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Michaela Stone
Michaela Stone
Portrayed by: Melissa Roxburgh
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Michaela took Flight 828 so she could get away from her mother nagging her about making a decision about marriage. When she lands she finds out that her mother is dead and her boyfriend has married someone else.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In her narration, Michaela mentions she still has nightmares from a car accident. This turns out to be one in which her friend was killed.
- Dramatic Irony: Michaela was reluctant to marry Jared, and was gonna tell him "no" after Flight 828 lands. But, presumably shaken up the mysterious turbulence, she changed her mind and texted "yes", but her message didn't get through, and it was already too late.
- Fair Cop: She isn't too hard on the eyes to say the least.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Michaela almost always is wearing her black leather jacket, even indoors, and is the only character on the show who wears one. She's never once worn it zipped up, oddly enough.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Michaela tells her best friend, Lourdes, that she understands she is now married to Michaela's former boyfriend. Michaela states that she had been about to break up with Jared and Lourdes "is no fraud replacement." In reality, when the plane landed, Michaela had been about to accept Jared's proposal but realizes she has to accept he and Lourdes have moved on.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: Michaela goes to see the parents of her best friend Evie. The mother is now suffering from dementia and calling out for her daughter. Her husband enters to "remind" her that "she's at the market." He tells Michaela that he stopped telling her their daughter was dead because he couldn't stand seeing the agony of his wife happen over and over again.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Melissa Roxburgh's native Canadian accent is.... pretty apparent, for most of the series.
- Refusal of the Call: In "Unaccompanied Minors", Michaela ignored the calling, which is telling her to let Kory go. She's worried about the consequences.
- Secret-Keeper: Michaela knows Grace is seeing someone, and tells Grace she should tell Ben before he finds out on his own.
- Sentient Cosmic Force: In her narration at the end of the first episode, Michaela believes something chose her and rest of the passengers of Flight 828, it gave them a supernatural ability, summoned them back to the airport to watch the plane suddenly explode, and doesn't want anyone else to know about the circumstances of the passengers' disappearance. It sent them five and a half years into the future for some other reason besides giving them a second chance in life. Michaela outright suggests that it was God, though Ben is skeptical, citing Clarke's Third Law regarding this.
- Thought You Were Dead: After being presumed dead for five years, Michaela is homeless and most of her possessions are gone. Her family could not keep paying rent on her apartment forever and had to donate or sell off most of her items beyond a few keepsakes. However, she is still apparently employed by the NYPD because no one bothered processing the paperwork. But she is told she has to re-certify herself on everything from physical to gun training to a psych evaluation.
- Token Religious Teammate: Michaela initially is the only member of the cast who has a religious bent, and alone suggests the force behind the callings was God. She's also seen praying for guidance. Later though a passenger sets up a church based on the idea they are divine chosen ones, which Olive gets interested in.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Michaela and Jared since she returned after five and a half years. She still loves Jared who has moved on and married her best friend. However in "Crosswinds", it's revealed the reason he didn't see her at the bunker when she returned is because he still loves her. But in the next episode, Michaela realizes it was a mistake and doesn't want to ruin her friend's marriage. In season 2, their relationship has become more complicated due to his problem with her growing relationship with Zeke. Angry at Michaela for releasing Zeke from jail, Jared begins to connect with some Xers, and is seeing someone else.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In the season 2 finale, Ben gives a real loud one to Michaela for ignoring the call to let Jace go.
Ben Stone
Benjamin "Ben" Stone
Portrayed by: Josh Dallas
- Beard of Sorrow: In the two-year Time Skip between seasons 3 and 4, Ben grows one in the aftermath of Grace's murder and Eden's kidnapping. He trims it later in Season 4 after getting Eden back, resuming his Perma-Stubble look.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Ben and Grace have been praying for a miracle that would save Cal's life. They get their miracle, but at a tremendous cost to their family.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Grace accusses Ben of worrying more about helping out the other passengers (by following his callings) than caring about his own family. She largely gets over it when she sees Cal has callings of his own as well as Ben's actions being motivated mostly to protect his family (specially Cal) but it's still an issue that stings her every now and then.
- Fatal Flaw: While Ben tends to be level-headed most of the time, his Papa Wolf tendencies tend to cloud his judgement, leading him to more impulsive or operate on tunnel vision more often than he normally is.
- Forensic Accounting: Ben needs to find out what Unified Dynamic Systems is up to so he gets a job with the company that does UDS's accounting. He hopes to gain access to their financial records and thus track their activities.
- Gilligan Cut: Ben plans to join a company in hopes of finding clues to who's been setting up the mysterious farm. He assures Michaela he won't make waves and "I'll just blend in." Cut to Ben in the lobby as his young supervisor yells out "Flight 828 in the house!"
- Happily Married: Before the flight, Ben and Grace were together for 15 years.
- Hollywood Atheist: Ben is briefly mentioned as being an atheist, but except for some snarky comments by Michaela, this isn't portrayed poorly.
- Loophole Abuse: With Ben and Cal turning up alive, the insurance company comes looking to take back the payout for their life insurance. Ben counters that since there was naturally no clause covering something like this particular incident, it's perfectly legal for them to pay it back in tiny installments over several years.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ben's attempt to Depower Angelina in "Throttle" so she can't use Fake Callings against the Passangers instead leads to all the Passangers except Cal to be unable to hear the Callings.
- Not Helping Your Case: In "Cleared for Approach", Ben threatens Calvin Webber to stay away from his family, which only convinces Webber that he's right about the 828 passengers being a threat. The confrontation went online, which gets him more followers.
- Papa Bear: Towards Cal, Olive, and Eden. Cal's near death against cancer prior to 828 means he'll do anything to keep him safe.
- Technology Marches On: When Ben tries to check out his place for bugs, he notes that given the way technology has advanced in the last five years, he has no idea what such devices would even look like.
- Save the Villain: In the final episode, despite his justified rage against Angelina for killing Grace and kidnapping Eden, Ben ultimately chooses to help her get onto Flight 828 with the other passengers. It turns out to be the final test before their judgement, which he successfully passes
- They Would Cut You Up: Michaela tries to tell Ben about the voice she is hearing in her head but he tells her to not to talk about it because the government is just looking for an excuse to lock them all up and run experiments on them.
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- Jared gives one to Ben in "Cleared for Approach" for threatening Calvin Webber.
- From both Jared and Michaela in "Compass Calibration" when he not only accompanies Astrid to her Calling to Calvin despite the restraining order he has against Ben, but that he also injured Calvin in blind rage when the latter refused to tell them where his son was so the passengers can save him.
- You Are in Command Now: Captain Daly says this to Ben, saying that he must be the leader of the other passengers now, before he flies a plane into a thunderstorm with Fiona to try to recreate traveling in time and prove his innocence.
- You Have to Believe Me!: Says this a lot.
Grace Stone
Grace Stone
Portrayed by: Athena Karkanis
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Grace started seeing someone else (Danny) after Ben's disappearance, but eventually she gets back together with Ben.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Ben and Grace have been praying for a miracle that would save Cal's life. They get their miracle, but at a tremendous cost to their family.
- Contagious Powers: In season two, her pregnancy with hers and Ben's child causes her to have the Calling.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: The third season finale ends with Grace being stabbed by Angelina and dying in Cal's arms.
- Happily Married: Before the flight, Ben and Grace were together for 15 years.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: Used as a defense by Grace for not telling Ben she's been seeing someone else as he's so happy being back.
- Nothing Is the Same Anymore: In "Dead Reckoning", the whole situation made Grace realize how much her family's changed.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In "Dead Reckoning", Grace kicks Ben out for allowing Cal be near danger, as well as lying to her.
- Who's Your Daddy?: Grace is initially unsure whether Danny or Ben fathered her baby. It turns out that Ben did.
Olive Stone
Olive Stone
Portrayed by: Luna Blaise
- Brainy Brunette: Often does the research into historical and mythological connections to what the passengers of Flight 828 have experienced.
- Crisis of Faith: Suffers this following TJ's death.
- Overnight Age-Up: Olive from Cal's perspective, due to them being twins and Olive suddenly Olive having grown into a teenager, while Cal hasn't aged at all after Flight 828.
- Parent with New Paramour: Type 2. Olive is shown in flashbacks to have taken some time to warm up to Danny, but in the present, she directly tells her mother that she thinks of both Danny and Ben as being her father.
- Precocious Crush: Had one on TJ when they first met before Flight 828, age eleven compared to the collage student.
- Sole Survivor: Olive fears this happening in season 2 with not only Ben and Cal's death date but the possibility that Grace and her unborn sibling could suffer the same fate.
- Shared Family Quirks: Can get very passionate in research and investigation like her father. It's later mentioned that she shares this with her paternal grandmother Karen.
- Twins Are Special: Discussed. During the 5 and a half years that Flight 828 was missing, Olive remained convinced her twin brother was still alive while the others slowly accepted that they have died. She thinks that a connection between her and Cal was what made her believe she'll come back.
Cal Stone
Calvin "Cal" Stone
Portrayed by: Jack Messina, Ty Doran (teenager)
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the penultimate episode, Cal combines with the driftwood from the ark, recreating flight 828 for the Passengers to fly out of.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: Played for laughs when Olive reveals she's been keeping a lot of Cal's stuff in storage. Cal is happy as he hangs up a poster of Derek Jeter.Grace: Jeter retired.Ben: We'll tell him next season.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: In the series finale, when the Passangers that pass the judgement return to 2013 and return to their original age, he is the only one to not remember the events of the series. It's suspected this was a means by the forces at play to let him have the normal childhood he was deprived off.
- Littlest Cancer Patient: Cal is suffering from leukemia, before and after the time jump. However, five and a half years of advancements in medicine have led to a possible cure. His cancer returns with a vengeance in Season 4, such that Alex's immunotherapy treatments don't work. However, Zeke uses his empathic abilities to save him at the cost of his own life.
- One Degree of Separation: Saanvi was working on a revolutionary new leukemia treatment, which five years later has been implemented and just so happens to perfectly fit fellow 828 passenger Cal.
- Overnight Age-Up: At the end of the third season, after touching the tailfin and disappearing, Cal returns five and a half years older / the age he would be if he hadn't been on Flight 828.
- Pretending to Be One's Own Relative: Following the Overnight Age-Up, Cal has to pretend to be a cousin from the Stone family in season 4, since the government would take a strong interest of a child passenger suddenly getting older.
- The Reveal: In "Course Deviation", Adrian and Cal both have visions of three mysterious shadows of human forms. Adrian assumes they are demons controlling the passengers. In the next episode, they're revealed to be the shadows of Jace, Pete, and Kory whom Michaela arrested, ignoring the calls telling her not to.
- The Nth Doctor: Is aged up to the age he would be in the present in the Season 3 finale, now being portrayed by Ty Doran who will continue the role into Season 4.
- You Have to Believe Me!: Says this a lot.
Saanvi Bahl
Saanvi Bahl
Portrayed by: Parveen Kaur
- Accidental Murder: She sends the Major into anaphylactic shock in a desperate bid to force vital information out of her. Unfortunately the Major lunges for Saanvi's epinephrine needle, which gets smashed in the ensuing struggle, leaving Saanvi with no option but to flee and leave her to die. Her horror over this only gets worse in the following season, where the Major's daughter shows up trying to find out what happened to her mother, whose death is being hushed up by the DoD.
- Ambiguously Bi: During one of her sessions with her therapist (really the Major), it's implied that she has begun to develop feelings for Ben, though all she will say on the subject is that she's trying not to think of him in "that way" due to him having a wife and children. We later learn that she was previously involved with (and still has feelings for) a woman, Alex (who was also married, something Saanvi feels lingering guilt over). Ceases to be ambiguous toward the end of Season 4 when she and the now-widowed Ben sleep together, although it never goes anywhere since they subsequently both realize they'll never be over the loves of their respective lives — both of whom they are ultimately reunited with after being returned to 2013.
- Bollywood Nerd: Indian-American and a brilliant medical researcher/physician.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Saanvi and her ex-girlfriend Alex are both very feminine.
- One Degree of Separation: Saanvi was working on a revolutionary new leukemia treatment, which five years later has been implemented and just so happens to perfectly fit fellow 828 passenger Cal. This understandably convinces her there was some deliberate purpose to the whole thing.
- Professor Guinea Pig: In season 2, she starts human trials on herself to remove the 828-marker before the passengers' estimated death in 2024 and Zeke's death a year after his rescue.
- Twofer Token Minority: Saanvi was involved with another woman. Both are also women of color (Saanvi's Indian-American, her ex-girlfriend's African-American). Saanvi is thus far the only woman of color or LGBT character in the main cast.
Jared Vasquez
Jared Vasquez
Portrayed by: J. R. Ramirez
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: After Michaela's disappearance, Jared grieved her for two years but then moved on and ended up marrying her best friend.
- Face–Heel Turn: Angry at Michaela for releasing Zeke from jail, Jared joins the Xers. Subverted when it is revealed he is actually working undercover to take down the Xers.
- Fair Cop: Courtesy of the handsome J.R. Ramirez.
- Good All Along: In season 2, Jared appears to have a Face–Heel Turn due to Michaela choosing Zeke over him and throwing him under the bus to get Zeke out of prison. He seems to join the Xers against Michaela and the other passengers, even getting a new haircut to fit his new antagonistic role. But it is eventually revealed he has actually been working undercover against the Xers, and ends up saving Michaela and Zeke's lives.
- Never My Fault: In "Return Trip", Jared tells the Xers that he blames Michaela for destroying his marriage, ignoring the fact that he was the one who wanted to get back together with her. After she rejected him and got together with Zeke, he used that anger to infiltrate the Xers.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Midway through season one, Jared becomes increasingly possessive of Michaela, especially after they slept together. This leads to him continually disregarding Michaela's feelings and antagonizing Zeke culminating in Michaela's accidental shooting when Jared attacks Zeke. Jared remains unapologetic and obstructive paving the way for his Face–Heel Turn, or at least, Fake Defector.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Michaela and Jared since she returned after five and a half years. She still loves Jared who has moved on and married her best friend. However in "Crosswinds", it's revealed the reason he didn't see her at the bunker when she returned is because he still loves her. But in the next episode, Michaela realizes it was a mistake and doesn't want to ruin her friend's marriage. In season 2, their relationship has become more complicated due to his problem with her growing relationship with Zeke. Angry at Michaela for releasing Zeke from jail, Jared begins to connect with some Xers, and is seeing someone else.
Zeke Landon
Ezekiel "Zeke" Landon
Portrayed by: Matt Long
- Dark and Troubled Past: In "Cleared for Approach" Zeke reveals how his actions unwittingly contributed to the death of his little sister.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Midway through the fourth season, Zeke uses his empathy powers to save Cal from his cancer and dies in Michaela's arms.
- Discard and Draw: After surviving his death date, he loses the ability to get callings, but obtained new empathetic powers, allowing him to feel how others feel and knowing the best way to comfort them. He also has the ability to pull another's pain or ailment, which he uses in season 4 to cure Cal of his cancer.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: And how! After everything he went through because of his Dark and Troubled Past, he manages to make amends with his mother and father, falls in love with Michaela Stone and marries her, and even as he is slowly dying from frostbite, he uses the last of his strength to follow his calling and save Cal's life. He ends up being rewarded for all this by being healed of his frostbite and surviving his Death Date, allowing him to keep living with the woman he loves and the family he has gained. That is, until Season 4...
- Face Death with Dignity: While everyone tries to save Zeke from his frozen death, he accepts his fate. Subverted when he ends up surviving past his Death Date, allowing him to keep living.
- Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of the first half of Season 4, he uses his empathic abilities to save Cal at the cost of his own life.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Played with in regards to Angelina at first in "Compass Calibration". When Grace expresses worry about how attached Angelina is getting with Eden, particularly after Olive told her about Angelina trying to become like her, Zeke assures that he can tell that Angelina cares greatly for Eden thanks to his empathy power. But after Angelina nearly gets herself and Eden killed in a fire test thinking that Eden is her guardian angel, Zeke is horrified that he failed to pick up her less-than-sane intentions, though Grace points out that this isn't his fault as his powers only work on reading people's feelings, not predicting their next actions.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: When he was fifteen and his family were on a camping trip, he and his younger sister snuck off near a ravine, and he got caught up with a phone call from another girl. His lack of attention lead him to miss his sister falling down to a death, a guilt that haunted him for many years.
- Stable Time Loop: As it turns out, his relationship with Michaela was this. While he was in the glow after disappearing from the cave, he was aware of everything — including his own future — and was able to reach out to his future wife and comfort her following his death. As he began to return to 2018, he lost those memories, but Michaela was able to plant the thought "Find her!" in his head in their last minutes together, which was what drew the two of them together in the first place.
- Time Travel: Zeke's mountain day trip was actually a year.
Angelina Meyer
Angelina Meyer
Portrayed by: Holly Taylor
- A God Am I: Well, the next best thing, anyway. In the Season 4 mid-season finale, she becomes convinced that she is an archangel, sent by God to "bring vengeance upon the evil and to lead the righteous to salvation". Having the last surviving fragment of the Omega Sapphire fused into her hand only serves to reinforce this belief.
- Arc Villain: For the start of Season 4.
- Baby Be Mine: She kidnaps Eden to raise as her own daughter, believing she is her "guardian angel", and kills Grace to do so.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Pete's death even after he followed the Callings took a devastating effect on her mind, playing a part to her Sanity Slippage and her Face–Heel Turn.
- Killed Off for Real: Her failure to amend her ways in the finale leads her to die self-implode from a plane crash death in the final judgement. When 828 arrives to 2013, she is among the 11 passengers that do not arrive with the protagonists.
- I Just Want to Be You: As of "Bogey," Angelina goes down this path regarding her relationship with Olive. She dyes her hair to match Olive's, wears her clothes, and tries to kiss Levi after Olive told her about her crush on him.
- Master of Illusion: The Omega Sapphire gives her the power to make Fake Callings to passengers or children of passengers.
- Manipulative Bitch: Becomes this during the events of season 4. She convinces many passengers to help her by claiming that Ben and Grace were abusive to Eden and that she rescued the infant. She takes this further after she gets the Omega Sapphire and the power to make fake callings, especially using it to get Daly and Fiona killed to start the end of times.
- Moral Event Horizon: Angelina crosses it in the Season 3 finale when she murders Grace, kidnaps Eden (believing that she's her "guardian angel"), and flees to parts unknown. Adrian calls her out on her actions in "All-Call," as even he thinks she went too far.
- Never My Fault: How she frames her actions, viewing herself as the victim of betrayal even as her actions beget more and more violence. In spite of this, it's revealed she still feels regret over killing Grace. Her inability to come to terms with the violence leads to her demise
- Sanity Slippage: Falls through this from the second half of season 3 to the finale after Pete's death. First was trying to fit into the Stone family by becoming more like Olive, much to the latter's discomfort. Then came her belief that Eden is her guardian angel, which leads to a fire pain test that nearly gets them both killed and culmnivates in killing Grace and kidnapping Eden. Finally in season 4, she convinces herself and a few passengers that she is an archangel sent to bring vengeance onto the world and uses the Omega Sapphire fused into her to reestablish her claim.
Robert Vance
Robert Vance
Portrayed by: Daryl Edwards
- Ascended Extra: After recurring throughout the first three seasons, he is promoted to starring in Season 4.
- Baldof Authority: He's bald, and he's head of the NSA.
- Disney Death: Supposedly dies in "Dead Reckoning", but is revealed to have faked his death in Season 2.
- Hero Antagonist: When a plane magically reappears after 5 years with no one having aged a day and he's handed the job of investigating it, he is incredibly, and reasonably, suspicious of those that disappeared.
- Papa Wolf: Invoked by Cal, who admits Vance initially scared him but after getting to know him, saw him as "just a Dad".
- Secret Chaser: The director of the NSA who leads the investigation on Flight 828, is determined to find out where it had disappeared to and whether or not the passengers are a threat to national security.
- True Companions: To Ben and the rest of the Stone family, if not all of the 828's by extension. Vance is ultimately one of their most stalwart allies and refuses to abandon them even in the face of danger to himself and his career.
Recurring
Drea Mikami
Drea Mikami
Portrayed by: Ellen Tamaki
Michaela's new partner at the NYPD, who eventually becomes her close friend. She is dating Jared in the fourth season.
- Friend on the Force: For the Passengers, especially as Anti-828 sentiment rises.
- Pregnant Badass: Spent eight months of her pregnancy working to free the Passengers in the detainment center after the government abandoned them.
T. J. Morrison
T. J. Morrison
Portrayed by: Garrett Wareing
A college student and Flight 828 passenger who becomes close with Olive and helps Ben try to solve the mystery of the plane's disappearance and return.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Returning to 2013 means that Olive is also 11 again from his perspective while he's a college student. For obvious reasons, he can't have the same relationship with her.
- Disney Death: Is thought to have been killed in the nightclub fire, but ultimately survives.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He holds back a deranged Isaiah so Ben and Olive can escape from the burning night club, at the seemingly cost of his life when it explodes.
- Momma's Boy: A positive example, as he was very close to his mother since they only had each other as family. The reason he went up on 828 was because he wanted to give the voucher as a surprise to her, and he is devastated when he learns that she took her life during the 5 years he was gone.
- Put on a Bus: Moves to Egypt at the end of Season 2, but returns in Season 4.
Adrian Shannon
Adrian Shannon
Portrayed by: Jared Grimes
A passenger on Flight 828. He is an entrepreneur who forms the Church of the Returned.
- The Atoner: Spends the days leading up to the death date making up for his unwitting role in destruction, such as the nightclub disaster and Angelina's Sanity Slippage
- Meaningful Name: In Mayday: Part 1, Adrian is likened to Noah, who some believe is the agent of the apocalypse, having called God to flood the world. The name Adrian comes from Adria, meaning "water".
- Refusal of the Call: Adrian confessed that he's been ignoring the calls, because he fears they're all the catalyst of the apocalypse and the calls are to give false hope. He formed the Church of the Returned to help the passengers stray away from them, but backfired horribly, which only convinced him more they're bad news.
- The Reveal: In "Course Deviation", Adrian and Cal both have visions of three mysterious shadows of human forms. Adrian assumes they are demons controlling the passengers. In the next episode, they're revealed to be the shadows of Jace, Pete, and Kory whom Michaela arrested, ignoring the calls telling her not to.
Eagan Tehrani
Eagan Tehrani
Portrayed by: Ali Lopez-Sohaili
A Flight 828 passenger with a photographic memory who aligns with several other passengers in opposition to Ben's leadership.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has some priceless one-liners:Eagan: (upon being offered a glass of water) Exactly what I need. More water.Eagan: (about Ben) I was supposed to pay a visit to Professor Dark Clouds.Eagan: (about Angelina) Oh damn, you're hiding Manic Pixie Murder Girl?
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In "Ghost Plane", Eagan almost can't believe his mother would fall for a scam that exploited her love for him because it never occurred to him that either of his parents could still love him after everything he's done.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Despite claiming that he's estranged from his parents, he is horried learning that his apprentice had tricked his mother out of her life savings, especially at the realization that she still loved him even after everything he's done.
- Freudian Excuse: In season 4, it's revealed that when he was young, he tried to defend an immigrant classmate from a racist bully, leading to a rough fight between them. He ends up expelled while the bully gets away due to being a star football player, leading to focus on his own benefits for most of his life.
- Jerkass: Usually looks out only for himself, even using the Callings to gain wealth.
- Unholy Matrimony: Invoked in season 4 when he proposes to Angelina, taking advantage of her desire for live so he'll be one of her chosen to survive the end of the world.
- Take Me Instead: When Adrian is about to be killed in the final judgement, he tells the forces at bay to take his life instead. This also saves his own life thanks to Adrian pointing out that he performed the ultimate act of selflessness.
Eden Stone
Eden Stone
Portrayed by: Penelope Rose Lang (season 4 in flashback), Brianna and Gianna Riccio (season 4 episodes 1-10), Paisley Day Herrera (season 4 episode 11-20)
Ben and Grace's youngest daughter, born in "Course Deviation". She has access to the calling inherited from her father Ben.
- Children Are Innocent: She believes Angelina's story that the straw keeping Fiona alive is a splinter and has no idea she actually killed Fiona. Olive and Cal agree to keep it that way. She also talks down a would-be killer with her sweet nature.
- No Infantile Amnesia: Very downplayed. When she returns in season 4 as a toddler, she can't remember her birth family and thinks that Angelina is her mother. However, she can remember the "Treasure Hunt" song Cal taught her, which she unknowingly uses to signal to Ben when she draws them in their shared calling.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Inherits the ability to see the calling from her father Ben, even back when she was in the womb.
- Unwitting Pawn: Thanks to Angelina uses the Omega Sapphire to take Olive's form, Eden is tricked into thinking that the straw that lets Fiona breathe is a splinter and is told to remove it killing Fiona in the process.
Bill Daly
Bill Daly
Portrayed by: Frank Deal
The pilot of Flight 828.
- The Bus Came Back: Makes a cameo return at the end of season 3, then a final return in "Final Descent".
- Deadpan Snarker: Captain Daly is a minor example, judging by his reaction to the ATC and the cops. "We have 191 souls on board, all of whom would love to touch down on one of your runways."
- In "Dark Lightning," while attempting to recreate the conditions leading to 828's disappearance, he mutters "See you in 2024."
- Despair Event Horizon: Invoked by Angelina in "Fata Morgana", where She takes the Visage of Daly's son, then insults and mocks him about his failure as a husband and father, and how his presence has been causing plagues across the detainment center. This causes Daly to break out of his cell and right into the line of fire of some trigger-happy guards.
- I Did What I Had to Do: In "Contrail", it's revealed that Captain Daly used "unconventional" methods to fly through the strange storm. Because of this, everyone blames him for it.
- It's All My Fault: Captain Daly blames himself for the passengers missing five and a half years of their lives.
- Just Plane Wrong:
- The plane involved in the incident is repeatedly stated to be a Boeing 737-200. This model has a maximum capacity of 136 passengers, yet in the first episode Captain Daly states that he has "191 souls on board", which is a lot more than should be possible.
- When asked for his aircraft's callsign, MA828, Captain Daly says it the way an ordinary person would: "Em Ay Eight Two Eight." A professional pilot would give it as, "Mike Alpha Eight Two Eight", especially if there was any suspected confusion.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Daly is determined to prove his innocence in the Flight MA828 incident by any means necessary, and to that end, he kidnaps Fiona Clarke and has her bound to the copilot seat of a business jet he has hijacked (because he believes she's somehow involved in the incident on behalf of the US government) and flies the jet into a thunderstorm so as to recreate what happened, with both Clarke and him missing after their fate is left uncertain.
Bethany Collins
Bethany Collins
Portrayed by: Mugga
A flight attendant on Flight 828.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: One of the passengers asks for a drink after the plane makes it out of turbulence. Bethany admits she needs one, too.
- Spanner in the Works: Flight attendant Bethany managed to smuggle Thomas onto the flight so he could avoid the persecution of gay people in Jamaica and find his boyfriend in New York. The plan was for him to be hidden on board and then leave with the other passengers when they landed. She never counted on the plane being diverted and scrutinized upon landing, or that five years will have passed.
Fiona Clarke
Fiona Clarke
Portrayed by: Francesca Faridany
A scientist on Flight 828 who is involved with Unified Dynamic Systems and the Singularity project.
Autumn Cox
Autumn Cox
Portrayed by: Shirley Rumierk
A Flight 828 passenger who has outstanding arrest warrants due to being a victim of identity theft. She was used by Laurence's superiors to find out what Ben knows about the Singularity project.
Asshole Victim: [[Spoilers: She joins up with Angelina's fanatatics. However, her self-serving ways catch up to her as she burns to death gripping Angelina's arm and accusing/begging Angelina to save her.]]
Kelly Taylor
Kelly Taylor
Portrayed by: Julianne Hanzelka Kim
A passenger on Flight 828 who went on national media to publically speak about her experience, leading to her murder.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Angst over being forced to take another flight home, tells the person she's calling that at least the flight is short. She says she never wants to fly Montego ever again, that she'd rather be dead.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Her reason for speaking out, according to her husband. He warned her not to, but she didn't care, as she had a "calling" telling her it had to be done.
- Ungrateful Bitch: In the second episode, Kelly tells Michaela she should have "played the cop card 8 hours ago".Michaela: You're welcome!
- Wham Shot: A literal example as the second episode ends with Kelly, the passenger who had been talking of a possible government conspiracy watching footage of herself on the news... just before she's shot in the head.
The Major
The Major
Portrayed by: Elizabeth Marvel
A woman leading a government entity that is looking to weaponize the "callings" that the 828 passengers frequently experience, who poses as Saanvi's therapist to steal information on her work.
- Psycho Psychologist: Poses as a psychologist to get Saanvi to reveal information about her research in the Callings.
- Would Hurt a Child: Plots to have Cal captured and experimented on due to his greater link with the callings.
Tamara
Tamara
Portrayed by: Leah Gibson
A bartender who works at a tavern that is frequented by the Xers.
- The Bartender: She's a bartender who works at a tavern that is frequented by the Xers.
- Was It All a Lie?: After her brother and other Xers are arrested, she asked Jared if their relationship was just a cover to get close to her brother.
Billy
Billy
Portrayed by: Carl Lundstedt
Tamara's brother and an Xer.
- The Bus Came Back: Returns in the second half of season 4, trying to lure out 828-sympathizers and use them to find their safe house
- Fantastic Racism: Hates Passengers with a burning passion.
- Hidden Depths: While brash and hot-headed, Simon describes him as a master in getting others to join the Xers.
Simon White
Simon White
Portrayed by: Maury Ginsberg
An elite faculty member of the college that hires Ben who is revealed to be secretly leading the Xers.
- Big Bad: He essentially serves as this for season 2, due to being the leader of the Xers.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He is arrested with three episode remaining for season 2. The meth-heads fill his role as Big Bad for the remainder of the season.
- False Friend: He presents himself as a kind and friendly ally to Ben and his family, even helping Ben get a job at TJ's college. But he is actually the leader of the Xers, a hate group against the passengers of Flight 828, and he only befriended Ben and his family so he can spy on them and learn what they know about the flight and the other passengers.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He acted as a False Friend to Ben and the Stones to learn what they knew about Flight 828 and the other passengers. His group ends up being infiltrated by Jared, and after he orders Zeke to be executed, he, his wife Erika, Billy, and two other Xers are arrested.
- Manipulative Bastard: Describe as why he's such a dangerous leader of the Xers. He uses his education and position to make his anti-828 statement sound legit and lure in like-minded followers. Then he rely on hot-headed subordinates like Billy to do the dirty work and leave his hands clean.
Isaiah McCann
Isaiah McCann
Portrayed by: Olli Haaskivi
A passionate but fragile member of the Church of the Returned. He starts a fire at a nightclub to show others that the Flight 828 passengers are miracles, but he dies in the act.
- Pyromaniac: He starts a fire at a nightclub to show others that the Flight 828 passengers are miracles.
Jace Baylor
Portrayed by: James McMenamin
The leader of a group of methheads that Michaela arrested who then escape and kidnap Cal for ransom. Comes back from the dead in season 3 hunting down the Stone family for revenge.
- Arc Villain: For the last three episodes of season 2 and the first half of season 3.
- Jerkass: Cruel to not just Cal but also to Kory and to Pete if they don't obey.
- I Have Your Wife: Captures and hold Michaela's nephew Cal to coerce her into giving back his meth supply.
- Nice Mean And In Between: The Mean of the meth-head trio.
- Redemption Rejection: He refuses to make a Heel–Face Turn like Pete and Kory.
- Revenge Before Reason: After coming back from the dead, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge on Michaela for arresting him for meth-dealing, even though it's pointed out that there's a manhunt for him and the other methheads.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Pete, he was once a caring brother before things went south for them.
- Would Hurt a Child: Not only kidnaps Cal to torment and coerce Michaela, but in season 3 he tries to kill him, thinking it will prevent his death date.
Pete Baylor
Portrayed by: Devin Harjes
One of the three meth-heads that were the antagonists of the season 2 finale.- All for Nothing: His efforts in redemption and following the callings are for naught, as Pete's vengeful soul takes him and Kory.
- Grew a Spine: Tries to stand up against his brother Pete when the latter plots to kill Cal
- Love Redeems: A part of his redemption is his mutual feelings with Angelina.
- Nice Mean And In Between: The Nice of the meth-head trio, and the only one showing for Cal's well-being in season 2.
Kory Jephers
Portrayed by: DazMann Still
One of the three meth-heads that were the antagonists of the season 2 finale.- All for Nothing: His efforts in redemption and following the callings are for naught, as Pete's vengeful soul takes him and Pete.
- One Degree of Separation: The homeless boy that Ben and Eagan rescue in "Wingman" is Kory's little brother.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Heavily downplayed, he tells Cal that the "Treasure Hunt" song he's singing to calm Eden is acting as a beacon for Jace to find him.
Steve Stone
Steve Stone
Portrayed by: Malachy Cleary
Michaela and Ben's father and Cal, Olive and Eden's grandfather.
- Alliterative Name: Steve Stone.
- Shipper on Deck: Michaela's parents are introduced via them trying to convince her to marry Jared. It's shown Michaela's dad was never happy about Jared moving on to someone else. In the present, he encourages Michaela to go ahead and fight to get Jared back even it means hurting Lourdes. It's not revealed how he feels about Michaela being with someone else now.
Karen Stone
Karen Stone
Portrayed by: Geraldine Leer
Michaela and Ben's mother and Cal, Olive and Eden's grandmother who died during the five years Flight 828 was missing.
- As the Good Book Says...: Michaela's mother quotes Romans 8:28. It was the last conversation they ever had.
- My Beloved Smother: In her narration in the first act, Michaela bemoans that her parents — especially her mother — are trying to control her life by encouraging her to get married to Jared. Her attitude changes once she reunites with her father, and finds out her mother died during the time skip.
- Shipper on Deck: Michaela's parents are introduced via them trying to convince her to marry Jared. It's shown Michaela's dad was never happy about Jared moving on to someone else.
Captain Riojas
Captain Riojas
Portrayed by: Alfredo Narciso
The police captain of the NYPD's 129th Precinct in the first season. He is succeeded by Captain Bowers.
- The Captain: He's the police captain of the NYPD's 129th Precinct
Kate Bowers
Kate Bowers
Portrayed by: Andrene Ward Hammond
The police captain of the NYPD's 129th Precinct who succeeds Captain Riojas.
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Lourdes Vasquez
Lourdes Vasquez
Portrayed by: Victoria Cartagena
Michaela's former best friend who married Jared after Michaela's disappearance. After learning of Michaela and Jared's brief affair after her return, she divorces Jared.
Danny
Danny
Portrayed by: Daniel Sunjata
Grace's boyfriend whom she met after Ben's disappearance and acted as a father figure to Olive.
