Warning: This article contains spoilers for the final episodes ofManifest.
Netflix filmed what transpired that day and will likely release it at a later date.
But Dallas is reluctant to show that footage.
Josh Dallas as Ben Stone on ‘Manifest’.Netflix
“I was a wreck.
I was an absolute wreck.
“It was just layered with so much.
Josh Dallas' Ben Stone and Melissa Roxburgh’s Michaela Stone in the final season of ‘Manifest’.Peter Kramer/Netflix
It was super emotional, not only doing that read-through, but filming the final episode.
It was just supercharged.”
And in trueManifeststyle, a lot went down.
If you don’t watch the show, what follows may sound like the babbling of a madman.
For the rest of us, it makes sense.
Once inside it, they pop swing open the cabin door and walk outside.
They find themselves back in 2013, at the New York airport where they were originally supposed to land.
The 828-ers exhibit small signs that they actually went through something together.
Saanvi still has a gunshot wound from Angelina’s final attack, and Ben still has the dragon figurine.
“I did find the ending surprising, but perfect,” Dallas says.
“I had different theories throughout, just like everybody else had.
Was it the government?
Is it time travel?
Is it the divine?
Is it string theory?
Is it a black hole?
I think it’s perfect and beautiful.”
In fact, the actor doesn’t see theManifestending as an ending at all.
To him, it feels like a new beginning, because it is for these characters.
“It does answer those big questions, but it doesn’t answer everything,” Dallas says.
Dallas' own journey onManifestbegan and ended with his onscreen wife, Grace.
“I think his whole journey has been about going from skeptic to believer,” Dallas says.
“He has also struggled with, how does he lead?
Why is he leading?
And I think that’s compounded by an identity crisis.
Is he really doing it for the entire lifeboat, or is he doing it for justhislifeboat?
How does he pivot into doing this for the bigger lifeboat?
In an earlier scene, Angelina makes her final stand as the 828-ers board the lava-plane.
Heroes work their hardest to verify that nobody else feels the pain they went through.
And it’s in that moment that [Ben] fully evolved.”
The final season ofManifestis streaming now on Netflix.
