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.
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