On NBC’s hit sci-fi series Manifest, Robert Vance was the NSA director who was giving the survivors of Flight 828 a hard time.
However, over the course of the first season, Vance came around and seemed to realize there were bad things afoot and started to help the passengers.
See, there were 11 missing passengers from Flight 828 that UDS took and was experimenting on. In the episode, Dead Reckoning, Michaela, Jared, Vance, Ben, and Fiona head to the warehouse hoping to find them.
When Cal shows up and finds a hidden door, a shootout takes place and the 11 missing passengers are freed. However, Vance, Jared, and Laurence are caught in an explosion and all of them die.
The funeral for Robert Vance takes place in the next episode, called Crosswinds.
Robert Vance is back on Manifest
As people should expect in science fiction, and especially science fiction that includes people seemingly escaping death, don’t believe everything that you see.
In the first episode of Manifest Season 2, titled Fasten Your Seatbelts, Robert Vance turns out to still be alive.
As with any explosion that does not result in a dead body pulled out of the wreckage, never assume someone is dead. Remember, he was loaded into an ambulance and the police said he didn’t make it. That does not mean it is true.
Robert Vance is a spy and he can disappear if he wants to, and that appears to be what the show pulled off as the second season begins.
Ben was taken near the end of the Manifest Season 2 premiere and he ended up face-to-face with Vance.
Now that Vance is presumed dead, he can help Ben and the passengers better than he could as a government employee. In an underground manner, and thanks to his experience as a spy, Vance could be their most valuable ally now.
Of course, Robert Vance was gone for a while and there is no telling what he was up to while everything was going down last season after his “death.”
Manifest airs on Mondays at 10/9c on NBC.