Chelsea Cox

Chelsea Cox
Full Name	Chelsea Cox
AKA	None
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Blonde
Place of Origin	New York
Born	Sometime in 1977
Age	25
Status	Deceased
Died	January 17, 2003
Cause of Death	Impaled through eyes and head by falling two-pronged icicle
Occupation	WNYK News reporter
Relations	Ted Roxbury - Coworker Vaughn Henderson - Coworker Brad (Death of the Senses) - Cameraman George (Death of the Senses) - Boss
First Appearance	Final Destination: Death of the Senses
Last Appearance	Final Destination: Death of the Senses

"The eyes of the city are full of the corruption and decadence of youth, fixated upon only the most base and vile things, reveling not in beauty and love but in death and violence and pain. And through these hateful eyes, all other eyes that see are infected with the same sickness, for they worship infamy above all else and seek to mimic it... she will thank me with her dying breath as I take the eyes that have poisoned and corrupted her, and through her all the others who see the city through her eyes, and without those eyes she will finally see the truth..." The John Doe's description of her in his journal.

Chelsea Cox is a character in the novel Final Destination: Death of the Senses. A popular (due to her appearance) yet obnoxious reporter, she 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 beside 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 where Lonnie is contemplating suicide, Chelsea starts reporting on the steps of an adjacent building, interviewing Jack Curtis, who claims to know Lonnie. When Jack goes up to try to 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 John Doe's 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.
• 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 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 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.