‘Manifest’ Season 4, Part 2 Ending Explained: Do 828 Passengers Survive The Death Date? (2024)

After four seasons, 62 episodes, and a post-NBC cancelation save from Netflix, Manifest made its final descent and stuck the landing.

For the past four years, Jeff Rake’s captivating sci-fi drama followed passengers of Montego Air Flight 828 who left on a regular flight home, experienced some epic turbulence in the air, and safely landed —only to learn they’d been mysteriously missing for five and a half years. Led by Ben (Josh Dallas), Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh), and Cal Stone (Jack Messina, and later Ty Doran), the group set out to piece together their unknowns, solve Callings courtesy of the divine consciousness, and save humanity before the Death Date on June 2, 2024. No big deal!

So how doesManifestSeason 4, Part 2 end? Do the Flight 828 passengers survive the Death Date? Is Angelina finally defeated? And does good prevail over evil? We’ve got the answers below, but be warned, major Manifest spoilers lie ahead.

Manifest Season 4, Part 2 Ending, Explained: Manifest Series Finale Recap

Despite various time jumps throughout the series, Manifest‘s finale picks up right where Season 4’s penultimate episode left off. Our core group of characters — Ben, Michaela, Saanvi, Vance, Cal, Olive, TJ, Jared, and Drea — had headed to Storm King Mountain to recover the piece of Noah’s arc driftwood Saanvi tossed into a fissure earlier in the series so Cal could carry out his Calling to unite two Omega sapphires. On Death Day eve, after everyone says emotional farewells to each other (just in case!) and falls asleep, Cal awakes in the middle of the night, walks over to the fissure, and sacrifices himself to connect the driftwood with his glowing dragon scar. As Cal disappears, a beam of glowing blue light shoots up from the ground and summons passengers to the area.

Season 4, Episode 20, “Final Boarding,” begins with the passengers at Storm King Mountain waking up on Death Day momentarily unable to breathe in what they believe is a preview of what’s to come. After they regain composure and come to terms with Cal’s sacrifice, Olive finds the World Card carved into a nearby rock and the group splits up in hopes of solving the mystery before it’s too late. Drea, Jared, and Olive say goodbye to Ben, Saanvi, Michaela, and TJ and head home to investigate.

After seeing the blue beam of light, Angelina and her “chosen eight” are en route to the site, so Eagan and Adrian tamper with their van to delay their journey. Meanwhile, news of dangerous volcanoes arising around the world overnight is all over the news and all signs point to the world fully ending by dark. As the day progresses, 828 passengers drawn by Cal’s light make their way to Storm King Mountain, where a terrifying explosion of fissures heaves their Montego Air plane from the ground. The door opens, and the passengers realize the final step of their journey is to board and face their judgment. Angelina and her group arrive right on time and chaos ensues. Ben invites them all on the plane, but Angelina thinks only she and her flock should be saved. After Ben finally convinces her followers to leave her behind, Angelina shoots Saanvi and accidentally knocks herself unconscious leaving Ben to make a choice: Does he save her from literal hellfires even though she killed his wife, kidnapped his daughter, and has a seemingly endless list of misdeeds? Or does he leave her behind to burn and prioritize the safety of those who sided with him?

Back at the Stone household, Drea goes into labor right as Olive has a breakthrough and realizes Ben is supposed to forgive and save Angelina; that lightening their hearts is just as crucial to saving the lifeboat as their good deeds were. After an understandable moment of deliberation, Ben carries Angelina onto the plane and Captain Amuta and Michaela take off as the world beneath them burns.

Do Flight 828 Passengers Survive The Death Date? Does Angelina Die?

For a moment, everything seems fine. But when Angelina’s chosen ones start burning and imploding into ash, panic spreads and all hope seems lost. As judgment reigns down upon the passengers, Saanvi — who murdered the Major — starts the combustion process, as does Adrian. When he’s seconds away from turning to dust, Eagan yells out to offer himself as a sacrifice. Adrian is saved, but Eagan starts to burn, so Adrian acknowledges that self-sacrifice to save another is the ultimate form of selflessness, and Eagan’s life is spared. Ben voices Saanvi’s many good deeds and she, too, is redeemed. But Angelina isn’t so lucky.

After she and 10 other passengers burst into flame, the ash they leave behind unites to form an evil archangel. The remaining passengers join arms and walk towards the menacing black demon figure, shouting a summary of the best deeds they’ve done since landing. When the evil dust disappears, the plane flies straight into the glow (aka the long delirious burning blue) and stops. The door open, everyone gets out and walks into the bright white light. The next thing they know they’re walking into the airport on April 7, 2013, the same date their original flight was supposed to land.

Breaking Down Manifest‘s Final Minutes: 11 Missing Passengers, Who Does Michaela End Up With, And More

After the passengers who didn’t implode deplane, they reunite with all their loved ones as they should have from the start. “Are we in heaven?” someone asks. “I think we’re in Queens,” another replies. And despite the absolute chaos of it all, they seem to be home for real. Grace is at the airport waiting for Ben and Cal, who’s a kid again just like Olive. Saanvi reunites with Alex and will presumably team up with Ben to cure Cal’s cancer. Ben and Michaela’s parents are still alive. TJ reunites with his mom, and though he and Olive obviously can’t be together anymore, he shares a meet-cute with Violet, who briefly dated older Cal. And Mich reunites with Jared to finally turn down his marriage proposal.

The 828ers still remember their shared journey, but no one else (including young Cal) has a clue. They consider it the “ultimate second chance” and set out to live the best lives they can with their vast wisdom. Meanwhile, a now-clueless Vance rushes into the airport to try to solve the mystery of the 11 missing 828 passengers. Police arrive on scene, including Drea, who has a meet-cute of her own with Jared. And Michaela sprints outside to hail a cab after remembering Zeke was on airport drop-off duty that night. She finds him, instantly charms him, and tells him to drive so she can fill him in on “a never-ending story.” Yeah, we’re crying!

“No one can explain what happened to us on April 7, 2013. Some people call it impossible. Others call it a miracle. All I know is it was the day life changed forever,” Michaela’s voice explains over a shot of her and Zeke’s cab driving away from the airport. And that’s that, folks! We end things full circle, because as we know, it’s all connected!

Will There Be A Manifest Season 5?

The Season 4 finale will also serve as Manifest‘s series finale. It may be hard to say goodbye to the passengers of Flight 828 after all these years, but we’re happy the show got to go out on its own terms and give fans some much-needed closure. If you’re craving more shows like Manifest, here are Decider’s suggestions. And if you’re not ready to say goodbye to Flight 828 just yet, all four seasons of Manifest are available to stream on Netflix.