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.
Adrian wants her gone as quickly as possible.
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.
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