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There were mysteries aplenty in Manifest’s four-season run, but some of the biggest twists of the series came from the characters’ love lives.
With multiple love triangles (and quads) in play, where did the relationships leave off? And who ended up together? Whether you’re shipping #Zekaela, #Jachaela or #Benvi, the series finale delivers a satisfying conclusion for all our beloved passengers — unless you were holding out for a sweet Angelina/Eagan moment, then we can’t help you.




Here’s a breakdown of the Manifest couples’ endgames.

Do they ever! The married lovebirds seemed doomed after Zeke’s untimely death — he sacrificed himself to save Cal’s (Ty Doran) life — but Season 4, Part 2 finds the duo keeping in touch thanks to the divine consciousness. Sometimes it comes in clutch.
But they officially become #endgame when Michaela returns to 2013. After an amicable breakup with Jared (J.R. Ramirez), Michaela realizes that Zeke is working as a cab driver that night and bolts to find him.
“When we first started the show, I kind of thought Michaela and Jared were endgame,” Roxburgh tells Tudum. “I think there was even a few moments where [series creator] Jeff [Rake] might have mentioned that they were endgame, too. I’m not sure where along the road that changed or maybe he always had that in his mind.”
But for Roxburgh’s part, she really believed it was going to be a #Jachaela ending for about three seasons. “It was interesting when the plot twist came for me, that she winds up with Zeke,” she says. “I think it makes complete sense that she does. From day one, there’s been so many Jared-Michaela fans that I think everyone thought it was going that way. And then when it didn't, it was a beautiful, beautiful change.”
Michaela secures her spot in his cab by telling a potential customer she’s the driver’s wife, which Zeke gamely plays along with. And though she doesn’t fill him in on their complex past, he senses he might already know her.
“I think the fans are gonna be overjoyed and not expect that moment at the end in the cab, because it was planted [so long ago],” Long told Netflix.
The actor hadn’t been on set for a while when he came back to shoot his final scene and compares the process to returning back to your parents’ home, which helped him get into the right mindset for Zeke’s unknowing reunion with Michaela. “He doesn’t know this woman,” he said. “She knows all that she has known through the whole show, but he has no clue who she is. And he’s in 2013, living his life.”
Adds Roxburgh, “I hope that she doesn’t come across like a complete lunatic! I mean, if someone walked into my life like that, I’d be like, ‘Oh, God, get away from me. You’re crazy.’ So honestly, I just hope that he buys it and doesn’t think she’s nuts.”
As for the #Zekaela fans, “I think that they’re gonna be astounded,” Long said. “I hope that it really touches them, because when I read it, when Jeff told me about it, I was moved to tears.”

In the 2024 timeline, Jared breaks off his “casual” fling with Drea (Ellen Tamaki) and reunites with Michaela. But things get serious fast for the duo when Michaela’s father, Steve (Malachy Cleary), has a stroke and needs constant care. The trio hide out as the newly reunited couple take care of the elder Stone.
However, a chance encounter with Drea reveals she’s pregnant (with Jared’s baby), and in the end Michaela steps aside and encourages Jared to pursue a family.
“I think it’s the ultimate form of love: to let something go because you know that they deserve better or want something different,” Roxburgh says. “It really just showed how much she does love him and how much he loves her that he knows that she wants something different. So it was super sad, the scene in the tent where she says, ‘Go be with Drea.’ ”
When Michaela returns to 2013, she officially declines Jared’s proposal. “It was heartbreaking, because there was no, ‘Oh, maybe in the next season, they’ll come back,’ ” Roxburgh says. “That was it. It was done. But then at the same time, when she gets in the cab with Zeke, it just felt so right. So it was bittersweet.”

While the world falls apart in 2024, Drea goes into labor with their daughter, Hope. We never see the outcome of that storyline, but when we cut back to 2013, there’s also hope for the would-be parents.
Though neither has the memories of their past relationship — a privilege only bestowed on the 828ers — the duo have a flirty encounter at the airport in 2013. “I think they did a beautiful job finishing it off,” Ramirez told Netflix.

We got you. After spending the season mourning the death of his wife, Ben and Grace reunite in 2013, with her having no idea what’s transpired and why her husband is so overwhelmed to see her after — for her — a short flight. (She’s also very confused when he mentions their three kids, since Eden hasn’t been born yet.)
“That was my last day of shooting,” Dallas says. “It was wonderful. First of all, having Athena back — I love her so much, not only as a person, but as an actress and as a scene partner. She’s unparalleled and I was always, always excited to have a scene with her. My first scene [in] the pilot was with her, when they’re told by the doctor that Cal’s not doing so great. It was just a great full-circle moment for Josh the actor and then the character to see her again.”
As for Ben, “I think Grace was always Ben’s true love,” Dallas says. “She was always his eye of the hurricane and his everything.”
With this second chance, Dallas hopes that Ben’s “eyes are open to the bigger world around him. That he doesn’t have blinders on as much as he did before. And that he has opened himself up to the idea of belief.”

“I think it’s a beautiful relationship and a beautiful friendship,” Dallas says of the #Benvi connection. “Great friendships are as good as true love; they can be as nourishing and as fulfilling. Ben and Saanvi, these were two people cut from the same cloth, and they were great friends — and they also had trauma bonding happening.”
In the second part of Season 4, they sleep together, but quickly acknowledge they aren’t meant to be. “We see these two people who are desperate for, and hungry for, a connection that is outside of all of this madness that they’ve been going through,” Dallas says. “All of this heartache, death, stress and this worry — they’re desperate for [something that] makes them feel safe and I think they find that with each other.”
But ultimately, they aren’t each other’s endgame.“They love each other deeply, but as far as a long-term thing, it was never in the cards for them,” continues Dallas. “But for sure, this great friendship and this connection will forever be there.”

In 2013, we find Alex waiting for Saanvi at the airport and admitting her decision to not go on the trip to Jamaica with her was a big mistake. (Ummm, who wants to tell her?) Saanvi happily accepts the apology and the couple reunites.

The young lovebirds circle each other for years, but in the end time isn’t on their side. When 828 returns in 2013, TJ remains a young adult, while Olive is back to being a kid.
The two have a sweet, innocent moment where she boasts to him about reading a couple of chapters in A Wrinkle in Time — the book he had shared with her before they boarded different flights. Fitting.
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