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Isaac, when rubbing the Buddha statue.

Isaac Palmer is a main character in Final Destination 5 and is a survivor of the North Bay Bridge collapse. He is a coworker of Presage Paper and a womanizer.

Isaac was the second survivor to die.

Biography

Isaac was resided in New York. He works at Presage Paper as a Tech Support. He is smart but sly, and somewhat shady. He is revealed to be a pervert, a womanizer and a thief. He is one of the employees qualified to go on the company's corporate retreat.

Final Destination 5

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Isaac, talking to a girl on his phone.

Later Isaac is on his way to a business retreat with his colleagues when Sam Lawton has a premonition that the bridge they're crossing will collapse, killing everyone on it. When Sam panics, a confused Isaac leaves the bus before the bridge collapses as Sam predicted.

Isaac on the memorial

Isaac at the memorial.

After the accident, Isaac and the other survivors attended the memorial service for the victims. When Isaac returns to the office while he raids the desks of his deceased co-workers, and finds a coupon for a free therapy session at a Chinese spa.

Death

Isaac's Head crushed by the statue

A Buddha statue falls on Isaac's head, crushing it.

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Final Destination 5 - Isaac's Death (1080p)

When he arrives at the Ming Yun Spa, he sexually harasses the young, attractive receptionist. Disgusted, she decides to take him to receive acupuncture from an old, unattractive woman in a room full of candles and incense. When he walks in, he rubs and poke a Buddha statue sitting on a shelf on the wall for good luck. His cell phone, which he uses to call multiple women, is taken from him by the masseuse and placed on a shelf next to a lit candle. The masseuse performs rough, violent body massage techniques on Isaac, which causes the bolts on the leg of the table he is laying on to give way. After the masseuse finishes the acupuncture on him, she leaves him to sleep for thirty minutes.

One of the coals from the burning incense crumbles off and falls onto a piece of parchment below, setting it aflame. Isaac sees this, and in a panic stumbles off the table, causing the legs to give way, sending him to the floor face down, driving the acupuncture needles painfully but non-fatally into his body. A large bottle of alcohol is knocked over and covers him and the floor. Isaac gets up painfully, with the needles stuck into his body and face, and tries to pull one out. During this distraction, Isaac's cell phone begins to vibrate, slowly moving the candle next to it off the shelf and into the alcohol. The alcohol is set ablaze and Isaac stumbles into the far wall of the room, however the fire stops just short of him. As he whimpers in relief, the shelf above him holding one of the Buddha statues gives way and it crushes his head into pulp.

Signs/Clues

  • When Isaac is looking through the deceased employee's drawers, he finds one full of thumbtacks, which could allude to the acupuncture needles.
  • He pricks his finger like Sam did.
  • A gust of wind makes all the candles flicker.
  • While going into the room, he jokingly insults the Buddha Statue that later kills him. Specifically, he comments on Buddha being fat, and it is the statue's weight that kills him. Because of that, his death is a form of divine punishment.
  • While walking towards the room, he knocks on the walls, making sure that they are soundproof.
  • He rubs and poke Buddha's belly, which is something to do to get good luck.
  • The spa that Isaac went to was called Ming Yun Spa. In Chinese, Ming Yun (命運) means fate or destiny.
  • As Isaac talks on his phone, an attendant at the spa points to a sign saying "Please Turn off all cell phones".
  • During the premonition, Isaac lands frontally (on his chest) on the bus windows. After the bed snaps and he falls on the ground, he falls the same way.
  • After his head is crushed by the Buddha statue, the blood stain on his head makes a 'II', the Roman numeral for 2. Isaac is the 2nd survivor to die.
  • After his death, there are six flyers of a person's head that represents the remaining survivors of the bridge collapse.
  • In Olivia's death, the doctor leaves her; in Isaac's death, the Chinese lady leaves him in the same way.

Appearances

Trivia

  • His death is similar to that of Lewis Romero from Final Destination 3, and, to a lesser extent, Nadia Monroy from The Final Destination.
    • Also loosely, his death is an inverse to that of Evan Lewis and Kat Jennings from Final Destination 2, due to Isaac, like Evan, avoiding dying in their fires but dying after a head injury (Isaac’s was to the skull, while Evan’s was to his eye, just below his head). Kat, like Isaac, was also injured and ultimately trapped inversely (seeing as how the fire was ignited after Kat died), as was Isaac before each also received their fatal head kills (albeit Isaac’s fire began before he died).
  • Isaac’s death at the massage parlor is also loosely similar to that of the tanning bed salon deaths of both Ashlyn Halperin and Ashley Freund in Final Destination 3, seeing as how each was left alone and a fire was ignited while they were treated at their respective spas, as well as the omens in each.
    • Despite the differences (Isaac didn’t die in the fire while Ashley and Ashlyn did), the omen of Isaac’s table falling down due to the loose bolts when he was receiving the massage mirrors that of the wooden shelf of CDs also being loosened as the wind of the vents of the tanning bed room of Ashley and Ashlyn (which was caused after Ashlyn pulled a CD off the shelf and it came out loosely before also being knocked down).
    • The alcohol pouring out of the bottle after Isaac falls down is similar to how the condensation from the Slushee drink Ashley had in the tanning bed room dripped down the exposed circuit board of the girl’s tanning beds, causing it to malfunction and thus increase the temperature (both the beds and the room), which was the main reason for their fire.
    • However, in the original deleted scene, had it been kept, Isaac does die in the fire after being set on it, which would’ve been an exact homage to both Ashley and Ashlyn’s deaths from the 3rd movie.
    • Interestingly enough, the scene of Isaac being knocked out after falling off the table he was laying on after noticing the fire mirrors that of the deleted scene in Final Destination 3 where Ashlyn (after pointing out the rising heat in the tanning beds, just like in that film’s original scene) actually does get out of her tanning bed before the wooden shelf board of the CDs hits her in the head and knocks her down unconscious (just like Isaac was), which locks Ashley in her tanning bed, which leads Ashlyn to miss her screams as she begins to burn to death.
    • Unlike in the deleted scene where Isaac burns to death, Ashlyn awakes and does manage to open Ashley’s bed and try to get her out before both girls try, as Ashley’s tanning bed electrocutes both girls as they die via electrocution in the alternate scene only, making all of their deaths in the alternate scenes also similar in how each dies quickly as well.
  • Isaac being pinned and injured by the needles as well as the fire in his desolate spa room is a callback to Nick O’Bannon’s close death scene at the movie theatre in The Final Destination, albeit the differences in each.
  • There seems to be a running joke with Isaac about how he is easily forgotten and never noticed by the others:
    • Isaac goes to the bathroom on the bus in the premonition, but as the bridge collapses and the group rushes out of it, Isaac is left behind, completely forgotten by the others.
    • Isaac was mentioned as one of the deceased by Dennis, even though he had attended the funeral.
    • When Isaac was stealing things from his deceased co-workers, no one noticed him doing it.
    • When Dennis learned about Isaac's death from Peter, he replied that he didn't know who Isaac was. After Peter explained who Isaac was, Dennis logically thought he had already died since he mentioned his name in the funeral as part of the deceased workers.
    • Peter did not mention Isaac when he was listing all the people (Candice, Olivia, and Dennis) who did not deserve to die. However, Peter might have thought that Isaac deserved to die after all.
  • Isaac has a particularly old Motorola cellphone, a nod to the fact that Final Destination 5 is a prequel to the first movie, which is set in 1999.
  • In his alternate death, he is burned to death by the alcohol.
  • Isaac mirrors Frankie Cheeks in similar personality and death motifs, in the sense that both are killed through massive head injuries and are natural perverts.
  • Isaac's name in an earlier script was ISAAC TURNER, but he is described as ISAAC PALMER, 30.
  • Isaac is chronologically the first male survivor to die in the whole franchise.
Final Destination 5
Disaster(s)
North Bay Bridge | Volée Airlines Flight 180
Survivors
Molly Harper | Sam Lawton | Peter Friedkin | Dennis Lapman | Nathan Sears | Olivia Castle | Isaac Palmer | Candice Hooper
Casualties
Jennifer Alcott | Armond Babaian | Bradley Breyer | Chris Boylan | David Buckler | Bus Driver | Construction Worker | Kathy Fulton | Kelly Gaither | Marie Green | Bruce Higgs | Robert Johnson | Man | Clive Morin | Stacy Nadu | Richard Sanchez | Heather Slay | Debbie White | Trevor Winn | Jane Woo
Others
Rocker | Roy Carson | John | Agent Jim Block | Reporter | William Bludworth | Chef | Mike | Coach | Campus Security | Porter | Spa Receptionist | Cho | Dr. Leonetti | Dotty | Line Cook | Woman on the street | Alex Browning | Carter Horton | Valerie Lewton | Billy Hitchcock | Terry Chaney | George Waggner | Larry Murnau | Co-pilot | Male flight attendant | Mr. Smith | Flight 180 female flight attendant 3 | Flight 180 female passenger
Locations
Presage Paper | 180 Corporate Consulting | Le Cáfe Miro 81 | Ming Yun Spa | Eastfield LaserEye Center | Mt. Abraham, New York | John F. Kennedy International Airport | Cocktails
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