Cal’s able to tell Michaela that Violet helped Angelina with baby stuff before the cops arrive to take him in as Netflix’s Manifest season four episode eight begins. Ben’s concerned the cops will figure out Gabriel is Cal five years older and they’ll use him as a lab rat. He warns Cal not to say anything as he’s taken away.
Jared (J.R. Ramirez) stays behind to protect Olive (Luna Blaise) and Eden since the Stones are on Noelle’s radar after helping her daughter. They think Adrian is also on Noelle’s hit list since he definitely helped Angelina, and he’s just used his credit card to check into a motel.
Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) and Zeke (Matt Long) head off to the motel as Ben (Josh Dallas) shows up at the 828 Registry angry that they’ve arrested Gabriel without any evidence. He’s told by Captain Fahey, the new commander of the Registry, that Gabriel and Violet had an aggressive exchange…which is weird since the last thing they did was kiss. Anyway, they’ll run his prints and DNA and let him go if he didn’t do anything wrong.
Eagan has a Calling and sees what looks like a deserted warehouse. He hears Adrian calling out for help inside.
Adrian left behind all of his stuff, including his wallet, at the motel. There’s a cloth with chloroform on it by the bed, so Jared and Michaela correctly assume Noelle’s already grabbed him. Eagan’s only staying two doors away, and they inform him Adrian’s been taken by Angelina’s mom. Eagan panics since he also sort of helped Angelina. Plus, he stopped by Noelle’s house, so she knows his face.
Eagan demands to come with them and describes his Calling. He’s sure he can help them find Adrian if they let him stay at their home.
Back at the Registry, Drea’s able to get into the system and delete Cal’s fingerprints. She’s also able to discover info on Noelle’s family’s business and gives Jared the address to the family’s headquarters.
Noelle takes Angelina (Holly Taylor) to the empty warehouse where she already has Adrian tied to a chair. She wants her daughter to watch Adrian get cleansed from the world – like the others. Angelina finally figures out that her mom’s holding her prisoner and that she killed the passengers. She also realizes it’s all the people who helped her which is bad news for Adrian.
“She wants me to watch you die,” says Angelina.
Drea whispers to Ben that she’s worried about the lab tech taking Cal’s DNA sample. She won’t be able to delete it, like she did the fingerprints. Cal has to leave before the tech gets there.
Dr. Gupta arrives at the Bird’s Nest and confesses she feels guilty about the Major’s experiments. Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) wants to avoid the Major’s mistakes and Aria reveals that she copied the Major’s files. She hands over the flash drive and the files it contains show that the Major used sapphire during her experiments on 828ers to generate Callings.
Saanvi realizes the Major was using a higher grade of sapphire. Gupta also reveals the more pain the 828ers experienced, the clearer the Callings.
Saanvi calls Olive and explains they need a better grade of sapphire. Olive says Eagan’s there and Saanvi believes he’d be the perfect subject of an experiment to regenerate or enhance a Calling since he just experienced one about Adrian.
Eagan doesn’t exactly volunteer so much as he’s volunteered to become Saanvi’s guinea pig.
Michaela and Jared are allowed to look around Noelle’s headquarters by a disgruntled ex-employee. It’s filled with boxes and files; too bad Michaela doesn’t get a Calling leading her to the right file!
Cal continues to be interrogated and he describes his date with Violet, including the kiss which was the greatest feeling he’s ever had. And then two hours later, he learned she was murdered. He regrets not walking her home and thinks he might have been able to protect her.
Ben’s in the Registry waiting area when the microwave plays a tune he recognizes. It’s the same melody he and Radd heard during a previous Calling, and Ben hustles over to see him. Radd also heard the music which turns out to be the song he wrote for his son. However, this time he and Ben heard a slightly different melody. Ben heard the opening and Radd heard a different portion of the song. Neither heard the bridge that Radd wrote in honor of Ben.
Radd plays the bridge and they still can’t figure it out. Radd plays it slower, and Ben counts 10 notes which correspond to 10 numbers. The answer is a New York phone number. Ben calls it and it’s Dr. Alex Bates’ office.
He asks if Gabriel/Cal is a patient and pleads with her to tell him what’s going on. Cal’s in trouble and Alex admits his cancer’s returned. Radd quickly suggests if he has cancer, the Registry doesn’t have the resources to care for him. They’ll have to release him to Alex. Ben hopes Alex gets to the Registry before they take Cal’s DNA.
A short while later Alex, Radd, and Ben convince the Registry to release Cal just as the needle’s poised to take a DNA sample. Ben hugs him tight and apologizes for how he’s treated him. Cal says they’ll make it through whatever happens together.
Over at the Stone place, Olive is taking a deep dive into the different grades of sapphire. She believes they need an omega sapphire to tap into the Callings. Zeke’s with her and he looks horrible. He finally confesses he fell off the wagon and hasn’t told Michaela. Olive assures him she and Michaela believe in him.
Eagan makes it to the Bird’s Nest and Gupta and Saanvi hook him up to the machine. Saanvi’s going to copy the Major’s experiment but promises not to push it as far as the Major did. Eagan focuses on his recent Calling and Saanvi monitors the machines.
Suddenly Eagan appears to have a seizure and his vitals spike. There’s a flash and a faint glow in his memory center. When Eagan is disconnected, he claims he didn’t see anything.
Saanvi refuses to push it any further. As much as they all dislike Eagan, they’re not going to torture him.
Olive finds a lead to the last remaining omega sapphire. She calls Saanvi with the news and Saanvi realizes it was in the last fragment of Noah’s Ark which she threw into the fissure. Saanvi destroyed the only thing that would let her generate a Calling.
Saanvi confesses to Eagan they lost their shot at figuring out Callings because of the omega sapphire. Eagan realizes he knows its actual location but doesn’t share the information.
Jared and Michaela discover in Noelle’s paperwork the most likely location where Adrian’s being held.
And speaking of that secret location, Angelina’s able to free herself from her restraints but refuses to free Adrian. Noelle returns and prays for Adrian and Adrian tosses prayers back at her. She doesn’t care and is set on killing him, even as Vance, Jared, and Michaela enter the building.
Fortunately, they manage to revive Adrian (she tried to drown him) and take Noelle into custody.
Unfortunately, Drea says Noelle’s not the killer. She was caught on camera elsewhere when Violet died.
Zeke reads Eden a bedtime story and after he leaves her room, he’s overcome with rage. Michaela calls him just as Zeke realizes the killer’s nearby.
Olive checks the doors and sees the cop car is still parked out front. She lets the officer in and, of course, the man isn’t an actual cop. He’s the killer and he’s also Noelle’s husband/Angelina’s dad, Kenneth.
Zeke fights him over the gun as Olive races upstairs to protect Eden. Zeke’s shot in the leg as Kenneth heads upstairs for the “demon child.” Olive hits him in the head and then pushes him out the second-story window.
Zeke’s wound is easily patched up and now it’s Olive’s turn to feel a little guilt over killing someone.
Jared delivers Noelle to the Registry and the captain requests Jared transfer to the Registry. Jared looks conflicted about the possibility of returning to detective while being attached to an organization he despises.
Zeke confesses he fell off the wagon and Michaela reacts by hugging and kissing him.
Ben stands at the end of Cal’s bed and looks at his ill son. He climbs into bed with him and holds him close.
Olive leaves another message for TJ saying she’s had a rough day and would love to hear his voice. He texts her in response from a cab…right outside her front door! He’s been searching for an omega sapphire in Egypt and now thinks it’s in New York.
TJ (welcome back, Garret Wareing) asks Olive to go on a sapphire hunt and also for permission to kiss her. Permission granted.
Eagan shows up at a shelter to volunteer, led by a Calling that indicated the omega sapphire was there. That makes sense given the shelter’s inside the Masonic Temple of the Omega Order.
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