Half 1 of Manifest‘s fourth and last season ended with one of the vital devastating TV deaths of the yr.
Zeke, overhearing Olive and TJ focus on how important Cal was to saving humanity, took issues in his personal palms. As Cal lay on his deathbed, the empath used his powers to — SPOILER ALERT — take in Cal’s leukemia, sparing the teenager’s life and sacrificing his personal within the course of. And whereas a weeping Ben held his son, grateful that he was nonetheless alive, Michaela mourned her now-deceased husband on the fringe of the mattress.
Josh Dallas, who performs Ben, tells TVLine that Zeke’s demise will solely deliver the Stones nearer collectively as they work by means of their grief. “As soon as we see Half 2 of Manifest’s [final season], there’s going to be a motive why they could be separated for a little bit of time,” he shares. “However I believe it’s going to bond them nearer collectively. It is going to be a stage of grief that Ben will perceive and can attempt to assist information his sister out of, however he additionally is aware of that she must cope with it in her personal means as he did.”
With 10 extra episodes left within the collection — a premiere date for Season 4, Half 2 has but to be introduced — the actor teases “extra twists and turns” to return, and in the end, “the place our characters find yourself goes to be shocking.”
A few of that uncertainty stems from how the 828 passengers will deal with Angelina, who within the finale absorbed the sapphire and emerged from the church trying like doomsday personified.
“I believe she is totally able to sinking the Lifeboat and can strive her hardest,” Dallas notes. “For Ben, and for the remainder of the Stone household, I believe there is a component of attempting to know Angelina’s darkness to know their very own goodness and perceive the place her motivation and anger comes from. Ben tries to do this to determine his personal place on this story. She is totally succesful, and a giant, massive risk to not solely the Stone household however to the world now.”
The 828ers may be going through end-of-the-world stakes, however there’s not less than one silver lining: You’ll get to see extra of the outdated Ben. The widower spent the primary half of Season 4 grappling with the ache of Grace’s homicide and Eden’s surprising abduction. Together with his lacking daughter now returned and his son presumably cured of his sickness, the grieving dad simply could get his groove again.
“As we go ahead within the story, you begin to see the outdated Ben come again extra, though modified from this journey that he’s gone on,” Dallas teases. “I believe his coronary heart does begin to open.”
So does that imply a Saanvi and Ben romance is on the way in which? “They’re very comparable in lots of, some ways. They’ve a connection and a deep friendship and a deep love and a deep respect for one another,” the actor says. “They’re two lonely individuals, and we’ll see the place that goes. I believe they’re each determined for a connection, whether or not that’s with one another or with something, or to have a connection that’s outdoors of what’s taking place. I believe they’re each actually craving for that.”
Are you rooting for a Ben and Saanvi romance on Manifest? What do you hope to see in Season 4, Half 2?