On NBC’s hit sci-fi series Manifest, Robert Vance was the NSA director who was giving the survivors of Flight 828 a hard time. However, over the course of the first season, Vance came around and seemed to realize there were bad things afoot and started to help the passengers. See, there were 11 missing passengers from Flight 828 that UDS took and was
experimenting on. In the episode, Dead Reckoning, Michaela, Jared, Vance, Ben, and Fiona head to the warehouse hoping to find them. When Cal shows up and finds a hidden door, a shootout takes place and the 11 missing passengers are freed. However, Vance, Jared, and Laurence are caught in an explosion and all of them die. The funeral for Robert Vance takes place in the next episode, called Crosswinds. As people should expect in science fiction, and especially science
fiction that includes people seemingly escaping death, don’t believe everything that you see. In the first episode of Manifest Season 2, titled Fasten Your Seatbelts, Robert Vance turns out to still be alive. As with any explosion that does not result in a dead body pulled out of the wreckage, never assume someone is dead. Remember, he was loaded into an ambulance and the police said he didn’t make it. That does not mean it is true. Sign up for our newsletter! Robert Vance is a spy and he can disappear if he wants to, and that appears to be what the show pulled off as the second season begins. Ben was taken near the end of the Manifest Season 2 premiere and he ended up face-to-face with Vance. Now that Vance is presumed dead, he can help Ben and the passengers better than he could as a government employee. In an underground manner, and thanks to his experience as a spy, Vance could be their most valuable ally now. Of course, Robert Vance was gone for a while and there is no telling what he was up to while everything was going down last season after his “death.” Manifest airs on Mondays at 10/9c on NBC. More: Manifest
Warning: Manifest Season 4 spoilers ahead. If the first 10 episodes of Manifest Season 4 left you screaming, crying, and fearing for fictional humankind, you’re not alone. Picked up by Netflix after its NBC cancelation in 2021, Jeff Rake’s supernatural drama is back for its fourth and final season. And with their Death Date approaching, the stakes are higher than ever for the passengers of Montego Air Flight 828. Manifest’s final season is broken into two parts, with the first 10 episodes premiering on November 4, and the final 10 dropping at an unknown later date. Though there’s still hope for the series to deliver a satisfying end with Season 4, Part 2, the midseason finale left us with with several grueling cliffhangers. Since Season 4, Episode 10, “Inversion Illusion,” was packed with non-stop chaos, we thought you might need a detailed episode recap. Read on for Decider’s breakdown of Manifest‘s Season 4, Part 1 ending. But be warned, major (more major than THE Major) Manifest Season 4 spoilers are ahead. Manifest Season 4, Part 1 Ending Explained: Who Dies in the Midseason Finale?As a refresher, Episode 9, “Rendezvous,” ended with Michaela, Saanvi, Eagan and Thomas finally finding the Omega Sapphire. But before they could figure out what to do with it, Eagan swiped the precious gemstone and ran. While he was packing in his motel room, he was attacked by a mystery person who stole the sapphire and bolted. Before the end credits rolled, Michaela, Cal, Saanvi, and Ben had a Calling of Zeke, Jared, Olive, and other loved ones on the plane. They were stuck in their seats as lava spewed around them and a volcano erupted out the window. The Calling helped the group realize that the Death Date isn’t just for passengers…it’s for everyone. *GASP* The midseason finale wastes no time letting us know who stole that sapphire. We see Angelina (ugh!) strutting down a city street with a bloody head and the stone glowing in her hand. With each step she takes, the sidewalk cracks behind her, foreshadowing the dire destruction she’s capable of unleashing. We cut to Zeke and Michaela waking up, and the cherry blossoms above them are gone. Instead, Michaela sees ash over Zeke’s head, and says, “I thought saving 191 souls was overwhelming, but if the fate of the lifeboat determines the fate of billions of people, then what do we do?” Zeke says, “Whatever we have to,” and the two share a moment more precious than that freaking sapphire. Meanwhile, Eden asks Ben to see her mommy, Eagan is in the emergency room, and Cal is in a hospital bed at home coughing. Chaos! With Cal’s health rapidly declining, no one wants to leave his side, but he begs his family to snap back into action before it’s too late. “Guys I’m dying, but you know who else is? All of you. You have to keep trying. What if the sapphire can save me? Mom would want us to keep pushing — to keep fighting,” he says. They get to work, but Zeke (who’s still recovering from being shot in the leg by Angelina’s dad) hangs back and helps keep Cal comfortable. As Zeke sets up old family photos for Cal, Michaela finds a triggering one of her and Evie. “What idiot downs a double Manhattan and gets in the car and drives? It’s unforgivable,” she says, but her rant is cut short when she gets a call from Detective Vasquez, who’s finally working closely with 828ers at the Registry, and still in a no-strings-attached relationship with Drea. Jared and Michaela head to the hospital to meet Eagan, where they learn Angelina has the stone. Michaela has a Calling of a dark angel that shatters into stained glass, then she finds Angelina’s prayer book, which reads, “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.” At the Stone house, Ben gets a Calling of Grace, who says she misses him and needs to see Eden. With barely a second thought, Ben takes Eden to Grace’s gravesite, where she appears in a Calling again. She advises him to give Eden back to Angelina, but before he has a chance to argue, he notices Grace’s eyes are the wrong color. Turns out that’s not Grace at all, it’s Angelina simulating a fake Calling using the sapphire. Once she stops, she grabs Eden and pulls a gun on Ben. Ben talks her down and suggests they let Eden choose who she wants to be with. (OK, sure!) After literally standing in between them and weighing her options, Eden yells, “I want to be with my daddy!” and runs to him. Angelina tries to shoot Ben, but he escapes, so she grabs sapphire and screams at the top of her lungs; an action that causes passengers across the country to shriek simultaneously. With the sapphire’s power to create fake Callings, Angelina can singlehandedly sink the lifeboat, so the Stone crew splits up to track her down and save humanity. Ben and Michaela head to Angelina’s old school, Olive and the recently returned TJ examine an Egyptian papyrus for clues, and Saanvi and Vance call Dr. Gupta for help. While everyone’s off trying to save the world, Cal is still in bed, literally dying. But Zeke is right by his side, being adorable as hell. He spends the day helping Cal zoom through his bucket list without leaving the house. He brings Jeter’s last Yankees game to the living room, sets up a mini Louvre, and plays Monopoly at Cal’s request. Flashbacks remind us that Cal pulled out Monopoly ahead of Zeke’s Death Date, and if you think you need tissues now, just wait. “That fear you’re feeling? I can help you. I can take it all away…Why else did I come back with this ability?” Zeke tells Cal after seeing his pain. (But more on this later.) Michaela and Ben find Angelina in a church where lava is flowing through the floor. She’s praying under an image of a faceless angel, saying she’s the chosen one. After seeing a group of children trapped among the lava, Michaela grabs her gun and tells Angelina it’s over. “It will be soon, for all of you. God has chosen me…I’m an archangel sent to bring vengeance upon the evil and to lead the righteous to salvation,” Angelina replies. Ben tells her she’s just another sad, lost, lonely member of the lifeboat awaiting judgement, and as Michaela tightens her grip on the gun, Angelina uses the sapphire to trick her with a false Calling. Angelina makes an image of Evie appear before Michaela, which flusters her so much that she drops her gun into the lava. While Angelina is harnessing the power of the sapphire, Cal’s scar sample in Saanvi’s lab glows blue, as does the scar on his arm. Cal recalls Henry telling him he’s a dragon and uses his powers to create a Calling of his own for Angelina. The two appear on the plane together and Cal tells her she’s destroying any chance they have of saving the lifeboat, but she doesn’t care and tries to toss him out of the plane. She uses the sapphire to create an imagine of Grace, who urges Cal to give up his fight. Cal sees through the stunt, grabs the sapphire in Angelina’s hand, and fights for it until it shatters. When Cal comes out of the calling, he realizes his time is up and asks Zeke to call his family so he can say goodbye. When Zeke overhears Olive saying she knows Cal is “the dragon” who can save humanity, he flashes back to his own death day and remembers how Cal did everything he could to help him survive. (We know where this is going, Zeke. And we don’t like it!) Back at the church, Ben and Michaela save the hostages, and when Ben goes back in to save Angelina he sees she’s been crushed by debris. Authorities raid Saanvi and Vance’s lab by order of Dr. Gupta, and all 828 passengers are being locked up until further notice. As Cal fades, Zeke makes the heartbreaking decision absorb his fear, pain, and terminal diagnosis. He places his hand on Cal’s and as the life drains out of him and Cal’s cancer enters his body, he calls Michaela and says goodbye. “We were always meant to be together, Mick. I was given a second chance at life. I didn’t know why, but it was you, Mick. It was you,” Zeke says. “It was my second chance to make up for all the pain and hurt I caused. And now I finally get to do that…I’ll see you again, under the stars,” he says weakly. The sicker Zeke grows, the more life beams from Cal. Eventually, Cal wakes up and Ben clutches his healthy body while Michaela sobs over Zeke. As if (permanently!?) losing Zeke and nearly all of the 828 passengers sharing a cell wasn’t disastrous enough, the episode ends with Angelina rising from the rubble, reaching into the lava for a shard of sapphire, and having it burned into her hand. The final shot shows her walking through a cemetery as lava burns the Earth around her. “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled,” she says as screams fill the air. Y-I-K-E-S! We need Season 4, Part 2 immediately! And while you’re at it, give us Zeke back!!
TagsDoes Robert Vance come back in Manifest?Daryl Edwards as Robert Vance (season 4; recurring seasons 1–3), the director of the NSA who leads the investigation of the re-emergence of Montego Air Flight 828. Despite apparently being killed in season 1 during the raid on a Singularity Project's base, he is revealed to still be alive in season 2.
What happened to Vance and the major on Manifest?To protect Saanvi, Vance and his team cover up the Major's death making it look like Fitz was killed by a foreign spy. However, in actuality, Vance's team rented a truck from private garbage disposal service to help retrieve the Major's body out of the park, before eventually disposing of her body in an unknown lake.
Who is the mastermind in Manifest?General Kathryn Fitz, better known as the Major, is the central antagonist of the drama television series Manifest, serving as the main antagonist of season one, the central antagonist of season two, and a posthumous antagonist in season 3.
Who is not returning in Manifest?At least, the ones who have survived at the end of season 3. Josh Dallas, Melissa Roxburgh, J. R. Ramirez, Parveen Kaur, Luna Blaise, and Holly Taylor are all signed up to return. Jack Messina, who played Cal Stone, will be leaving the series and Ty Doran will be taking over the role in a surprise twist.
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