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.
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