Ben Stone

Ben Stone is a fictional character on NBC’s Manifest. He is one of the main character and portrayed by Josh Dallas. He is one of the passengers of the Montego Air Flight 828 that went missing on April 7th, 2013, and came back five years later like no time had passed.

Biography

Benjamin Stone was born to Steve and Karen stone in 1981. In 1987, Ben’s parents gave birth to Michaela Stone, his younger sister. Later in life, Ben Stone got married to Grace Stone and had two twins, Cal (Calamander) Stone and Olive Stone. In 2011, Cal is diagnosed with leukemia and his treatments don’t work.

Some time in 2012 or 2013, Michaela’s THEN boyfriend Jared Vasquez proposed to her in front of Ben, his children, wife, and parents in a park. Ben told his sister to marry Jared and, for a final vacation with Cal, to go to Jamaica. When they were going back to New York, the first flight they picked was overbooked; so Ben, Michaela, and Cal get on flight 828 which had a lot of turbulence and when the flight was only for a few hours, the world aged 5 years and everyone thought the passengers were dead. Surprisingly, none of them aged even the slightest bit.

Before Flight 828

Ben Stone is the mathematician husband of Grace Stone and father of Cal and Olive Stone.

During Flight 828

After Flight 828

After supposedly being missing for 5 and a half years, Ben, his sister Michaela and his son Cal, all struggle to adapt to their new life. His wife, Grace, had been seeing a different man while her husband had been presumed dead and Olive is seen to have moved on and replaced Ben with Danny as a father figure.

Ben begins having ‘callings’. These callings later impact his And Cal’s daily life. After numerous callings, he comes clean to Grace and Olive with the hope of their family rebuilding their relationship.