Emmy nominee Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant) and Chris Messina (The Boogeyman) star in Peacock’s new summer series Based on a True Story. Described as a dark comedic thriller, Based on a True Story comes from Craig Rosenberg (The Boys) and is set to premiere on Thursday, June 8, 2023.
“Over the last decade, a true crime phenomenon has swept over America. Podcasts, documentaries, fictional shows based on true stories – they dominate the culture. Murderers have become celebrities and celebrities have become murderers which inspired me to create this show,” explained Rosenberg.
He continued: “I became fascinated with the idea of a relatable married couple whose youthful dreams hadn’t come to fruition and who saw the true crime tidal wave as an opportunity to change their lives and save their marriage. Our Los Angeles setting – the city where everybody wants to be famous – became a vivid backdrop to our story of fame, ambition, aspiration, and murder.”
Kaley Cuoco stars as realtor Ava Bartlett and Chris Messina plays her husband Nathan, a tennis pro. The twosome’s joined by Tom Bateman (Thirteen Lives) as Matt, a plumber who gets pulled into their true crime obsession. The cast also includes Priscilla Quintana as Ruby, Liana Liberato as Tory, Natalia Dyer as Chloe, Aisha Alfa as Carolyn, Annabelle Dexter-Jones as Serena, Li Jun Li as Michelle, and Alex Alomar Akpobome.
Cuoco’s pregnancy was written into the series, and in an interview with Emmys, she provided a little insight into how easily the change was incorporated into the show. “What I love is, they didn’t change the character. The show is super edgy, and none of that changed because I was pregnant. I have belly shirts on, and I’m in my bra, and there are sex scenes, where we have my photo double come in. We had to build this amazing stomach for her.”
“It’s about a normal couple who have kind of lost their spark,” explained Cuoco, describing the series in Emmys’ May 2023 interview. “They’re broke. They have a baby on the way. They’re stressed, and it’s weighing on their relationship. All their dreams kind of went down the drain.”
The eight-episode season, which premieres all at once, is executive produced by Craig Rosenberg, Kaley Cuoco, Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan, and Alex Buono. Rosenberg serves as writer and showrunner, with Buono directing episodes one and eight.
Kaley Cuoco as Ava and Chris Messina as Nathan in ‘Based on a True Story’ (Photo by: PEACOCK)Kaley Cuoco as Ava, Tom Bateman as Matt, and Chris Messina as Nathan (Photo by: Elizabeth Morris/PEACOCK)Timm Sharp as Richard and Aisha Alfa as Carolyn (Photo by: PEACOCK)Natalia Dyer as Chloe (Photo by: PEACOCK)Liana Liberato as Tory (Photo by: PEACOCK)Annabelle Dexter-Jones as Serena, Aisha Alfa as Carolyn, Priscilla Quintana as Ruby, and Kaley Cuoco as Ava (Photo by: PEACOCK)Aisha Alfa as Carolyn, Annabelle Dexter-Jones as Serena, and Kaley Cuoco as Ava (Photo by: Erica Parise/PEACOCK)Sebastian Quinn as Carlos, Priscilla Quintana as Ruby, Kaley Cuoco as Ava, and Chris Messina as Nathan (Photo by: Erica Parise/PEACOCK)Kaley Cuoco as Ava and Chris Messina as Nathan (Photo by: PEACOCK)
The 10th and final season of NBC’s popular drama The Blacklist continues with episode 17, “The Morgana Logistics Corporation.” Episode 17 will air on Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 8pm ET/PT, and the series will wrap up with a two-hour finale on July 13 at 8pm ET/PT.
Season’s 10 cast is led by James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington. Diego Klattenhoff stars as Donald Ressler, Hisham Tawfiq plays Dembe Zuma, Anya Banerjee is Siya Malik, Sami Bray is Agnes, and Harry Lennix stars as Harold Cooper.
“The Morgana Logistics Corporation” Plot: The task force encounters a ring of fraudulent companies shipping contraband around the world; Congressman Hudson’s investigation escalates when he recruits help from within the FBI.
James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington in ‘The Blacklist’ season 10 episode 17 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)
The Season 10 Plot:
The final season will find Raymond Reddington confronting unparalleled danger. With Reddington’s covert role as an FBI informant facing exposure, former Blacklisters will unite against him in their lethal desire for revenge – testing Red and the FBI Task Force as never before.
James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington and Sami Bray as Agnes in season 10 episode 17 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)Anya Banerjee as Siya Malik and Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler in season 10 episode 17Hisham Tawfiq as Dembe Zuma in season 10 episode 17 (Photo by: Sony Pictures Television)J.C. MacKenzie as Mr. Kavanaugh in season 10 episode 17 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)Alex Brightman as Herbie Hambright in season 10 episode 17 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper in season 10 episode 17 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)
Warner Bros Pictures is hosting a series of pre-release screenings for the comic book-inspired superhero film The Flash, and we’ve got free tickets to San Diego, CA and Honolulu screenings. The PG-13-rated action-adventure film stars Ezra Miller in the title role, with Sasha Calle as Supergirl, Michael Shannon (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) as General Zod, and Ron Livingston (The Conjuring) as Henry Allen.
Maribel Verdú (Y tu mamá también) plays Nora Allen, Kiersey Clemons (Zack Snyder’s Justice League) is Iris West, Antje Traue (Man of Steel) stars as Faora-UI, and Michael Keaton (Batman) returns as Batman.
Warner Bros is releasing The Flash in theaters on Jun 16, 2023.
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The Plot, Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures:
Worlds collide in The Flash when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for.
Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan in ‘Outlander’ season 7 (Photo Courtesy of Starz)
Starz’s Outlander star Caitriona Balfe and executive producer Maril Davis took part in the “Women of Outlander” panel at the 2023 ATX TV Festival in support of show’s upcoming seventh season. The panel took place on World Outlander Day and began with a discussion of their 10 years of shared history working on Outlander.
Maril Davis credits Caitriona Balfe with having the best laugh in the industry. “She’s so smart and collaborative and just so much fun and so talented. We were just talking last night, and I was just saying this is such a tour de force this season for her…and they all are, but I mean, it’s just she really goes on a journey,” said Davis.
Balfe and Davis have become really good friends over the seasons, and Balfe views Davis as her go-to sounding board. “I was so green and I was so inexperienced, and she was such an ally and such a support in the very beginning. We used to go running together. We thought we were running about 5K until someone told us it was about two,” recalled Balfe, laughing.
Balfe added: “I think over the years, Maril’s been very encouraging about me progressing. As she said, we’re both really passionate and it’s so lovely to be able to have somebody where you can go toe-to-toe – we don’t always agree – but at the end of the day, we know that we’ve got the show’s best interest at heart, and we also are friends.”
Balfe’s praise continued, with the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee describing Davis as super smart, amazing at what she does, and a really great person to have on the show. And they’ve reached the point where they’re able to compromise on differences when they arise.
“I think in a creative process, it’s all subjective. My feeling about why Claire might do something or what her feelings about something is, feel very personal to me. But somebody else might have another understanding of why that might be,” said Balfe. “And Maril, by the way, is like the oracle of everything that’s going on in the series. She’s lived with the series a lot longer than the rest of us. She knows the books in and out; she knows what’s happening forward, whereas we kind of all keep in pace with what we’re doing on the show.”
Outlander‘s expanding the number of women directors involved in the series, with women at the helm of the first six episodes.
“We’ve always had a male showrunner, but we’ve always been very female dominated in a lot of ways,” said Davis. “We had a lot of women in the writers room always. So, we’re not lacking with women. I still would like to see more women on the crew.“
“But I think this season is probably the season we’ve had the most women in the crew. We have three women – they’re young, they’re starting out – but in the camera department, which is a first,” added Balfe. “It’s changing, but this doesn’t happen overnight.”
Caitriona Balfe officially announced she’ll be directing a full episode in season eight.
“Very excited…very terrified! In prep, I’ve been doing a little bit of second unit stuff already. I’ve done some stuff in the last few months which has been so fun,” revealed Balfe. “I’ve directed our lovely Sophie [Skelton] which was amazing. Actually, that was just incredible. It’s so lovely because when you have a really strong relationship with somebody and then you get to work with them in this other way…and everybody has been so supportive. All of our crew, Maril, Matt – and everybody. It’s just been such a lovely place to kind of get to do this, and that’s why I wanted to do it here because I know that this is like safe space.”
Balfe’s also directed Charles [Vandervaart] and Izzy [Meikle-Small], as well as herself, but hasn’t directed Sam Heughan yet.
And speaking of Sam Heughan, Davis recalled talking to Ronald D. Moore and telling him they needed to hit the pairing of Jamie and Claire exactly right or else they shouldn’t make the show. Heughan was cast first and then, finally, they found their Claire after watching Balfe’s tape.
“I think when we saw them together in Los Angeles…I remember this like it was yesterday…that that chemistry was there,” said Davis. “That friendship and that chemistry has always been so evident. They just work so well together. You see it on the screen and in real life, and that relationship…we’ve always hoped that they would stay that way and they would continue that friendship. And it has, and it’s grown.”
Davis continued: “I have so much respect for the two of them that they have been able to have this friendship.”
Balfe confirmed that they’ve never had a falling out.
“We’ve definitely irked each other but I think it was a very conscious decision in the beginning. I think I’ve spoken about this before – getting our hair ruined for about the fifth time down in London before we started filming. He and I went for a walk in Hyde Park. We were just talking and we were like, ‘Look, don’t know what this is going to be but we’re going to be the only two who know what it’s going to be like in this. So, we have to have each other’s backs.’
And we did. We made that decision and it’s always been that way. As the years have gone on, our lives have become very different. Your lives become much more complicated. In the beginning, Sam and I were very similar in our personalities anyway. We like to be very prepared and focused but then we like to have a lot of fun. We like to not take ourselves too seriously even though we take the work seriously.
But as our lives have gotten more complicated and busy, we may not see each other as much as we used to, but that core and that friendship and that base that we have has never changed.”
As for season seven, Balfe says we’ll pick up the story with Jamie and Claire as a couple in a very good place.
“I think what we saw last season was sort of Claire coming apart, right? And part of that was that she wasn’t very good at sharing things and asking for help. She kept her emotional problems from Jamie. She wasn’t good at sharing. And I think that once we’ve seen the follow on from that, they’re in a really good place. They talk to each other a lot more. I think the partnership is really strong in this season.
I think that there’s a lot of things that happen – there’s a lot of bad things that happen, there’s some great things that happen – but through it all, they are really strong. You know, they will always have a row here or there, but I think it’s really nice.
I think Jamie as a character is incredibly wizened this season too. He has a lot on his shoulders, but there’s just a maturity to both of them, I think, which is really quite beautiful. And to see how they support each other… But that passion never goes away,” said Balfe.
Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe in Starz’s ‘Outlander’ season 7
Other Interesting Tidbits from the ATX TV Festival “Women of Outlander” Panel:
Caitriona Balfe and Maril Davis are both Team Adso rather than Team Rollo, with Davis hedging a bit and adding that she loves them both. There are hundreds of outtakes of Rollo going the wrong direction while Adso just hangs out. “He’s a cat. He doesn’t give a sh*t either. But he gives a sh*t in a very sedentary way,” said Balfe.
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan attend the production meetings as executive producers and are really invested in the process. Balfe said she loves being able to see how the cake gets made.
Season seven marks Caitriona Balfe’s first season as a mom in real life, and she was able to get the production to agree to a four-day workweek. Plus, they do continuous days of shooting and eat on the go, instead of taking lunch, which allows everyone to get home to their families a little earlier.
After giving a huge shoutout to the writers since everything starts with the written word, Maril Davis confirmed the strike will impact season eight if it continues for a while. “We will have to push, probably,” said Davis.
Caitriona Balfe admitted she’s the first to break character during scenes. “Sam Heughan knows how to set me off and yet he can keep the straightest face,” revealed Balfe.
Maril Davis’ favorite moments from the series are the times when Jamie and Claire are having quiet moments and just talking and laughing.
Asked what relationship advice she’d give Jamie and Claire, Balfe replied, “Maybe they just need to take a couple of breaths before they get angry.”
Maril Davis confirmed Jamie and Claire will be present when Brianna gives birth.
Diana Gabaldon told Sam Heughan and Maril Davis the ending of the story, but not Caitriona Balfe. Balfe claims not to want to know, and Davis says that even after reading the last two or three pages, she’s still confused.
Caitriona Balfe confessed this is the first season she hasn’t read the book. She simply doesn’t have the time.
Outlander season seven premieres on Starz on Friday, June 16, 2023.
ABC’s popular reality dating series The Bachelorette kicks off season 20 on June 26, 2023 at 9pm ET/PT. With the show just weeks away from launching the new season, the network’s confirmed the 25 eligible bachelors who’ll be vying for Charity Lawson’s attention.
Lawson, a child and family therapist from Georgia, appeared on Zach Shallcross’ season of The Bachelor. On The Bachelorette season 20, Lawson will try to make a romantic connection with bachelors from all walks of life, including a firefighter, a realtor, a nurse, and a professional wrestler.
Jesse Palmer returns to guide the dating series as host.
The Bachelorette Season 20’s Bachelors:
Aaron B., 29, a software salesman from San Diego, Calif.
Aaron S., 33, a firefighter from San Diego, Calif.
Adrian, 33, a realtor from Northridge, Calif.
Brayden, 24, a travel nurse from San Diego, Calif.
Caleb A., 29, a resident physician from Ann Arbor, Mich.
Caleb B., 24, a pro wrestler from Orlando, Fla.
Christopher “Chris,” 27, a world record jumper from White Plains, N.Y.
Dotun, 30, an integrative medicine specialist from Brooklyn, N.Y.
James, 28, an attorney from Chicago, Ill.
Joe, 32, a tech operations director from San Francisco, Calif.
Joseph “Joey,” 27, a tennis pro from Lawai, Hawaii.
John., 27, a data scientist from New York, N.Y.
John Henry, 30, an underwater welder from Virginia Beach, Va.
Josh, 28, a Harvard grad student from Bethlehem, Pa.
Kaleb K., 26, construction salesman from Norcross, Ga.
Ahmad Khalid “Khalid,” 28, a tech recruiter from Dearborn, Mich.
Michael, 28, a yacht captain from Chicago, Ill.
Nicholas “Nick,” 32, an HR executive from Bayonne, N.J.
Peter, 33, an airline pilot from New York, N.Y.
Sean, 25, a software sales representative from Tampa, Fla.
Spencer, 32, a medical sales director from Moorpark, Calif.
Tanner, 30, a mortgage lender from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Taylor, 32, a loan officer from Springboro, Ohio
Warwick, 27, a construction manager from Nashville, Tenn.
Xavier, 27, a biomedical scientist from Carrboro, N.C.
15-year-old Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) is doing his best to balance going to high school, dealing with his overprotective parents, and protecting Brooklyn from crime as Spider-Man. Still, he feels cut off and alone since he can’t talk to anyone about his superpowers since all his other Spidey friends are living in their own dimensions.
Over on Earth-65 in her own dimension, Gwen Stacy aka Spider-Woman (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) is struggling with the reality that her own father, a Captain on the police force, is leading a special task force to capture Spider-Woman. Of course, he has no idea that his daughter is under the mask of the vigilante he’s hunting. Additionally, Gwen misses her friend and crush, Miles, and yearns to be reunited with him.
When Spider-Woman goes after the notorious villain The Vulture, she encounters an elite squad of Spidey fighting heroes who help her stop The Vulture, save innocent bystanders, and even save herself from being caught by her father. Recognizing her exceptional abilities and potential, the crime-fighting group recruits Gwen to join their team.
Back in Miles’s dimension, he’s busy fighting a new enemy – a clumsy, dimension-hopping white humanoid figure with black spots that resembles a human Dalmatian. This new enemy calls himself, appropriately enough, The Spot (voiced by Jason Schwartzman). He blames the wall-crawler for ruining his life and causing him to lose everything and everyone he cared about. He’s determined to do the same to Miles.
After a long, clumsy, and hilarious fight spanning different parts of Brooklyn, Miles captures The Spot. However, when Miles races off to a school meeting with his parents, the villain escapes.
Miles’s parents have had enough of his “whatever” attitude after he arrives late at the meeting and at the party celebrating his father’s promotion to captain. He’s grounded for a few months and while sulking in his room, Miles hears a familiar voice calling his name and sees Gwen outside his window.
Surprised and happy to see his friend (who he also has a crush on), Miles forgets about being grounded and puts on his Spider-Man outfit to go soaring across Brooklyn and other parts of New York with Spider-Woman. The reunited webbed superheroes have fun together, laughing and catching up on their lives.
It’s not long before Miles learns about the Spider team Gwen joined and finds himself launched once again across the Multiverse to help Gwen and her new team protect the Multiverse. However, when the superheroes disagree on how to handle a new villain that threatens the Multiverse, Miles finds himself at odds with the Spider team and fights to get back to his Earth and save the lives of the people he loves.
Visually dazzling with frenzied action scenes, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a fun and energetic animated sequel with plenty of humor and excitement. It’s a bigger and broader film than its predecessor and more ambitious by deepening the characters’ emotions and adding the elements of sacrifice, loss, and tragedy as being vital to becoming a true hero.
This time, it’s Gwen Stacy’s story and her character’s growth and emotional turmoil that give the film its heart. Gwen, wonderfully voiced once again by Hailee Steinfeld, is struggling with the distance between her and her father and the fact that she can’t tell him who she is. She also pushes back from making friends, blaming herself for the death of her best friend. The one true connection she feels is with Miles, who she desperately wants back in her life. Even when she joins the Spider crime-fighting team, she still looks for a reason to go see Miles.
The animation is breathtaking and groundbreaking, with the use of fading colors and different styles sure to have audiences mesmerized while taking it all in. The only drawback to the film is its length, clocking in at an overly long two hours and 19 minutes. There are way too many monologues from different characters that are meant to provide deeper insight into the characters but only succeed in bringing the film to a grinding halt.
Still, with fantastic animation, plenty of chaotic energy, and fun and entertaining characters, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a thrilling sequel and the best animated film so far this year.
GRADE: B
MPAA Rating: PG for some language, animated action violence, and thematic elements
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Directed By: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
Of course the series finale of Manifest ends on the Death Date – as it should. Morning arrives as Netflix’s Manifest season four episode 20, “Final Boarding,” begins with the Stones and their friends still at their Storm King Mountain campsite. The fissure is pulsating blue, and Olive (Luna Blaise) can still feel her brother even if he’s not there.
Suddenly, the ground shakes and they realize they’re not out of the woods yet.
As Olive and TJ (Garrett Wareing) chase after Eden, they discover a rock near where Michaela and Ben’s initials are carved into a tree. The rock has an engraving that matches the volcano on the World card but with the added touch of the scales of justice carved into the rock’s surface.
Ben (Josh Dallas) realizes the fate of the world hangs in the balance, and the inscription underneath isn’t legible. (Someone’s graffitied over it.) Ben and Michaela’s mom used to take hundreds of photos of birds while they were camping, and the inscription might be in the background of one of those photos. They still have the slides she took, but they’re in the attic at Beverly’s – where Angelina and her cult members are staying.
Olive, Jared (J.R. Ramirez), and Drea (Ellen Tamaki) volunteer to go look for the slides, and they’ll take Eden with them. Ben and Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) want the girls to be as far away from the fissure as possible, so they agree. TJ’s shattered that Olive’s leaving, but she insists she needs to do this.
Ben’s incredibly proud of Olive.
Michaela hugs Jared and Drea goodbye, hoping the next time she sees them, they’ll be new parents.
Ben, TJ, Saanvi (Parveen Kaur), and Michaela remain by the fissure, and Ben’s not sure how they’ll know what to do when it’s time. Michaela insists they’ll just know, and Ben admits to waking up in a panic attack. It turns out they all woke up gasping for breath. Maybe that’s how they’ll die since they were supposed to perish in a plane crash.
Jared and Drea enter Beverly’s old house, guns drawn. Angelina and the 828ers are gone so it’s safe for Olive and Eden to help look through the photos. Drea’s forced to relax on the couch and she turns on the news to learn a massive, active volcano has appeared in NY Harbor. Additional volcanoes are emerging across the planet.
Angelina (Holly Taylor) and her minions are on the road and pull over at a rest stop. Adrian (Jared Grimes) and Eagan (Ali Lopez-Sohaili) pull up in a van and park beside Angelina’s van. Eagan starts to disable their van, but he’s spotted and they have to flee the rest stop.
Meanwhile, the beacon has drawn the 828ers to Storm King Mountain. Everyone saw it and they’re all assembling at the fissure. Eagan and Adrian also show up, and Eagan promises he’s off Angelina’s Kool-Aid.
Angelina saw the beam, but Eagan confirms he cut her fuel line to buy them some time.
The passengers catch up with each other, exchange hugs, and share stories. They spend the day together and by the time night falls, everyone from the manifest has shown up, with the exception of Angelina and her seven people.
Ben addresses the group and confesses he doesn’t know what’s going to happen. He does know Cal sent the beacon that called them together, so it must be important. As he’s speaking, the ground rumbles and then the volcano explodes upwards, with lava flowing through the cracks as they expand the original fissure.
As the passengers watch in awe, Montego Flight 828 rises from the opening!
The lava falls away from the plane as Ben, Michaela, and Saanvi realize Cal sent the plane back for them. Its cabin door opens and the hardened lava forms a walkway up to it.
Michaela tells the 828ers they need to get back on the plane, but Eagan’s not the only one who’s leery. TJ enters first and the passengers follow, with Michaela, Saanvi, and Ben helping everyone up the makeshift ramp.
Inside, the cabin looks exactly as it did the night they boarded.
Back at the Stone house, they’re not having any luck finding a photo of the rock matching the World card. But then Drea reads off the side of the boxes and finds one labeled “silver drake.” Olive knows they’ve landed on the right box because a drake is a dragon and Silver Dragon is what Al-Zuras called Flight 828.
A photo shows the engraving on the rock and it reads: “Forgiveness lightens the heart.” It’s followed by P I X L A Z. Olive figures out it stands for pictures and Al-Zuras, but doesn’t know what the L is for.
Olive hid Al-Zuras’ journal and hopes Angelina didn’t find it.
Speak of the devil… Angelina and her people show up at the plane and demand the passengers get off her ark. Her minion Paul has a rifle, and she orders Ben to tell all the passengers to get out now. She holds up her palm, glowing blue, to show she’s dead serious.
The passengers keep boarding anyway, and Angelina continues to insist that the world is ending and the plane’s there just for her. Angelina sends her people up onto the plane as Amuta rushes to the cockpit to get the plane off the ground.
Only a few remain on the ground including Paul, who’s clutching the rifle. Angelina is ready to use her powers to get people off when she suddenly realizes her sapphire is no longer working. Her arm doesn’t glow when she wants it to.
Michaela asks Paul to put down the gun and he complies, but Angelina grabs the rifle! She aims it at Ben and Michaela as Paul boards the plane. The ground rumbles again and Angelina is knocked to the ground as the gun goes off, the bullet hitting Saanvi. Fortunately, she’s just grazed and is able to board the plane along with Michaela.
Once more to the Stones’ place we go, and Olive has Al-Zuras’ journal. Drea’s going into labor and Jared’s fetching her ice as Olive changes her mind and thinks maybe the P is for page and IX is the Roman numeral nine. The World card is on page 9 and L would stand for 50. That page is a drawing of her dad carrying her as fire rages around them.
Suddenly, Olive realizes that the drawing isn’t her and Ben, it’s Ben and Angelina. She leaves him a voice mail as back at the plane, Ben approaches Angelina. He grabs the gun and is about to shoot her, just as Olive’s trying to tell him he needs to forgive Angelina for him to survive the Death Date.
Ben wants to kill her because she murdered his wife, and Angelina reminds him she’s lost everyone too. Plus, she had the power in her hand and God chose her – but now it’s gone. Ben realizes he’s holding power in his hand right now, and it’s all about how you use it.
Angelina swears she never intended to kill Grace and regrets that decision every single day. Another rumble sends Angelina back to the ground, blood running from her head. She tells Ben she wants to die and to leave her, but Ben refuses.
He picks her up and his actions match the drawing on page 50.
Everyone’s on board and Michaela takes Amuta’s co-pilot seat at his request. Michaela points out that they need a runway and immediately the lava clears in front of the plane. Amuta starts the plane as the passengers fasten their seatbelts.
828 is airborne!
As Ben and Saanvi look out the window, they see volcanoes rise and believe this is truly the end of the world – just as Al-Zuras predicted. The passengers begin to gasp for air as Bethany confirms the masks won’t release.
Paul begins melting and turns to ash and is quickly followed by other passengers, including those who chose to follow Angelina. Ben believes this is their judgment and they’re dying as they would have on 828.
Adrian begins to show signs of coming apart when Eagan asks God to take him instead. Adrian heals and Eagan begins to light up as if lava is flowing through his veins. Eagan says it’s okay and he deserves it, but Adrian knows anyone who sacrifices for another isn’t selfish. Eagan also heals.
Saanvi’s the next to appear to be on death’s door but Ben’s able to convince her she’s a good person who’s saved people, including his son. Saanvi heals and they hug in relief.
Angelina’s the next to start to fall apart. No one helps her and she disintegrates into a pile of ash.
While the 828ers are experiencing their judgment day, Jared is helping Drea deliver their baby girl.
Back on the plane, Ben reports 11 passengers have died. Now, what happens to one of them could happen to all of them. Suddenly, tendrils of black smoke and ash weave their way above and around the passengers. Michaela tells everyone to get behind her and Ben as the ashes come together to form a dark angel.
Michaela’s at the end of her rope and yells at the figure, demanding to know why they were chosen. Ben joins her and together they describe all the positive actions taken by the 828ers and all the people who were saved or helped due to following the callings.
They advance on the angel as the angel backs away, parts of it disintegrating. Ben finally screams, “Isn’t that enough?!” and the angel vanishes.
Saanvi realizes everything is silent and all the volcanic activity outside is gone. Ben believes the apocalypse is over, and Michaela thinks they might have just saved the world.
Group hugs all around as Amuta calls for his co-pilot to rejoin him in the cockpit. They’re heading toward the glow, otherwise known as the long, delirious, burning blue. Michaela suggests they chase it, and Amuta confirms he’ll aim for the middle of it.
The light is blinding and then suddenly it feels like the plane is suspended in mid-air. All around them is a blinding white light and then the plane’s door opens unexpectedly. Should they step out? It seems so, and Ben and Michaela hold hands as they exit the plane, followed by the rest of the passengers.
They walk straight ahead until they come to a door, and when it opens, they’re back in time and walking into an airport. No one thinks it’s unusual seeing them, and Ben spots Grace and his mom waving to them. He asks, “Are we in Heaven?”
Michaela replies, “I think we’re in Queens.”
Ben and Michaela run to give their loved ones hugs, and of course, Grace and Karen are shocked at the over-the-top greetings. Grace asks about Cal and then spots him handing a laptop to Saanvi that she left on her seat. He’s young again and so is Olive.
The passengers quickly regroup and confirm with a quick glance at President Obama on the TV that they have gone back in time and landed when they were originally scheduled to land – April 7, 2013. And somehow, everyone on the plane except Cal remembers everything they just experienced.
They wonder if it was real or a dream, and Ben points out he’s got the dragon. Saanvi’s arm is still shot, so they did just travel back in time to where they were supposed to be. Passengers who didn’t get back on the plane because they died are also back among them.
The group breaks up and goes their separate ways as Michaela’s voice-over declares they all earned this ultimate second chance.
TJ is overcome with emotion when he sees his mom alive and well. Eagan even calls his dad…who hangs up on him since they’re fighting.
Angelina’s father can’t find her, and it appears she didn’t survive the trip home. But Michaela believes that those who did are forever bound together and changed.
Olive’s a little girl again so TJ is no longer in a relationship, but he quickly changes that when he introduces himself to Violet.
Jared’s waiting for Michaela and he doesn’t remember a thing. However, he does think maybe he proposed too soon. He wants to marry her but only if she isn’t hesitant and is crazy in love with him. Michaela takes a minute and then says she’ll always love him, but they want different things. She gives him back his ring and reveals she’s certain he’ll find the person who wants exactly what he does. They will find their way to each other.
“Just believe me when I say you gotta have hope,” says Michaela with a smile.
Alex is at the airport to pick up Saanvi and she wants to start a family and be with her. Saanvi’s all in on their relationship and they passionately kiss.
Grace asks about Saanvi when she sees Ben watching her, and Ben reveals that Saanvi is going to cure Cal. He’s positive she will do it.
Michaela’s ready to leave but her dad took the car, so Ben suggests they grab a cab. Suddenly, Michaela remembers Zeke telling her he was working in a cab the night her plane was supposed to land. Michaela runs out and looks through the line of cabs until she spots Zeke.
Another man’s about to get in when she asks him to take another cab because the driver is her husband. Zeke’s confused but plays along and Michaela asks if he can just drive anywhere – it doesn’t matter. She knows about his salty snacks in the glove compartment and Zeke’s dumbfounded. Michaela describes their history as part of a never-ending story. (That’s his favorite book.)
Jared runs into Drea responding to a call at the airport. They have an instant connection.
Vance arrives at the airport after receiving a report of 11 people disappearing from an airplane. He thinks that’s impossible.
Michaela instructs Zeke to take the long route. She has a lot to talk to him about.
And that’s it for Manifest, the sci-fi mystery that kept fans guessing for four seasons. The ending was well worth the hours invested in the series, which is really all you can hope for. Angelina got what was coming to her and the Stones go on to live out their happily ever afters, more thankful than ever for their loved ones and the time we get to spend on this planet.
The penultimate episode of Netflix’s Manifest begins with a flashback to Ben and Michaela as kids. Season four episode 19 reveals that as kids, they made a deal not to compete and instead to be equals, with their mom insisting that as co-captains they’ll be stronger together.
Current events find Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) and Ben (Josh Dallas) sharing a brief moment of sibling bonding, with Michaela teasing her big brother about the smell of perfume clinging to his clothes. It’s one day until the Death Date, and Ben’s been trying to keep the 828ers calm, assuring them it’s not over until it’s over.
The comatose passengers are all awake but don’t remember anything after being experimented on by the Major. They were in callings for five and a half years but don’t remember what the callings were about.
Olive (Luna Blaise) finds her brother sitting alone, holding the king of storms dragon. Cal (Ty Doran) is trying to keep Olive out of his mess, but she reminds him they are the original Gemini twins. They need to all work together to solve problems, and Cal shouldn’t hold things in. Cal shows her the drawing of the peacock with the two sapphires coming together, and Olive’s sure they need to get their dad and Michaela’s input on what it means.
The Stones discuss the calling, and although Cal doesn’t want to, Ben and Michaela believe the calling wants Cal to go to Angelina and see if she’ll work with him to save the world. They’re the only two with sapphires, and the calling indicates that they must connect to stop the Death Date.
Cal reluctantly agrees to try and meet up with Angelina in the glow.
Meanwhile, Adrian (Jared Grimes) explains he’s at the safe house to make amends. He’s been tracking everyone he wronged down to redeem himself. He apologizes that Angelina misunderstood when he told her to find her angel, and Angelina (Holly Taylor) doesn’t care. She declares herself an archangel sent by God, and Adrian laughs.
Angelina believes she has the power of destruction and salvation, and that she’s the real deal. Adrian asks her to show him her powers, and suddenly she’s pulled into a calling. She meets Cal on the plane, and he confesses that she was right. They need to work together to save the world.
Their sapphires glow and reach out toward each other, but Angelina breaks the connection. She doesn’t want to join Cal in saving the world; she wants the world to end.
Cal tells his family what happened and that although the sapphires connected, Angelina refused to help save the world.
Ben joins Vance (Daryl Edwards) and Saanvi in the medical bay and is astonished that the patients are awake. Vance shows Ben security footage of Marko, but he speaks Bulgarian and they don’t understand the word he said – kovcheg – when he woke up. Ben asks him to draw it, and Marko draws a coffin.
Saanvi’s convinced it’s a sign they are all going to die.
Jared (J.R Ramirez) helps Drea (Ellen Tamaki) with supplies, and Drea announces she still has hope they’ll survive. And with that, she decides the baby’s name is Hope. Jared’s 100% behind that name.
Cal thinks Michaela hates him because Zeke sacrificed himself so he could live. Cal’s failure to save the world means Zeke’s sacrifice was in vain. Michaela shows Cal Zeke’s drawing and tells him to let go of his guilt.
Olive joins them, and they realize the three original symbols – the peacock, the dragon, and the Gemini – are on the table in front of them. That can’t be a coincidence. These symbols pointed them to the Death Date. Could they help stop it?
Saanvi rains on the Stones’ parade by telling them about Marko’s coffin calling. She’s certain they can’t stop the Death Date, even though the original symbols reappeared. Still, she remains at the table as they try and look at the items through fresh eyes.
When they get to the dragon, Saanvi realizes that it being the dragon representing the king of storms could mean they need to go to Storm King Mountain.
Ben takes Marko for a walk, and Marko reacts to a drawing of the Ark on the board. Kovcheg not only means coffin – it also means ark! And Saanvi threw a piece of Noah’s Ark into the fissure at Storm King Mountain, and inside that piece was sapphire. (It’s all starting to come together, and not a minute too soon!)
Cal needs the Ark piece, not Angelina, to fulfill his calling. The group’s all smiles when Ben declares they need shovels and other supplies because they’re going on a treasure hunt.
The treasurer hunters include Ben, Michaela, Olive, Cal, Eden, Jared, Drea, Vance, and TJ (Garrett Wareing). Olive’s the first to point out that the fissure is the same shape as Cal’s dragon scar.
They get busy digging but don’t make a dent in the fissure. Cal realizes they need to wait for a sign. He doesn’t know what or when but will know it when he sees it.
Back at the safe house, Adrian realizes something spooked Eagan when he asked Angelina about her ark. Angelina doesn’t have one and thinks God will supply it when it’s time. But Eagan knows where Saanvi threw a piece of Noah’s Ark. Eagan confesses that after holding the Omega Sapphire once, he knows it has the power to save him, which should be enough to make him follow Angelina and tell her about the wood.
Adrian points out that if Eagan tells Angelina, it will doom everyone on the planet.
Eagan does the right thing and leaves Angelina. She warns him he’ll die painfully, but Eagan doesn’t change his mind.
Over at Storm King Mountain, Michaela tells Saanvi that throwing the piece into the fissure was the exact right thing to do. She kept it safe until they needed it.
Cal and Ben have a nice father-son bonding moment as they set up camp. Cal admits he’s scared, and Ben assures him they’re in this together.
Ben thanks Vance for everything he’s done for the 828ers and for this family, but now it’s time for him to go to Florida and be with his family. They hug, and Ben says it’s goodbye until next time.
Michaela and Ben compete to see who collects the most firewood, just as they did as kids in the opening flashback scene. Michaela comes to an abrupt stop when she spots the tree with their initials. Neither sibling realized this is the same location from their childhood. They think maybe their mom was preparing them to become co-captains of the Lifeboat.
Drea brought enough supplies to last a week, and they discuss what they might do on the day after the Death Date. Later, as Ben and Michaela are preparing to turn in for the night, he asks if she regrets taking a later flight. She admits life would have been easier if she hadn’t, but she wouldn’t have met Zeke. Ben would have chosen to stay with Grace, even if it meant they wouldn’t have Eden. He believes Eden would have made her way to them somehow anyway.
Ben and Saanvi have a private chat, and both admit they’re still not over their exes. Saanvi still loves Alex and Ben misses Grace every day. Saanvi thinks Ben isn’t her end game, but she’ll always have “mad love” for him. Ben feels the same way.
The group toasts to saving the world tomorrow while gathered around the campfire. TJ wonders if anyone will even know what they did or if the 828ers will just go on being hated. “I just hope the good is enough to outweigh the bad,” says Saanvi.
Cal suggests it would have been easier if they all just walked off the plane with a note saying, “Be good to each other…or else.” And Michaela doesn’t believe the callings forced them to do good; they were able to choose what to do for themselves.
No one notices when Cal’s dragon scar briefly lights up, and he doesn’t draw attention to it as they head off to their tents after giving each other hugs.
Inside their tent, Michaela confesses that she got on the later flight to stall. She realized Jared proposed to help her get through Evie’s death. He insists he loved her then and loves her now. But now Michaela doesn’t want him to compromise on his happiness. She knows he needs Drea and the baby and believes that’s who he’s meant to be with.
Jared insists he wants to be with her, but Michaela saw how he and Drea looked at each other at the campfire. It’s his sense of loyalty that’s keeping him with her, but now he deserves to be with Drea.
They exchange I love yous, but Michaela believes he should live the life he needs to with Drea and Hope.
It’s late at night and everyone’s asleep when Cal wakes up and walks to the fissure. His dragon begins shining, and the fissure shines blue in response. He knows it’s all connected and realizes exactly what he must do.
Ben wakes up seconds after Cal and follows him, asking him not to leave. Ben doesn’t want to lose his son again, but Cal assures him it will be all right. This is Cal’s part to play; he needs to save the passengers. There isn’t any other way, and Cal thanks Ben for being his dad. Ben responds by pulling Cal in for a hug and saying, “I love you, my beautiful boy.”
Cal stands on the fissure and its sapphire connects to his sapphire. A brilliant blue column reaching up to the heavens lights up the sky, and Cal disappears inside its light.
All of the 828ers wake and look to the sky, staring at the blue column.
The action picks up on May 31, 2024, two days before the Death Date, as Netflix’s Manifest season four episode 18 opens. The government can’t stop the volcanic activity and Saanvi’s being blamed for not helping them enough to get the situation under control.
The public’s being kept in the dark about the impending extinction-level event and have no idea what’s causing the seismic activity.
Troy (Ed Herbstman) suggests using an electromagnetic pulse to block the ULF, and he’s ordered to try it first on the black box. Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) is concerned the experiment will wipe out the box’s data – but that won’t matter if the world ends anyway.
Saanvi’s frustrated that she’s locked up doing this research when she should be helping the 828ers. She and Troy need to escape, and that might be possible if Troy cranks the pulse to 11 and wipes out all the electronics in the building, including keypads and security cameras.
Cal (Ty Doran) slips into a calling and Ben (Josh Dallas) tries to comfort him when he’s finished. Cal’s working non-stop to help solve all the callings, and he just received a batch that need investigating.
Ben rallies the passengers to help with the callings. First up, Cal experienced Captain Amuta’s which included a game of cricket, and TJ knows of fields nearby in Prospect Park. Bethany assigns Amuta to TJ’s team to follow the calling, and they’re reminded to be extra cautious while out in public.
Michaela’s calling was a saying: “Every life is worth saving.” She recalls seeing “every life is worth living” on a journal at Zeke’s work and telling him to write down his feelings when he was having a difficult time. Jared (J.R. Ramirez) offers to help, but Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) has to follow this calling alone.
Cal tells his dad that he had a calling with a buzzing noise and the numbers 1 1 2 1. Ben, Vance (Daryl Edwards), and Cal take a look at the research boards for anything referencing that number, and Ben figures out it’s the beginning of a NYC zip code. Vance discovers those digits could be associated with anything within 80 blocks. However, he’s able to narrow it down to a condemned block that appears to have new solar panels placed on a building. There are enough panels to power the Vegas Strip, which doesn’t make sense.
The threesome take off to investigate and discover the abandoned building is actually a government black site. Vance breaks in and they hear military chatter on the radio, but no alarms go off to signal intruders.
Saanvi and Troy activate the pulse, grab the black box’s data, and make their escape – right into the hallway with Vance, Ben, and Cal! Ben tells Saanvi that Cal can still access all their callings and that they’ve been busy solving them over the past month.
They hear guards and make a run for it. They can’t escape so Troy provides a diversion by giving himself up. “My freedom for yours. Easiest decision I’ve ever made,” says Troy.
Jared and Drea spend some time together, and Jared confesses he’s worried they aren’t solving enough callings. Plus, Cal’s getting weaker and so are the callings. With only two days left, they may not live to meet their baby.
They find Astrid passed out, and it appears to be an OD. She’s not breathing, but Drea doesn’t think anti-anxiety pills would cause this reaction. Jared successfully administers CPR, and Astrid gasps for air.
After getting Astrid to the medical unit, Drea confesses she’s sorry she’s put a strain on Jared and Michaela’s relationship. Jared believes that if they make it past the Death Date, they can figure out the situation. Jared’s committed to the child and to being a partner to Michaela.
Over at the new safe house, Autumn and Eagan (Ali Lopez-Sohaili) have a contentious conversation about true believers. Eagan wonders why Astrid would leave on her own and reveals he found one of her pills. Autumn brushes that off and suggests that Eagan follow her lead and get busy praying.
Angelina (Holly Taylor) addresses the group and points out that she needs to narrow the group by one. Eagan knows he’s the odd man out and drops to his knees, proposing marriage and claiming neither wants to be alone when the world ends. He slips in wording that he saw in her diary, and Angelina says yes.
Michaela arrives at Zeke’s old work and sees a banner with the saying next to four balloons. She has a flashback in which she tells Zeke to write a note with his problems, read it out loud, attach the note to a balloon, and let it go. (It was a trick Evie used to do.)
Unfortunately, one of Zeke’s co-workers recognizes her and wants to call the cops. A security guard arrives to throw Michaela out, and while they’re fighting Michaela falls down a flight of stairs. A face from the past stops the guard from going after Michaela. Carlos, the recipient of Evie’s heart, and Michaela hug and she thanks him for saving her.
They talk, and it’s only at this point that Michaela realizes Carlos was the intern that Zeke always talked about. Carlos says Zeke always called her his North Star and his Gemini, and claimed he wouldn’t be alive without her. Michaela made him think every single life is worth living.
Carlos shows her a stick figure drawing Zeke drew of him and Michaela touching hands, with three stars above them. Carlos interprets it as Zeke reaching out through space and time. Michaela wonders why she keeps hearing that every life is worth living, and Carlos believes it’s time for her to forgive herself about Evie.
Michaela asks for a balloon and lets go of her guilt.
Amuta and TJ solve Amuta’s calling, but the co-pilot’s concerned Cal’s callings are becoming increasingly incomplete. Bethany assures him they’re doing the best they can.
Ben’s group returns with Saanvi, so their investigation was also successful. Saanvi’s impressed with what they’ve done with the detention center.
Cal’s incredibly exhausted and pushing himself too hard. He can’t access the ALNI patients who are in comas and in constant callings, but he keeps trying and it’s wearing him out.
Ben tells Saanvi he really needed her as Jared asks her to help with Astrid. Saanvi does a little investigation and determines Astrid’s taking poison, not anti-anxiety meds.
Cal uses his powers and returns to the plane, but this time not a single calling comes through. He begs for his callings to come and suddenly he’s yanked out of the plane and back into himself.
Michaela returns and admits to Ben that she just solved her hardest calling to date. They hug and she’s happy to hear Saanvi’s back.
Ben prepares everyone for a final push to solve callings. Cal joins the group, upset and scared that his callings are now gone too. He apologizes to the group and believes that if he would have been stronger, he might have collected more while they lasted.
Ben thinks there must be an explanation and that maybe they actually solved the ones they needed to.
Saanvi checks on the patients connected to the God frequency or ULF. She realizes she can use Troy’s theory to help them. She sets up the electromagnet charge, certain that if God kept these people in the callings, there must be a reason.
The charge sends a jolt through the ULF, but nothing changes. Their vitals didn’t spike after the EMP and Saanvi’s completely confused.
Ben thanks every member of the group and thinks now is the time to be with the people they love. He suggests they head home to be with their families, and TJ stays with the Stones since they’re his family now.
Meanwhile, Angelina and Eagan marry in a quick ceremony. She’s ecstatic, and Eagan forces a smile.
Michaela watches Jared and Drea hug before he returns to her and holds her hand.
Cal’s alone, crying, when Henry visits him to talk about his recent calling. It sent Henry to a popular toy shop that sold wooden figurines. Inside, he found a wooden dragon called Shenlong, the King of Storms. Henry believes it’s a sign meant for Cal.
Saanvi’s upset this is the end. She couldn’t figure out an answer, and Ben assures her that at least they went down fighting. Finally, they kiss. With the Death Date just hours away, they make love for the first time.
Angelina confesses to Eagan that Astrid didn’t make the cut and met her judgment “on God’s time.” (In other words, Angelina poisoned her.) A knock interrupts their private conversation, and it’s Eagan’s old partner in crime, fellow 828er Adrian.
Netflix’s Manifest season four episode 17 takes an eight-month time jump to May 2, 2024, exactly one month prior to the Death Date. Drea (Ellen Tamaki) is about to give birth to Jared’s baby – which she didn’t tell him about when he got back together with Michaela – and returns home from shopping with her mom but won’t let her inside her the building. She claims she doesn’t want to show it off until she has it all fixed up, but the real reason is that there’s nothing inside.
She purchased the place near the detention center and has been busy attempting to break through the wall.
Inside the center, Ben (Josh Dallas) is now the unofficial mayor and everyone’s busy with their assigned jobs. There’s a healthy vegetable garden, but the rations are running low. The group in charge of the food will keep that info a secret so as not to scare everyone. Ration sizes will be cut, and maybe they’ll be able to stretch it until the Death Date.
Elsewhere, it’s been up to Jared (J.R. Ramirez) to track down and solve Cal’s callings. He’s exhausted but refuses to let Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) help, worried that she’ll get hurt. Cal (Ty Doran) is also exhausted and has been pulling all-nighters to access all the callings. He refuses to take time off; they only have a month left.
He slips back into a calling and is drawn to seat 14F. He takes a seat and immediately flowering vines attempt to strangle him. He gasps for air, and Michaela yanks him from the calling.
14F is Autumn Cox, and although they’re unhappy about helping her, they know it needs to be done.
Inside the detention center, the lights flicker because of a tremor, and then the center loses all power. The latest tremor short-circuited the system and now the ALNI patients on life support are dying. There’s a small generator that might be enough to power the life support systems but until it’s set up, Ben and a crew need to do everything by hand to keep them alive.
The generator works but not before they lose two of the patients. Plus, it’ll only last three hours.
Olive (Luna Blaise) believes their only option is to make a gigantic banner saying they need help. She thinks there are still 828 sympathizers who will come to their rescue.
Joe and Ben get to work on creating a flare to draw attention to the banner.
Back at Tarik’s house, Steve’s rehab is progressing and he’s able to slowly walk with the assistance of a cane. He joins his daughter and the group as they attempt to figure out Autumn’s location. She was at the original safe house, but they don’t know the location of the new safe house.
Cal recalls that he saw a white grid with a window’s reflection with slats behind it. Michaela realizes he’s describing Beverly’s house, but although she hasn’t lived there for months, it might not be empty. (Beverly was Michaela’s friend Evie’s mom, and she left her house to Michaela and Zeke.)
Michaela and Vance stay with Steve, while Cal and Jared head out to investigate. The 828ers are, in fact, using it as a safe house and they spot Angelina preaching to those assembled. Jared and Cal can’t figure out why Autumn, Astrid, and the rest are with a killer, but it’s obvious they’re there of their own free will.
Jared wants to figure out a plan but Cal busts in on Angelina’s sermon. She welcomes him to his own home and insists she was called there to be closer to him. If he joins her, he will be one of the righteous who survives.
She reaches for his hand, and Cal warns her not to touch him.
Jared questions Autumn about the vines and she refuses to answer. Jared spots a photo of her with the vines and snaps a photo.
Cal and Angelina argue over God, and Cal invites Autumn to come with him to solve her calling. It’s her path to redemption. But Angelina insists redemption is futile; only those who follow her will survive.
Autumn refuses to leave. She’s determined to be one of Angelina’s eight chosen people.
The building from Autumn’s photo housed a daycare center but it’s closed now. In a weird twist, Vance and Michaela discover that building is one block from the detention center and is now owned by Drea’s family.
Vance texts Jared with the update as Drea is being held at knifepoint by a man she hired to help her figure out how to knock out the wall.
Steve demands to see Ben and Michaela also wants a chance to see Ben and the girls. The Death Date is so close, and she doesn’t want to have any regrets. With Drea living so close by, it might be possible to at least wave at her family.
Michaela won’t take no for an answer. They’ll use the neighbor’s van to get close to the building.
Jared and Cal make it to the building and spot the vines. They hear Drea screaming and rush inside as the man’s tying her up. Jared places his gun to the man’s head and warns that if he ever returns, he’ll kill him.
It’s only at this moment that Jared realizes Drea is having his baby!
Their discussion about impending parenthood is interrupted by gunshots. Ben’s placed the banner on the detention center roof, and a guard shoots into the sky, ordering him back inside. Ben lights the flare, unaware that Cal and Jared are about to run over and help him. Drea stops them and shows them what she’s been working on.
If they knock down the wall, they can free the 828ers. Jared asks, “Are you trying to go full Shawshank here?” and Drea jokes that it’s a good mommy and me activity. She’s reached a point where she can’t break down the wall on her own, and Jared picks up the drill and gets to work.
Inside the detention center, time’s running out for the patients on life support. Joe and Ben are by the fuse box and electric panels, figuring out their next move, when they hear sawing. They race to the source and Ben is reunited with Cal! They hug, and then Ben tells them they need power – fast.
Drea and Jared get to work on that, and they MacGyver the electrical system to get the power on in the center. Drea’s ingenuity and hard work saves the day.
Cal fills his dad in on the callings, and that Autumn’s calling led him to Drea. Ben realizes there’s still hope in surviving the Death Date.
Michaela, Steve, and Vance also make it to Drea’s, and Michaela catches Ben up in a huge hug. Drea joins the happy group, and Michaela’s smile fades as she looks at Drea’s belly. It’s an awkward moment as they hug and exchange pleasantries.
Ben informs the 828ers that there’s a way out, if they want to go. But first, he introduces the group to Cal. Suffice it to say, they’re shocked Cal is so old. The passengers learn that Cal can access all of their callings, and if they remain together, they can solve them.
Michaela warns the passengers that it’s not good for 828ers on the outside, and Ben believes that solving the callings is the only way to survive the Death Date. They need to have hope and faith that they will live. He pleads with his friends to stay, and the group rumbles. A few choose to leave, but the majority opt to remain in the center.
Drea and Jared have a private chat, and he compliments everything that she’s managed on her own. She confesses she wanted to tell him but didn’t want him to stop trying to save the world. He asks, again, if he’s the father, and she confirms that biologically he is – but that doesn’t mean he has to be the actual parent. Jared admits that’s all he’s ever wanted.
Michaela watches as Jared feels the baby move and leaves without making her presence known.
Over at the safe house, Autumn hands Angelina a box of rat poison which apparently Angelina’s putting in the pills some of her followers are taking.
Although her best friend, Autumn, remained with Angelina, Astrid left the group and shows up at Drea’s place. She seems ill and rests, grabbing her pill bottle and swallowing a capsule.
Back at the detention center, Ben teases Jared about becoming a father while Joe shares a photo of his son and says he’s anxious to reunite with him now that the wall’s open.
Drea and Michaela chat, and Michaela says she’s happy for the three of them.
It’s a relaxing time for the group as they work on a puzzle and laugh.
Cal visits Marko, one of the patients on life support, and Marko reaches out and grabs Cal’s arm. His dragon scar lights up and he sees a gorgeous peacock with two blue lights on its feathers. When the blue lights touch, the resulting light is blinding, and Cal leaves the calling.
Cal recalls Angelina telling him they are the only two sapphires and are the only path to survival.
