Gabriel Calvin "Cal" Stone is the youngest (middle in the original timeline) child of Ben and Grace Stone and brother of Olive Stone.
Biography[]
Before Flight 828[]
Cal and his twin sister were born on April 19, 2002 to Ben Stone and Grace Stone. Sometime in 2008, Cal was diagnosed with leukemia and did not respond to any treatment available at the time. They go to Jamaica for a final vacation in 2013. At the end of the vacation, due to overbooking, the family has to choose who will go on Flight 828, and Cal volunteers to spend time with his dad while his sister goes with her mom. ("Pilot")
During Flight 828[]
During Flight 828 Cal is sleeping with his dad and aunt when he wakes up and looks outside to see a light. ("Unclaimed Baggage") His seat on the plane was 5B.
After Flight 828[]
Cal returns after being missing for five years. Initially, no one believed that it was possible that Cal and the others hadn't aged. However, the stark difference between him and his sister's ages was significant, as Olive grew older while Cal remained a child. During those five years, a new successful treatment for leukemia had been developed based on the research from another passenger, Saanvi Bahl, and it brings him into remission. ("Pilot")
Several weeks later Cal develops a psychic link to a missing passenger named Marko Valeriev. This is exhibited by symptoms similar to an illness, speaking Bulgarian and seizures. As Ben works to fix him he discovers that an off the books agency is conducting human testing on Marko and ten other passengers via electric shock, and other measures. ("Off Radar")
Some time after this, Cal experiences a Calling about a man named Zeke, and travels to upstate Tannersville to find him. During this time, The Major learns that Cal experiences Callings in a special way and begins sending groups to look for him. Cal stays inside a cabin where he waits for Zeke and eventually reunites with his family.
Cal had left them his sketchbook with his drawings of the calling he had, allowing Ben and Grace to track him down and find him much to their relief. Cal bonds with Zeke over time seeing as a big brother and regularly talks with him about the callings and what they mean. Eventually Cal has a calling about their fate.
Cal starts to ransack his entire room out grief and anger. Eventually he calms down and Zeke talks to him, he shows him the recent calling showing his, Ben's, and Michaela's tombstone believing they will die. Later Cal talks to his family after they deduce their Death Date, with Cal confirming this through his drawing. ("Estimated Time of Departure")
Cal becomes extremely ill, coughing up blood and collapsing. At Zeke's insistence, Cal reluctantly goes to Dr. Alex Bates for testing in secret. Alex tells Cal that his condition is consistent with the return of Cal's leukemia. Alex's test results ultimately confirm that Cal's cancer has returned. ("", "Relative Bearing", "Romeo")
While waiting on the test results, Cal dates fellow passenger Violet Wheeler who is subsequently murdered. Cal is arrested as the prime suspect, but Alex is able to get him released into her custody using her status as his doctor. Cal is cleared when Kenneth Meyer is exposed as the killer when he targets Eden, only to be thrown out of a window by Olive while his wife Noelle is arrested for her role in the killings. ("Romeo", "")
A month later, Alex and Saanvi inform Cal and Ben that his body isn't responding to treatment and the cancer has rapidly progressed. This time, Cal's condition is terminal with him likely only having days left to live. The two decide to keep it a secret for the time being as Michaela and Zeke celebrate their wedding anniversary, but Cal later tells the others the truth about his condition. ("Rendezvous")
Olive and TJ Morrison discover from The Last Trial Papyrus that Cal, as the dragon, holds the key to tipping the scales in favor of the passengers on the Death Date. With Cal close to death from his returned leukemia, Zeke sacrifices himself to take the disease from Cal, saving Cal at the cost of his own life. ("Inversion Illusion")
The night before the Death Date, Cal sacrifices himself to act as a beacon to draw in all of the passengers. Cal's sapphire combined with Noah's Ark brings back Flight 828 for the passengers to undergo the Last Trial. ("Formation", "Final Boarding")
A New Timeline[]
After beating the Death Date, Flight 828 is sent back in time to April 7, 2013, which was when the plane was supposed to land the first time, thereby creating a new timeline where they get a second chance. Cal is resurrected and restored to his childhood with no memories of the last five and a half years in the original timeline, unlike the rest of the passengers that survived the Death Date. Although this causes Cal's leukemia to return once again, Ben introduces Grace to Saanvi, knowing that she can cure it again, just like she did the first time. Ben realizes that they've been given a gift, Cal in particular since his loss of memory means that Cal has his childhood back. ("Final Boarding")
Powers and Abilities[]
Unlike the other 828 Passengers, Cal is given unique set of powers beyond simple Callings.
Original Abilities[]
- Advanced Callings - Cal's Callings manifest as inexplicable knowledge rather than visions, although he doesn't always understand what he is being told.
- Telepathic Connection - Cal has occasionally shown a telepathic connection to other people who have been resurrected. Cal was affected by the experiments being performed on Marko Valeriev by the Major and her people. After Jace, Pete and Kory were resurrected, Cal maintained a telepathic connection with them, resulting in the meth heads being able to hear his rhymes to calm Eden down.
Sapphire Abilities[]
After returning from the Glow, Cal has a new set of powers coming from his dragon scar and the Omega Sapphire in it. As a result, after Angelina Meyer shorts out the other passengers' ability to have Callings, Cal is the only one who can still have them.
- Divine Consciousness Access - Cal is able to project himself into the Divine Consciousness in the form of Flight 828 at will.
- Calling Communication - Cal is able to pull anyone he chose into a Calling and speak to them for as long as he wanted. Cal is also able to pull Angelina into the Divine Consciousness in this manner. He is also able to project himself or others to any of the 828 passengers.
- Calling Access - Cal is able to see other Callings by touching the photo or focusing on the passenger of the Calling he wanted to see. Cal is also able to access the callings of all the other passengers by sitting in their seat on Flight 828, within the Divine Consciousness. This includes deceased passengers, although he is unable to access the Callings of the "Low-Hanging Fruit," the comatose passengers who are stuck in a constant state of Calling. Once all of the Callings are gone from the Divine Consciousness, Cal loses this ability.
- Calling Retrieval - Cal was able to bring back small objects from a calling/divine consciousness, which could be seen and touched by others.
- Object Resurrection - By combining his Omega Sapphire with the one in Noah's Ark, Cal is able to resurrect Flight 828 itself.
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| Manifest: Season One | |||||||
| "Pilot" | "Reentry" | "Turbulence" | "Unclaimed Baggage" | "Connecting Flights" | "Off Radar" | "S.N.A.F.U." | "Point of No Return" |
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| "Dead Reckoning" | "Crosswinds" | "Contrails" | "Vanishing Point" | "Cleared for Approach" | "Upgrade" | "Hard Landing" | "Estimated Time of Departure" |
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| "Fasten Your Seatbelts" | "Grounded" | "False Horizon" | "Black Box" | "Coordinated Flight" | "Return Trip" | "Emergency Exit" | |
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| "Carry On" | "Airplane Bottles" | "Course Deviation" | "Unaccompanied Minors" | "Call Sign" | "Icing Conditions" | ||
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| "Tailfin" | "Deadhead" | "Wingman" | "Tailspin" | "Water Landing" | "Graveyard Spiral" | "Precious Cargo" | |
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| "Destination Unknown" | "Bogey" | "Compass Calibration" | "Duty Free" | "Mayday (Part 1)" | "Mayday (Part 2)" | ||
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| "Touch-and-Go" | "All Call" | "High Flight" | "Go-Around" | "Squawk" | "Relative Bearing" | "Romeo" | |
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| "Full Upright & Locked Position" | "Rendezvous" | "Inversion Illusion" | "Final Descent" | "Bug Out" | "Ghost Plane" | "Fata Morgana" | |
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| "Throttle" | "Furball" | "Threshold" | "Lift/Drag" | "Formation" | "Final Boarding" | ||
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Trivia[]
- Cal is shown to have poor judgement, having sheltered the mentally unstable Angelina Meyer just because they were connected by 828, which resulted in Angelina murdering his mother and kidnapping his baby sister.
- He spends season 4 hating himself for it, with Cal noting his father can't stand to look at him or spend time with him over the last two years.
- He has terrible communication skills. Cal constantly ignores telling people of his Callings of the future and heads off on his own, endangering himself repeatedly. Much to the frustration of his father, who has to cover up all the messes Cal causes.
- Cal seems to know the real truth of 828, as he saw the light that was outside the plane when everyone else was unconscious.
- In "High Flight," it's revealed that he saw the Glow chasing the plane before it was sucked in after the Dark Lightning destroyed 828 and killed the passengers.
- He ended up being connected to The Last Trial that the Meth Heads underwent, causing its failure because he couldn't stop singing a nursery rhyme, which drove Jace insane. However, Jace likely would've failed regardless given his actions to that point.
- Cal doesn't seem to know what old sail boats look like, constantly mentioning "spider webs" when the family was enduring the storm Calling.
- It's odd that he wasn't that bright when it came to this. Sail boats with ropes are common in children stories and preschool programs. However, this was also at a time when the Calling was having negative effects on everyone experiencing it, including Cal, making him irritable, short-tempered and impatient.
- Cal has a particularly close relationship with his father Ben. However, it becomes temporarily strained after Grace's death as Ben partially blames him for allowing Angelina access to their home after she was forced to leave.
- Cal's connection to the Callings are much stronger. He sees things a lot more clearly than any other passenger. Proof of this is his drawings, he always draws the Callings he has usually of places or people he's never known or met.
- He likes playing Minecraft and Fortnite.