Chelsea Cox is a character in the novel Final Destination: Death of the Senses. A popular (due to her appearance) yet obnoxious reporter Chelsea works for WNYK News in New York City.
While away covering a fire that had broken out in a nightclub, Chelsea arrives back at the news station the next day and learns that a man was shot besides her apartment building while she was gone. At first annoyed by this missed opportunity for a story, Chelsea gets over it quickly and heads off with her cameraman, Brad, to cover a suicidal man named Lonnie, who is threatening to jump off a building.
After reaching the building Lonnie is on, Chelsea starts reporting on the steps of an adjacent building, interviewing Jack Curtis, who claims to know Lonnie. When Jack goes up to try and talk Lonnie down, Chelsea continues reporting, interviewing Jack's friend Officer Amy Tom. Though Jack is successful in convincing him not to jump, Lonnie still falls off the building when a sudden gust of wind causes him to lose his balance.
Chelsea is the first survivor of the John Doe Murder Spree to die.
Death
As Lonnie plummets downward his coat becomes snagged on a phone line, slowing his descent and causing the fall to merely injure him. When the phone line snaps back into place, it causes a large, two-pronged icicle that had been formed by a broken pipe to come loose and fall. Hearing the icicle dislodge, Chelsea looks up, allowing the icicle to go through her eyes and out the back of her head.
Signs/Clues
- In Jack's premonition, Chelsea would have her eyes removed.
- The John Doe believed Chelsea was the corrupt "eyes" of the city. Her death involved her eyes and occurred during a live TV broadcast, for everyone to see.
- After encountering the John Doe, Jack sees Chelsea on a TV in an electronics store.
- Chelsea was annoyed that her coverage of the nightclub fire from the previous night was second in ratings. She would have been the second person to be murdered by the John Doe if Jack hadn't stopped him.
- Angered by Brad's behavior towards her, Chelsea wanted "today to be the last day they work together."
- While waiting for a story to cover, Chelsea recalls that "drama, accidents, violence, death" were things people remembered, and because of that they also remember "the reporter who brought the horror into their homes."
- The building Lonnie was going to jump off was thirteen stories high.
- Before setting up for the shoot, Brad notices that water has begun to drip down from above, despite it being dry seconds earlier.
- While Brad was setting up for the shoot, Chelsea notices that the angle of the camera would make her eyeline be aligned with Lonnie's body if he were to jump.
- After adjusting the camera, Brad says to Chelsea that the viewers would "be able to see every gory detail".
- Before being interviewed, Jack notices something that was falling appear in the window of a nearby building.
- A gust of wind from out of nowhere is what causes Lonnie to fall.
- The last thing Chelsea said was, "Did you get that?". She was referring to Brad about the live TV broadcast.