Reentry

"Reentry"
Information
Season 1, Episode 2
Premiere date	October 1, 2018
Written by	Jeff Rake Matthew Lau
Directed by	Dean White
Episode Chronology
← Previous	"Pilot"
Next →	"Turbulence"

"Reentry" is the second episode of the first season of Manifest. It premiered on October 1, 2018 on NBC.

Synopsis

The passengers from Flight 828 find themselves under government scrutiny as they struggle to resume their lives. Michaela is forced to confront the fact that Jared is married to her once-best friend, while Ben tries to help a fellow passenger reconnect with his son. Cal is approached by an obsessive stranger, as Grace and Olive disagree on whether or not to reveal a devastating secret.[src]

Plot

When the 828 passengers are detained and interrogated following the grounded plane's explosion, they keep silent on their shared visual and auditory hallucinations. NSA Director Vance urges them to keep this incident to themselves and has them surveilled after they are released. Passenger Kelly Taylor later reaches out to the media about her treatment by the NSA after witnessing the plane's explosion, and is murdered in her own home by an unknown assailant.

At home, Ben struggles to reconnect with his now-teenaged daughter Olive, and Grace grapples with the guilt of having taken a lover during Ben's absence. Ben starts hearing mysterious violin music and is drawn to fellow passenger Radd Campbell, whose son Adio has been imprisoned in Rikers Island. Adio claims he was framed for robbing a jewelry store he worked at, but they learn that he provided false identification and job references to work there, and has prior misdemeanors on his record. Later, Ben is led by another hallucination of Radd's music to discover that the jewelry store owner's son stole the jewelry and framed Adio. The real thief is arrested while Adio is exonerated.

When Cal is out on the street, he is accosted by a woman who sees him as a messianic figure. Oliver reveals to Ben a secret storage unit that holds all of him and Cal's pre-828 possessions, and in the process tells him that Grace found a lover while Ben was gone. Ben and Grace later reconcile and reaffirm their relationship.

Michaela needs to go through psychological evaluation before she can resume work, and slowly confronts her feelings on how flight 828 has changed her life, especially the tension between her, Lourdes, and Jared. To clear the air, she reconciles with Lourdes and returns Jared's engagement ring.

Cast

Starring Melissa Roxburgh as Michaela Stone Josh Dallas as Ben Stone Athena Karkanis as Grace Stone J.R. Ramirez as Jared Vasquez Luna Blaise as Olive Stone Jack Messina as Cal Stone Parveen Kaur as Saanvi Bahl Guest Starring Victoria Cartagena as Lourdes Curtiss Cook as Radd Campbell Julienne Hanzelka Kim as Kelly Taylor Daryl Edwards as NSA Director Vance Alfredo Narciso as Captain Riojas Frank Deal as Capt. Bill Daly Rich Topol as Harvey Stein Linda Powell as Admiral Willick

Co-Starring Mugga as Flight Attendant Bethany Collins Curtis Cook Jr. as Adio Campbell Elise Santora as Dr. Bortel Jake Horowitz as Blake Valero Bob Ari as Mr. Valero Tim Moriarty as NSA Deputy Powell Mark Zimmerman as DHS Director Hughes Cindy Im as Intel Analyst Matt Walters as Intel Analyst Dina Ann Comolli as Zealot Woman Hope Blackstock as Cable News Reported Joe Jones as British News Reporter Marysol Castro as Network News Reported Terrence Shingler as Corrections Officer Bebe Browning as Pedestrian

Deaths

• Kelly Taylor (shot in the head by Christine)

Trivia

• Daryl Edwards and Alfredo Narciso are credited as guest stars from this episode onwards.
• Radd Campbell is played by Curtiss Cook, the father of Curtiss Cook Jr. who plays the character's son Adio Campbell.
• As Ben walks down the street, an ad for Harry Potter and the cursed child is visible.
• Ben quotes Clark's third law "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
• Adio was wrongly Imprisoned for stealing from the jewelry. But Ben catches the real culprit to exonerate Adio.
• Olive kept Ben and Cal's stuff in storage after preventing Grace from tossing it, to let go of her attachment to their memory.
• Lourdes is very sympathetic to Mick, whom lies that she was going to dump Jared; in order to keep the two together.
• Grace and Ben have sex.

Videos

1x02 - Reentry - Promo