Manifest

Previously On "Manifest"...

The Meth Heads share a unique DNA marker,

just like how we share our own distinct marker.

Possibly explains why the death of one of them

led to the death of all of them.

What would you say to reopening the family restaurant?

All I do is bring bad things to the people around me.

That's not true!

Your mom is in the other room

packing up her dead brother's clothes.

Things are so much bigger now!

We're all in the same Lifeboat,

and we have been ever since we were brought back to life!

I have found sapphire on every subject that returned.

All my cards are on the table. Now's it's your turn.

Your cards are on the table only because I found them myself.

I let you in here, didn't I?

After you lied your way in.

I was protecting myself, like you taught me!

It's not every day that I meet someone who

makes me feel this seen and heard, the way you make me feel.

You can't go now. You're family.

You found sapphire on something else.

Is it another piece of the plane?

Something much older. We have work to do.

Why were you at Eureka, Ben?

I was getting my baselines measured

to go into testing tomorrow.

I'm their guinea pig to poke and prod.

We identified curious genetic markers

in both you and the control group of deceased returnees.

If you're referring to the DNA anomaly,

Saanvi broke that story a long time ago.

There is more.

It's a unique combination of iron, titanium,

and multiple other components, but together,

they crystallize to form sapphire.

Is that... what was on my hand?

Like a... a fingerprint of what happened to me?

Or what caused it.

What caused everything.

Wait, a-are you saying sapphire

triggered our disappearance and return?

These are hypotheses, far from being proven.

We still have a lot more tests and diagnostics to run

before we can be certain

or even begin to hypothesize.

with any degree of chemical...

Bursting into flames? How many?

Uh, 15, maybe.

I'm worried it may have to do with

the dark cloud hovering over Eureka.

A bunch of 828ers saw it, too.

Ben.

We received a shipment from the Vatican.

What'd they send?

It's a fossilized piece of driftwood.

I'm not sure what it is, but it made Dr. Gupta smile,

which I didn't think was scientifically possible.

Take me to it. It's under lock and key.

And they are insisting that you have to go,

and I doubt that they're gonna let you back in here

now that they have all the testing they needed.

Besides, I'm... I'm still trying to prove that I belong here.

I know. Alright.

Just... find out everything you can about this driftwood,

and I'll figure out what's going on with these passengers.

I'm on it.

Cal, we still hitting the school book fair?

Yeah. Just one more sec.

Hey, what's taking you guys so long?

Found it.

I knew it was here.

Okay, we can go now.

Okay, bud. Can we get going?

I seem to remember you telling me

that the organizer of the book fairs...

Aah!

Hey. Hey. What happened?

It just felt like the card burnt my hand.

I've never experienced a Calling like that before.

Feels normal to me.

Sorry, Cal.

I think I'm gonna have to rain check on the book fair.

Whatever the Calling was saying, it felt urgent.

That's fine, as long as Zeke can still come.

Oh, I don't know, bud.

I-I-I should probably help Mick with the Calling,

don't you think?

Yeah, I guess.

Uh, tell you what?

How about you guys go to the book fair,

and then if I do need backup, I will call you.

Okay.

Let's go.

Let me know.

Hey.

How you holding up?

Yeah.

Me too.

But me and Eden are gonna head out.

Are you gonna be okay here by yourself?

Olive's on her way back from her senior retreat, right?

Not 'til tomorrow.

I know it's, um...

I know it's hard, but I don't think

Pete would want you to stop living.

Well, I'm gonna take my own advice.

Eden and I are going to look at the restaurant location.

You're opening a restaurant?

A nice little cafe,

using our dad's recipes.

I think it'll be a nice way to honor my brother's memory.

You know who I think would really love it if you came?

Eden.

Uh... I would.

I just... I don't have anything nice enough to wear.

Just borrow something of Olive's.

You got a Calling, too?

Passengers bursting into flames?

Not exactly.

It's the World card from Al-Zuras's tarot deck.

I saw about 15 passengers' photos burst into flames

in Vance's office.

Morgan, Butler, Hall, Villa,

couple more towards the back of the plane.

Another woman at the front. I don't know.

It happened so fast, it was impossible to memorize it all.

You think our Callings are related?

They might be.

How? How are passengers connected to a volcano?

Based on what I saw this morning,

I think this is all about our Lifeboat.

Which passenger is endangering it?

What if it's not about the images?

What if it's about the numbers?

Roman numerals 21.

The rows on the plane.

21.

Lorraine Talebi, Rebecca Viega, Adrian Shannon...

None of these.

No. No, no, no.

Rachel Hall. 21E. That's it.

I saw her photo burst into flames in Vance's office.

The question is... how is she endangering the Lifeboat?

I guess these are the kind of homes you get

when you're in real estate.

No volcanoes in sight.

According to my file, Rachel and her husband Jonas

bought this house after they got married...

A couple years before we disappeared.

But he wasn't on the plane.

Hi, I'm Michaela Stone.

This is my brother Ben.

Uh, we're looking for Rachel Hall.

Rachel doesn't live here anymore.

I'm... I'm Hannah Hall.

This is my husband Jonas. Can we help you?

Uh, yeah.

Do you know how we could get in touch

with your ex-wife, or perhaps her family?

I'm her only family.

I'm her sister.

It may not look like much to the naked eye,

but this piece of wood potentially reframes 828

as no longer a mere bewildering one-off,

but as the next crucial piece in a metaphysical puzzle

stemming back millennia.

Indeed, it may just be the key to unlocking

not only why miracles happen, but how.

Dr. Gupta and I are counting on each of you,

working with your respective teams,

to run full diagnostics.

We need to understand what we have here, inside and out.

Can we get an iota of context?

All you need to know is it's the only recovered specimen

on the planet coated with the particular sapphire compound

Dr. Bahl identified.

One last thing...

I've instituted a change in our reporting structure.

All department heads will now relay their findings

to Dr. Bahl, who will in turn present them to me.

Excuse me, but w-why are we reporting to Dr. Bahl?

You're without a doubt the best and brightest scientific minds

ever assembled under one roof.

And yet, for all your collective knowledge,

not one of you were able to make the discovery she made.

In other words, she's the reason you still have jobs.

Any questions?

Very well. You're dismissed.

When 828 went missing,

I didn't know what to do with myself.

How do you grieve when you don't even know what happened?

Mm. It must've been excruciating.

I know it was for my family.

Hannah was the only one who understood

and felt the same pain.

Rachel was all the family I had left.

When she disappeared, it was... it was only me,

and Jonas.