What are the shadows in Manifest Season 2

The following recap contains Manifest spoilers.

Manifest this Monday night (at least partially) resolved a mystery nearly two seasons in the making.

Back in October 2018, during the NBC series’ second episode ever, a family drawing of Cal’s featured an inexplicable “smudge” standing behind him and between his two parents. At the end of that hour, 828er Kelly Taylor, soon after sharing on the TV her “conspiracy” theory about government involvement in the reappeared airplane mystery, was sneaked up on at home by a shadow figure and brutally slain.

The shadow element was largely ignored for a full season and a half, until evangelist 828er Adrian was recently confronted by no less than three ominous, towering shadow figures in an alley, his fate still unknown. Then in this week’s episode, just as the smudge on Cal’s original drawing had multiplied into three, the silhouettes in his bedroom matched those created by, as showrunner Jeff Rake recently told TVLine, “three of the most important characters of the season.”

One of the characters is Kory Jephers (played by DazMann Still), a metro bus driver who helps stolen cold medicine get delivered to a meth lab run by the other two characters, brothers Jace and Pete Baylor (played by James McMenamin and Devin Harjes). Michaela first learned of the meth operation when she caught a young man stealing from a bodega; heeding a calling to “let him go,” she did just that, only to learn moments later that he had nicked not a candy bar but 20 boxes of cold medicine. With help from Drea, Michaela and Jared tracked down the meth lab and, a foot chase or two later, hauled in the Baylor brothers — though Jace had firmly warned her before being cuffed, “You don’t want to do this…. You best walk away. You know there’ll be Hell to pay. The pain I’ll bring down on you…. A vengeance like you never seen before…. This is bigger than both of us.”

Michaela this time ignored a similar calling to “let him go” and cuffed Jace and Kory, while Jared nabbed Pete. And at episode’s end, we see the three shadows that emerge the corner of Cal’s bedroom match up with the shadows being cast by the Pete, Jace and Kory, while locked up in jail.

Elsewhere in this season’s antepenultimate episode:

♦ Ben began to wonder, more than ever and despite how things turned out with Grace’s childbirth, if the callings are in fact leading them to do good for bad reasons, to “lull us into obedience for some end-of-the-world scenario.”

♦ Ben and TJ followed their individual callings to a subway platform, where they kept an old man from lobbing himself in front of a coming train. As the stranger recuperated at the hospital, they found among his belongings a music box that played the same lullaby that Cal had been humming to baby Eden since her birth. What’s more, said tune was written by Zeke’s father — aka the man from the subway platform! Already at the hospital to be monitored for his own Death Date-related deterioration, Zeke hesitantly paid a visit to the man who bailed on him and his mother years ago, giving him a closure he did not know he needed.

♦ In the midst of minding Zeke, Saanvi found herself locked out of her office/lab, and then hauled away by security guards!

♦ While staking out the meth house, Jared — despite having furnished Michaela with her most favorite deli sandwich ever — assured her he’s not angling to get back together. Which is good, since…

♦ After meeting up with his MIA dad, Zeke showed up at Mick’s and surprised her with an engagement ring — and she happily accepted his proposal.

What did you think of the episode “Unaccompanied Minors”?

The shadows are a reflection of the three men. Who are they and how are they related to the 828 passengers?

Published on : 20:20 PST, Mar 23, 2020

With a set of hidden symbols, 'Manifest' keeps the surprise factor going strong with every passing week. In Episode 11 'Unaccompanied Minors', the mystery of the three shadows comes back to haunt the Stone family.

The show takes a four-month jump and apparently, the shadows are still troubling Cal Stone (Jack Messina). Desperate for answers, Ben Stone (Josh Dallas) and Michaela Stone (Melissa Roxburgh) find a revelation that weirdly echoes Adrian's (Jared Grimes) apocalypse theory. Ben has slowly started to feel that Adrian was right in calling the 828 passengers: 'Agents of the Apocalypse'. It's a scary thought. But the cliffhanger at the end only reassures that bizarre theory.

 Looking for answers, Ben reads out a verse from the Bible: "I saw three spirits coming — out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the Beast, out of the mouth of the false prophet." If that could somehow be true, then 828 passengers are all false prophets, indeed. Maybe the callings are deliberately creating bad scenarios to turn them into saviors in the end.

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Later, in the episode, Jared and Michaela arrest three men. A shocking calling, however, repeatedly murmurs in Mich's head, "Let him go." Just as the three men are put behind bars, the three shadows come into play. So, that means, the shadows are a reflection of the three men. Who are they and how are they related to the 828 passengers?

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Out of the three men, one is Kory Jephers (DazMann Still), a metro bus driver who helps deliver stolen cold medicine to a meth lab run by two brothers, Jace (James McMenamin) and Pete Baylor (Devin Harjes). Michaela first discovers them when she notices a man stealing a candy bar, but it turns out he took 20 boxes of cold medicine. 

Shockingly, the shadows still haunt Cal and towards the end, they slowly emerge from the corner of his bedroom to match the shadows being cast by Pete, Jace and Kory in the lock-up. As the next episode rolls out on March 30, 2020, it will hint on their involvement in the callings, how they are connected to the 828 passengers and whether they have any correlation to Saanvi Bahl's (Parveen Kaur) discoveries. 

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