"Look, I know this sounds crazy, but you guys all heard about Flight 180, right? The kid who got off the plane? What happened a year ago today? ...My premonition was just like his."
— Kimberly
Final Destination 2 is the second film in the Final Destination series, directed by David R. Ellis and released in 2003.
A year after the Flight 180 explosion, Kimberly and her friends are on spring break when she receives a premonition of a massive car pile-up on the highway which kills them all. She manages to avert the fates of several people, but once again Death returns to hunt them down.
A third film in the series, Final Destination 3, came out in 2006.
This film provides examples of:
- An Arm and a Leg:
- Rory's left arm is severed by the wires that dismember him, falling off just before the rest of poor Rory falls apart.
- A charred and barbecued arm is all that's left of Brian Gibbons at the end of the movie, landing in front of his horrified mother.
- Artistic License – Cars: In Real Life, logging trucks have 'bunks,' essentially large metal stakes on the side of them in order to pile logs on top of each other. There wouldn't be any way to load logs onto a truck as shown in the movie, they would simply roll off the side when you tried to stack them. The filmmakers probably loaded a log truck like normal, chained down the load, then removed the bunks; if you look very closely, before the crash you can see small metal points on the truck where the bunks should be.
- Artistic License – Physics:
- Logs that fall off a truck will not bounce off the road and get airborne, meaning the infamous shot of a log bouncing up and plowing all the way through the car and driver behind it after falling from the truck is an impossible scenario. The filmmakers were aware, doing practical tests with real logs on a truck and finding them to spill off and roll sideways—a dangerous obstruction to react to, but not an airborne battering ram. The logs in the movie are created digitally to maintain the full shocking effect of the scripted pileup sequence and fudge the physics for the purposes of the horror and story.
- During the premonition, Eugene bails out behind his bike, exactly as you're supposed to when the only alternative is a head on collision. Eugene is of average build, while most sports bikes he's riding weigh anywhere from 300 to 500 pounds, so the rider would slow down much faster than the bike. However, in the next shot, Eugene is a dozen or so feet ahead of the bike and hasn't slowed down at all when he slides into the logs. The bike, if anything, has picked up speed as it crashes into him, as even if Eugene somehow got ahead of the bike, it should have slowed down enough to not instantly crush him to death.
- Rory is killed when a barb wire fence is sent flying by a nearby explosion. A barb wire fence doesn't even come close to having enough mass to be able to be thrown by a shockwave (and probably also wouldn't bisect the guy).
- Ascended Extra: A meta example, as James Kirk (the actor playing Tim Carpenter) was an extra in Final Destination who was wearing the same jersey as Carter Horton.
- Asshole Victim:
- Downplayed; Kimberly's three friends all laugh at a homeless woman losing a bag of cans she'd collected and even try to avoid getting arrested for drug possession, but their deaths in the opening disaster are still portrayed as undeserved and traumatizing for Kimberly.
- Subverted with Rory, whose otherwise off-putting personality is offset by genuine nobility, seen when he saves Brian Gibbons from being hit by a van and solemnly asks Kimberly to get rid of anything that might disappoint his mother if he dies.
- Big "NO!": Kimberly, after she witnesses the truck crash into the SUV that her friends are on, killing them.
- Bittersweet Ending: Kimberly manages to defeat Death by having Burke revive her after her Heroic Suicide, breaking Death's List. But everyone else is still dead, including Clear, and they realize Rory inadvertently created a new List when he saved Brian Gibbons from being hit by a van, which results in Brian being blown up.
- Black Comedy: At the end, the two surviving characters are having a barbecue with a family they met earlier, when all of a sudden the mother mentions one of the victims having saved her son's life earlier in the film. As if on cue, the barbecue the son is checking on explodes, and his severed arm lands on his mom's plate. Roll credits.
- Black Dude Dies First: Inverted. Eugene is tied with Clear as the last major character (not counting the kid at the end) to die, while the Latina Isabella was never in any danger at all.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: Nora's death leaves Clear and Kat covered with her blood, and both of them, especially Kat, are visibly traumatized.
- Break the Cutie:
- One year after the Flight 180 disaster, Clear is, emotionally, little more than an Empty Shell. She may still be breathing, but as Kimberly points out, she isn't really alive.
- Death was certainly trying to do this to Kimberly as well.
- Broken Bird: Clear, a major returning character from the previous film, is shown to be... well, badly shaken from the deaths she witnessed and the narrow escapes she had.
- Bus Crash:
- Alex Browning, whose death was not only off screen, but the most unexciting death in the series. Admittedly, however, since Devon Sawa had walked out between the first and second films over payment issues, they had no choice but to kill him off without showing it, since a death hadn't been filmed.
- Clear too. Apparently, she was supposed to have died on the train at the end of the third film, but scheduling conflicts that came to light during the second film made that impossible, hence the sudden rapidity of her death.
- Casanova Wannabe: Lightly played with in Evan.
- When Kimberly is driving her SUV down the highway (during her premonition of the pileup), she winds up alongside Evan, in his flashy sports car. Evan immediately notices Kimberly and Shaina, and tries to get their attention by revving his car. He gives the two beautiful girls a flirtatious smile, which Kimberly and her friends find more something to laugh at than be impressed by.
- Later, in his apartment, Evan gets two phone calls from women who make it painfully obvious that they only became interested in him when they heard he won the lottery.
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway:
- Outside of the premise, halfway through, it's revealed that the survivors of the highway accident also cheated death when the deaths of the previous film's survivors led to them not reaching their own.
- Subverted by Kimberly. She is pulled away from a speeding truck just moments after her own premonition, and later only dies temporarily from drowning before being saved and revived. Final Destination Bloodlines confirmed that she lived.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Kat Jennings is a nervous workaholic who smokes even when on the treadmill. When she's stuck in her car due to some logs, she lights up a cigarillo as she's waiting to be rescued.
- Continuity Nod: The Flight 180 disaster of the first movie has made its way into the public eye as an infamous and bizarre mystery.
- Contrived Coincidence: All of the survivors in the pileup cheated death in some way due to the main characters' deaths in the first film. The pileup at the beginning was Death's attempts to get them all at once.
- After witnessing Nora get decapitated by an elevator, Eugene, traumatized and freaking the hell out, grabs Burke's service revolver right out of his holster and points it to his own head, intent on taking himself out before Death can get to him. Since it's not his turn yet, all six bullets turn out to be duds. Lampshaded immediately after.Rory: Maybe they're all duds.
Burke: Six in a row?! Never. That's impossible! - This is made even clearer with the events of Final Destination 5, which reveals that the events of 5, 1 and 2 were all planned by Death. Molly escaped her death on the North Bay Bridge, so that she could survive to be attacked by Peter in the kitchen. However, despite her apparent "cheating" of death there, she was meant to survive that, just like all her friends were meant to survive the bridge so that the events of 5 could play out... and get Molly and Sam onto Flight 180. Death then gives Alex the premonition so he and his friends can escape and Sam and Molly die on the plane and Death picks off the survivors of Flight 180, who were meant to escape the plane so that the survivors of the Route 23 pile-up could have escaped earlier unplanned deaths and the subsequent pile up to be in the right place at the right time throughout the events of Final Destination 2 to die as foretold and planned by Death.
- After witnessing Nora get decapitated by an elevator, Eugene, traumatized and freaking the hell out, grabs Burke's service revolver right out of his holster and points it to his own head, intent on taking himself out before Death can get to him. Since it's not his turn yet, all six bullets turn out to be duds. Lampshaded immediately after.
- Dangerously Loaded Cargo: The pileup on Route 23 is caused by a chain on a logging truck failing, sending massive logs flying into the cars behind it.
- Darker and Edgier: The film is quite possibly the darkest in the series until the fifth one rolled out. Other than the primarily adult cast, the film puts the plot above the gore (as opposed to the other way around) with the whole drama of the cast being put into Death's List not only because of the Road 23 pileup but because they have cheated their deaths a year before at the expense of the Flight 180 survivors. Played with because it's also the only film in the series where the Protagonists actually break Death's Plan by resuscitating Kimberly after she drowned therefore creating a new life which erased the List that resulted from the pile-up.
- Decoy Protagonist: The film starts with focus on Kimberly and her three friends, Dano, Frankie, and Shaina. Kimberly then has the pileup premonition that changes everything. While Kimberly remains the protagonist, we're led to expect her friends are part of the pool of disaster survivors, like Alex's group in the first film. It's not the case: Dano, Frankie, and Shaina are killed by the disaster once it goes through, and the main cast of survivors are all strangers Kimberly blocked from the pileup scene.
- Death by Irony:
- Clear tried to cheat Death by hiding herself away in a mental hospital. She later dies in a different hospital.
- Kat is killed when rescue workers trying to save her set off her airbag and putting a broken pipe through her head.
- A wounded Eugene is taken to a hospital for treatment, and it's there that he ends up dying.
- Death by Looking Up: Tim looks up just in time to see a large window literally crush him into a bloody mess.
- Death of a Child:
- Tim was originally going to be a little kid, but the director wanted to keep the movie "fun" and thus bumped up his age to 15 so we wouldn't be subjected to seeing a little kid being splattered by a falling pane of glass.
- Although, another younger kid is blown to smithereens by an exploding barbecue in the final scene.
- Diabolus ex Machina: The Wiki-aptly named "Truck from Hell". Specifically, near the end of Kimberly's premonition, it's shown that Kimberly and her friends would have survived the pileup in the premonition had an ominous-looking truck not abruptly burst through the flames, smash through Evan's car, and then Kimberly's. If you pay attention, this truck is also the same one that smashes through Kimberly's car after she pulls it over, taking her friends with it. There's no explanation why it does so, though closer inspection reveals that
the truck has no driver. - Dirty Old Man: The old guy with a box of prosthetic arms in the elevator - when Nora gets in the elevator with him, he starts sniffing her hair. We'll let you decide which part is creepier. For what it's worth, he does try to help Nora escape from her deadly predicament, but to no avail.
- Disney Death: Kimberly Corman drowns herself in an attempt to end Death's design. Thanks to the doctor's using crash carts, it succeeds and she is brought back to life.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Attempted. Eugene tries to kill himself using a policeman's gun so he can go out on his own terms and not give Death the satisfaction. Since his turn has not yet arrived, all the bullets somehow turn into duds.
- At The Climax, Kimberly drives into a lake. She drowns but is able to be resuscitated, which actually saves her and Burke from Death, allowing them to live a normal life.
- Drunk Driver: In the beginning sequence, the driver of a beer truck is seen taking a pull from a bottle of beer shortly before everything goes to hell. It was not the triggering factor in the huge pileup, but it may have been a contributing factor.
- Dude, Not Funny!: When a frustrated Kat decides to go outside to smoke a cigarette, Thomas warns her that it isn't safe. Kat jokingly replies, "So? Nora's gotta bite it before me anyhow." Thomas gives her a sideways look, and Kat says, "Ah, you people have no sense of humor!" Kat ends up with a front-row seat to Nora's death soon afterwards, and she is visibly traumatized.
- Dull Surprise: Kimberly didn't seem all that upset when Rory was sliced up by wires, other than having a little bit of nausea. Yet the random civilians around her were shouting or screaming "OH MY GOD!" In her defense, she had now witnessed multiple brutal deaths that week.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Kimberly has the honor of being the only protagonist to escape Death's List — by killing herself and getting revived at a nearby hospital. She also may have even been the only one who broke his Plan because her resurrection created a new life, which means Thomas also survived because the List resulting from the Highway Accident was undone. In Final Destination Bloodlines it is confirmed that at least Kimberly did indeed survive.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: While plenty of cars, bikes, trucks and other automobiles explode during the premonition sequence, this trope is lampshaded by the fact that one of the cars involved - specifically the one driven by Nora and Tim - actually is a Ford Pinto!
- Evil Elevator: A particularly malevolent example. There's a problem with the thing that re-opens the door if something is trapped. Naturally, someone's head gets trapped. And Clear jamming the button on an upper floor causes it to go up with the head still trapped...
- Eye Scream: "Shit, I'm lucky!" Just not lucky enough to avoid getting a fire escape to the eye.
- Final Girl: Kimberly. Kind of downplayed though, since Thomas is also with her and gets involved in the Death's List just as equally. It's just that Kimberly is the one who finally puts an end on the deaths once and for all.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Right after Kimberly prevents the victims from being caught in the pileup, she spots a traffic sign that reads "Next 180 feet", and as she's slowly turning her head, Burke can be seen scrambling to run up to her to pull her out of the way of the truck that crashes into her car and kills her friends.
- Foreshadowing: Kimberly's friends are the first to die, literally seconds after she prevents them from being involved in the Highway Accident. Even though in the vision their car was the last one to be hit. It takes a few more scenes before it dawns on the survivors that this List is working backwards.
- Grilling Pyrotechnics: Used as a method of death and a final Jump Scare.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Rory, who is cut into thirds by a flying barbed wire fence (which also takes off his left arm).
- Hidden Heart of Gold: After the car crash, Kat is badly shaken and in pain, but she still tells Clear to go find Isabella rather than stay with her. Kat bravely insists that she'll be fine, even though she's obviously scared out of her mind.
- Hollywood Psych: Clear would not be locked in a padded room 24/7, even if she admitted herself and made specific requirements, since she's not exhibiting violent tendencies and seems otherwise perfectly sane and capable. Keeping her there would be a drain on resources for anyone who really needed treatment. Granted, telling the story that she's the Sole Survivor of Flight 180 and that death is hunting her down might've had something to do with it. Even so, they wouldn't allow her to have red string, pins and newspaper clippings for her String Theory, which would only be feeding into her obsession and present a way for her to potentially harm herself.
- Hope Spot:
- Kat is nearly speared through the head in a car accident but is saved by less than an inch of space. She looks safe and is being rescued by an emergency crew when they accidentally trigger her air bag, forcing her right into the same spike.
- When Isabella gives birth, Kimberly and Thomas (later joined by Clear) are hugging and celebrating, believing that they have beaten Death. We are even shown Eugene being saved from dying of suffocation after his defibrillator that was pulled out goes into emergency mode, making him able to breathe again. However, it turns out that Isabella was never going to die in the highway pileup in the first place, so she was never on Death's list, and the "new life" of her baby could not save the survivors.note Eugene and Clear end up dying after Clear opens the door to Eugene's hospital room, accidentally pulling a plug out, creating a spark that ignites the oxygen and causes the whole room to explode.
- Hypocritical Humor: Kimberly criticizes a truck driver for drinking and driving (in a truck saying "Drink responsibly" no less), sarcastically, quipping "That's real responsible." Then she realizes she's been driving without her seatbelt on the whole time.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Kat Jennings gets impaled with a steel pipe through the head thanks to a poorly-timed airbag.
- I Never Told You My Name: Kimberly has this reaction after Bludworth warns her to "follow the signs". Bludworth just smiles in response without clarifying how he knew her name (though in all likelihood, he simply recognized her from the news).
- Ironic Last Words: After spending most of her time in the film as a Death Seeker, Nora's last words upon finally faced with death are, "I don't wanna die!"
- Kick the Dog: After he has a breakdown when he sees Nora decapitated, Eugene snags Thomas' gun and tries to kill himself with it, preferring that to whatever Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts scenario is planned out for him. Rather than just let him die on his own terms before it kills the others, Death ensures that all six of the bullets are duds so that it could kill him later by puncturing his lung, dismantling his life support, and incinerating him in a fiery explosion.
- Ladder of Mishap: Played for Horror and Black Comedy. Evan escapes his burning apartment through the fire ladder, which sinks halfway through his escape attempt. However, he manages to climb down off it. It then starts moving a second time, endangering Evan's life, before it finally comes down on him and goes through his eye, killing him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: A surprisingly non-lethal example: Kat makes a blithe joke about Nora being ahead of her on Death's list, only to bear witness to Nora's horrific death soon afterwards, leaving her traumatized past the point of making jokes about the whole thing.
- Lethally Stupid: Kim and Burke are the only leads in the series to be responsible for the deaths of others, albeit inadvertently.
- Telling Tim and Nora about the pigeons. See Too Dumb to Live below.
- Burke calling Nora to tell her that a man with hooks will kill her. Nora is shocked by the phone ringing and drops it, bending over to pick it up... causing her hair to get caught in the hooks, leading to her death.
- Kim not remembering that Isabella survived the vision, leading to Kat, Rory, Eugene, and Clear dying due to a wild goose chase.
- Living Is More than Surviving: Clear's only means of staying alive is staying locked in a white padded room 24/7 with nothing to do but hide from death. After bitterly and selfishly dismissing everyone else's lives, Kimberly calls her a coward and says she might as well already be dead.Kim: Yeah, but you beat it.
Clear: Take a look around? What did I beat, Kimberly? - Made of Explodium: Nearly every vehicle in the premonition just blows up on impact for no reason at all.
- Missing Mom: Kimberly's mother was killed in a robbery that she herself personally saw a year ago.
- Ms. Fanservice:
- A biker girl on the highway note flashes Dano.
- No studio working with A.J. Cook is likely to resist the temptation to show off her good looks. Although Kimberly is dressed fairly conservatively for most of the film, she does appear onscreen in a tank top or shoulder-baring dress. In the hospital scene near the end, there is a brief shot of Kimberly in her bra before the bed cover is pulled over her.
- Keegan Connor Tracy (Kat) appears on screen in workout clothes.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!:
- Burke holding back Kimberly (who was already skipped) from saving Tim Carpenter from the falling glass pane, basically letting the poor kid die.
- Clear calling for an elevator, not realizing that Nora's head is trapped between the doors, is what causes Nora's decapitation.
- The firefighters working to free a trapped Kat accidentally trigger her air bags, sending her head flying into the jagged pipe sticking out of her headrest and impaling her skull.
- Clear opening the door to Eugene's hospital room is what sets off Death's trap and immolates them both. Downplayed, as that would have happened eventually anyway, and Clear just happened to draw the short straw.
- As Kimberly and Burke realize, Rory saving Brian Gibbons just put the poor kid in Death's crosshairs; Brian is killed by a propane explosion at the end of the movie. Again, downplayed, as Brian was dead either way, and Rory's actions just changed the time and manner of his death.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Clear's conscience gets the better of her after Kimberly's visit, and she decides to help the survivors. Specifically, taking the time to check on a hospitalized Eugene ends with Clear (and Eugene) meeting a fiery death.
- Off with His Head!: Nora, with an elevator. Whether by coincidence or by intent, her manner of death is very similar to a scene in the 1983 Dutch film De Lift.
- Oh, Crap!: In the final scene, when Kim and Burke hear that a boy in their company cheated death because Rory intervened. They look at each other with a striking expression just before said boy dies.
- Our Slashers Are Different: Aside from the basic premise, this movie played this twice in separate ways: All of the protagonists previously survived events on their lives that were directly or tangentially related to the Flight 180 explosion in the first film. E.g. Eugene avoided getting stabbed to death by a student because he was subbing elsewhere for Ms Lewton, who was killed in the events of the first film, and Kimberly was watching a news report about Tod's "suicide" that prevented her from being with her mother when she was killed in a botched robbery. Then Kimberly appears to circumvent it altogether by dying and then being revived. Bloodlines confirmed that she is the only Protagonist to successfully beat Death's Plan permanently.
- Outliving One's Offspring:
- Tim gets offed by Death before his mom, Nora, does. This is so traumatic to Nora enough as she had lost her husband years before as well that she decides if Death wants to take her, so be it. (Un)fortunately, she gets her wish not too long afterward.
- Kat is on the phone with her mother when she sees the news of Evan's death, and Kat meets a violent end before the end of the movie, while Rory asks Kimberly to get rid of anything in his apartment that would break his mother's heart not long before his dismemberment.
- Brian Gibbons' parents are present at the barbecue where he meets his fiery end. His mother even gets the misfortune of having Brian's burnt arm land right in front of her like the barbecue they were preparing to eat.
- Pesky Pigeons: Kimberly tries to warn Tim that some may of these may be involved in his death; however, Tim interprets this to mean he should try to chase the pigeons away. They then fly into a construction area and cause the workers to drop a giant pane of glass that splatters him.
- Porn Stash: Referenced by Rory to Kim. He asks her to hide it if he dies, along with all the other stuff that would "break his mother's heart."
- The Problem with Fighting Death: Clear, who has survived by institutionalizing herself, admits that she hasn't actually won, just hidden so well that Death can't get to her at present. She's dead in two days once she goes outside.
- Red Herring: "Dr. Kalarjian is going to kill Isabella!". No, Kimberly, she won't. She'll be the one who resuscitates you with CPR.
- Resurrection Gambit: Kimberley's final plan to try and defeat death is that she drives herself into the lake, then is resurrected via CPR, thus resetting Death's list and buying everyone more time. In Final Destination Bloodlines it's confirmed she is still alive, proving that Death's List can be broken.
- Revenge Myopia: If Tod hadn't died in such a bizarre manner in the first film, then Kimberly wouldn't have paused to listen to a news report about it, and she would have died with her mother during the carjacking. Kimberly cheated Death, but only because of Death's own actions. However, because Death can't, or won't, blame itself, it chooses to take revenge on Kimberly, as if it was her fault that Death's sadistic killing of Tod made it possible for her to escape her own murder. The same goes for Kat, Eugene, Thomas, and Rory, all of whom escaped Death's design only because of the deaths of Terry, Ms. Lewton, Billy, and Carter in the first film.
- Revival Loophole: Standard example, where the visionary kills herself only to be revived, hence receiving a new life untainted by Death.
- Rewatch Bonus: When you look at the premonition scene again, you realize that Isabella's van is seen swerving around but not crashing.
- Scary Black Man: Eugene is a perfect subversion. The first time we see him, we don't get to see his skin color, but he's completely covered in a motor suit and speeding recklessly. The second time, he removes his helmet to show the big black man, complete with facial hair, bling, and a bandanna around his head. But once the movie gets beyond the first disaster, we never see Eugene with his bike again, and always with glasses and a sweater with stand-up collar. He is by far the most scared about his impending doom and freaks out about it quite badly.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Burke calls Nora to tell her that a man with hooks will kill her. Nora is shocked by the phone ringing and drops it, bending over to pick it up...causing her hair to get caught in the hooks. She panics because of this and the warning, leading to her death.
- Serendipitous Survival: All of the survivors in this movie were picked and dying in reverse order because the deaths in the first movie somehow prevented all of theirs:
- Kimberly wandered away from her mother when she saw the news about Tod's "suicide" - while her mother ended up mugged and killed.
- Burke was called away to the scene of Billy Hitchcock's death, avoiding an active crime scene that killed his partner.
- Eugene got a transfer to replace Val Lewton, avoiding a stabbing incident in his original school.
- Rory was in Paris when he witnessed what happened to Carter, and as a result, didn't make it to a theater that eventually collapsed.
- Kat was on the bus that hit Terry Chaney and never made it to the cabin retreat where a gas leak killed several lodgers.
- While it's unknown what would've happened to Evan, Tim, and Nora, it's presumed that Alex's Bus Crash made at least one of them (if not together) avoid their fates.
- Skeptic No Longer: Despite hearing the story of the Flight 180 survivors, most of the survivors of this film find the whole idea that Death is after them ridiculous. Burke and Rory come around after Evan and Tim's death, and the latter breaks Nora into believing as well. Kat and Eugene remain dismissive (the former even cracking a joke about the whole thing) until Nora's horrifying death makes believers out of them as well.
- Ship Tease: Kimberly and Thomas, very much so.
- Spotting the Thread: When the group are on their way to find Isabella, Eugene mentions that the pile-up isn't the first time he's cheated death. They all start to share their own experiences, and when Kat mentions being on a bus that 'splattered some girl all over the road' in Mt. Abraham, they realize that everyone who survived the pile-up had narrowly avoiding dying the previous year due to the deaths of the survivors of Flight 180.
- Stupid Sacrifice: Kimberly with her Heroic Suicide and resuscitation, mainly because while her and Thomas survive the events of the film, it's shown that Death is still setting out its plans, and the sequel's alternate ending shows it only postponed their inevitable deaths. Subverted when the sixth movie reveals it to be non-canon, and it really did work.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Alex Browning is revealed to have died in-between films from a brick to the head. Subverted with Clear Rivers, since she at least has an active role in the film and doesn't die till near the very end of this movie.
- Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: Evan narrowly escapes an explosion in his apartment. In an effort to make the escape ladder drop, he trips but lands on his feet. Proclaiming his luck, he then slips on a pile of spaghetti he threw out the window earlier, just as the ladder decides to fall. Amazingly it stops short right above his eye, giving him a moment to sigh in relief... but only just a moment.
- Token Minority: Eugene and Isabella.
- Too Dumb to Live: Tim and Nora exit the dentist's office, with Kimberly and Burke racing towards them, yelling at them to get away from the pigeons. Tim immediately sees a flock of pigeons, runs through them... and is crushed by a falling pane of glass. Really, people... the kid just had two near-death experiences. That said, he may have been chasing the pigeons away because he thought that were going to cause his death, not knowing he was causing them to do so. Plus, he was still under the influence of nitrous oxide.
- Trapped in a Sinking Car: Kimberly has a vision of someone with bloody hands in a submerging van and realizes that Isabella was never meant to die in the pile-up. She later realizes the person in her vision was herself and immerses a van in a lake to drown herself. Kimberly is rescued by Burke and resuscitated by Kalarjian, which was her actual premonition, thus granting her new life.
- Wham Line: When the remaining survivors are driving to go find Isabella, they begin to discuss how this wasn't the first time they've cheated death, but it's when Kat further elaborates on her experience that Clear and the others realize that the original survivors of Flight 180 caused a ripple effect, which led to these survivors not dying when they were supposed to, and the accident on the freeway was Death's attempt at tying up loose ends, reversing the list when it failed.Kat: Okay, so last May, I was supposed to go and stay at this cheesy little Bed & Breakfast in Pennsylvania, right? So anyhow, there's this major gas leak that no one knows about, and all the guests suffocated during the night.
Eugene: So what happened?
Kat: I-I don't know, I never made it. The-The bus I was on splattered some girl all over the road.
Clear: Was that in Mt. Abraham?
Kat: Yes… How did you know?
Clear: That bus you were on killed Terry Chaney. She was supposed to die on Flight 180. - Wham Shot:
- The Truck from Hell killing Kimberly's friends, despite the fact she and her friends were the last to die in her premonition, showing that death is not working in the same order as last time.
- After Isabella manages to live long enough to successfully give birth to a healthy newborn baby, the survivors begin to celebrate, thinking they beat Death... until Kimberly has a Flashback to the pileup, which reveals Isabella never died.
- "Only new life can defeat Death."
