History Series / Manifest

** Adrian confesses that he's been ignoring the Callings, because he fears they're all the catalyst of the apocalypse and the Callings 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 further convinced him that the Callings are bad news.

** One passenger relates how she thought she was coming back to her husband in the suburbs. Instead, as soon as she stepped out of the hanger, she was served with divorce papers.

** Kelly, 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.

* ConnectedAllAlong: So many developments and connections between the passengers, what happened to them, and what happened in the past and Present are made that the ArcWords of the series are "it's all connected".

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: In "Tailfin", Ben believed that the reason they found a piece of Flight 828 is because the plane actually exploded and they died. And they've been resurrected, including the plane until it exploded at the end of the first episode.]]

** In "Dark Lightning," while attempting to recreate the conditions leading to 828's disappearance, he mutters "See you in 2024."

** [[spoiler: The third season finale ends with Grace being stabbed by Angelina and dying in Cal's arms.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After doing their best to follow the Callings while facing trials and tribulations like anti-828 prejudices and dangerous villains like the Xers, Jace, and Angelina, the Passengers that pass the judgment not only survive TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, but return back to 2013 on the time they were supposed to land, with none of the tragedies ever happening. Even the Passengers killed before the death date [[BackFromTheDead are brought back]]. Ben, Michaela, and TJ get to reunite with their deceased loved ones. Cal gets to have a normal childhood again, especially with Saanvi continuing her cancer treatment before she left to cure his leukemia. Those that remember vow to live their life to the fullest]].
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: At a club, Ben meets Adrian, thinking he texted for a meeting but Adrian claims to have no idea what he's talking about. Adrian replies he has no idea what Ben is talking about as Michela comes up, relating how, like Ben, she's realized most of the club is made up of passengers from the plane. They go back and forth on it before realizing someone lured the passengers here to kill them all.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Angry at Michaela for releasing Zeke from jail, Jared joins the Xers. [[FakeDefector Or so he makes it seems]].]]
* FairCop:

* FamilyThemeNaming: The names of the Stone family members of 828 - Benjamin, Michaela and Cal - are all of Biblical Hebrew origin.

* {{Forgiveness}}: A recurring element in the series as the Passengers and other resurrect are face with this decision. [[spoiler:Doing so is a key in passing the judgement]].

** Zeke needed to forgive himself for his role in his sister's death. A calling also leads him to forgive his estranged father for leaving the leaving after Chloe's death.
** In the SeriesFinale, Olive finds out that the final test [[spoiler:involves Ben forgving and saving [[ArcVillain Angelina]]]]. Though initially enrage and wanting revenge [[spoiler:for Angelina killing Grace and kidnapping Eden]], he ultimately chooses [[spoiler:to carry her unconscious self onto 828 before the end of the world could take her]].

* GilliganCut: 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!"

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title (including 'Pilot') is about something that has to do with taking a flight.

-->'''Grace''': Jeter retired.\\
'''Ben''': We'll tell him next season.
** [[spoiler:In the series finale, Cal ([[FountainOfYouth brought back to eleven-years-old]]) has no memories of the events of the series. Ben and the others think it's to help him and Olive have the normal childhood they were deprived off]].
* IJustWantToBeYou: As of "Bogey," Angelina seems to be going 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.

** The wolf is some episodes.

** The [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon]] in the finale basically means that [[spoiler:the entire Government of the United States, and especially people like the Major, Zimmer and company,]] never face any consequences for what amounts to years of systemic human rights violations. And while some of their crimes were [[spoiler:never committed in the new timeline]], it's implied or outright stated that some of them (such as [[spoiler:the Major]]) are quite nasty people even outisde of the extenuating circumstances related to the 828 flight.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Throughout season 2 the Xers attack and antagonize the flight 828 passengers, including Ben's family, and Simon White, the leader of the Xers, acts as a FalseFriend to Ben and his family so he can spy on them and figure out what they know. Eventually in "Course Deviation" [[spoiler:Jared, who was acting as a {{mole}} to infiltrate the Xers, lures Simon, his wife Erika, and three other Xers into a trap when they try to execute Zeke and gets them all arrested]].

** Happens again in the Season 2 finale. [[spoiler: Lightning strikes the frozen lake that the drug dealers are trapped under. It seems kind of out of nowhere, until the NYPD are searching the lake for the bodies of the presumed-dead dealers and turn up no bodies at all... implying that they time traveled in the same way as the 828 passengers.]]

** [[spoiler:While speaking to a pre-cave Zeke from the PlaceBeyondTime, Michaela learned that the two had several almost meetings before Zeke came out of the cave. One of them was that he was a taxi driver on the day that 828 was suppose to land in 2013, which becomes a plot point in the finale.]]

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: 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. When she rejected him for Zeke, he believes it's not the real Michaela. It's revealed that he used that anger to infiltrate the Xers.]]

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: In "Dead Reckoning", the whole situation made Grace realize how much her family's changed.

** Michaela is investigating the murder of a shop owner and keeps hearing a strange heartbeat. She bonds with the owner's nephew Carlos as she talks him out of seeking revenge on the killer. At the episode's end, Michela discovers that Carlos got a heart transplant from her late best friend, Evie, who died in an accident Michaela was responsible for. [[spoiler:Carlos returns in season 4, where it's revealed he was studying to be a therapist under Zeke prior to the latter's death]]
** In "Unaccompanied Minors", Ben and T. J. follow a calling and stop an old man from jumping onto an inbound train. At the hospital, they find out that the man in question is Zeke's estranged father, who left him and his wife after Chloe's death.

** In "Compass Calibration", Ben aids fellow passenger Astrid in trying to find a child in danger based on her Calling. At the same time, Michaela and Jared are investigating a bomb threat at a grocery and Michaela meets a clerk that is worried she won't make it in time to pick up her son from school due to the threat. Not only is clerk Astrid's co-worker from the grocery, the child in danger ''is'' the woman's son; the bomb threat was set up by her paranoid, anti-828 ex-husband so she would be held up and he could get his son to a doomsday center, only to now be in danger thanks to the Earthquake. And said father that Ben and Astrid go to confront: Calvin Webber from the first season.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Melissa Roxburgh's native Canadian accent is....pretty apparent, for most of the series.

** 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.

* PapaBear: Ben towards Cal, Olive, and Eden.

** Cal Stone collects LEGO, mostly the City, Batman, and Marvel theme.

* PronounTrouble: When Saanvi first refers to her ex-lover Alex in 2.3 "False Horizon," the script deliberately avoids any use of pronouns when discussing the character. This coupled with the gender-inconclusive name make for a moderate surprise when the character debuts in 2.7 "Emergency Exit" and is revealed to in fact be a woman.

** Adrian confessed that he's been ignoring the callings, because he fears they're all the catalyst of the apocalypse and the callings 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 further convinced him that the calling are bad news.

** In "Unaccompanied Minors", Michaela ignored the calling, which is telling her to let Kory go. She's worried about the consequences.

* ScatterbrainedSenior: When Michaela went to see the parents of her friend Evie, she finds that the mother has Alzheimer's. The dad stops reminding her about the accident since he can't bear to see her break down every 15 minutes, so she tells him she went out and will come back soon.

* ScienceMarchesOn: An InUniverse example. In 2013, there was no treatment for Cal's cancer and he was given six months to live. A potential treatment by Saanvi is just a theory researchers are thinking about. Five years later, the theory has been successfully developed into a treatment and Cal has a good chance of surviving his cancer.
* SecretChaser: Robert Vance, 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.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler: In "Wingman", Olive and Angelina believe that the resurrected are being judged, and should they fail at their second chance by their Death Date, they will die.]]
* SerialKiller: In the first half of Season 4, a killer is going after Passangers and traces a blood X on their hand, with the common trait is that they had helped Angelina in the two years between seasons 3 and 4. [[spoiler:The X is actually a cross, and the ''killers'' are Angelina's parents, who blame the passengers for Angelina's erratic behavior]].

** [[spoiler:In the second half, Michaela and Jared get together and spend months taking care of Michaela's father and helping Cal with the Callings. However, seeing how determined Jared wants to be a father for his and Drea's unborn child cause Mikaela [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy to encourage Jared to be with Drea so he can have a normal family as he secretly wanted]]]].
** [[spoiler:In the finale, Olive and T.J.'s relationship ends with T.J. returning to 2013 along with the other passing Passengers. And with Olive back to 11-years-old from his perspective, he knows he can't pursue a relationship with her anymore]].

* ShoutOut: Probably unintentional, but the living stone angel in "Unclaimed Baggage" resembles a [[Franchise/DoctorWho Weeping Angel]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'', where people vanish over the space of fifty years, come back all at once without having aged at all, and demonstrate strange powers.
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: [[spoiler:The passengers that fail their calling all die this way during the Death Day, as it was how they originally died when 828 exploded]].
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler:In the series finale, the shadow born from the eleven failed Passengers attempts to claim the others. Michaela, Ben, and the rest are having none of that, arguing that they have followed the Callings and saved so many lives despite being hated, tested on, and imprisoned. They push the shadow to the back of the plane before it fades apart, allowing the Passengers to survive the final judgement]].

* ThereAreNoCoincidences
* TheyWouldCutYouUp:

** [[spoiler: Zeke's mountain day trip took a year for some reason]].
** [[spoiler: In the finale, a plane takes off in 2024 and lands safely in 2013]].

* TokenReligiousTeammate: 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.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: 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, [[spoiler: Jared begins to connect with some Xers,]] and is seeing someone else.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Oh, Beverly. Her innocent, dementia-induced remark that [[spoiler:Eden is Angelina's guardian angel]] jumpstarts the latter's SanitySlippage and set in motion a chain of events that leads to great tragedy for the Stone family, and possibly the entire world.

* VideoWill: In "Wingman", Glen (the father of Mick's best friend Evie) left a DVD before dying of a heart attack, saying that he arranged for his wife Beverly to live at an assisted-living facility and given their house to Mick.

'''Zeke''': [[spoiler: 2017.]]
** [[spoiler: "I'm [Zeke's] wife.]]

** The second season premiere ends with Ben [[spoiler: kidnapped and finding himself met by a very much alive Vance.]]

** The final scene of the season 2 finale as a group of fishermen are baffled to find what appears to be...[[spoiler: the wreckage of Flight 828.]]

* WhosYourDaddy: Grace is initially unsure whether Danny or Ben fathered her baby. [[spoiler:It turns out that Ben did when Grace gets callings during her pregnancy.]]
* WouldHurtAChild:

** [[spoiler:Angelina's father breaks into the Stone's home with the aim of killing Eden, [[MisplacedRetribution blaming her for Angelina's fall]]]].
* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler:Jared has to do this twice while acting as a FakeDefector in the Xers. First, when he recognizes Michaela's union rep as one of the Xers, he has Michaela arrrested and detained at the station so the rep couldn't get her killed on the way to the courthouse, then brings Michaela in on his and Bowers plan on destroying the Xers from the inside. Then, when he discovers that Billy had captured Zeke when they plotted to gang up on Michaela, he tricks Bilyl into inviting Simon to the bar to see Zeke, while using the bug that Michaela left earlier to let her and Bowers know and prepare the police for the arrest, while recording Simon agreeing to kill Zeke [[LaserGuidedKarma to finally have the Xer leader exposed and arrested]]]].

* YouCantThwartStageOne: In season 4, [[spoiler:despite Cal and Olive's effort to protect Fiona and Saanvi's effort to save Daly's life, Angelina is able to get both of them killed [[MasterOfIllusion using her fake callings]], setting up the end of the world]].

* YourDaysAreNumbered: At the end of season one, it's revealed through a calling and Griffin's death [[spoiler:that anyone who died and came back, like the Passengers and Zeke, will only be alive the exact amount of time they were dead, at which they die in the exact manner they were suppose to, such as drowning for Griffin or death by freezing for Zeke]]. However, it is later revealed [[spoiler:that this only applies if the resurrected (or at least one of them if they were brought back as a group) fails to follow the callings and use their new life for good]].

** [[spoiler:In the finale episode, both Saanvi and Eagen are ready to embrace their [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion implosion deaths]] that befell the other failed Passengers, believing they deserve it for their sins. Thankfully, Ben and Adrian respectively are able to talk them about of their mindsets, saving them from a fiery death]].

** It turns out that the building where Eagen had his first calling in 2018 [[spoiler:is where the Omega Sapphire is located]].

** In "Wingman", Ben and Eagen save an unconscious homeless teenager from a deflagration in a museum. [[spoiler:The teen turns out to be the younger brother of Kory, one of the meth heads]].

** [[spoiler:While Ben and Saanvi get quite close in the second half and at one point passionately kiss, both of them hold their hearts out to another women (Ben with [[LostLenore Grace]] and Saanvi with Alex). Saanvi says that while she loves Ben, she can't get over Alex]].

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