Ben accompanies Cal to see Alex and the doctor delivers devastating news as Netflix’s Manifest season four episode nine opens. Cal’s body isn’t responding to treatment and there’s nothing left for them to try to combat the disease.
Ben (Josh Dallas) refuses to give up even though Alex thinks Cal has days rather than months or even weeks left to live. Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) agrees Alex did everything she could, and at this point, the goal is to keep Cal as comfortable as possible.
“You should let the family know because you’re going to need each other,” says Saanvi.
Cal (Ty Doran) wants to keep it quiet for now and let Michaela and Zeke have the celebration they deserve without everyone thinking he’s going to die.
Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) and Zeke (Matt Long) are cooking when Jared arrives conflicted about the Registry job. Michaela believes Jared should take the job, and Zeke invites him to stay to help celebrate their third anniversary.
That evening they have a lovely celebration with the family, plus Saanvi and Jared. Cal’s looking like death warmed over, but he tries to keep up appearances and even asks for a little champagne. Ben toasts his sister (his rock) and Zeke (Mick’s rock and sometimes Olive’s rock) and Cal cuts him off, saying they both rock. Ben cheers them for showing them how to live for today and how to love.
Saanvi and Jared offer their own toasts to the happy couple, and Jared even says the best man won. Michaela and Zeke toast Cal for bringing them together as a couple.
Suddenly, the 828ers experience a Calling in which they’re on the plane during extreme turbulence. When it ends, the 828ers realize Olive (Luna Blaise), Jared, and Zeke were also on the plane in the Calling.
Saanvi describes it as feeling foreboding and Michaela believes they’re running out of time.
Saanvi and Michaela also saw the stowaway, Thomas, at the back of the plane.
Party over, they decide it’s time to examine the passenger boards for clues. Cal gets dizzy when he stands and Ben stays with him while Olive, Michaela, and Saanvi examine the boards. They believe Thomas is living off the grid after his boyfriend, Leo, went missing.
The compass starts spinning and then stops, and they assume it’s leading them to Thomas.
Cal refuses pain meds because he wants to work on the Calling. He recalls a seat light coming on at the end of the Calling and Ben discovers that was Marko’s seat. Cal believes he needs to see Marko right now, but Ben refuses to let him leave. Instead, Jared and Zeke come up with a plan to bring Marko to the house.
Eagan acts like he’s volunteering at the shelter but is actually trying to figure out the omega sapphire’s location. He and Kenroy are working in the kitchen, and Eagan figures out the guy’s name isn’t Kenroy when he fails to respond to his name.
Kenroy follows Eagan into a restricted area, certain he’s up to no good. Which he is. Kenroy finds him looking for whatever’s hidden in “this creepy maze.” Eagan’s able to convince Kenroy that God’s been telling him to go through this particular door. He suggests Kenroy help him and Kenroy reluctantly agrees.
Olive and TJ (Garrett Wareing) go over everything they know about the omega sapphire and Olive recalls seeing a reference in an old diary. It said something about a man from the Omega Order protecting a mystical sapphire but she doesn’t know what happened after that.
The sapphire is supposed to be incredibly powerful, and she believes that if they find it, they might be able to save Cal.
Meanwhile, Michaela and Saanvi follow the compass and it leads them back to the boiler room where they hid Thomas. A wall breaks down and Eagan and Kenroy walk through the opening, shocked to see Michaela and Saanvi.
Kenroy moves shelves away from a wall and exposes the name Leo inside of a heart on the wall. He demands to know who wrote it and Saanvi says Thomas did. Thomas wrote it because he was searching for the love of his life. It turns out Kenroy is Leo!
Leo had no idea Thomas was looking for him after 828 returned.
The compass points at the heart and Eagan breaks the wall and exposes another wall made of bricks behind it. Eagan explains 828er Logan was his cellmate and told him about the compass. It turns out Logan’s relative was a freemason and built the Masonic Temple of the Omega Order.
There’s an image of a heart behind the Leo heart, and Eagan’s positive this all leads to the omega sapphire. The group pitch in to tear down more of the wall and more images are exposed. Michaela facetimes Olive and TJ, and Olive and TJ recognize the images on the wall as the ones on the tarot deck.
The images have corresponding numbers and the group in the basement begins matching numbered tiles to each engraved piece.
Jared and Zeke manage to convince an attendant to let them take Marko out for a few hours. When Marko arrives at the Stone house, his breathing slows and he seems calm. His hand moves and Cal figures out he wants a pen and paper.
Marko draws lines and once Eden, Olive, and TJ join the group in the living room Marko deliberately drops the pen. Zeke can tell he wants something, and Cal suggests he needs a different color crayon. Marko accepts the red crayon and begins drawing again.
Now it’s obvious he’s drawing an erupting volcano. Olive recognizes it and grabs the world card from the tarot deck. Simultaneously, the group in the basement realize they’re missing the world card on the wall.
Ben believes this is why they were all in the same calling. “Your journeys go hand-in-hand,” says Olive.
Ben calls Michaela and after a brief discussion, Olive points out the only thing different on Marko’s drawing is his has fire. Michaela has an idea and pries open a grate under the images on the wall. They start a fire in the grate and suddenly every image on the wall lights up, with lava seeping through the bricks. The bricks then fall down exposing an etching of an Egyptian woman. There’s an opening in her chest and Eagan sticks his hand end and grabs the omega sapphire.
After he removes it, he confesses he was supposed to have found this years ago. His first Calling was leading him to this, but he didn’t understand. Michaela and Saanvi realize a previous Calling was leading them to the sapphire, too.
There’s a rumbling and the room starts falling apart. The rubble traps Leo and Eagan escapes with the sapphire while Michaela and Saanvi help Leo out.
They’re attempting to figure out a way to escape when Thomas shows up and runs to Leo. They cry as they embrace and reconfirm their love. Thomas reveals he was brought there by a Calling.
Before they leave, Saanvi sends a photo of the woman etched on the wall to Olive.
Michaela calls Ben with the news they found and then lost the omega sapphire. Jared pledges to help them any way he can, and he volunteers to take Marko back since Zeke’s leg is hurting a little.
Before he leaves, Eden runs up to Marko and sets the volcano snow globe on his lap. It’s Cal’s but Cal also thinks Marko’s supposed to have it.
Olive and TJ look at the photo and recognize the goddess Maat from TJ’s papyrus. Olive’s worried she’s losing everyone she loves, and TJ suggests they ask the tarot cards. Olive pulls out the death card, and TJ makes light of it – reminding her it’s about spiritual transformation.
Cal asks for his morphine and Ben helps him with it. Zeke experiences what Cal’s experiencing but shakes it off and leaves the room.
A short while later, Olive begs her brother to tell her the truth and he admits he’s dying. Olive sobs and pleads for it not to be true.
Alex fixes up Leo’s leg and Saanvi has a moment alone with her, and thanks her for everything she’s done for all of them. They hold hands a minute longer than necessary and only pull apart when Saanvi has a calling.
Marko’s being wheeled back to his room when the volcano in the snow globe erupts, shatters the glass, and then disappears. Ashes fall.
Eagan returns to his motel room to pack and when he picks up the sapphire, he also has a Calling of the ashes falling.
Back at the Stone house, the family’s gathered in support of Cal when they also see ashes and then are back on board the plane. This time Alex and Leo are onboard too as at the back of the plane flames appear along with lava.
“Dad, it’s not just us!” says Cal.
The lava spreads down the aisle as Ben says, “That’s why they’re here. Noah’s Ark…the apocalyptic Callings….”
“The death date isn’t just for the passengers. It’s for everyone!” adds Cal.
Eagan appears on the plane, holding the omega sapphire which is sending out beams of white light. They beg for him to hand over the sapphire and he tries to but disappears as Michaela reaches out her hand.
Ben sees the erupting volcano outside the plane’s window.
The episode ends with Eagan sprawled on the floor, head bloody. Someone stole the omega sapphire!
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