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Manifest may have touched down for the final time with its series finale on June 2, but that doesn’t mean the you have to deplane quite yet. 

Still reeling from that emotional ending? Well, we’re here to keep those turbulent feelings flowing: Above, watch the show’s cast and creator cry through the final episode’s table read. 

Back in September, the cast — including Melissa Roxburgh, Josh Dallas, J.R. Ramirez, Parveen Kaur, Luna Blaise, Ty Doran, Holly Taylor, Matt Long, Ellen Tamaki, Daryl Edwards, Garrett Wareing, Athena Karkanis, Ali Lopéz-Sohaili and more — and Manifest creatorJeff Rake gathered in a barn in New Paltz, New York, to read through the script for the series finale, “Final Boarding.” Considering the cast had only done five or so full episode read-throughs over the course of four seasons, it was both an emotionally charged and momentous occasion. “How precious that we’re here today to have the very last table read,” Rake addresses the room, before they delve into the episode. “I’ll try very hard not to cry — I usually cry.”

He’s not the only one who gets sentimental. Before the cast sits down, they greet each other with hugs and excitement. Blaise, who plays Olive Stone, seems particularly happy to be reunited with her on-screen mom, Karkanis, who’s been absent for most the final season due to her character’s death in the Season 3 finale. Meanwhile, Long (who plays Zeke Landon) jokes around with director and executive producer Romeo Tirone, and Garrett Wareing (TJ Morrison) blows kisses across the table to his fellow castmates. 

“What a journey this has been,” says Rake, complete in an 828 baseball cap, (a reference to the number of the flight at the core of the series), looking around at the cast, Tirone, executive producer Jack Rapke and executive producer and writer Margaret Easley. “I feel so special and grateful and lucky, so lucky to have spent this past five years-ish with all of you. We share in all of this glory and luck. [I] couldn’t have done it without any single one of you. What a joy this journey has been.”

As the cast reads through the final scenes with producer Harvey Waldman providing stage directions, there’s no shortage of teary moments — particularly from Dallas, who can be heard sniffling and taking shaky breaths as he says his lines. But when Karkanis take her seat next to him at the table, he really breaks down, even flubbing his line. He and Karkanis hold hands as they read the scene where their characters are finally reunited, while around them the rest of the cast dabs  tears. “This is ridiculous!” Dallas exclaims, grabbing tissues when they reach the scene in which young Cal (Jack Messina) appears, and handing one to Kaur who’s struggling to get through her lines too. 

After Roxburgh reads the final line of the finale, the group bursts into applause, getting to their feet for a standing ovation. There’s not a not a dry eye in the barn. “I can’t begin to describe to you how much work my co-writers, the writers’ room put into not just this script, but into every script,” says Rake. “It doesn’t matter whose name is on these scripts that you’ve read for the last four and a half years. I have relied on my team, my excellent colleagues, for every episode.”

Grab your own tissues and watch the full table read above. You can stream Manifest Season 4 now.

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