Since the very first episode of Manifest, the passengers of Flight 828 have experienced “callings” — feelings, voices or visions guiding them to undertake an action.

Unfortunately the callings are often vague, leaving the characters to puzzle out their exact meanings. Occasionally these visions are shared by other people, providing a partner to parse out the mysteries.

While the origins of the callings are unknown, Part 1 of Season 4 gives the biggest clue yet: The characters guessed they’re actually memories rather than foreshadowing or premonitions.

“Given all that they understand right now, it’s a very viable [theory],” Manifest creator Jeff Rake tells Tudum. “If it’s the window between life and death, it makes them question, did they die on that airplane? [If] these are memories and these moments of divine consciousness [are] coming back to them, is it leading them in a direction that’s going to take them to the path they should have been on all along?”

Of course, anything could be revealed when the show returns for its final 10 hours. “There’s nothing that they have encountered as of yet on their Manifest journey that has contradicted that notion of callings being memories,” Rake teases.

Can’t quite remember each calling the show has explored? Here’s an episodic breakdown.

Season 1

“Pilot”
Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) hears “all things” referring to biblical verse Romans 8:28. The scripture is sewn on her now-deceased mother’s pillow.

Michaela hears “slower.” She insists the bus driver slow down, and prevents a child from being hit when he runs into the street.

Michaela and Ben (Josh Dallas) hear “Set them free” and think it is about dogs. They initially try to ignore it, but doing so they set in motion a chain of events which saves two kidnapped girls.

Michaela has a flash of the plane while at church; Ben finds her there, claiming he just “knew” where she was.

The passengers are drawn to Flight 828, moments before it explodes.

“Reentry”
Ben hears violin music and tracks it down to an 828 passenger, Radd (Curtiss Cook), who is playing the song in Times Square. Ben hears the music later, and helps clear Radd’s son of a crime he didn’t commit.

“Turbulence”
Michaela writes “own your truth” on the fridge with magnets. Later, she and Ben find out another passenger had heard the same message and was trying to abide by the same mantra.

“Unclaimed Baggage”
Saanvi (Parveen Kaur) sees wet footprints and a mysterious gray woman.

Michaela sees a similar thing, and also hears “Save him.” Working with Saanvi, Ben and Michaela realize they need to help an 828 flight attendant, who helped stow Thomas (Sheldon Best) on the plane.

“Connecting Flights”
Ben continuously hears “It’s all connected.” While out with Cal (Jack Messina), he hears it again and Cal repeats it out loud, leading them to where Thomas is hiding.

A flashback reveals Cal saw a light while on 828 and said, “It’s all connected.” 

“Off Radar”
Cal is psychically connected to a passenger who is being tested on by the government; Cal begins to feel the same torture the man is being exposed to.

“S.N.A.F.U.”
Michaela hears heartbeats, which leads her to a young man who was the recipient of her best friend’s donated heart.

Separately, Cal expresses his calling by drawing the young man.

“Point of No Return”
Michaela hears “don’t lose him.”

“Dead Reckoning”
The testing resumes on 828ers, impacting Cal, who draws the location of the testing.

While trying to free some of the subjects, Ben sees lights which guide them to safety.

“Crosswinds”
Michaela sees a blizzard and hears an unfamiliar voice saying “find her.”

“Contrails”
Cal knows a man needs his help.

Michaela keeps hearing “Find her.”

“Vanishing Point”
With Cal missing, Michaela sees snow and realizes that his drawing of a cabin is a clue to where he is.

Cal is waiting at a cabin, waiting for someone — Zeke (Matt Long).

“Cleared for Approach”
Zeke and Michaela hear “go back” in a shared vision, while they’re standing together, at night, under the stars.

“Upgrade”
Zeke and Cal see a wolf. Cal later draws the wolf trying to attack Michaela.

“Hard Landing”
Griffin (Marc Menchaca), a criminal who inexplicably survived his van submerged in the water for more than three days, sees an explosion and people dying.

Michaela hears and sees a wolf.

“Estimated Time of Departure”
Michaela, Ben, Zeke and Saanvi hear “stop him” and try to stop Griffin from telling the world about their callings.

Cal draws tombstones for himself, Ben and Michaela.

After Griffin’s death, Michaela still hears “stop him” and tries to stop Jared (J.R. Ramirez) and Zeke from fighting. Instead, she’s shot.

Season 2
 

“Fasten Your Seatbelts”
Michaela and Cal find themselves back on the plane, with the warning that they need to save the passengers. In a later vision, Zeke — who was never on the plane — shows up on 828 in the calling.

Cal drew Zeke before he met him.

“Grounded”
Grace (Athena Karkanis), who is pregnant with Ben’s child (and therefore has temporarily inherited the “gift”), hears “stop.”

Michaela, Cal and Zeke get a calling in which everything is shaking. It leads them to a couple of passengers, who also can’t figure out how to interpret their own calling. Ultimately, they save a family.

TJ (Garrett Wareing) sees a grave, and it leads him to a burial site. Michaela’s calling at the grave helps lead to the killer.

Michaela, Zeke and Cal have another shared vision on the plane, in which a window is on fire.

“False Horizon”
Grace hears “open her eyes” and sees a gargoyle.

Michaela and Zeke experience turbulence on the plane.

“Black Box“
Michaela and Zeke hear “bring him back” which leads them to a bank that is being robbed.

TJ sees images of a bug, bird, fish, tiger, plus the year 2012, which Olive helps him decipher and tie to the brother of the bank robber.

“Coordinated Flight”
Ben repeatedly hears “save her.”

“Return Trip”
Ben and Saanvi are on the plane, and he realizes she’s in trouble. She sees a boy with discolored eyes, whom she later realizes is sick.

Ben, Michaela and Saanvi are on the plane again, but this time it’s burned, with ash everywhere. Adrian (Jared Grimes) watches the group from afar, but they don’t notice the new face in their calling.

“Emergency Exit”
Cal, Michaela, Grace and Zeke see an apocalyptic dance club where they have to “save the passengers.”

Ben sees a glow from a book.

“Carry On”
Ben hears a whole lot of chanting, until he finds TJ alive.

“Airplane Bottles”
Cal, Grace and Ben don’t realize the massive storm outside is actually a calling.

Cal, insisting it’s all connected, can’t quite figure out what he’s trying to build.

Grace, Cal, TJ and Ben are in the water, on a boat, seeing Flight 828 in the sky.

“Course Deviation”
Grace and Adrian hear “help me” and are drawn to the river.

Cal is haunted by shadows, first in his drawing. Then it materializes in real life and turns into three figures.

“Unaccompanied Minors”
Michaela, repeatedly, hears “let him go.”

Grace is unknowingly singing baby Eden a song penned by Zeke’s father.

Ben sees a train, and TJ envisions a phoenix, which leads them to a suicidal man: Zeke’s dad [Michael Medeiros].

Cal sees the trio of shadows again.

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“Call Sign”
Ben repeatedly sees 828 blowing up.

Michaela sees her dead mom while marrying Zeke.

“Icing Conditions”
Zeke sees his own death, and knows that Cal is going to be there.

Ben sees the plane exploding in the air.

Season 3

“Tailfin”
Cal draws a boat that steers them in the right direction to a piece of 828.

Ben, Cal and Michaela scream and writhe in pain, under a spotlight. The trio is joined by a new face: 828er Angelina (Holly Taylor).

Ben touches 828’s tail fin and once again puts himself, as well as Cal and Michaela, back in the painful calling. Ben is also thrown from the piece of plane debris.

Noises lead Michaela to Angelina, who is being held hostage by her parents.

Ben sees the plane exploding.

“Deadhead”
Angelina sees running and an angel.

The M Heads — aka Pete (Devin Harjes), Jace (James McMenamin) and Kory (DazMann Still) — hear Cal say “Go to her.”

“Wingman”
Cal sees a peacock.

Ben sees artifacts shaking and falling down, and it leads him to Eagan (Ali Lopez-Sohaili).

Michaela once again hears Evie (Simoné Elizabeth Bart)’s heart.

Cal recites his “spiders crawling up your back” game and the meth heads hear him.

“Countdown”
The meth heads see themselves running, with a red filter, as a clock is counting down.

“Water Landing”
A smoke figure jumps at Michaela.

Pete sees himself pleading with his brother.

“Graveyard Spiral”
The meth heads hear Cal’s thoughts, repeatedly.

Angelina and Ben see a non-existent basketball in the road, leading them to realize Cal is in danger.

Cal sees the shadow again, representing the now-dead Jace, and it splits to kill Pete and Kory.

“Precious Cargo”
Michaela sees an oncoming storm.

Ben sees a dog.

“Destination Unknown”
Ben sees photos of passengers bursting into flames.

Michaela sees lava flowing on a card, and it burns her hand.

Cal sees lava flowing in a snow globe, and it takes them back to the calling of the 828ers screaming in pain.

“Bogey”
Michaela sees a dark cloud in the kitchen; Ben doesn’t realize that the flood he’s trying to navigate isn’t real. Saanvi’s photo is also wet.

Michaela sees herself with bloody eyes.

 A lion has bloody eyes.

Ben has another glowing book.

“Compass Calibration”
Cal gets burned by lava flowing from his snow globe.

Cal and Ben see a passenger’s photo on fire. Later, Cal sees Ben’s photo on fire.

Astrid (Arianna Esquerre) hears a young boy pleading for help and sees a skull on a checkerboard.

“Duty Free”
The 828ers see themselves on fire.

“Mayday (Part 1)”
Michaela sees blood on the walls of the plane.

Eagan sees birds outside of the plane.

Ben sees himself drowning and Cal sinking.

Michaela and Eagan see themselves on the plane with Adrian, who has bloody eyes.

“Mayday (Part 2)”
Michaela is on the plane with Adrian, whose hands are covered in blood. Ben and Saanvi explore the plane and find an unconscious Cal. Michaela sees a trail of blood, leading her to Angelina’s seat.

Season 4

“Touch and Go”
Michaela is in water, with cherry blossom leaves falling. She sees a freighter ship.

Ben’s work in his makeshift attic office is impacted by the wind, leading him to a passenger, Anna Ross (Jacqueline Antaramian), who claims to be having her own callings. But really, she’s following Eden’s drawings.

Ben and Anna are led by more wind at the cemetery, and save a man from drowning.

Cal hears ticking, which leads him to the flight’s black box.

“All Call”
Adrian has a calling of a chicken coop.

Cal sees himself on the plane with Henry (Clem Cheung), and sees lava below them. A scar starts to form on Cal’s arm.

Saanvi hears callings on the black box.

“High Flight”
Eden draws the things that she sees falling. Later, her drawings end up on Ben’s attic ceiling.

Michaela and Cal hear thunder.

Saanvi plays the callings from the black box, and it causes Cal’s scar to react.

Ben sees ash and lava, and is connected again to Eagan.

Cal remembers his calling from when he vanished: His younger self, Captain Bill Daly (Frank Deal) and Fiona (Francesca Faridany) were on the plane. The pilot didn’t want Cal to leave.

"Go-Around”
Michaela sees a Native American thunderbird, flying around with lightning coming out of its eyes. The computer scrolls down to lead her in the right direction.

Eagan gives Ben information about Eden, and it promptly burns Ben.

Michaela repeatedly sees fog.

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“Squawk”
Eden follows a bee and finds Ben. Michaela has her own vision of bees, which leads her to her brother and niece.

The 828ers see falling ash.

“Relative Bearing”
Cal sees a montage of callings, including being on the boat and the lava.

Michaela sees herself standing on glass, with water and fish underneath her. She later sees a bloody red X.

Eden sees lava flowing from the snow globe.

“Romeo”
Eden draws letters, and Ben realizes it’s a calling.

Ben sees 828ers who are now sick and engulfed in flames. Saanvi later sees lights coming from their patient files.

Michaela realizes that the bloody X she envisions is actually a cross.

“Full Upright and Locked Position”
Eagan sees smoke and hears Adrian. He recalls his first calling, which said, “Help him.” (Instead, Eagan stole money from charity.)

Ben hears Radd’s music again, and it leads him to discover that Cal is sick again.

“Rendez-vous”
Cal, Ben, Saanvi and Michaela are back on the plane, but this time, even the non-828ers are with them. (However, the non-828ers have no awareness of this.)

Michaela and Saanvi follow a compass to the place where Thomas hid out; the sapphire they need was hidden there all along.

Marko (Nikolai Tsankov), a nonverbal 828er, draws his calling — a volcano.

Everyone ends up back on the plane, along with Eagan (who now has the sapphire). The group realizes that the looming death date applies to everyone. Michaela tries to plead with Eagan to give up the gem so they have a chance to survive, but he vanishes.

“Inversion Illusion”
Michaela sees ash falling.

Angelina screams, and it impacts all of the passengers.

Angelina forces callings on Ben, Cal and Michaela: Ben and Cal are shown Grace, while Michaela sees Evie.

“Final Descent”
Cal sees a man get cornered and assassinated in a calling. Later, he goes on the plane via a calling and shares a vision with flight attendant Bethany (Mugga). They both see a person in a farmhouse in need of help. However, Bethany is incapacitated and therefore unable to share what she experiences from her side of things.

“Bug Out”
After 828er Joe (Bru Ajueyitsi) delivers a murky message about his calling while trapped in the detention center, Cal goes back into the plane to try and get more clarity: He sees ink dropping on paperwork and a chandelier and hears violin music. 

An unconscious Ben furiously writes a message on a wall in the detention center, which ends up being a map of the facility that leads back to Daly. 

Later, Cal goes back on the plane via a calling and is shocked to discover Angelina is still alive.

“Ghost Plane”
Ben sees a boat at the marina and something starting to tip the vessel over. He keeps getting more insight (via a necklace and then a string around an iron heart), which leads to Eagan’s estranged family and the truth about his duplicitous protégé.

Cal sees an olive tree and realizes Fiona needs help. He’s able to project an image of a gravely wounded Fiona to Saanvi via a calling, and the doctor gives medical advice to save her life. 

Meanwhile, Angelina projects multiple callings on Eden — in the form of Olive — reiterating how much Angelina loves the young girl and manipulating her into killing Fiona. 

“Fata Morgana”
Ben sees bloody hands and Daly in the mirror.

Cal prompts a calling with Angelina, who shows him the sapphire embedded in her hand. He rejects her notion that they’re a pair.

Angelina causes chaos in the detention center, projecting a calling onto Daly of his son. This undermines and belittles their relationship, which leads to the guards killing the frenzied pilot. Saanvi also realizes that Angelina has been spying on them via a not-really-there security guard.

“Throttle”
Michaela sees a babbling brook and realizes it’s near the home of Tarik (Warner Miller), Grace’s now-dead stepbrother.

“Furball”
Cal struggles to breathe, but sees four queen card faces with six of hearts, two of clubs, three of diamonds and eight of spades as their associated numbers. 

Later, Cal sees a plethora of images, including birds, the ground breaking and the subway. He realizes he’s seeing all of the passengers’ callings at once.

“Threshold”
Cal sees a subway and the ground breaking. When he gets on the plane and sits down in 14 F, he sees purple vines.

Later, Cal sees a peacock in the middle of the woods and two glowing sapphire fragments on the feathers. The two pieces then come together. 

“Lift/Drag”
Cal gets as many callings as he can handle at once, including a cricket game, a broken vial, the words “Every life is worth saving” (though Mick realizes it’s actually “Every life is worth living”), a sawing noise with rain and thunder, plus a buzzing noise and the numbers 1, 1, 2, 1.

But when Cal goes on the plane later to get more callings, they appear to be tapped out. He begs for help.

“Formation”
Cal pulls Angelina onto the plane for a final calling, asking her to help him save everyone. She declines.

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