“We’re all in this together.” It’s an overarching topic Manifesto. After being canceled by NBC, the supernatural drama was picked up by Netflix to give it the ending it deserves. The first half of Manifesto season 4 was released in December 2022. Fittingly, the final 10 episodes premiered on June 2, the series’ “Date of Death” when the passengers of Flight 828 will finally learn their fate.
What kind of fate is that? Everything was revealed in the last episode. But first the travelers had to make their way there.
I’m just trying to survive
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The final episodes begin with most of the passengers from Flight 828 still in custody. Scientists study their calls, send people into the field to solve them. They also want to determine what comes next and how to stop it. However, some passengers, including Angelina (Holly Taylor), have managed to evade capture and are hiding out in the real world.
One passenger who is somehow returned and held in a detention center is Captain Bill Daly (Frank Deal), the pilot of the flight. Under heavy sedation, researchers try to learn as much as they can from him. But few knew that he brought destruction with him. From locusts to boils and turning water into blood, he delivers plagues to travelers that end up killing several guards.
Out of fear, the researchers closed the facility with all the passengers inside, locking them inside to fend for themselves. Ben (Josh Dallas), of course, steps up to the plate and leads. Drea (Ellen Tamaki), meanwhile, who is pregnant with Jared’s (JR Ramirez) child, has moved into a dilapidated unit next to the facility, secretly tearing down a wall to provide an exit for the passengers so they can continue doing their important work.
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But they’ll need more than rescue from the public as Angelina is on a quest to end the day and reset the world. With the sapphire now implanted in her hand, she has the same power as Cal (Ty Doran).
She can appear as the characters of others, killing people one by one who are integral to the plan, including Daly. When she is eventually captured and they try to take the sapphire from her hand, it moves upwards, embedding itself in her central nervous system. She can’t be stopped.
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In the process of trying to remove it, she lets out a loud scream that prevents the passengers from accessing their calls. However, Cal realizes that he can still access not only his own calls, but everyone else’s as well. He gets down to the business of trying to separate them from divine consciousness, one by one.
The travelers escape through Dre’s home in pairs to try to secretly solve the summons that Cal tells them about in hopes that it will redeem them and save them from their death date. But Cal’s calls are getting weaker and weaker.
Connecting sapphires
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Through a series of mystical clues, the group realizes that what Cal needs is not to connect with Angelina, but with a piece of Noah’s Ark that contains a sapphire. There’s just one problem: Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) threw a driftwood into Storm King Mountain some time ago, where a rift occurred in the Earth. It’s time for a treasure hunt. Ben and the others go into the forest to camp and try to get a piece of wood.
As the group sleeps in their tents waiting to hear from Cal when the time is right to act, he wakes up from his sleep and heads towards the crevasse. It shines, and so does his hand. He realizes what he needs to do, just as Ben comes to beg his son not to go. They say their tearful goodbyes and Cal stands inside the sapphire, only to disappear in a streaming blue light visible across the sky as the others look on.
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They do more than looks though. All travelers see the light and feel compelled to follow it to the same place. This includes Eagan (Ali Lopez-Sohaili) who has teamed up with Angelina for a while. But he has a guilty conscience thanks to the persuasion of Adrian (Jared Grimes) and decides to escape, rejoining the other passengers.
It’s all connected
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Why us? That’s the question everyone on Flight 828 is asking. In a campfire discussion on the eve of Death Day, Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) suggests she doesn’t think there’s a rhyme or reason. They were just a random group of people on the plane, some good, some bad. Saanvi agrees, noting that we are a “statistical sample for a divine experiment”.
“We’re all connected to each other,” adds Ben. “Everyone on that plane, everyone in the world. We simply forget.” Michaela believes that the Callings are not designed to force them to do good, but to choose it. “At the end of the day,” adds Ben, “we should all just do our part.”
It is a divine life lesson that makes the play, however corny it may be at times, much deeper than it appears on the surface. As they discuss what might come next, they receive news of volcanic eruptions around the world.
Judgment Day
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Judgment day has arrived. The passengers see the crack turn red and begin to erupt. Flight 828 leaves it, perfectly intact. The doors open, welcoming the passengers inside. There is no choice but to jump in. As the passengers enter, one by one, Angelina appears with her group of seven, holding a gun and ordering them all to leave.
However, when he tries to summon his power from the sapphire, nothing happens. Her group abandons her and a showdown ensues between Angelina and Ben. At home, while investigating a mysterious symbol and inscription, Olive (Luna Blaise) discovers that the final judgment is to forgive Angelina. The image of the man carrying the young woman through the fire that they saw a few seasons ago is not Ben and Olive – it’s Ben and Angelina. He frantically tries to reach his father to tell him. Fortunately, Ben decides to take pity on himself and carries the injured Angelina in his arms onto the plane, unaware that this is exactly what he should have done.
I take off, not knowing what comes next. Soon, cracks begin to appear on people’s skin, which explode and turn into dust. But not all, just bad people: cheats, liars, thieves and murderers — those who didn’t work with Ben and his group to help save the lifeboat. Adrian is hit until Eagan panics and offers to take his place, saying that Adrian is a good man. Adrian is saved, and when Eagan is about to die, Adrian pleads to God that offering his life for the life of another is the most selfless thing a person can do. It works and Eagan is also spared.
Saanvi starts burning: she took someone’s life after all. But she is spared as Ben hugs her and the cracks disappear. Saanvi has done enough to redeem herself. A total of 11 people died. A smoky figure appears, possibly the Grim Reaper, but the travelers fight back, telling her of all the good they’ve done. It disappears in a literal puff of smoke.
What happens at the end of The Manifesto Season 4 Part 2?
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Outside the window, the world as seen through the airplane windows seems to be back to normal. The plane lands, and the passengers reluctantly leave, unsure of where they will end up. Are they dead? In paradise? It turns out they were at the airport on April 7, 2013, the day Flight 828 was scheduled to land. Grace (Athena Karkanis) and young Olive (Jenna Kurmemaj) are waiting for Ben there. Cal (Jack Messina) has returned to his younger self with no memory of what happened.
Ben excitedly greets Grace and his parents, and when she asks who the woman he is looking at so lovingly is, he declares that she is a doctor named Saanvi who will save Cal’s life. Michaela breaks up with Jared, telling him that they want different things and that there is a woman who is better for him, alluding to Dre, whom he later runs into on his way out of the airport.
Michaela rushes out, knowing that Zeke mentioned that he was driving the airport shuttle in his taxi that day. She finds him and jumps into a cab, excited to know what’s next, even though he has no idea who she is. Ben spots Vance (Daryl Edwards) passing by to investigate the mystery of 11 missing passengers from a plane that just landed from Jamaica.
Everyone gets a second chance, learn to appreciate what they have in life. Secretly, however, they have all become one big family that will forever remain connected to each other. They all have an idea of what is coming in the future. They are all still together in the same lifeboat. But this time, I can finally truly live.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn