Breaking Down Every Calling In Netflix's Manifest

With its interwoven themes of science and faith, "Manifest" is easily one of the wackiest shows on Netflix. After the passengers of Flight 828 arrive at their destination more than five years behind schedule, they struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives. But they soon learn that the paranormal flight delay is the least of their worries when they begin experiencing visions and hallucinations directing them to take certain actions that often run afoul of the law. As they struggle to make sense of the Callings, they find themselves at odds over whether they're saving the world or ushering in the apocalypse.

Over the span of the show's four-season run, these Callings become so entangled and convoluted it starts to seem like hot math dad Ben Stone has the right idea with his evidence room. But you don't need an Omega Sapphire to keep track of the Callings because we've got you covered. Hang onto your Lifeboat because we're taking a nosedive into all the Callings from "Manifest."

• Radd's music: While talking with Olive, Ben hears a musical phrase playing in his mind. He later hears the sound again while walking through Times Square, and it leads him to the street violinist Radd, who shares the Calling. The music eventually helps them catch the person responsible for a robbery that Radd's son had been falsely accused of committing ("Reentry").

• Own your truth: Michaela spells out the phrase "Own your truth" on the Stones' refrigerator and later hears murdered passenger Kelly Taylor repeat the same phrase. Michaela uses the information to solve Kelly's murder ("Turbulence").

• Wet statue: Saanvi sees a statue with watery footprints that leads her to a psych ward patient, while Michaela sees a vision of an angel statue beating her wings and whispering, "Save him." These Callings lead them both to help the 828 stowaway Thomas ("Unclaimed Baggage").

• It's all connected: Ben hears his voice whisper, "It's all connected," words Cal later repeats while running through the subway to Thomas' boiler room hideout. Cal knows Thomas' name without being told despite his claim that he was "just being random" and senses Georgia's arrival before she knocks as Ben hears the words again ("Connecting Flights"). It's later revealed that Cal drew Thomas in his notebook before meeting him ("Vanishing Point"). 

• Evie's heart: Cal draws a boy wearing a red heart, while Michaela hears a heartbeat that helps her save Carlos from avenging his uncle and learns he received her friend Evie's heart in a transplant ("S.N.A.F.U.").

• Find her: When Michaela touches nonverbal passenger Paul Santino, she has a vision of a blizzard and hears a male voice saying, "Find her." At the same time, Paul opens his eyes, begins looking around, and shows significant signs of amnesia. Michaela experiences the vision again, tells Ben the wind and snow feel stronger than her other Callings, and eventually concludes that it is someone else's Calling ("Crosswinds"). Later, Cal wakes up in his bed shivering while hearing the same voice. 

• Cal sees himself leaving: When Grace asks Ben if he can keep Cal the following night, Cal tells her he can't because "the man from the plane" needs his help ("Crosswinds"). While his dad is off helping Captain Daly, Cal sneaks out his window without telling anyone. When they notice Cal is missing, everyone at first assumes the Major took him. As his family goes through his sketchbook, they find a drawing of themselves holding the notebook at that very moment ("Vanishing Point"). 

• The cabin: Ben, Michaela, and Grace find numerous sketches including one of Cal shivering in a cabin, one of a figure in a doorway, and several of trees, rocks, a lake, and a church leading them to Tannersville. At the cabin, Cal pulls out a water bottle, first aid gear, and warm clothing while he waits. When his family arrives, he tells them, "He's almost here!" Seconds later, the shivering Zeke bursts into the cabin and collapses ("Vanishing Point"). 

• Tombstones: Cal draws three tombstones with his, his dad's, and his aunt's names on them ("Estimated Time of Departure").

• Zeke's house: Cal draws Zeke standing in front of his mom's house and travels there to tell Zeke he and Michaela are meant to be together. Cal also tells Zeke that he knows when he, Michaela, and Ben will die, and that Zeke doesn't have much time left either ("Fasten Your Seatbelts").

• Save the passengers: Michaela hears Cal's voice saying, "Save the passengers" and experiences visual turbulence when she sees the names of passengers Anson and Trina Vasik ("Fasten Your Seatbelts"). The Vasiks have a Calling of a car with screaming children inside as it goes through a railing that leads them to Revelation 20:14, which refers to a "second death" and the "lake of fire." When Michaela sees a second vision of the Vasiks' car on the George Washington bridge, she and Ben rush to save them from ending their own lives but they all end up saving a family that crashed over the guardrail onto the cliff. 

• Nosedive: After Cal tells Michaela she and Zeke are meant to do something together, but he doesn't know what, she touches him, which sends them into a Calling of themselves on a plane in a nosedive. In the vision, Cal looks at his aunt and tells her to "Save the passengers" before Michaela notices Zeke standing on the plane ("Fasten Your Seatbelts").

• Paternity test: Grace is in the process of conducting her baby's paternity test when she experiences a Calling of her own voice telling her to "Stop." Receiving the Calling indicates that she is carrying a child with the same DNA marker as the passengers, meaning the child must be Ben's ("Grounded"). Instead of taking the hint, she asks Saanvi to perform a blood test. 

• Gargoyle: Grace befriends a nauseous pregnant woman named Erika outside of her pregnancy yoga class. While walking to their vehicles, Grace hears her own voice directing her to "Open her eyes" and sees a menacing gargoyle perched atop of the woman's vehicle. Grace finds the experience so terrifying that she heads home to look up gargoyles and discovers that they're meant to ward off evil. Grace becomes so worried that the woman could be in some kind of trouble that Ben suggests she track the woman down at a Metro Kids Soccer practice session. When Erika blows her off at the soccer meet after spying 828er Cal, Grace hears the same phrase and sees the gargoyle looming above the stadium lights. It's later revealed that this Calling gargoyle represents a tangible gargoyle at the entrance to the university where Erika's Xer husband hired Ben to work as an adjunct professor ("False Horizon").

• Save her: While watching a news report about 828, Ben hears a Calling to "Save her." As he calls Grace to tell her, someone crashes into her car, which sends her to the hospital ("Coordinated Flight"). 

• Cal's first Calling: In a flashback, Olive tells her mother she believes Cal is alive because of her dreams, and a tarot reader gives Olive a star card to keep. Three years later, Grace recognizes the engraving from Logan's compass as the symbol on the card and gives it to Ben for his Death Date investigation. She tells him the tarot reader said, "Look to the future with the possibility that everything will turn out well" — words Olive spoke at the hospital earlier that day. This leads the Stones to conclude that the Death Date is survivable ("Coordinated Flight').

• Seat 14C: Ben sees a memory of Flight 828 that includes Saanvi pleading with him for help before fading away. He and Michaela break into Saanvi's office to find her passed out from hypoxia due to self-experimentation. At the hospital, Saanvi tells Ben her Calling featured a yellow-eyed boy who wasn't on the original flight sitting in Finn Nowak's seat. Ben realizes Finn has a kid he doesn't know about named Theo ("Return Trip"). While meeting with him, Saanvi recognizes the signs of liver disease. When it turns out Theo needs a liver transplant, Finn's donation saves the boy's life. 

• Al-Zuras deck: Olive and TJ find a tarot reader who tells them their card belongs to the out-of-print "Al-Zuras" deck ("Return Trip"). With a little sleuthing around town, Olive gets a copy of the rare Al-Zuras deck created by a 16th-century Egyptian artist and scholar named Yusuv Al-Zuras who was lost at sea for 10 years and returned with claims he had heard the voice of God ("Return Trip"). TJ concludes the Calling led them to him to "show the Death Date is real."

• Al-Zuras' journal: Al-Zuras' journal predicts Ben rescuing Olive from the nightclub and recalls a "silver dragon" ("Emergency Exit," "Airplane Bottles"). 

• Storm: Cal dreams of Flight 828, envisioning a brilliant light and whispering the phrase, "It's all connected" ("Airplane Bottles"). When he wakes up, he sees a storm blowing through the open windows in his sister's incomplete nursery. Grace, TJ, and Ben also see the storm despite Olive telling them it's sunny outside. 

• The boat: Ben and Grace find Cal tying the unfinished furniture together with rope and muttering, "It's all connected." Cal tells Ben it's supposed to look like "a spider web — the plane was trapped in it." As they help him build, Cal loses his temper, Grace gets seasick, and Ben realizes they're all going mad like Al-Zuras' crew. When they finish the boat, they share a vision of Al-Zuras' ship and their plane caught in the same storm and Ben concludes that following the Callings is the only way to survive the Death Date.

• Shadowy figures: As they're working on their Callings Guidebook for the new baby, Cal and Olive discover Cal's first drawing — a sketch of their family with a shadowy figure behind them. Cal tells Olive he never worked out its meaning but says, "It still kind of creeps me out." While they're working, he watches the shadow grow. The shadow later splits into three parts on the page. When Adrian ducks into an alley to dodge the police, he sees a vision of three dark shadows looming around him and chasing him. Cal sees the same vision in his bedroom later that night ("Course Deviation"). Months later, Ben tells Michaela that Cal has been terrorized by the vision every night since ("Unaccompanied Minors").

• Let him go: While Michaela is nabbing a thief, she hears the words "Let him go." She does, but after talking to the shop owner, she learns the thief was stealing meds to make meth. When her investigation leads to a meth ring, she hears the words again, but ignores them. Later, the Meth Heads break free from their prison transport and make good on their plan to go after Mick and her family by kidnapping Cal after her wedding ("Unaccompanied Minors," "Call Sign"). 

• Screaming white light: Using Cal's drawing of a boat as a guide, Ben and Vance travel to Cuba to retrieve the recovered 828 tailfin. As Ben explores the boat, he, Michaela, Cal, and a new passenger experience a vision of themselves screaming in pain while bathed in blinding white light ("Tailfin"). Cal later tells Grace and Olive that they were "about to die" in the vision. They experience it even more strongly when Ben touches the tailfin, and the tailfin throws Ben back across the room physically. When Ben sees the plane explode, he comes to believe they ultimately died and were resurrected. 

• Cal's cleaning spree: After Grace and Cal check on Ben, Cal tells his mother he needs to clean out his room because "Dad's bringing someone home to stay over."

• Angelina Meyer: Cal uses the white light Calling to identify Angelina Meyer, who happens to be living in Costa Rica where his aunt and uncle are on honeymoon. They travel to Angelina's house, where her parents tell them she's missing. After tracking down the woman's friend, they learn she believed she was being followed. While visiting her parents again, Michaela experiences the white light Calling and follows a high-pitched sound that leads her to rescue Angelina from the Meyers' basement where her parents, apparently religious zealots, were keeping her imprisoned ("Tailfin").

• Treasure hunt: After finding a peacock feather on the ground and giving it to Eden, Cal recites his "treasure hunt" rhyme and the Meth Heads hear it in a Calling ("Wingman").

• Countdown: The Meth Heads experience Callings of themselves running against a countdown timer as their Death Date approaches. Angelina tells them that they have less than one week until their expiration date. When Zeke and Michaela visit Pete to help him try and solve his Calling, they realize it references his high school football field and the Meth Heads were corrupted by their abusive high school football coach, who they feel compelled to visit ("Tailspin"). When Michaela's investigation leads her there, she uncovers the coach's drug operation and places him under arrest. 

• Water: As their time begins to run out, Kory the Meth Head starts throwing up water.

• The trial: At the Meth Heads' trailer, Michaela sees a shadow rising from Egyptian hieroglyphics painted on their wall ("Water Landing"). The letters support Olive and Angelina's research on Ma'at and ultimately lead Ben to conclude the brothers are being tested. Kory sees trees and Jace's plan to kill Michaela. Jace goes after Cal, Eden, and Grace at their lakeside hideout. After the Stones and company meet up with the Meth Heads, Jace's choices tank their Lifeboat, and all three are killed by a shadow while the Stones look on ("Graveyard Spiral").

• Basketball: Ben follows a basketball that appears in the road to himself and Angelina. 

• Snow globe: Grace gives Cal a snow globe that belonged to her brother ("Precious Cargo"). He later sees the mountain inside it transform into an exploding volcano with hot orange lava, heralding the coming 828-induced apocalypse ("Destination Unknown"). When Cal touches the snow globe, it burns him ("Compass Calibration"). Eden sees the same vision later on ("Relative Bearing"). 

• Flames: Ben experiences a Calling with 15 passengers' photos bursting into flames and concludes they are endangering the Lifeboat ("Destination Unknown"). Ben's Calling takes him to a passenger named Rachel whose ex is abusing her sister. Later on, Cal sees passenger Astrid's photo burning ("Bogey"). After Saanvi throws the ark fragment in lava, Mick, Ben, Angelina, and Cal all see, hear, and feel themselves burning alive ("Duty Free"). Going forward, Cal's body becomes increasingly covered with real burns from the Calling.

• Robin: When Ben finds her, she tells Ben she saw the racing flag logo from Cody Webber's shop. When Astrid later hears their son's voice pleading for help, they realize Cody kidnapped his son from his ex ("Compass Calibration"). While Ben is attacking Cody, Cal also sees his dad's photo burning on the evidence board. Astrid sees Robin missing a shoe, covered in orange chip dust, and unable to breathe, which leads them to save Robin from an allergic reaction in the bunker where he's hidden. 

• World card: As Michaela reaches to pick up the world tarot card, the lava on the card glows and burns her hand ("Precious Cargo"). 

• Cherry blossoms: Michaela has recurring visions of water, cherry blossoms, and a freighter ship that leads her to find Henry Kim hiding in a shipping container ("Touch-and-Go"). 

• Stone 828: Henry Kim has "Stone 828" scratched into his arm ("Touch-and-Go"). When Henry sees Cal, he recognizes him immediately.

• Black box: Henry says he needs to give a box to "the boy." This clue and a ticking sound leads Cal to the black box still hidden in Henry's shipping container ("Touch-and-Go"). Saanvi finds this perplexing since the rest of the plane disappeared. While listening to the box, Saanvi hears Captain Daly crying for help on the black box and later realizes all of the Callings are hidden on the audio in ultra-low frequency (ULF) after Henry tells them there's an "ocean of voices" on it ("Touch-and-Go"). 

• Cal's scar: As Henry surrenders to police, he and Cal are transported to an empty plane. Below the plane, Cal sees a volcano with orange hot lava ("All-Call"). In the vision, Henry tries to give Cal something, but there's nothing there. When Cal goes to see Henry about the Calling, Henry tells Cal that he is a dragon and shows him the dragon scar, which later appears on Cal's arm ("Touch-and-Go"). Much later, Saanvi finds it glowing with sapphire ("Inversion Illusion").

• Amuda's storm: Michaela experiences lightning and thunder that leads her to 828 co-pilot Amuta, who tells her what he and Captain Daly saw on Flight 828 ("All-Call").

• Cal's memory: Cal's gets his memory back after touching the tailfin and realizes he was on Flight 828 with Daly and Fiona ("High Flight"). He tells Saanvi and Michaela has was supposed to remember something after returning.

• Thunderbird and fog: Michaela is visiting Evie's grave when she sees a thunderbird and fog ("Go-Around"). This leads her to the Indian reservation where she helps Kyle with his mother and receives a new blanket containing a clue for her troubles. Kyle also sees Michaela surrounded by fog in his Calling. 

• Olive and Cal's puzzle: Olive and Cal lay out all of their clues on the dining table, revealing a hidden inscription on the compass. When Michaela adds the blanket, they put the clues together and realize they're pointing to the Divine Consciousness, which Cal believes they were inside of while on Flight 828 ("Go-Around"). When Olive tells him he is "directly connected to the Divine Consciousness," all of the clues begin to glow for him ("Go-Around").  

• Aquarium: Michaela has a Calling where the floor turns into an aquarium that leads her to a murdered passenger ("Relative Bearing").

• Bloody red X: While at the police station, Michaela sees an X resembling the Xers' mark scrawled in red paint ("Relative Bearing"). She later realizes this points to Angelina's mother as the killer ("Romeo," "Full Upright and Locked Position").

• Ben's microwave music: Ben hears Radd's music coming from the microwave. He finds Radd and learns the rest of the song, a bridge corresponding to the New York phone number for Cal's doctor. After calling it, he learns that Cal has fallen out of remission ("Full Upright and Locked Position"). 

• Eden's letters: Despite being unable to spell, Eden spells out the letters "ALNI" leading to a facility where the nonverbal passengers are being kept ("Romeo"). While visiting Marko after a vision of burning passengers, Ben realizes the passengers are awake.

• Glowing patient files: While looking through the patient file room, Saanvi sees their brain scans light up with a glowing light parallel to the sky ("Romeo"). She concludes this means the nonverbal passengers are directly connected to the Divine Consciousness.

• Eagan's induced calling: In his motel bathroom, Eagan sees dark smoke pouring from the faucet that covers the walls with black. In the distance, he hears Adrian calling for help and calls back to him ("Full Upright and Locked Position"). Saanvi later induces another of Eagan's Callings with sapphire, but he pretends it didn't work. In reality, his Calling leads him to a building containing the Omega Sapphire.

• Compass: Saanvi and Michaela see the needle spinning on the compass and follow it to the building where they hid Thomas ("Rendezvous"). As they step into the boiler room, Eagan knocks down part of the wall and bursts in with Thomas' boyfriend Leo who volunteers next door. They find a puzzle hidden in the wall that leads to the Omega Sapphire. After they remove the sapphire, the building starts falling around them and Thomas shows up to reunite with Leo. 

• Angelina: Angelina uses the sapphire to create false Callings of Grace. Michaela sees the faceless glass angel, leading her to Angelina's school where she's using the sapphire to create lava. When Cal's scar glows blue, he psychically battles Angelina. As she flees, lava fissures emerge all around her.

• Cal's death: Cal begins coughing, and his health rapidly begins to worsen until he learns he's dying ("Squawk," "Romeo"). After saving everyone at the compound, his condition begins to deteriorate rapidly but Zeke takes Cal's cancer, dying in his place ("Relative Bearing," "Inversion Illusion").