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"&amp;quot;I want people to be shocked, like... &amp;#039;What the f**k was that?!&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Rachelle Lefevre is in no rush to be killed off of CBS&amp;#039;s summer hit Under the Dome, but if the Grim Reaper does ever come calling for her character - plucky investigative reporter Julia Shumway - she wants to go out in spectacular fashion. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to die - I like my job!&amp;quot; she laughs. &amp;quot;But if it&amp;#039;s what&amp;#039;s best, I&amp;#039;m so ready to be a martyr for the show - I just want it to be really unconventional and weird. &amp;quot;I put in an official request that if it&amp;#039;s my turn, I would like to go in some spectacularly sci-fi fashion, like... giving birth to a flock of Monarch butterflies!&amp;quot;  Lefevre dwelling on Julia&amp;#039;s fate is understandable, given that season two of Under the Dome launched by killing off two major characters, in a premiere episode penned by Stephen King. &amp;quot;Leave it to him to kill two people in a single episode!&amp;quot; the actress says of King, on whose 2009 book the television series is based. &amp;quot;But that first episode really set the tone for the rest of the season. &amp;quot;It really did have a different quality - he just has a darker tone and it was more foreboding. Chester&amp;#039;s Mill seemed like a darker place to live in his script.&amp;quot;  For all that foreboding though, the future looks bright for Under the Dome - it remains the summer&amp;#039;s top-rated scripted series on US television after breaking records with its series launch in mid-2013. &amp;quot;We were the highest-rated summer show in, I think, 21 years?&amp;quot; Lefevre says. &amp;quot;Like... China Beach in the &amp;#039;80s or &amp;#039;90s was the last time people flocked to summer television. &amp;quot;Since then, there&amp;#039;s been 24 and CBS launched Extant this summer - other networks are putting their best foot forward in the summer. It&amp;#039;s not just where they&amp;#039;re dumping the leftovers, which is what I think it used to be.&amp;quot;  Lefevre admits that Under the Dome was &amp;quot;considered a risk&amp;quot; when it first premiered, with the summer considered a No Man&amp;#039;s Land between midseason and the fall for decades. &amp;quot;It was Stephen King and Steven Spielberg and the pilot script was fantastic, so the material wasn&amp;#039;t the risk. It was just, &amp;#039;Will people tune in in the summer to watch this?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Whereas now, every network is doing summer programming - now it&amp;#039;s not a risk and I do give us some credit for believing in the material. We&amp;#039;re pioneers, god-dammit!&amp;quot;  With season two about to launch in the UK and midway through its run Stateside, Lefevre says that &amp;quot;there have been conversations&amp;quot; about a third outing for Under the Dome in summer 2015. But with showrunner Neal Baer admitting that the series&amp;#039;s ultimate ending remains &amp;quot;in flux&amp;quot;, how much does she know about Julia&amp;#039;s journey... and the fate of the rest of Chester&amp;#039;s Mill? &amp;quot;In terms of the overall endgame, I do have a general idea of what that is,&amp;quot; she reveals. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s cool to feel like I have a secret that other people don&amp;#039;t know!&amp;quot; She laughs again: &amp;quot;I feel like I&amp;#039;m in the secret circle - I&amp;#039;m in with the chosen ones!&amp;quot; Under the Dome season two begins on Channel 5 in the UK tonight at 10pm. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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