Friendship, family, guilt, and the need to form a connection are at the core of Jennifer Lawrence’s independent film Causeway. Lawrence plays Lynsey, a U.S. Army engineer who, after surviving an attack in Afghanistan, is sent home to recover from a traumatic brain injury.
The Army sets her up with rehab and a place to temporarily live with Sharon, a patient and thoughtful caregiver (Jayne Houdyshell). Once settled in at Sharon’s house, it’s the beginning of a long road back for Lynsey, who must relearn to do some of the most basic things, including using utensils to eat and finding the right words to communicate correctly.
After a relatively short period of time, Lynsey’s ready to go back home to New Orleans. The plan is for Lynsey to stay at her childhood home with her mother, Gloria (Linda Emond), while finishing her recovery. Once home, Lynsey obtains a job cleaning pools and is determined to become strong enough to return to Afghanistan and continue to serve.
When Gloria’s truck breaks down Lynsey takes it to a garage for repair and meets the owner, James (Brian Tyree Henry). Realizing Lynsey seems a little out of her element, James offers to give her a ride. Lynsey notices that James has a prosthetic leg and asks if he served. He didn’t. Instead, his leg was amputated as the result of a car accident.
From here the film focuses on the budding friendship between these two lost souls. Their initial interactions come when Lynsey reaches out to James for help moving heavy pool equipment and then for a ride to her doctor’s appointment. They begin to hang out and bond while getting drunk and eating snow cones.
It’s obvious Lynsey and James are drawn to each other but not because of a romantic attraction; Lynsey nixes that idea when she makes it clear she prefers women. They connect because they’re both wounded, lonely, and misunderstood people struggling with physical and emotional trauma as well as survivor’s guilt.
Brian Tyree Henry and Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Causeway,’ premiering November 4, 2022 on Apple TV+.
Causeway is a heavy-handed psychological drama of which the first 10 minutes are the best part of the film. The scenes with Houdyshell as Sharon taking care of Lynsey as she struggles to relearn simple tasks and slowly build up her strength feel real and come off authentic. Houdyshell’s brief performance is truly the highlight of the film.
From there, it’s a slow and tedious trip for the audience as Lawrence deals with her old hometown and its ghosts, which aren’t even interesting. Jennifer Lawrence sleepwalks her way through the film as Lynsey whose closed-off and blasé attitude results in creating an uninteresting character we’re left having a hard time caring about.
Brian Tyree Henry has some strong moments as James, the kind but broken mechanic who’s filled with self-loathing and survivor’s guilt. The scene where he tells Lynsey about the accident is his best moment in the film.
Unfortunately, most of the scenes between James and Lynsey are filled with long pregnant pauses and go on and on without either one having much to say. It’s not dramatic, just painfully boring and drawn out.
Sadly, as a film dealing with survivor’s guilt, PTSD, and finding a way to move forward, director Lila Neugebauer’s Causeway feels like a well-intentioned but missed opportunity.
GRADE: C
MPAA Rating: R for drug use, some language, and sexual references
Running Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Release Date: November 4, 2022 in limited theaters and streaming on Apple TV+
Matthew Wilkas guest stars as Margaret’s oldest son, the Lawrence from the episode’s title, on CBS’s So Help Me Todd season one episode seven. The Thanksgiving-themed episode, directed by Daniella Eisman from a script by Scott Prendergast and Stefanie Woodburn, will air on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 9pm ET/PT.
Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden stars as Margaret Wright, Skylar Astin plays Todd Wright, and Tristen J. Winger is Lyle. Madeline Wise plays Allison, Inga Schlingmann is Susan, and Rosa Arredondo stars as Francey.
Episode seven guest stars include Clayton James, Thomas Cadrot, Artemis Litsiadis, Kimmy Shields, Craig March, Frances Flanagan, and John C. Macdonald.
“Long Lost Lawrence” Plot: When Margaret is disappointed that no one but Todd can attend her family Thanksgiving dinner, Todd tries to convince his brother, Lawrence (Wilkas), to come home. Also, Margaret’s family inadvertently helps her crack a case involving an injured bank teller and robbery.
Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin star as razor-sharp, meticulous attorney Margaret Wright (Harden) and Todd (Astin), her talented but scruffy, aimless son whom she hires as her law firm’s in-house investigator. As the black sheep of the well-heeled Wright family, Todd is a laidback, quick-thinking, excellent former private detective who fell on hard times after his flexible interpretation of the law got his license revoked. Margaret’s penchant for excellence and strict adherence to the law is at complete odds with Todd’s scrappy methods of finding his way through sticky situations: by the seat of his wrinkled pants.
When Todd inadvertently teams with his mother on a case, she’s surprised to find herself duly impressed by – and proud of – his crafty ability to sleuth out information with his charm and his wide-ranging tech savvy. At last, Margaret sees a way to put her son on a “suitable” path to living an adult, financially solvent life she approves of, and she asks him to join her firm. Todd agrees since it means getting his license back and once again doing the job he excels at and loves.
Mother and son working together is a big first step toward mending their fragile, dysfunctional relationship, and they may even come away with a better understanding of each other at this pivotal point in their lives. But whether Todd and Margaret will be able to accept each other for who they are is another case entirely.
Netflix’s Manifest season four episode six picks up the action the morning after the bombing at the compound. The police are swarming the crime scene, and it’s revealed Erika’s dead body has five bullets in it. The Captain wants to get the rounds to Ballistics ASAP.
Jared (J.R. Ramirez) is also roaming the crime scene while over at the Stone place, Ben (Josh Dallas) is giving interviews to the press about Eden’s return. Michaela’s been hauled into the Registry to tell her side of the story. Both do a decent job of covering up the truth.
Angelina (Holly Taylor) shows up at her mom’s house, and this time her mom welcomes her in.
Back at the Stone home, Eden’s still sleeping as Cal (Ty Doran) tells Olive (Luna Blaise) he had a Calling and thinks the Lifeboat is sinking and they can’t stop it. Whatever they’re doing isn’t enough to change anything. Olive reminds him he needs to follow the Callings, but Cal’s adamant that they’re not enough to save the Lifeboat.
Ben joins them in Eden’s room and she wakes up and asks for her mom. Ben knows it’s going to take time for Eden to understand what happened.
Jared’s partner, Diaz, grumbles about doing another 828 thing, but the Captain’s grateful for their help. He’s also grateful that Jared’s willing to take the bullets to Ballistics. Diaz notices a fertilizer label and figures out how this all ties together.
Still, Jared refuses to confide in him about what’s really going on.
Jared’s about to leave the crime scene when he spots Vance’s vehicle. He provides Vance with an update and shows him the shell casings. They match Jared’s gun, but he’s unwilling to give them to Vance. He’s determined to do the right thing and take them to Ballistics.
Cal and Zeke (Matt Long) have a moment alone and accuse each other of suppressing how they really feel. Zeke knows Cal’s not feeling well, and Cal knows Zeke was bombarded with rage. Zeke confirms he feels guilty over shooting Erika but still needs to get to work.
When he walks away, Cal coughs blood into a tissue.
Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) tells Ben she had a Calling that looked like she was standing on an aquarium looking at fish. Ben notes one of the passengers, Sam Wile, owns an aquarium supply company.
Michaela calls Zeke as she heads over to check on Sam. She suggests Zeke takes things easy after what he just went through, and Zeke claims he had to go to work because his patients need him.
Sam doesn’t answer but his door’s unlocked, so Michaela walks in. The place is trashed and Sam’s dead in the middle of the kitchen floor.
Back at the Stone house, Olive and Cal work through the whole Callings are memories theory. Olive points out Eden gets Callings but wasn’t on the plane, so there must be another way to connect with the divine consciousness.
Ben tries to connect with Eden by showing her her old toys. Eden doesn’t remember any of them and just wants her mommy.
Jared meets Michaela at Sam’s place and immediately recognizes the victim as tussling with Officer Vasquez outside the 828 Registry. Vasquez was roughing him up when Jared stepped in.
Michaela suggests they do their own investigation, starting with Sam’s wife. They question her outside the Registry and she admits they got divorced because he was too nice. He took everyone in and even gave those in need cash from their business.
After she leaves, Jared and Michaela decide the next step is to ask Drea to pull up Sam’s bank records.
Ben decides to shave his beard so that maybe Eden won’t think of him as the “bad man” anymore. Olive subs in for her mom and helps Ben cut it off. He also invites Anna over and asks for her help, since Eden stayed with her for a while and likes her. Anna agrees to help in any way she can.
Adrian attacks Eagan minutes after he’s released from jail, blaming him for the compound being blown up. Eagan suggests he should blame Angelina, and Adrian confesses that although everyone thinks she died in the bombing, she actually escaped.
Adrian’s upset he took her to a nice house in Westchester, and she didn’t even let him stay for one night.
There’s a $20,000 reward for her location which is on the map on Adrian’s phone. Adrian claims he’s not giving up her location, but he just did since Eagan looked at the map.
Eagan shows up at Angelina’s mom’s place and she claims her daughter’s dead. He knows she’s lying and demands $20,000 or else he’ll give the Registry Angelina’s location.
She gives him her expensive watch and sends him on his way.
Zeke discovers that after shooting Erika, he’s no longer able to control his anger. Connecting with a patient enrages him and rather than helping the man, he attacks him. He’s forced into leaving the job he loves.
Drea, Jared, and Michaela sort through Sam’s finances and determine there’s someone crooked inside the Registry that he was paying $2000 a month to before he was murdered.
Jared’s stopped on the way out of the Registry and told to surrender his gun. They’re going to compare his weapon to the bullets, thanks to a tip from Jared’s partner. Jared isn’t going to lie about what happened and tells Michaela he’s just going to trust his moral compass.
Drea does a quick investigation and learns Sam was always questioned by Captain Ted Colvin, the same officer who just took Jared’s gun. She’s going to look through his office while he’s out and see what she can discover. She finds rolls of cash in his drawer and Sam’s ring in Ted’s coat pocket.
Ted spots her exiting his office and chases her up to the roof. He wants the ring back, and she manages to call Jared before Ted attacks her. Jared and Michaela hear the conversation and race to the roof. Ted’s busy explaining why he’s now a dirty cop when Jared shows up and tells him he’s done. Ted claims he didn’t kill his “golden goose” and threatens to turn Jared and Michaela in for their involvement in Erika’s death.
Jared refuses his offer and Michaela charges, knocking Ted to the ground.
Ted’s locked up and, unfortunately, Michaela’s timing sucks as she has a Calling while being interviewed about what happened.
Jared knows his gun will match the bullets and tells Vance he’s ready to take the fall. However, Vance has an advance copy of the report and the bullets don’t match Jared’s gun. In fact, they don’t match any gun that’s ever been manufactured. (Well played, Vance.)
Angelina calls Ben and wants to speak with Eden. Ben’s shocked and upset that she’s alive and that she reached out and wants to remain in Eden’s life. He warns her to stay away from his child.
Ben’s crestfallen when Eden wants her mommy even after he shaved off his beard.
Angelina calls Cal and begs to speak to Eden. Cal refuses and tells her she’ll never understand what she’s done to his family. Cal only wants Eden to heal, and Angelina suggests she can help since she knows everything Eden likes/dislikes.
Cal makes a deal and will let her talk to Eden if she tells the child that Ben loves her and that he’s a good man. Angelina agrees.
Ben walks in as Angelina’s singing to Eden on Cal’s phone. Ben can’t understand what Cal was thinking, and Cal explains what he was attempting to do. Ben’s not buying it and accuses Cal of being connected to Angelina in some weird way. He doesn’t trust his son to keep Angelina out of their lives.
Ben makes the mistake of making Cal feel like he loves Eden more, and Cal decides to leave home. He writes a brief note saying his dad was right and he shouldn’t be there right now.
Olive calls TJ and leaves a message detailing how sapphire is somehow connected to everything. She even explains Moses was standing on sapphire when he received the Ten Commandments from God. Every time humans communicate with the divine, sapphire is involved. (This call does the job of explaining to the audience everything we need to know about sapphire and the divine consciousness.)
Eagan shows up at a police station to claim the $20,000 in exchange for Angelina’s whereabouts.
Jared believes Sam’s killer is still out there. He doesn’t think Ted Colvin murdered the 828er. It looks like he’s onto something when 828er Anna is stabbed to death.
Zeke’s so upset and confused that he turns to alcohol for help. As he’s stumbling home, he trips over Cal’s unconscious body.
Vance pounds on the Stones’ front door as Netflix’s Manifest season four episode five kicks off. He wakes everyone in the house and informs them that Ben gave him the slip. Ben’s tracking down Eden by himself, without any backup.
The gang heads to the attic and breaks into Ben’s laptop but there’s nothing helpful in his email. Plus, they find his phone so they can’t contact him. Vance (Daryl Edwards) knows this isn’t going to end well.
Meanwhile, Jared (J.R. Ramirez) shows up at Adrian’s compound to speak with Erika. Surprisingly, she’s able to convince him the fertilizer is for their greenhouse. Ben’s tied up and gagged in a nearby room, but Jared doesn’t hear his muffled screams as he tours the greenhouse and learns they’re raising honey bees.
After Jared leaves, Adrian warns Erika not to screw up their living situation by doing something dangerous.
Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) heads to the jail, but Eagan refuses to see her.
Over at the Bird’s Nest, Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) undergoes an MRI but the results aren’t helpful. She hoped it would prove the passengers can use ULF to communicate. Troy wonders if Saanvi believes a higher power is communicating through ULF; he calls it the God frequency and Saanvi approves of that description.
Eden follows a bee to the room where her dad is held captive. It’s the first time Ben (Josh Dallas) has seen his daughter since she was kidnapped as a baby, and he cries as he tries to speak to her through his gag. Angelina (Holly Taylor) grabs Eden and warns her this is a bad man.
Eden gives her a hug and calls her mommy. Angelina tells the adorable child not to talk to strangers and that the bad man wants to hurt her.
Erika puts together multiple bombs using the fertilizer and then pays a visit to Angelina’s room. (No one other than Adrian is supposed to know she’s hiding out at the compound.) Erika shows her one of the bombs and explains that if the police show up, they can set off the bombs and escape.
Donovan, one of the 828ers, brings Ben some food but doesn’t believe him when he says Angelina’s here with Eden. Ben only wants his daughter back and suggests Donovan should stop listening to Adrian and should start paying attention to the Callings again. He begs Donovan to untie him and when he won’t, Ben tells him to ask Adrian about Angelina and to mention “signs and wonders.” (That’s something Adrian used to say.)
Meanwhile, Cal (Ty Doran) and Olive (Luna Blaise) refuse to leave the Bird’s Nest, believing Vance will be the first one to hear any news about Ben. As Saanvi takes samples from Cal’s scar, Olive describes how Cal saw mythological objects glowing last night.
Olive also brings up divine consciousness and Cal’s certain that’s where 828 disappeared to.
Troy suggests they stick Cal in the MRI and when they do, the screen shows Cal’s brain glowing as soon as the machine’s turned on. Cal experiences a Calling full of smoke, fire, ashes, and lightning. He also sees his dad holding baby Eden.
Cal screams for them to stop the machine and they pull him out. He thinks he knows where his dad is and is sure everyone’s in trouble. (Aren’t they always?)
Vance and Cal take off to the compound.
Jared heads to Drea’s and she greets him fresh out of the shower. He shows off the jar of honey he got from going on a wild fertilizer goose chase and Drea promises to make it up to him. She drops the towel and suggests he grab the honey.
Zeke’s counseling session goes south, and he’s unable to help a man with his problems. For some reason, his special skill isn’t working. His hands shake uncontrollably.
Back at home, Zeke’s looking pretty rough when Michaela arrives. She offers tea and honey but gets sidetracked by a Calling with buzzing bees around her head. Michaela recalls seeing a bee in the attic and heads up there to find one leading her toward Erika’s photo on the board.
Michaela calls Drea for info on Erika and tells her about the bees. Drea realizes the honey is connected to the location where Ben’s being held.
Ben frees himself from his restraints but can’t break out of the window. He falls and then uses his own blood to write the seat numbers of the passengers who are at the compound on the window.
Jared, Michaela, and Zeke arrive outside Adrian’s place, and after Drea’s name enters the conversation, Zeke finally figures out that Jared and Drea are sleeping together. Michaela confirms she’s known it for a while but “girl code” forbade her from sharing the news.
The place looks deserted and Jared circles around while Michaela and Zeke take up a different position. He locates a bomb inside the greenhouse and realizes the situation’s just dramatically escalated.
Inside the main house, a group meeting’s underway and Donovan’s questioning Adrian about who’s upstairs. Adrian’s finally forced to admit Angelina and Eden are upstairs. Donovan also makes him confess he’s got Ben tied up in a room.
Adrian promises to get rid of Angelina.
A flashback shows Angelina and baby Eden stealing money from Angelina’s mom’s home. Her mom, Noelle, was furious Angelina murdered Grace and kidnapped a baby, and she ordered Angelina out of her house. (This was the first time Angelina heard that Grace died.) Her mom slammed the door in her face and said, “You’re dead to me.”
Angelina’s convinced she was sent to this compound to destroy it. She believes the righteous will be protected.
Angelina joins the group discussion and turns the tables on Adrian, saying he’ll betray all of them. Angelina clutches a detonator in her hand while she’s talking, and Erika stands at her side as she says, “Today is your day of judgment.”
Eden’s talking to herself while playing with a doll, and Ben can hear her from the other side of the wall. He uses a piece from a broken plate to loosen a vent.
Angelina’s so crazy she thinks that when the bombs go off, those who are worthy will be saved. Eden will shepherd them toward salvation. Adrian tries to tell her Eden’s just a child, but Angelina’s too far gone to listen.
They argue and Donovan manages to leave the room and find Ben. He admits Ben was right and thinks they need to leave right now. Unfortunately, Erika followed him and whacks him on the head with her rifle.
Jared knows they need backup but that will take time. The place could blow any minute.
Cal and Vance pick the exact right moment to arrive, and Cal confirms he’s aware there’s a bomb. But he’s not worried because of his Calling.
Cal goes in alone as the 828ers experience a Calling with ashes. He’s quickly able to convince Angelina he’s Cal and to get her to leave the room so they can talk privately.
While they talk, Jared, Michaela, and Zeke enter the building and free Ben. Once freed, Ben says all the 828ers need help except Angelina and Erika. They’re both completely off the rails.
Zeke and Jared help Donovan while Michaela gets the other passengers out and Ben heads upstairs to retrieve Eden. Adrian hangs back to look for Erika.
Ben places a stocking cap on Eden’s head and Eden calls out for her mom. Angelina hears and runs toward Eden, realizing Cal is just a distraction. She confronts Ben who’s holding Eden as Cal pleads for her to let go of the detonator.
Cal and Angelina fight over the detonator as Cal tells his dad to leave. Cal says he knows he’ll be fine because he remembered it. Angelina presses the button, but nothing happens. Cal knocks it from her hand as Ben flees with Eden.
The bombs were on a short timer and they detonate with Angelina and Cal still inside. Ben screams for his son and moments later Cal emerges through the smoke, unharmed.
Saanvi, Troy, and Olive piece together the clues from Cal’s MRI and figure out the Callings are actually memories from when they were in the divine consciousness. That completely alters their assumptions about the Callings.
Night falls and Michaela, Vance, Jared, Zeke, and the cops are still at the compound. Erika exits the burning building clutching her rifle. Zeke can feel she’s about to kill Michaela and he grabs Jared’s gun and pumps multiple bullets into her.
Michaela disarms him.
They make it back home and Ben holds Eden tight as everyone hugs.
In bed, Michaela holds Zeke while admitting she’s never seen him so angry. He claims his instincts took over when he saw what Erika was going to do.
Olive, Ben, and Cal sit on the couch with Eden, who’s sound asleep in Olive’s lap. Ben credits Cal with saving everyone and wonders why Cal said he “remembered” the bomb. Cal said it was like it all happened before. He excuses himself as he has a coughing fit.
As he’s getting water, he coughs up blood into the sink.
The episode ends with Adrian finding an injured Angelina in the middle of the road. He helps her into his car as ashes rain down.
Michaela’s guilt over her role in Evie’s death four years ago (at least in Michaela’s timeline) leads into a Calling in the opening scene of Netflix’s Manifest season four episode four. Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) hears thunder and watches as fog rolls in while a bird circles overhead.
She returns home to tell Ben (Josh Dallas) about her Calling but he’s fixated on visiting Eagan in prison, determined to follow every lead involving Eden’s whereabouts.
Cal (Ty Doran) paces the kitchen as Zeke (Matt Long) and Olive (Luna Blaise) cook up breakfast. Cal can’t figure out what Fiona meant when she said he already had the answer, and not even pancakes can make him take a break.
After Cal walks away Zeke points out Cal’s obsessing, just like his dad and aunt do. Olive thinks her dad should be helping him but Ben’s too preoccupied. Olive credits Zeke with helping the family make it through each day, and they toast their ability to withstand whatever life throws at them.
Ben shows up to visit Eagan and Eagan proposes a deal: Get him out of prison and he’ll tell them where Eden is.
Drea (Ellen Tamaki) pays a visit to the Shinnecock Indian Nation Territory office looking for 828er Kyle Boyd who hasn’t checked in. She’s informed this is sovereign land and the Registry can basically shove their paperwork…you know how that saying goes.
Michaela scrolls through bird pictures trying to figure out the bird that circled overhead in her Calling. She thinks it might be a Thunderbird from Native American mythology which, as these things tend to do, ties in with a phone call she receives from Drea. The Thunderbird is on the seal of the Shinnecock Nation.
Michaela’s able to talk her way onto Shinnecock land and into a visit with Kyle. As she approaches Kyle’s door, the fog covers up the walkway. Kyle also sees the fog as Michaela walks into his place.
Michaela has no idea why they’ve been drawn together but when she says it’s all connected, Kyle perks up. He pulls out a suitcase with his mother’s belongings and explains she used to say it’s all connected. Now, she’s dying in a hospital in New York (far from her home in Arizona) and he can’t visit her because the Registry will arrest him.
Michaela thinks she has a solution and that this is why she was brought to him by a Calling. Kyle believes that maybe he’s supposed to help Michaela but doesn’t know how yet.
The fog rolls up on Michaela while she’s driving home, and she has a Calling about the night Evie died. Michaela pulls a U-turn and returns to pick up Kyle. She’s certain she’s supposed to take him to see his mom right now.
Zeke helps sneak Kyle and Michaela into the hospital, but Kyle’s mom is unable to talk. Fortunately, Zeke can interpret her feelings and is able to tell Kyle his mom loves him deeply and is grateful for him. She harbors no guilt or blame. She says one word, “Home,” and Kyle knows he needs to take her back to her own land.
Kyle’s forced to give the nurse his name when he signs out his mom. The Registry’s informed but Kyle and his mom are gone by the time Drea and some officers make it to the hospital to arrest him.
Michaela thanks Drea for everything she does for the 828ers. (Drea really is a hero in season four.)
Kyle left behind a cherished blanket from his mother as a thank you to Michaela.
A flashback shows things were rocky between Cal and Olive when he showed back up. Now, they’re on much better terms (thanks in large part to Zeke’s sympathetic ear and special empathetic power) and Olive offers to help him work through what Fiona said. Olive thinks the answer might be on the 828er board, and she pulls off items looking to piece together the puzzle.
Olive and Cal methodically work their way through the specific clues that led to the discovery of the death date. From there, Olive adds Logan’s compass with a peacock on the back that led her to TJ and the Al-Zuras journal. That led them to the Silver Dragon – aka the airplane. But what’s next? Olive realizes there’s one clue they’re missing and fetches the tarot card – the Star card. The journal, compass, and card have the same star on them.
Ben’s screaming at authorities at the Registry, demanding they help him free Eagan. Drea rings up Jared and he can hear Ben in the background as Drea says they received a call about an 828er buying a large amount of fertilizer. Drea doesn’t think it’s anything, but Jared promises to do a little investigating.
Jared makes an excuse to visit the garden center without alerting his partner as to the real reason for his visit. The clerk says the 828er bought all their fertilizer and paid in cash.
Jared’s partner didn’t just fall off the turnip truck and knows Jared’s doing some sort of 828 investigation. He warns Jared to be careful.
Ben’s next stop is the Bird’s Nest and Vance isn’t overjoyed to see him. Vance (Daryl Edwards) reminds Ben that he stopped taking his calls and hasn’t been helping out the passengers. Ben blows off Vance’s objections and begs him to help free Eagan. (Eagan’s in jail for holding Vance’s son hostage.)
Ben had no idea Saanvi works there or that she’d turned to booze to get through the past two years. (There’s a bottle at her workstation.) Vance softens a bit but explains he doesn’t have the governmental pull he used to have. However, he’ll see what he can do.
Vance and Ben return to the prison with an authorization for suspension of sentence. If Eagan’s information on Eden is correct, then he’ll be released. Eagan signs it and passes Ben the address. The paper burns up in Ben’s hand as he reads the address.
Ben apologizes to Vance and promises to text him Eden’s location. Ben also promises to never forget what Vance did for him.
Later that night, Vance heads out to get Eden but Ben sends him to the wrong address and then turns off his cell phone and leaves it behind.
Olive makes Cal tell her she’s the best sister in the world. They’re still stuck on how the clues fit together and are standing on chairs to get a different perspective (literally) when Zeke and Michaela return home.
Michaela’s got the blanket from Kyle and leaves it by the table when she heads off to bed.
Olive unfolds the blanket and on it is a star that matches the directional points on the compass. There’s something that looks like a button on top of the blanket’s star, and Cal clicks a button on the compass. Inside is inscribed: “Divina conciencia”
Olive says it means divine consciousness and according to tarot, it represents enlightenment. Olive believes Cal’s directly connected to divine consciousness. That’s what Fiona meant when she said he already had the answer.
Suddenly Cal sees items on the table lighting up like the glow that was outside the plane. “It’s all one. It’s all connected,” says Cal. He believes they were all inside the glow. He thinks the plane was in the divine consciousness for five and a half years!
Michaela confesses to Zeke in bed that Kyle telling his mom how he felt allowed him to get rid of his guilt. Maybe that’s what she’s supposed to do, too. She starts crying as she admits she’s tried hard to let go of the guilt but it’s really the only thing left connecting her to Evie. Zeke suggests she should hang onto the guilt if she needs to. It’s her choice and she can use the pain however she wants.
“Our pain can become our strength,” says Zeke.
Ben uses a burner phone to tell Vance he won’t find anything at the location he texted him. Ben thanks Vance again and tells him a Calling said something bad’s going to happen and doesn’t want anyone hurt. Ben knows Vance has sacrificed enough.
Jared receives photos of the person who purchased the fertilizer and Drea immediately recognizes her as Erika Burness. She was arrested for armed robbery and is currently listing Adrian as her landlord.
Ben sneaks around outside Adrian’s boarding house. He’s knocked out before he can make it inside.
Netflix’s Manifest season four episode three opens with Eden – quite the little artist – experiencing a Calling. Meanwhile, Ben (Josh Dallas) begs the police to reopen Eden’s case with no success.
Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) is with Ben in the attic when she experiences a Calling. Thunder roars but Ben doesn’t share the experience. Ben insists the thunder has nothing to do with Eden and is determined to follow “real world” clues to find his missing child.
Cal (Ty Doran) snaps a photo of his new dragon-shaped scar to send to Saanvi. Olive (Luna Blaise) says it looks badass and she thinks he’d make a cool dragon. Cal reminds her he disappeared, came back five years older, and has no memories of what happened. “That doesn’t sound too dragon-y to me,” says Cal.
Cal and Olive share a nursery rhyme and Cal recalls he was teaching it to Eden right before she disappeared. Michaela joins the siblings, and she and Cal hear thunder. Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) texts with a request for Cal to come to the Bird’s Nest, and he takes off as Jared (J.R. Ramirez) arrives to help Ben with Eden’s new lead.
Ben explains Angelina was hiding out at Anna Ross’s house and Jared thinks they need to call on the Registry for help in the search. NYPD won’t help since they think she’s dead.
Cal and Saanvi listen to the black box and confirm the new voices are reciting Callings. Saanvi and Cal realize they need to figure out what was happening on Flight 828 at the exact moment these 6.2 seconds of the ultra-low frequency (ULF) voices were recorded.
Michaela meets Drea (Ellen Tamaki) and while they’re talking Michaela finally admits she knows Drea and Jared are sleeping together. Michaela’s fine with it, but Drea wants her to keep it to herself for now.
Jared and Ben join Drea and Michaela outside the Registry, and Drea explains they’re going to act like Ben was hauled in for questioning.
Once inside, Michaela has the thunder Calling again and spots 828’s co-pilot, Amuta. The lightning is focused on him.
Drea, Jared, and Ben look at a report made by a librarian who saw a woman and a child that could be Angelina and Eden. Angelina was spotted by Anna Ross’s house, and they decide it’s worth checking out the report.
Michaela confronts Amuta outside the Registry and learns he’s now a private jet pilot. She wonders why they’re sharing a Calling, but Amuta refuses to talk to her and takes off. He’s got a flight scheduled and doesn’t have time to chat.
Ben, Michaela, and Jared head to the library and Ben agrees to let them do the talking. He has a Calling of ashes falling and a figure standing in front of an active volcano. In prison, Eagan experiences the same Calling.
The librarian identifies Angelina as the woman she saw and explains the hair dye in the bathroom concerned her. She describes the child as sweet and shows off a drawing of a flower Eden did for her. The librarian also agrees to let them take the computer Angelina used to have NYPD forensics check it out.
Michaela visits the Bird’s Nest and Cal and Saanvi fill her in on the black box’s recordings of all the Callings. The six seconds on the tape was during the time lightning hit the plane and thunder roared. Michaela thinks that’s why she’s experiencing thunder and lightning.
They need to talk to Amuta and Vance helps Michaela get Amuta’s license temporarily suspended. The report they’re filing lists the Bird’s Nest address as the contact point.
Saanvi takes some of Cal’s new scar to test while they discuss the ULFs. Amuta rushes in, angry they’ve put his job at risk. He finally calms down when Michaela promises to fix his flight if he listens to the black box.
Amuta listens but then quickly demands they stop playing the recording. He blames himself for everything that happened since he could have told the pilot to fly over the storm, not through it. Saanvi begs him to listen to what they found buried under the recording, and Amuta’s shocked to hear all the Callings on the tape.
Amuta reveals that during those 6.2 seconds they all died. The lightning was repeatedly striking the plane and then all the lightning combined into a huge ball of light that they flew right into. “There’s no way we could have survived,” says Amuta. He adds, “I felt overwhelmed by a sense of peace – a calm I’d never experienced before.”
The passengers didn’t see the light, but he and Daly did. Daly disappeared and they have no clue where he currently is. Amuta reveals Daly was obsessed with going back and trying to feel that sense of peace again. Daly begged Amuta to join him, but he refused.
Both Amuta and Michaela have deep regrets and feelings of guilt over failing someone they cared about.
Amuta explains he’s distanced himself from the passengers because he and Daly are the only ones who saw the light. Cal corrects him – he also saw the ball of white light. Cal remembers thinking everything made sense when he saw the light a little before the turbulence hit. Amuta suddenly realizes the storm was chasing them; they couldn’t have avoided it no matter what they did.
Amuta explains he and Daly would often discuss the calm and confusion after the brightness. They called it the long, delirious, burning blue. The phrase sends Cal into a Calling about when he touched the plane’s tail fin. He was on the plane with Daly and Daly asked him, “Why go back?” Cal replied, “My mom. Something’s happened to her. She’s hurt.”
Daly warned him he’d forget everything he saw if he went back, and Cal went anyway. Fiona appeared and told him he already had the answer, and that it was okay to go back.
Amuta’s flight status is restored, and he reluctantly admits he’s glad they grounded him.
Elsewhere, Adrian’s taken over a boarding house and it’s now a safe haven for 828ers. There’s a noise upstairs and Adrian makes an excuse before checking on Angelina. He reminds her she has to be quiet since no one knows she’s there. They wouldn’t understand why he’s helping her.
Back at home, Ben’s alone in his attic when suddenly a drawing of a flower appears on the ceiling.
Eden’s drawing the flower when Angelina stops her to play a mind-reading game. Eden draws an X as part of this test to see if she’s reading Angelina’s mind, and the X appears on Ben’s ceiling. That’s not what Angelina drew and Angelina’s getting frustrated.
Eden draws another X and this time fills in a circle in the center of it. Ben uses chalk to trace the drawings, so they’ll remain on his ceiling. (He didn’t do this with the flower and it vanished.)
She draws spiders and Angelina crumples the drawing, angry that Eden isn’t even trying.
Olive has a flashback of her dad refusing to listen to her and telling her to leave when she tried to help find Eden. She shakes off the memory as she brings lunch to her dad in the attic. Ben’s busy tracing the drawings on the ceiling and Olive doesn’t understand what he’s doing. She begs him to stop and then suddenly takes a good look at all the designs.
“X marks the spot, circle with a dot, spiders crawling up your back…” says Olive, describing what she sees. She then explains that she and Cal were singing that this very morning. For the first time, Olive can actually feel Eden and knows she’s alive.
Ben and Olive realize Eden’s drawing her Callings, just like Cal used to do. Olive suggests Ben draw something and see if Eden copies it. Eden giggles as she writes “dad.”
Angelina is spooked and knows Ben’s communicating with his daughter. She reminds Eden she doesn’t have a dad and throws the plate Eden drew on.
Jared visits Drea at the Registry and admits he doesn’t know how she handles working there. She reminds him he’s gone undercover before, but Jared thinks this is a much worse situation. Drea’s willing to do whatever it takes to help the 828ers, even if that requires her to work for the Registry.
Adrian meets with Eagan in prison, looking for help on what to do about Angelina. Adrian’s concerned about Angelina’s behavior and describes how she aggressively crumpled a paper with Eden’s drawing. Adrian wonders if he should turn her in and Eagan suggests it’s possible Angelina will implicate him in Grace’s murder.
Adrian didn’t tell her to kill someone, but he did tell her she needed to get her guiding angel. Eagan thinks the best thing Adrian can do now is keep Angelina hidden at the compound.
Adrian returns to the boarding house and tells Angelina she can stay.
Jared didn’t find anything useful in the computer searches, and Olive assures her dad they’ll find Eden. Ben’s come around to believing the Callings might save her after all.
Michaela and Ben have a heart-to-heart chat and she admits she can’t save the passengers by herself. She misses her co-pilot. Michaela doesn’t want him to give up his search for Eden, but after they find her, she needs her co-pilot back.
The episode ends with Eagan calling Ben and telling him he knows where Eden is right now.
Grace’s funeral opens Netflix’s Manifest season four episode two, with the flashback showing Cal standing apart from the group. At this point, no one knows he’s aged, and he can only stand behind the group and sob rather than join his family in their grief.
Fast-forward to current events and Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) and Zeke’s morning chitchat over breakfast concerns the Registry and how often Michaela’s being forced to check-in. Cal (Ty Doran) joins them and looks like he hasn’t slept in days. Michaela assures him they love him and are ready to support him however he needs.
Michaela leaves, and now it’s Saanvi’s turn to join the group. Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) reveals the black box recording includes Capt. Daly crying for help during the turbulence. It’s the same thing that was heard two years ago at Eureka and they have no idea how that’s possible.
Saanvi’s convinced she can get Ben interested in what’s happening, but she’s shocked when she sees him face-to-face in the attic. Ben (Josh Dallas) looks rough and although he’s momentarily interested in the black box, he quickly tunes it out and gets back to his obsessive hunt for Eden. Ben believes the Callings have stolen everything from him and he’s done following them.
Saanvi had no idea how closed-off Ben’s made himself.
Michaela checks in with the Registry and is questioned about a passenger who entered the country illegally via the Port of New York. Michaela claims she was nowhere near the port and doesn’t know anything about an illegal immigrant.
Drea, her ex-partner and friend (and mole on the inside of the Registry), secretly flashes her a note saying to meet at the park bench. She does as instructed and Jared (J.R. Ramirez) shows up with news NYPD is tasked with bringing Henry in. They’re tracking him but Jared’s not sure how they’re doing it. He warns Michaela to take Henry someplace safe – and not to get caught.
Cal tries to convince his dad to get interested now that they’ve got a piece of the plane back. Ben only slightly perks up when Cal reveals it was his Calling that led them to the black box. Ben’s so fixated on Eden’s return that he’s willing to go on Aaron Glover’s 828-Gate podcast to talk about his missing child.
Cal knows that’s not a good idea, but he can’t convince Ben to take a step back and think things through.
Saanvi returns to work, and Henry’s excited Vance (Daryl Edwards) has found him a safe house. Henry shows off a scar on his forearm that resembles a dragon, and explains that his father said the dragon lives inside him and makes him strong. He survived weeks at sea and two years as a lab rat, and that inner dragon helped him through it.
Henry used a breathing technique and came to believe that he and the black box were humming in sync. Inside the humming, he heard voices buried beneath the black box’s hum. He couldn’t make them out, but with Saanvi’s help that might change.
She plays the recording and Henry has her and Vance listen carefully. He hears the “voices on top of voices” again, but neither Vance nor Saanvi hear anything. Saanvi enhances the frequency and Henry notices a different machine that tracks seismic activity fires up and starts responding. Saanvi quickly works to disconnect that machine, worried they’re causing real-world damage.
A short while later Saanvi learns the machine isn’t recording seismic tremors; it’s detecting ultra-low frequency emissions that can’t be heard by the human ear.
Michaela arrives and says they need to take Henry out now, and Vance instructs Michaela to drive Henry to a safe location. Unfortunately, Michaela’s unable to get away from the cops and Henry gives himself up to save Michaela.
As he surrenders, Henry has a Calling of himself and Cal on the plane. Cal’s looking out the window at an active volcano and then turns to Henry who’s reaching out his hand.
Cal experiences the same Calling.
Michaela heads back and asks Vance to use any resource he can to retrieve Henry.
Adrian (Jared Grimes) is the next 828 passenger called into the Registry. He’s in the middle of denying anything interesting has happened to him recently when he has a quick Calling. He manages to play it off as a cold.
Ben asks Zeke (Matt Long) to use his empath skills to see if any of the callers on Aaron’s podcast have real info on Eden.
As the interview gets underway, Zeke calls Michaela to tell her what Ben’s up to. She can’t believe he’s exposing the family right now since the cops are watching them because of Henry. Michaela also confesses it was Jared who told her Henry was about to be scooped up by the NYPD.
Jared is still a touchy subject since Michaela confessed after Grace’s funeral that she still has feelings for him. However, she will always choose Zeke – she loves him that deeply.
Cal arrives with news about the Calling and is adamant that he meets with Henry. He knows Henry was trying to tell him something but not what he was attempting to say.
Cal listens to the radio as Ben begs for help on Aaron’s podcast. Aaron asks about Cal and Ben stumbles through a reply that he’s focusing on his three-year-old daughter. Ben says Cal made a choice to run away while Eden’s an innocent victim.
Michaela assures Cal that Ben’s just trying to protect him.
Vance learns where Henry’s locked up and since they can’t break him out, they’re going to break Cal in.
Angelina (Holly Taylor) and Eden arrive at a new hideout which turns out to be a trap.
Michaela and Cal make it to the Registry and Cal has strict instructions on what to do to see Henry. He’ll have two minutes, tops.
Cal pretends he’s reporting something on an 828er and then quickly makes his way to where Henry’s being examined. Drea gets rid of the person watching Henry and Cal uses his alone time to learn everything he can. Henry believes Cal has everything he needs right now and that his own journey is complete. He’s had numerous Callings about Cal and now has faith Cal can do what’s necessary to complete this journey.
“You’re a dragon, Cal, just like me,” says Henry.
Cal doesn’t understand but Henry assures him he will.
Zeke didn’t get anything off of the callers and suggests Ben has room in his heart for his whole family. Ben doesn’t want to hear it and rushes off when Aaron calls about a woman who reached out with Angelina’s location. Zeke goes with him.
Ben and Zeke follow the lead and it brings them to within a few hundred yards of Anna’s house. Ben knows she has a security camera and Anna seems helpful but claims the camera’s not real. Zeke senses she’s lying and nervous, and Anna finally confesses she hid Angelina for a while. Angelina manipulated her and told her awful things about Ben. Anna confirms Eden is alive, but she doesn’t know where they are now.
Anna shows Ben the room Angelina used and some of Eden’s toys are on the floor. Ben also spots drawings Eden made, including one of a windmill. Zeke’s able to experience Ben’s overwhelming emotions as Ben hugs a piece of clothing Eden left behind.
Adrian’s Calling leads him to Refuge Acres where Angelina and Eden are currently being held captive. He spots a boarded-up window and rips away the wood. Angelina and Eden sneak out the window and escape.
Adrian drives Angelina and Eden away from the building and a short while later he stops the car to have it out with Angelina. She claims he’s the one who told her to get her guardian angel and that’s why she kidnapped Eden. Adrian can’t believe she thought he meant to kill Grace and take Eden, but Angelina’s convinced it was the only way she could get her guardian angel. Angelina’s certain it was the right decision since Eden’s Calling led Adrian to them.
Michaela calls Drea to thank her minutes before Drea gets into bed with Jared. And speaking of romance, Zeke intercepts Michaela on her way home and delivers a kiss and says he has everything he wants. He also believes there’s room in Michaela’s heart for everyone lucky enough to be loved by her – including Jared.
He holds her tight as they look up at the stars.
They return home and Michaela’s ecstatic that Ben’s confirmed Eden’s alive. She even joins him in the attic to work on the new clues.
Cal’s in his room when suddenly Henry’s dragon-shaped scar appears on his forearm.
Saanvi’s alone listening to the black box recording when she does as Henry suggested. She takes a deep breath and mediates, connecting to the recording. She hears a jumble of voices including one that says, “Don’t worry, angel.” The rest of the voices are reciting Callings, and she even hears Ben and Cal say, “It’s all connected.”
The team attempts to figure out why there’s a footprint at a crime scene that looks like it was left by Bigfoot on CBS’s CSI: Vegas season two episode seven. Directed by Benny Boom from a script by Tom Szentgyorgi, episode seven – “Burned” – will air on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 10pm ET/PT.
The second season stars Paula Newsome as Maxine Roby, Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows, Matt Lauria as Joshua Folsom, and Mandeep Dhillon as Allie Rajan. Ariana Guerra plays Detective Serena Chavez, Lex Medlin is Beau Finado, and Jay Lee is Chris Park.
Episode seven guest stars include Sara Amini, Luke Tennie, Cyd Strittmatter, Robert Picardo, and Brady Hender.
“Burned” Plot: A mysterious bigfoot-like footprint found near a crime scene puzzles the CSI team as they work to uncover who – or what – killed a father and son.
CSI: Vegas, the sequel to the Network’s global hit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, returns for a second season in Las Vegas – the city where it all began. Amidst the neon lights and long shadows, dark threats continue to lurk in Sin City. Maxine Roby leads her brilliant team of Crime Scene Investigators – Joshua Folsom, Allie Rajan, Detective Serena Chavez, Chris Park, and Beau Finado – as they use science to solve baffling cases. Catherine Willows returns to help the CSIs face off with a dealer of death who is planning to beat the odds in Las Vegas.
This combined force will deploy the latest forensic techniques to do what they do best – follow the evidence – in order to preserve and serve justice in Sin City.
Manifest series creator Jeff Rake will finally have the opportunity to answer all the lingering questions with the much-anticipated fourth – and final – season, premiering on Netflix on November 4, 2022. Viewership numbers for seasons one and two on the streaming service were so impressive that Netflix executives made Manifest fans’ dreams come true by granting the canceled series one final season.
Season four is divided into two parts, with the first 10 episodes arriving on Nov. 4th. The final 10 episodes will follow in 2023.
Manifest season four episode one picks up two years after Angelina (Holly Taylor) murdered Ben’s wife, Grace (Athena Karkanis), and kidnapped their baby, Eden. The story also picks up with Cal, who aged five years during the season three finale, now seven years older and still very confused about what’s happened to him. Plus, he’s shouldering the blame for allowing Angelina back in the house, a decision that got his mother killed and nearly destroyed his family.
Rake teased this season will be more event-filled, given that he’d originally planned to tell the story in six seasons. He has also promised our questions will be answered.
“It’s going to become increasingly clear to the passengers that the ‘callings’ are somehow divinely sourced and this is not just about them,” said Rake in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum. “This is either a gift or a burden — an opportunity to wake up the world and realize that it is all connected and that we all need to be better if we want to keep living in this world.”
And now the recap of season four episode one:
An elderly man escapes being experimented on in Shanghai Province, China, as “Touch-and-Go” begins.
Our first look at Ben Stone (Josh Dallas) shows he’s neglected to take care of himself since Grace died. He’s grown a straggly beard and looks disheveled as he distributes flyers asking for help finding his missing baby.
He posts a flyer of Eden over a flyer asking for help locating Cal.
A flashback shows the night of Grace’s murder and Olive (Luna Blaise) telling her dad that Angelina did it and took Eden. The Stones’ house is a crime scene, and the police are searching for Angelina. Cal, now played by Ty Doran, gets a look at his suddenly older face in a rearview mirror and is understandably shocked.
Back to current events… Ben pleads with Jared (J.R. Ramirez) to run more Amber Alerts on Eden. Ben’s still holding out hope, but Jared knows the chances of finding her are slim.
Meanwhile, Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) and Zeke (Matt Long) are apparently still together because the first time we see them they’re in bed, smiling. Michaela’s been having dreams of cherry blossoms, but who cares about that when Zeke’s very kissable face is mere inches away.
Olive sits down for breakfast with Cal, who now goes by Gabriel to the outside world since it would be impossible to explain how he suddenly aged up. Michaela and Zeke briefly join them (everyone lives together) and Zeke fills us in on everyone’s work situations by explaining the “muggles” work while the 828ers have more important things on their plates.
After the muggles leave, Michaela tells her nephew he’s lucky. No one knows who “Gabriel” is, but the 828 Registry definitely knows all about her.
Cal’s bummed because his dad basically ignores him. He’s not even supposed to enter Ben’s room.
Michaela has a brief Calling of floating in water with cherry blossoms and it’s revealed Cal hasn’t had a Calling in two years. She saw blossoms, the ocean, and a freighter. She heads down to the port to try and figure out what it means while Cal stays home just in case Ben shows up.
Sporting an NYPD cap and an orange vest, Michaela snoops around the port and spots a freighter with two cherry blossoms on the side. She walks through cargo containers until she spots one with the flowers. Inside are a bunch of boxes and the elderly man from the beginning of the episode. He’s got “Stone 828” carved into his arm.
The man’s in bad shape and Michaela, with the reluctant help of two dockworkers, gets him into her car and drives off.
Over at the Bird’s Nest, a man works his way carefully and methodically through shots of the ocean looking for the missing plane, while Saanvi Bahl (Parveen Kaur) watches the Eureka footage for the umpteenth time. Robert Vance (Daryl Edwards) thinks she has better things to do, like analyzing Cal’s tests. She’s already done that, and he’s still just Cal…but bigger.
Saanvi’s been looking at this footage for 23 months and still isn’t any closer to figuring out why 828 disappeared from Eureka or where it went. Vance thinks she’s grasping at straws but Saanvi refuses to give up.
Ben makes it home and doesn’t even bother saying hi to Cal. He heads up to the attic which is filled with articles, photos, and maps relating to his search for answers. A wind blows through the attic, rustling all the papers and photos. Cal joins his dad but doesn’t feel any wind.
A photo of Anna Ross is the only one still moving and after Ben touches it, the wind stops. Anna is the interpreter who helped Cal when he got sick after making a connection with a passenger. Cal knows that means Ben should go to Anna, but Ben refuses. He’s not chasing any more Callings. Michaela can do it if she wants.
Ben’s concentrating on Eden and nothing else matters. Cal volunteers to go but Ben’s adamant he remains hidden. If someone figures out that he aged up, NSA will lock him away and make him into a human guinea pig.
Ben reluctantly gives in, reminding Cal to take his Gabriel ID.
We’re given our first glimpse at what Zeke does for a living when he’s shown counseling a man with addiction problems. He holds the man’s hand (remember, Zeke can feel what others are feeling) and tells him to stop trying to hide from his pain. It’s okay to let it out.
The man begins crying and the session ends with a hug.
Michaela drives like a bat out of hell and brings the injured stranger to Vance’s team. Saanvi immediately gets to work determining what’s wrong. It appears he’ll pull through and Vance reveals the man’s an 828er they thought was executed in Singapore two years ago. His name’s Henry Kim and he wasn’t on their radar because he’s supposed to be dead.
Michaela notes he was supposedly executed the day she quit the force.
Henry wakes up and immediately asks for Cal.
Cal drops in on Anna and introduces himself as a cousin of the Stones. He thanks her for helping Michaela save Cal and then explains Ben’s having a vision of wind blowing. He wonders if she’s experienced a similar vision, and she steps outside her home to answer. (She thinks the 828 Registry bugged her house.) Cal’s forced to reveal Ben’s not in a good place mentally or else he’d have come himself.
Anna had Callings yesterday and today and had the urge to pick up a pen and draw a windmill. She also drew gravestones and when Cal pulls up a photo of a cemetery, she confirms it matches what she drew. A text from Michaela needing his help ends his conversation with Anna.
Michaela heads home and tells Ben they think Henry’s execution was faked so China could use him as a lab rat. Michaela thinks it might be the breakthrough they’re looking for but Ben’s too distracted to listen.
She has it out with her brother, asking him not to give up on the Callings because the death date is a year and a half away. He doesn’t care. Without Eden, life’s pointless.
Michaela’s had enough and reminds him he still has a family that needs him – she includes herself in that group – and she won’t let him give up on them. When she describes his search for Eden as a pipe dream, Ben warns her not to call it that. Michaela feels like he dumped everything on her, and now it’s up to just her to save all the passengers.
“At this point, I have zero faith in the Callings saving any of us,” says Ben. Michaela asks him to consider that he might be wrong.
Cal joins them and Michaela has Ben fetch Henry’s file. Cal shares what he learned from Anna and that she’s heading to a cemetery in Ramapo to figure out what it means. Anna could use his help, but Ben doesn’t care. He thinks Michaela should handle it.
After they leave, Ben starts sobbing.
Before they can head out, Jared arrives at the door with something for Ben. (He’s happy to see Cal and teases him about his stubble.) It’s awkward between Jared and Michaela, and they slip out without talking about anything personal.
Jared joins Ben in the attic and delivers the bad news that Eden’s been legally declared dead. NYPD closed her missing person’s file and that’s why the detectives no longer return Ben’s calls. Inside the folder is Eden’s death certificate. Still, Ben refuses to believe it’s possible.
Jared reminds him Eden and Angelina’s fingerprints were found on a bridge and her backpack was found floating in the Narrows. The currents would have pulled them into the Atlantic; that’s why they never found any bodies.
Ben won’t budge. He insists Eden’s still alive.
A flashback shows the Stone family and Zeke in the frantic days after Eden went missing. It also shows the day a much older Cal returned to home. It was an emotional homecoming until Olive accused him of letting Angelina back into the house. Cal confessed he told her about the spare key.
Olive reminded him he was told not to trust Angelina and that their mom wanted her gone. He didn’t listen and now their mom’s dead and Eden’s missing. She screamed at him that it was all his fault.
Cal was an emotional wreck and only Zeke helped him get cleaned up.
Back to current events and Zeke arrives at the Bird’s Nest offering to help. He holds Henry’s hand and Henry immediately calms down. His vitals also return to normal.
Zeke leaves, claiming he has to get back to work. Once out of sight, his body is wracked with pain from touching Henry.
Henry’s able to tell Saanvi and Vance that he had a box with him that needs to get to Cal.
Back at the Stone place, the wind blows Eden’s death certificate to Ben. He finally really looks at it and sees the background is a windmill and the arms are turning. Ben’s pretty sure the cemetery Anna is visiting has something to do with Eden.
Ben races over to the cemetery and meets up with Anna. She’s not sure what the calling means or what they’re looking for. He shows her the death certificate and says he’s never been more certain that she’s alive.
The wind kicks up as they look around, and the weathervane moves to point a different direction. He’s sure this calling will lead them to Eden. They head off and Ben hears a small child calling out for “Daddy.” He races to the child and picks it up, but it’s not Eden.
The boy’s father is nearby in the river, unconscious and near death. Anna screams at Ben to save him and Ben carries him from the river.
Unfortunately, by the time Michaela and Cal get to the port Homeland Security’s already there. Cal insists that doesn’t matter; they need to find Henry’s box now.
Cal convinces Michaela he can do this by himself since Homeland Security doesn’t know who he is. Cal puts in air pods and walks way too fast toward the container. Michaela invited Vance to the operation via phone and he watches Cal through video cameras at the port. He tells Cal to stop walking because the Feds are near the container.
Jared shows up by Michaela’s car and warns her there are lots of cops on the way. A call about 828 activity went out over the scanner and the port will soon be crawling with officers. Jared can’t help her and is shocked that after six months he’s now seen her twice in one day.
He’s happy she’s happy now but wonders where Cal is.
Meanwhile, Cal’s made it into the container while Vance advises him the Feds are getting closer. Cal realizes he’s having his first Calling in years when he hears ticking that Vance doesn’t. Cal finds what’s ticking and it’s not just any box – it’s Montego Airways Flight 828’s black box!
Cal has a flashback and recalls Saanvi comforting him when his own family didn’t. He told her all the answers are on the plane and asked to be taken back to Eureka. Saanvi had to break the news the plane’s gone.
Cal returns to real-time and is smiling while holding the black box. Michaela notices he’s in a good mood for once, and he explains that for two years he’s been trying to figure out where it all went wrong. Today he had a Calling and maybe, just maybe, he has a chance to fix everything.
“It feels like the plane’s sort of come back to me now,” says Cal.
Vance and Saanvi verify it’s the exact same black box they spent years examining. They have no idea how Henry ended up with it after the plane vanished from Eureka.
Cal wonders where the plane is since the box came back. Henry calls out for him (he’s been calling Cal “boy”) and although the elderly man doesn’t open his eyes, he knows Cal’s the right boy when he holds his hand.
Ben texts Michaela that it wasn’t Eden, and Michaela and Cal head out to be with him since he’s had a really rough day.
Ben watches the injured father hold his young son tightly in the ambulance. Anna assures Ben she’ll pray for Eden.
Saanvi and Vance listen to the black box and hear a man say, “Help me!” They sync the voice recording from the black box with surveillance footage from Eureka. “The black box recording is from the original flight, so how the hell do we hear them in Eureka?”
Saanvi doesn’t know but is sure the box is back for a reason. She thinks maybe Daly the pilot is still out there somewhere.
Ben returns home and gets a big hug from Olive. Cal thought that since he had a Calling something good would happen, and Michaela points out that Ben just saved a dad from drowning. The family sits down for a talk, and Olive thinks maybe it’s time to say goodbye.
Ben confesses he still struggles to breathe since Grace is gone. He owes finding Eden to Grace. He insists he must hang onto that hope. Ben tosses Eden’s death certificate in the fire.
Anna has a Calling involving ashes. A child’s drawing of a windmill on the refrigerator flaps in the breeze. She enters a bedroom where Angelina’s watching Eden draw pictures of windmills and asks to speak with Angelina. Anna tells Angelina that Ben had the same Calling as Eden and she helped him save a drowning man. Anna’s sure something terrifying is coming.
Eden ignores all this, calls Angelina “mommy,” and asks for a cookie.
Mathew Baynton, who played Thomas Thorne in the original British version of Ghosts, guest stars as an actor playing Pete on CBS’s Ghosts season two episode seven. Directed by Nick Wong from a script by Sophia Lear, episode seven – “Dumb Deaths” – will air on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 8:30pm ET/PT.
Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar return as Samantha and Jay, the living residents of the mansion. Reprising their roles as the resident ghosts are Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, Richie Moriarty as Pete, Danielle Pinnock as Alberta, and Asher Grodman as Trevor. Román Zaragoza stars as Sasappis, Sheila Carrasco plays Flower, Rebecca Wisocky is Hetty, and Devan Chandler Long plays Thorfinn.
Amir Talai, Dana Gourrier, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Rose Abdoo, Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, Adam Bernett, and Marc Antoine-Kelertas guest star.
“Dumb Deaths” Plot: When a television documentary crew comes to Woodstone Mansion to shoot an episode of “Dumb Deaths,” Pete confronts a hard truth about the day he died.
Ghosts is a single-camera comedy about Samantha and Jay, a cheerful freelance journalist and up-and-coming chef from the city, respectively, who threw both caution and money to the wind when they decide to convert a huge rundown country estate they inherited into a bed & breakfast – only to find it was inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents who now call it home. The departed souls are a close-knit, eclectic group that includes a saucy Prohibition-era lounge singer (Pinnock); a pompous 18th-century militiaman (Jones); a ‘60s hippie fond of hallucinogens (Carrasco); an overly upbeat ‘80s scout troop leader (Moriarty); a cod-obsessed Viking explorer from 1009 (Devon Chandler Long); a slick ‘90s finance bro (Grodman); a sarcastic and witty native from the 16th-century (Zaragoza); and a society woman and wife of a 19th-century robber baron who is Samantha’s ancestor (isocky), to name a few.
The opening of the B&B is a source of intrigue, anxiety, and curiosity among the spirits, but they’ll gladly put up with the commotion as long as they can continue to interact with a living inhabitant – Samantha.
