Station Eleven: Chapter 47 Summary & Analysis

In Year Nineteen, Clark is seventy years old. His friend Annette has died two years ago. Recently, Clark made available the reports from his executive consulting job, and now the former executives are very interested in them. Garrett and Clark discuss the report on a man named Dan and the platitudes used in discussing him as a boss.

After a long silence, Garrett asks, as he has many times, if he has ever told Clark about his last phone call. Though he was married with two children at the time of the collapse, his last call was to his boss and was meaningless. Garrett notes the comment from one of Dan’s employees that he was a high-functioning sleepwalker.

Lately, Clark has been spending more time in the past, getting lost in his memories. He falls asleep, and wakes to Sullivan (the head of security), who wants to introduce Clark to the newest arrivals at Severn City Airport: Charlie, Jeremy, and Annabel. They ask if they are welcome to stay at the airport, since they have been separated from their people. Clark learns that they are from the Traveling Symphony he read about in the paper from New Petoskey. They say they lost their people because there was a prophet, who says he was from the airport. No one knows his name, but as they describe the prophet, Clark’s face shows a look of horror and realization; he knows who the prophet is. He asks Charlie and Jeremy if the prophet’s mother is still alive, to which they say they think not, as there was no old woman with him. Clark wonders what became of Elizabeth, and remembers Tyler, Arthur Leander’s son, now revealed to be the prophet, reading to the airplane as a young boy.