Character
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 for them.
Biography
Ben has been married to Grace Stone for fifteen years and the father of twins. He represents the father of the family model: over-protective, loving, caring. Family is really important to him. However upon learning that his son, Cal, had cancer, Ben looked anything for a way to save him. This caused to form a bridge between several members of his family. He neglected his relationship with his daughter Olive, oversight Grace's feelings on the condition of their son and put Cal above everything in his life.
Season 1
Pilot
After their summer vacation in Jamaica, his parents, sister, wife, and children heads back home to New York City. At the airport, while amused to see his mother trying to convince his sister to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Ben is looking on another treatment for Cal after the last one failed to improved Cal's leukemia. Then, an announcement informs them that their flight is overbooked and a later flight, Montego Air Flight 828, is proposed at a cheaper price.
His sister Michaela, take it and Ben choose to follow her as well to gain the money difference for one of Cal's expensive treatment. His son decides to stay behind as well to stay with his dad and so Ben's parents, his wife and daughter take their scheduled flight and him, his sister and Cal takes the later flight.
On the plane, Ben tries to convince Michaela that she should accept Jared's proposal and needs to accept that she too deserve happiness. Suddenly, some serious turbulence shakes the plane, the lights goes black and everyone panics. Then the turbulence stops and everything goes back to normal. After, Captain Riojas informs the 199 passengers that the plane will divert to land near NY. On the landing, Ben and his sister notices that their phones to have any service but there are multiple emergency vehicules and police cars outside on the tarmac. Once they get off the plane, Ben sees a detective is interrogating Captain Riojas and asks what is the problem. The detective replies to all the passengers that they all have been missing for five years and six months.
Shocked and confused, Ben tries to process the news with his sister and son while on quarantine. Meanwhile, the authorities are investigating the plane and their disappearance.
A day later, Ben is reuniting with his dad, his wife and his daughter, who is five years older than he last saw her. His dad reveals to both his sister and him that after their plane went missing, their mom got sick and passed away. After the reunion, the passengers are released from quarantine, and Ben got back home with his family.
Once back Ben immediately go back to find a cure for Cal. His wife and him go to see his doctor and they learn that a new medical pediatric trial can save their son life if he is accepted into the program.
When he comes back, he finds his sister in the garden, on a swing. She tells him that she has been hearing a voice in her head to which Ben responds that she should forget and move past it before the government starts hearing this and locking her up. Later