- We know you all have a lot of questions
about the Manifest finale.
- You must have a lot of feelings and a lot of questions.
- We're gonna answer your burning questions right now.
(epic music)
- I've always had a broad idea about
what the ending was going to be,
but it wasn't until I was riffing long and hard
with my excellent staff of writers
that it all came together.
- How long have you known? (laughing)
- I didn't know, and I didn't bother to ask,
and I don't think Jeff would've told me anyways.
- Yeah, I had no idea.
- We knew bits and pieces of how it was
going to end because you know from the very beginning
I didn't want to know exactly what was
going to happen to these characters.
- I did know after episode 10 that I would be back,
but I knew that there would be a way
for Zeke to continue to be in the show.
Obviously it was hard to not be directly involved
in figuring out this big mystery, but I love
the stuff that I've had in Season 4.
When I read it, and when Jeff told me about it,
I was moved to tears.
- I wouldn't want to end the show any other way.
Being all together and wrapping this
like incredible ride that we've all just had.
- Yeah. - She was a wreck.
- Yeah, I was a wreck.
- Some people actually were already guessing the ending
because some people posted like photos like in an airport,
and so then people were like, does this happen?
And like the description they gave is
like exactly what happens.
- A lot of the fans almost exactly get it.
- And I always try to stay away from even liking
those tweets because I'm so nervous about people landing it,
and then it taking off out there, so I just stay away.
(Jeff laughing)
- It's a very heavy ending.
I mean, Angelina has been so self-righteous
about all the things that she believes in
and the actions that she's taking,
and what I've liked about playing this character,
even though she can be perceived as evil and destructive,
is that she genuinely thinks
that she's doing the right thing.
- It was bittersweet.
We really left it to the end to shoot it.
Walking through the glow, I just felt like, here we go.
Walking through the end.
- The whole show's a mystery.
It starts off like, what is this?
What's going on?
It ends, what is this?
What's going on?
- I think that the fans will react to this ending pleasantly
(Parveen laughing)
I'm manifesting this for myself.
- Yeah, it's great.
- I think that they're going to love
Angelina all of a sudden, and I will be swarmed
with an influx of love and affection on social media.
- And I'm very happy that Ben and Grace got to unite.
- I really enjoyed watching Grace get her family back
in a way that was just as it should be
and without the consequence of knowing
what everyone went through.
I say that because I got to watch Josh and Athena film
this reunion scene, and there was just so much love
and joy and family was reunited.
- When they walk into that terminal, and it's back into 2013
and she turns and waves at them,
he says, "Are we in heaven?"
And for him that was heaven, that she was there and the love
of his life was back, and it was emotional and joyous.
- Walking past Ben and Grace and not recognizing them
or making eye contact with them
when we have had really crucial scenes
with each other over the year.
It was surreal.
It was just weird.
The only fun part about it was that
after they cut Josh would just go, "Look at me!"
(everybody laughing)
- I was so happy to see Ben and Grace reunited.
I think their connection on screen
and everything is just so beautiful,
and they're both such amazing people
on the show, off the show so that like
when I was reading, it was really sweet.
- Cal has been our emotional north star
from the very beginning.
We've steered the mythology
of the story through the eyes of Cal.
It made a lot of sense to us to finish the story
to let the boy ultimately guide the father, Ben,
to have his son tell him, it's okay, dad.
It's going to be okay.
- They get to have their childhoods back.
To me, that's the most satisfying.
- There's the love triangle.
There's people in the Jachaela camp,
and there's people in the Zekaela camp.
Zekaela fans, they won.
Congrats, congrats.
- We have these two factions of really passionate people,
which is so fun. - Yes.
I think the finale really does service both groups.
- A hundred percent.
I think they did a beautiful job
at bringing it all together.
- They really did. - It could have been
the other way with the whole Michaela-Zeke thing,
especially after the bomb he threw her way
at the end of Season 3.
They took us every way possible.
One of the things I loved the most about this season was
that he wants the best for her.
In the midst of all that, he realizes
how good this man has been to her.
- There was no love lost between any of the characters,
and the sendoff for all of them was just selfless.
And the way that Michaela gets to re-meet Zeke is fun
because she has all the answers, and he knows nothing.
She kind of gets to take him on a new journey.
- All these things that have been talked about and planted
in stories that have gone away are now coming back.
- And it's a huge full circle moment.
- We come to discover that all the passengers
of Flight 828 have been on a journey
that has been a divine journey.
We make clear that everything you've watched happened.
This is real.
We're not trying to mess with people's minds,
and say some of that was fantasy, some of that was reality.
It's all real.
- Hopefully they learn from their mistakes,
and they get this amazing thing
that we would all love to have as a second chance,
and they get a second chance at their life
and a second chance of living differently,
better, kinder, and knowing what they know now,
that it's all connected, and that we're all
in this together, which I think is the ultimate message
that the show is putting across.
- Thank you guys so much
for sticking with us for four seasons.
We hope you enjoy the ending as much as we loved filming it.
- Thanks Manifesters, we love you.
(gentle music)