{"id":25222,"date":"2022-11-04T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1731930"},"modified":"2022-11-04T19:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:12:20","slug":"manifest-season-4-part-1-ending-explained-how-it-sets-up-final-episodes","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/manifest-season-4-part-1-ending-explained-how-it-sets-up-final-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Manifest season 4, part 1 ending explained: How it sets up final episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ryan Coogan\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 04 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Manifest asked a lot of questions which were, at one point, in very real danger of never being solved, as NBC cancelled the popular series after only three seasons without providing a much-needed sense of closure on some of its biggest mysteries.<\/p>\n

Luckily for us, Netflix<\/a> has renewed the show for a two-part final season, which will wrap up some of Manifest<\/a>\u2019s most pressing enigmas, and finally tell us exactly what happened to Flight 828 and its passengers.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t seen the show before, well, first of all you should probably go and watch it before you read a summary of its final season. But if you just want a quick recap to bring you up to speed, here it is: the show follows the passengers of commercial Flight 828, which goes missing on 7th April, 2013.<\/p>\n

Five years later, on November 4, 2018, the flight re-emerges, with its passengers not having aged a day since the flight first left the runway. Stranger still, the passengers are under the impression that the flight simply took off and landed as normal; to them, no extra time has passed.<\/p>\n

As the passengers return to society, many of them begin experiencing hallucinations and visions of the future, which they dub \u201ccallings\u201d. These callings help them to rescue people in need, but often bring them into conflict with law enforcement and government agencies like the NSA.<\/p>\n

Over time, the passengers realise that there is more to the callings than meets the eye, and that as well as being helpful, they may also provide clues as to the day that each of them will die.<\/p>

The show primarily follows the Stone family, only some of whom were on Flight 282: Siblings Ben (Josh Dallas) and Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh), and Ben\u2019s cancer-stricken son Cal (Jack Messina) all disappeared for five years, leaving behind Ben\u2019s wife Grace (Athena Karkanis) and Cal\u2019s twin sister Olive (Luna Blaise).<\/p>\n

Along the way we also meet Michaela\u2019s fianc\u00e9 Jared Vasquez (JR Ramirez), fellow 828-er and cancer researcher Dr Saanvi Bahl (Parveen Kaur), several people who experienced similar disappearances under entirely different circumstances such as Zeke Landon (Matt Long), and a host of other characters who provide clues and help deepen the mystery of Flight 828.<\/p>\n

But before we look at what happened in season four, let\u2019s take a look at how season three left things:<\/p>\n

How Did Manifest season 3 end?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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While Angelina was welcomed into the Stone household initially, friction soon started to develop as Angelina became fixated in the idea that Ben and Grace\u2019s new baby Eden was her \u201cguardian angel\u201d and that the two belonged together.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ben and NSA director Robert Vance (Daryl Edwards) discovered the tailfin from what appeared to be an alternate version of Flight 828 that had crashed into the ocean instead of returning home. Ben\u2019s son Cal \u2013 whose callings had grown in intensity throughout the series \u2013 was manipulated by Angelina into touching the tailfin, causing him to disappear.<\/p>\n

These stories tragically converged in the season 3 finale, when Angelina snuck into the Stone household with a knife, stabbing Grace and departing with baby Eden. As Grace lay dying, she was joined by an older version of Cal (played by Ty Doran), who had aged from a pubescent boy to a young man in the hours since his disappearance.<\/p>\n

Season 3 also saw the passengers begin to piece together clues about the calling, finding that people and items that had disappeared throughout history contained traces of the precious gemstone sapphire (or its constituent elements). One such item was a piece of driftwood believed to have been taken from Noah\u2019s Ark, which Dr Saanvi destroyed to help quell a series of earthquakes that had hit New York, and seemed to have been caused by the passengers\u2019 investigations into their disappearance.<\/p>\n

If you aren\u2019t familiar with the show some of this may seem a little random and confusing. If that\u2019s the case, you only need to know one thing: it\u2019s all connected.<\/p>\n

Where does Manifest season 4 pick up?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Perhaps the biggest change at the beginning of season 4 is that it picks up two years in to the future, when passengers are forced to register with the government and check in once a month to avoid being arrested.<\/p>\n

Cal and Ben\u2019s relationship is fraught, as Ben holds his son partly responsible for the death of Grace and the kidnapping of Eden, due to Cal\u2019s former relationship with Angelina. Ben spends the majority of his time obsessively hunting for his daughter, often with the assistance of a guilt-stricken Cal.<\/p>\n

Is Eden rescued?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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One of the most pressing questions at the end of season 3 was: what happened to baby Eden? Well, there\u2019s good news and bad news on that front. The bad news is that Angelina kept hold of baby Stone during that entire period, raising Eden to believe that she was her mother. She also taught Eden to fear her own father, training her to call him \u201cthe bad man\u201d.<\/p>\n

The good news is that Ben finally gets his little girl back; albeit at a cost. In episode 5, Angelina takes several people hostage at her cult compound. Angelina threatens to blow the compound up if the Stones take Eden from her, but she is overpowered and seemingly killed in the explosion as our heroes escape.<\/p>\n

In the episode it is also revealed that Cal\u2019s cancer has returned, and we later learn that he has only days to live.<\/p>\n

What do we learn about the calling?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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MANIFEST SEASON 04. (L to R) Josh Dallas as Ben Stone and Ali Lopez-Sohaili as Eagan in Manifest Season 04. Cr. Netflix \u00a9 2022<\/span><\/figcaption> Peter Kramer\/Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

The most important piece of new information about the mystery surrounding Flight 828 concerns the \u201c\u201ddeath date\u201d the passengers discover in the season 1 finale. The date appears to be different for each person, and is determined by the length of time the person has been missing.<\/p>\n

However, in episode 9 it is revealed that the death date of the passengers doesn\u2019t just correspond to their own deaths; it corresponds to the apocalypse, and the death of every person on Earth.<\/p>\n

The season also reveals the existence of \u201cOmega Sapphires\u201d, which the passengers believe may the key to averting their death dates, and the potential apocalypse. It is revealed that the Major \u2013 the antagonist from the first two seasons of the show \u2013 managed to track down the only remaining Omega Sapphire in existence before her death at the hands of Dr Saanvi.<\/p>\n

Manifest season 4, part 1 ending explained<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The final episode of the half-season sees the Stones racing to find the Omega Sapphire before it can fall into the wrong hands, as Cal inches closer to death in the family home. Unbeknownst to them, Angelina has already stolen the sapphire.<\/p>\n

Ben has a vision of Grace, who tells him to \u201cbring Eden to her\u201d. Ben interprets this as an instruction to bring Eden to Grace\u2019s grave, which he dutifully obliges.<\/p>\n

When he arrives at Grace\u2019s grave, he is confronted by Angelina, who reveals that not only did she survive the explosion, but the sapphire has enhanced her abilities and she is now able to generate false callings. Ben and Angelina allow Eden an opportunity to choose between her fake \u201cmother\u201d and her real father, and Eden ultimately chooses Ben.<\/p>\n

Angelina then flees to a church, where she opens a lava fissure similar to those opened towards the end of season 3, endangering the parishioners inside.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Olive works with TJ (returned from his trip to Egypt in season 2) to discover more about the sapphire. They find evidence that Cal may be the key to tipping the scales of destiny back in their favour.<\/p>\n

Upon learning this, Zeke uses his empathic abilities to take Cal\u2019s cancer from him, dying in his place and allowing him an opportunity to fulfil his destiny as saviour of the passengers.<\/p>\n

Cal faces Angelina in a vision set on Flight 828, eventually managing to overpower her and shatter the Omega Sapphire.<\/p>\n

Angelina is seen at the episode\u2019s conclusion, emerging from the rubble with a piece of the Omega Sapphire embedded in her hand.<\/p>\n

What will happen in Manifest season 4, part 2?<\/b><\/h2>\n
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It seems clear at this stage that the part 2 of season 4 will see Angelina and Cal battle for the fate of humanity: Cal trying to avoid the world\u2019s final death date, and Angelina facilitating it.<\/p>\n

However, there are still a few things we don\u2019t fully understand about the calling, like where it came from, and who or what controls it. These mysteries will likely be solved in the show\u2019s very final episodes.<\/p>\n

While Zeke\u2019s death was certainly a shock for long-time viewers of the show, for a show which has death as one of its central themes it was surprising that he was the only notable character to be offed. Expect the body count to rise dramatically as the series draws to its final close.<\/p>\n

With a strong start to its final season, Manifest is a show that certainly seems ready to ready to stick the landing \u2013 let\u2019s just hope it doesn\u2019t disappear again before it gets there.<\/p>\n

Manifest season 4, part 1 is streaming now on Netflix<\/a> \u2013 read our guides to the best series on Netflix<\/a> and the best movies on Netflix<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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