Attention, passengers. Here’s a “calling” you do not want to miss.

Before Manifest’s fourth season lands on Nov. 4, Tudum is debuting the premiere’s opening seven minutes above. 

When we left our Flight 828 favorites at the end of Season 3, troubled passenger Angelina (Holly Taylor) had just murdered Ben’s wife, Grace (Athena Karkanis), and kidnapped Ben (Josh Dallas) and Grace’s baby, Eden. “It’s just total devastation for Ben,” Dallas previously told Tudum of his character’s state of mind when we pick back up. 

From the looks of Season 4’s opening scenes, Ben hasn’t healed — despite a two-year time jump between seasons. “He’s left with a profound anger,” says Dallas. “And the thing about anger is that it begs to stick around. It robs you of your beauty, and you end up hurting the people that love you. He really checks out from the people that are still around him — and from the callings. He’s done with them. In his mind, they’ve not given him anything.” 

In the premiere’s opening minutes, a disheveled Ben is hyper focused on finding Eden — and sporting what Dallas affectionately calls “Ben’s grief beard” — putting up missing posters around the city and calling Jared (J.R. Ramirez) to ask him to double down on the NYPD’s efforts to locate her. We then flash back to the night he discovers his wife is dead and his baby has been taken. “Two years is a lot of time to skip over in a serialized television show,” Manifest creator Jeff Rake says. “And, of course, we don’t want the audience to miss out on anything, so we utilize a flashback storytelling device — not only in Episode 1, but in all 10.”

Elsewhere in the first seven minutes of the Season 4 premiere, Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) is experiencing — as far as these things go — a pretty pleasant calling, as she finds herself sprinkled with cherry blossom petals when she wakes up in bed next to Zeke (Matt Long). But, considering how callings usually play out, there’s likely much more nuance to it than some pink flowers. Indeed, by the end of the clip, Michaela is on her way to check out some shipping containers at the dock. 

The first episode also fully introduces us to the newly grown-up Cal (now played by Ty Doran), who — after disappearing and reappearing five years older in the space of one day during the Season 3 finale — is trying to figure out where he went, why he’s no longer experiencing callings, and how to connect with his bereaved father. That’s complicated by the fact that he’s pretending to be someone else to the outside world, lest they should question his rapid and sudden aging. 

That’s just one of the many mysteries that Manifest is set to answer in its final outing — and its first on Netflix after airing on NBC for three seasons. The series will also explore where the airplane disappeared to and whether the passengers did indeed die and have been resurrected. “It’s going to become increasingly clear to the passengers that the callings are somehow divinely sourced and this is not just about them,” says Rake of how the story unfolds this season. “This is either a gift or a burden — an opportunity to wake up the world and realize that it is all connected. And that we all need to be better if we want to keep living in this world.”

As you contemplate that, watch the first seven minutes of the premiere above and find out how everything is connected when Season 4, Part 1 of Manifest premieres on Nov. 4.

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