In season 3 of the manifesto, many characters chose the resurrection as the explanation for their return. Here’s why they’re probably wrong.
Ben’s resurrection theory seems to be the accepted explanation for how the passengers returned from Flight 828 manifest – but that doesn’t mean they’re right. Since the season three premiere, Ben (Josh Dallas) and other characters have been convinced that they all died in the storm that caused the disappearance of Flight 828. Since the beginning of the series, Ben, Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh), Saanvi (Parveen Khaur) and the others have spent five and a half years trying to figure out what really happened that night and where the passengers were.
The same secret was later applied to characters like Zeke (Matt Long) and Griffin (Marc Menchaca), who had similar experiences. Ben believed he finally found the answer (or at least part of it) in the premiere of the third season of the manifesto, when the plane’s tail fin was recovered. After Ben saw the plane get wrecked in Season 1, Ben knew the tail fin couldn’t have come from the version of Flight 828 that was returning. This led Ben to theorize that everyone on board the plane perished during the storm, only to be resuscitated by a mysterious force years later.
While Ben and some of the other characters have talked about being brought back to life several times since that reveal, it may not be what actually happened. It was also endorsed by the meth addicts who floated to the surface of the lake after allegedly drowning in the season two finale, but it doesn’t go well with the show’s time travel advice. In Season 2, a calling revealed that the explorer Al-Zuras from the 16th century was believed to have both ended up in the same storm, despite being over 500 years apart from Al-Zuras and the passengers on Flight 828. For this to be possible, time travel needs to be part of the equation. Either Al-Zuras, the passengers, or both traveled through time.
If you look at the Al-Zuras Calling, it seems that instead of dying and coming back to life years later, the passengers got stuck in the flow of time. However, this does not explain the tail fin, which is why time travel can only be part of the explanation. Some have wondered if parallel universes had anything to do with why there were two levels.
It’s possible that had manifest continued, the passengers wanted to take up the time travel idea of the second season again in the fourth season. Based on what happened in the season three finale, it looks like the show has headed back in that direction. Coming out of nowhere and disappearing again, Captain Daly provided strong evidence that time travel is involved as he appears to move through time and not come back to life. Then there’s the matter of Cal (Jack Messina), who disappeared in one episode and came back five years older. Both events, combined with what they know about Al-Zuras, serve as a sign that Ben and the passengers are wrong with their so-called resurrection.
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Nicholas Raymond
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Nicholas Raymond is a film and television features contributor for Screen Rant. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Montevallo and is the author of the psychological thriller and time travel novel “A Man Against the World”. Nicholas’ love of storytelling is inspired by his love of film noir, westerns, superhero films, classic films, and ancient history. His favorite actors are Tyrone Power and Eleanor Parker. He can be reached by email at cnrmail@bellsouth.net and on Twitter at @ cnraymond91.
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