Eric Prescott

Eric Prescott
Full Name	Eric Prescott
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Brown
Place of Origin	California
Born	1984
Age	20
Status	Deceased
Died	July 2004
Cause of Death	Impaled through head by a metal-tipped surfboard
Occupation	College Student
Relations	Jessica Golden - Friend; Alive Jamie - Friend; Alive Ben - Friend; Deceased Becci - Girlfriend; Deceased
First Appearance	Final Destination: Dead Reckoning
Last Appearance	Final Destination: Destination Zero

Eric Prescott is a character in the novel Final Destination: Dead Reckoning. He is a jock at his college campus and is a survivor of the Club Kitty collapse. Eric is a drug dealer and a drunk idiot, basically only out to take care of himself and showing almost no concern for anyone else, not even his so-called best friend Ben. It is because of his attitude and his dealings that Ben is forced to call the cops on him after overhearing about a drug deal at the club. The only officer who arrives is Marina Hewlett, who just so happens to be the one who causes the collapse. While Eric waits to do the deal, he watches a band called The Vipers perform on stage. Suddenly, Jessica "Jess" Golden has a horrible premonition of the club collapsing due to the bullet that Marina fired. As Jess freaks out and is dragged out of the club by the bouncer, Eric begins to make fun of Jess alongside Ben. While making fun of him, the waitress, Macy, finds the two and chases them out of the club, demanding that they pay their long-overdue drink tabs. A few other patrons exit the club and soon thereafter, it collapses, killing everyone inside. Later on in the story, after being interrogated, Eric goes through a hellacious night with Jess. Throughout the story, Eric only plans on watching out for himself, even after hearing that several of the survivors had died (one of whom he witnesses). It isn't until he sees Macy die right in front of him, not to mention his friend Ben, that he realizes the survivors are indeed being targeted by Death and believes Jess' story.

Eric is the seventh and final survivor of Club Kitty to die.

Death

A month after the Club Kitty collapse, Eric, Jamie, and Jess are at Santa Monica pier watching several bands perform and reminiscing. After a couple of hours, Eric breaks away from the group and heads to the pier, where he engages in a civil conversation with a woman named Jocelyn. As he tries to comfort her by putting his jacket around her, he sits on the top of the railing and continues talking to her. Suddenly, the neon necklace he was wearing falls down over his eyes, and (because he was mildly intoxicated by a few beers) he uses both hands instead of one to untangle it, which inevitably leads to him tipping backwards and falling 30 feet down into the water. Eric remembers what Jess said about signs and thinks that the water is full of sharks. A panicked Eric doggy-paddles his way to shore, trying to avoid any sharks in order to get to safety. The jock is so intent on finding sharks that he fails to see a dreadlocked surfer on a metal surfboard coming right for him, and he's impaled in the skull by the tip of it.

Later that night, the homeless man finds the ring around a deceased Eric's head and took it off, putting it around his head and pretending it's a moon.

Signs/Clues

• In Jess' vision of the club collapsing, Eric was killed when he was severed in half by a compacting glass window.
• Shortly before the group is attacked by the muggers, Macy is almost killed by a surfboard that was haphazardly sticking out of the back of a passing truck. This may have been the same surfboard that killed Eric.
• While at the pier, Eric, Jess, and Jamie spot a surfboard that has a giant shark bite at the tip. This was probably the same board that killed him.
• The mascot of the brand of beer Eric was drinking before he died is a shark.