“False Horizon” is episode three of season two of Manifest.
The episode opens with Saanvi on the plane, but it’s the outbound flight and she’s waiting for someone who never came, sending her a message saying they couldn’t. She’s telling the major about this and about how she had a letter to send in draft. The major tells her to send it. Saanvi then talks about work and a discovery she thinks she’s made. The meeting is being recorded.
Ben is telling Michaela he has a job interview, and only because of an old colleague. Grace says the woman was more than that. Vance hasn’t been able to find the leak from Saanvi and they hate lying to her. Cal wants to know if Michaela has talked to Zeke, and he has a drawing to give him.
Adrian, the passenger who founded the Church of the Believers is preaching and Olive is in the audience. The girl who gave her the leaflet takes the microphone and speaks.
Michaela is meeting a public defender about representing Zeke. As Zeke plead with no lawyer, that’s at least grounds for a plea withdrawal; before she can take the job, Zeke needs to agree.
Ben and Vance are talking about Saanvi and who the leak might be. Vance wants to use the mole to lead them back to the major, by creating details of a passenger having a lot of callings and feeding this through Saanvi. The sooner they can find the leak, the sooner they can go back to their lives and the leak from Saanvi’s lab is their best shot.
Grace talks to a woman after baby yoga, then has a calling telling her to open her eyes. She sees a gargoyle on the woman’s car.
Michaela heads back to prison and discovers Zeke has been transferred. The guard doesn’t know where. Zeke is fastened to the bed and isn’t happy that he’s been given drugs, given he’s in recovery. He’s told to take it up with the doctor in the morning.
Michaela is speaking to Ben, who reassures her about Zeke. Then Jared finds her and starts complaining about her getting a public defender for Zeke. She wants him to admit it was an accident. Otherwise, she will do whatever it takes.
Grace, Olive and Cal return home and Grace explains about her calling. She wants to track down the woman.
Saanvi is with Troy, who is running tests for her. He asks when the last time she slept was, then Ben arrives. Saanvi heads to talk to him and he mentions about the fake passenger; his reactions are clearly off, but he explains it’s because he has a job interview.
Michaela finally tracks down Zeke, and promptly has a plane calling. In real life, Zeke is spasming whilst on the plane, Michaela is trying to get him to take her hand, but he’s sedated. And, in the calling, pulled out of the plane.
Ben’s job interview starts with giving a guest lecture, and a lot of people turn up because he’s a passenger. It has a rocky start, but gets better. Jared is becoming a serious problem, thanks to his issues with Zeke. Olive is feeling left out. Ben is not liking lying to Saanvi.