing it with the bodies of Dodee and Angie.
Later that day, he met with his father and Andy Sanders at Town Hall, and was given the key to Barbara's apartment by Sanders. He then searched the apartment, finding Barbara's dog-tags, which he took in the interest of framing Barbara for the murders of Coggins, Angie, and Dodee. He returned to his father's house and delivered the dog-tags, surprising his father with the news that there were more bodies than just Coggins'.
When his father then murdered the late Duke Perkins wife Brenda Perkins, he plans to frame Barbie for her death too. He and other officers rushed toward the hospital where Barbie was. He then takes him to jail. While he is in his jail cell Junior asks what he did in Iraq. They talk for a while then Junior leaves. When his father learnes that Barbie might have people helping him in the newspaper buisness he sends Junior and Carter Thibodeau to set the newspaper building on fire. After that he goes back to the corpses of Dodee Sanders and Angie McCaine to moleste them. Freddy Denton finds Junior sitting on the front steps of the residence and attempts to put him in his police car. Junior refuses at first, then gave up. Junior was acting wierd and keeps misspelling words. He even told Denton "I want to gow back to my goolfriends". Denton takes him to the hospital where his father rarely visits him since he is very busy.
He then grows so angry about his migraine that he blames Dale Barbara's cooking and believes he poisoned him. Now he wants to kill him. So Junior escapes from the hospital and waits until the meeting starts, knowing everyone will be there and knowing there is only a few people at the police station. So when it starts Junior enters the police station, killing four deputies including officer Stacey Moggin. Junior then goes downstairs to kill Barbie in his cell.
Meanwhile he did not know that people were planning to rescue Barbie. Romeo Burpee and Jackie Wettington enter the police station.
Junior goes to Barbie's cell and attemps to shoot Barbie at least six times with his pistol, but all missed. When he was about to go in the cell and kill Barbie himself Jackie Wettington heard the gunshots and ran downstairs. She saw Junior opening the cell and shoots him twice with her gun. Once in the lung and once in the heart.
Junior is seen when his father Big Jim Rennie had visions of all the people that have died in Chesters Mill. He says to his father, "They took me away daddy, they took me away from my goolfwiends".
Portrayal
In the 2013 television series, Rennie is be played by Alexander Koch.