Cal and Michaela continue to suffer with repeated callings that see them back on the plane with Zeke, who is proving difficult for Michaela to communicate with. Ben meets a new passenger from Flight 828 who may not be all they appear. Grace experiences a startling new side effect of pregnancy. Olive struggles to cope.

Manifest is a not a show that ever feels light on plot threads, and this new season is proving no exception. It also proves in this instalment that it’s still capable of pulling new twists out of its central premise.

With these new callings suffered by Michaela and Cal proving to be continually mysterious but frightening in their intensity, both know that they need to talk to Zeke, who also appears in them. Small problem there is that having turned himself in to the authorities, Zeke isn’t really keen on speaking to anyone. Additionally complicating matters is Michaela’s new boss, who is not about to give her any slack and has assigned her a new partner. It seems clear that Zeke needs to be a part of her life, but as of now, it’s difficult to see how that will be possible.

With Vance back from the dead his own way, the crew have a slightly better chance of keeping track of what the Major is up to, although of course none of them yet know that she is acting as Saanvi’s therapist, which means that she’s more ahead of them than they might like. Saanvi herself makes some interesting discoveries relating to Grace’s pregnancy (though Grace herself makes the leap first) and that’s opened up yet another avenue for the group’s arch nemesis to go down.

Meanwhile Ben is caught up in another passenger’s drama – a college student from flight 828 reaches out to him having experienced callings, but then when one of them leads to an act of violence it’s not one hundred per cent clear whether the boy is genuine or taking advantage of Ben’s trusting nature. The show plays very fair and very cleverly with this one and you won’t see the answer coming until it’s right on top of you.

But even as various people pull together, others start to move away. Olive is struggling with so much change, and starting to feel slightly adrift from the rest of her family, not least because so many of them seem to have a ticking clock hanging over them, Sword of Damocles style. When she is offered an outlet she grasps at it with both hands, but it may not be the sort of outlet that’s good for her or any of the rest of her family – time will tell.

Verdict: Continuing to wring new angles out of what feels like a premise that couldn’t possibly have lasted this long already, and adding new plot threads all the time. Impressive. 9/10

Greg D. Smith