Manifest Season 2 Ending Explained: What [SPOILER] Means (2023)

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What did the ending of Manifest mean? ›

What's the TL; DR on how Manifest ends? The passengers are back in 2013 and everyone on the plane (excluding Cal) has memories of what they went through. Everything really happened, but now they have a do-over. “We bend over backwards to try to make clear that everything you've watched happened,” Rake said.

Having been manipulated by Angelina, Captain Daly tragically lost his life in Manifest season 4, episode 14.

Manifest season 2 killed and resurrected Zeke Landon

All together now: "Resurrection!" That's the buzzword on viewers' lips courtesy of the unexpected way in which Zeke Landon (Matt Long) returned to the land of the living after finally succumbing to the frostbite with which he'd been struggling.

The tailfin has long been the strongest piece of evidence for one of the biggest theories about Flight 828's disappearance. The reveal that the airplane was destroyed not once, but twice made it seem plausible that Manifest was secretly a story about parallel universes.

The series finale of Manifest ends with Michaela rushing to the cab line outside the airport, looking inside every cab until she finds Zeke, knowing he was at the airport the night Flight 828 landed. Michaela stops an old man from getting in Zeke's cab by telling him that her husband is driving.

The biggest threat facing the characters in Manifest is the dreaded Death Date, which hinges on the concept that a person who returned from a disappearance only gets to live for as long as they were gone.

In the following episode, it was discovered that all three were inside the divine consciousness responsible for the plane disappearing in the first place. Apparently, that's where Daly and Fiona have been for the last four years.

All of the passengers who died along the way are resurrected, aside from Angelina and the others who weren't able to beat the Death Date, while Cal is restored to his childhood without any memories of the five and a half years that had passed.

Apparently, Daly and Fiona are trapped within the divine consciously, which is also where the passengers were between 2013 and 2018 and where Cal went when he touched the tailfin.

In the 2024 timeline, Jared breaks off his “casual” fling with Drea (Ellen Tamaki) and reunites with Michaela.

Who is the villain in Manifest Season 2? ›

General Kathryn Fitz, better known as the Major, is the central antagonist of the drama television series Manifest, serving as the main antagonist of season one, the central antagonist of season two, and a posthumous antagonist in season 3.

If you watch Manifest online, you know Saanvi may have been dishing out too much info to The Major, but Olive is the mole in her family, essentially.

Ben's glowing hand and the other glowing elements that you just mentioned represent a different kind of a calling, but a calling nonetheless. Whenever our passengers receive a calling, it's always to guide them to either realize something — or to do something.

After touching the plane's tailfin, Cal vanished before popping back up in a Calling with Ben, Michaela and Saanvi (Parveen Kaur).

As it turns out, touching the tailfin took Cal into the divine consciousness that made the plane disappear. In fact, where he went was the same place that the Flight 828 passengers went to in 2013. Not only that, but Captain Daly and Fiona were there too, which enabled the series to address multiple mysteries at once.

While there are some sweet moments between Michaela and Jared in Manifest season 4 part 2, the pair do not end up together though fans do get some resolution to their story in a sense.

After season four, part one aired it was revealed the plane had been chased by a storm which enabled the passengers to connect with the divine consciousness. Cal suggested the plane had been trapped in the mysterious bright light for the period that the passengers went missing.

Alex reluctantly comes to see Saanvi, and administers a dopamine counter drug as Saanvi's dopamine levels are through the roof. The drug causes her to fall asleep, and when she wakes up she is seemingly back to normal.

Key reveals in Manifest season 4, part 1 finally confirmed the identity of the entity behind the Callings. A divine consciousness – or God – continues to be responsible for everything the Flight 828 passengers have been going through in the series.

Yes, you guessed it, that villain is Angelina Meyer. So how did Manifest create the show's ultimate villain in Angelina (Holly Taylor)?

What did Cal see on the plane? ›

Shortly after opening the episode with Cal dreaming about the moment where he was looking out the window, Cal was seen constructing a model of a ship from memory.

At the end of the third season, Eden was kidnapped by Angelina, and they hid between seasons. After killing Grace and snatching the kid, Angelina faked her own death, was helped out by other 828 passengers, and eventually found her way to Anna Ross's house, which we learn in Manifest season 4, episode 1.

Instead, her body show signs of a midair explosion, meaning her corpse was reverting to how it should have ended up if she was still on the Flight 828 when it exploded.

All the passengers who died across the past four seasons are alive and well again, except for the eleven who spontaneously combusted in this final episode, including Angelina. After TJ and a young Olive are reunited, Michaela turns down Jared's proposal, saying: "I will always, always love you.

While Ben and Saanvi kiss and have a one-night stand in the second part of season 4, they don't become a couple. The two always had a close friendship, and they do take their relationship to a more sexual level during the show's final episodes. But ultimately, they decide not to pursue each other romantically.

After Ben helps Michaela revisit her calling, she realizes she didn't see a bloody X, she saw a bloody cross. She remembers a cross at Noelle's house and knows who the killer is. Do you? It's Noelle.

Finally, Michaela remembers that her husband, Zeke (Matt Long), who sacrificed himself to save Cal in the time-jump timeline, is waiting outside.

After Flight 828

In Contrails, Fiona is kidnapped by Captain Daly as he believes that she can show him how to fly the plane through a storm with dark lightning like he did during Flight 828, Fiona is not seen again after the plane is declared "neutralized" by the fighter jets.

Q1:How did Flight 828 disappear on Manifest? A piece of Flight 828 is found off the shore of Cuba, and after Ben Stone has a recurring vision of the plane exploding, he concludes that the plane did explode, leaving the passengers dead.

Manifest isn't based on a true story per se, but it is connected in some way to the unexplained disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which perplexed millions of people when the story broke in March 2014. On the way to China from a Malaysian airport, the plane disappeared and was surprisingly never found.

Who does Ben marry in Manifest? ›

Before Flight 828

Later in life, Ben Stone got married to Grace and had two twins, Cal Stone and Olive Stone.

Sarah Fitz is daughter of The Major and ex-girlfriend of Jared Vasquez.

Although Ben and Saanvi do finally get together in Manifest season 4 part 2, they do not end up together. Early on in part 2, Ben and Saanvi kiss as a means to avoid being caught sneaking around the detention center. As the Death Date nears, they give in to their close bond and obvious attraction and sleep together.

Lauren Norvelle as Sarah Fitz (season 3), The Major's daughter who begins dating Jared after seeking out the NYPD to investigate her mother's disappearance. Warner Miller as Tarik (season 3), Grace's stepbrother who lives somewhere in Upstate New York. He is later stabbed by Jace and dies of his wounds in Grace's arms.

If there's a Manifest character that's a true neutral evil, it's Adrian (Jared Grimes). Since day one, he's been a constant antagonist to the mission of Ben, Michaela, Saanvi, and those working to save the Lifeboat. He's done everything in his power to avoid being of help and doing anything that serves him.

Her sole focus is on manipulating Eden's powers and keeping her guardian angel safe. So after Eden rejects her and decides to be with Ben, she convinces herself that she's the archangel sent to spread vengeance on the world.

Calamander "Cal" Stone, also known as the Holy Grail, is a character on Manifest. He debuts in the first episode of the first season and is portrayed by Jack Messina in seasons 1-3 and Ty Doran in season 4.

At some point in her life Alex married a man named Scott, but despite this she later began a relationship with Saanvi Bahl. She was supposed to go to Jamaica with her, but changed her mind at the last minute as she feared destroying her family for a flirtation, and did not show up for her departure.

Erika is a character on Manifest. She debuts, with her first appearance, in the third episode of the second season and is portrayed by guest star Susan Pourfar.

Manifest Season 4, Part 2, gets Benvi stans all hot and bothered again in Episode 12 when Saanvi and Ben once again kiss to avoid getting caught in a restricted area. This time, they share a full-on steamy as hell make-out session that's interrupted by Vance.

What is Grace hiding from Ben in Manifest? ›

When flight 828 returns, Grace originally hides her relationship with Danny from her family. She is eventually pressured by Olive into telling Ben the truth. She eventually breaks up with Danny and reconciles with Ben.

Luna Blaise as Olive Stone

Ben and Grace's teenage daughter, Olive was the same age as her twin brother Cal when Flight 828 disappeared.

Cal coming back five years older indicates that time travel is somehow at play. Presumably, he went to an unrevealed time and place for five years and came back seconds before his mother's death. It may be too much of a coincidence that Cal just happened to return at the specific moment in time when Grace died.

After the season 3 finale, time travel emerged as the most logical explanation for Cal's situation. It made sense that Cal must have lived five years of his life somewhere in time prior to his return in the final minutes of the finale.

After Flight 828

At some point after the flight went missing, Olive began dating Cal's friend, Kevin. Not much is known about their relationship, although Grace tells Ben when they return that Kevin had been really good for Olive. They seem to be happy together until Kevin's last appearance in Point of No Return.

At the conclusion of Season 3, Grace Stone (Athena Karkanis) died after being stabbed by another passenger, Angelina Meyer (Holly Taylor), who also abducted Eden, her daughter. Netizens believe Grace Stone's untimely death was a mistake because her death benefits neither the plot nor any other character.

Unfortunately, Cal's cancer does return in Manifest season 4 part 1. Halfway into the season, Cal begins coughing, but he plays it off as if it's nothing. He continues to keep it to himself when he coughs up blood multiple times.

His wife has been murdered, his daughter has been kidnapped, his son is now the age that he should be but older than what he was, and Ben harbors blame for Cal for Grace's death, which is complicated. He has denounced everything, including his loved ones around him, and the callings.

The second part of season 4—which will end the series, meaning there will never be a Manifest season 5—is ten episodes long, the same as Part 1.

The fourth season of the supernatural show just finished airing, and fans are already in mourning because (and I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news here!) season 4 is the final season. That's right, we won't be getting a Manifest season 5.

Who is the serial killer in Manifest? ›

Kenneth Meyer came out of nowhere as the surprise Flight 828 serial killer, hunting and killing all the passengers who helped his daughter Angelina, believing they set her on the wrong path, away from salvation.

The Manifest season 4 part 2 finale confirmed that 11 Flight 828 passengers died and stayed dead.

While there are some sweet moments between Michaela and Jared in Manifest season 4 part 2, the pair do not end up together though fans do get some resolution to their story in a sense.

In Season 4, Part 1 of Manifest, the series broke viewers' hearts by killing off one of its greatest characters, Zeke Landon.

As Ben calculates the time that they were gone, Olive comes to the conclusion from the various clues that have cropped up over the course of the investigation into 828's mysterious disappearance and return that it is June 2, 2024 which Ben's calculations confirm.

After leaving fans on a gut-wrenching cliffhanger five long months ago, Netflix released the official release date for “Manifest” Season 4, Part 2. Part 2 of the series' final season will land on the streaming platform on June 2, otherwise known as the “death date.”

Yes, you guessed it, that villain is Angelina Meyer. So how did Manifest create the show's ultimate villain in Angelina (Holly Taylor)?

At this stage, Angelina might as well be described as the Angel of Death. Every time she's around, someone dies. In this instance, she could kill an entire group of survivors of Flight 828. If you watch Manifest online, you know it was easy to sympathize with Angelina initially because of her backstory.

Key reveals in Manifest season 4, part 1 finally confirmed the identity of the entity behind the Callings. A divine consciousness – or God – continues to be responsible for everything the Flight 828 passengers have been going through in the series.

Since Daly was another example of a passenger who met an unfortunate fate prior to the Death Date, it would have been reasonable for him to make one last appearance in the finale. Even so, he wasn't spotted among the resurrected passengers. Ultimately, Captain Daly's status is left up in the air.

Why did Jared get demoted in Manifest? ›

As we learn later via another flashback when Jared is having dinner with his family, Jared's actions in helping the 828 passenger and punching the detective led to them taking his gold badge and his demotion from detective and lieutenant to patrol officer.

By surviving the Death Date, the passengers also averted the apocalypse. For his sacrifice, Cal came back as a 10-year-old boy with no memory of the ordeal he had gone through.