Jim Rennie

James Rennie is the main antagonist of the Stephen King novel Under the Dome.

Big Jim Rennie is the religious, power obsessed, and manipulative second selectmen of Chester's Mill, a small town that is mysteriously covered by a invisable dome.

Under the Dome

On Dome Day, Jim Rennie arrives and sees this as an attempt to seieze control of Chester's Mill. Rennie had already had control over many of Chester's Mill's most important players, even the first selectman, Andy Sanders. After the death of Chief Perkins, Rennie appoints Peter Randolph as the chief of police. And then his reign begins.

He has Randolph appoint his young son and his friends as police officers, who violently beat, rape, and abuse the people of Chester's Mill.

During the time in the Dome, Rennie kills many of the citizens of the Mill and is one of the most evil Stephen King villains in years. For he more realalistic and all of his actions have caused pain the everyone around him.

His reign of terror ended when Jackie Wettington killed her son, and Randolph and Melvin Searles were killed by The Chef and Sanders.

With the loss of power, Rennie and Carter Thibodeau turned on each other and Rennie killed Thibodeau. Rennie eventually died hours later when hallucinations of the people that died during the time of the dome chased him to the toxic environment.