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Agent Jim Block is an FBI Agent in Final Destination 5. He is initially distrustful of Sam Lawton's claim of his premonition, and keeps a close eye on the survivors of the North Bay Bridge collapse.
Biography
Jim lives in New York and works as an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is wise and trustworthy and was assigned to investigate the case of Sam Lawton and his friends, although he finds all the accidents hard to believe.
Final Destination 5
Jim after the scene of Olivia Castle's death and questioning Sam and Molly Harper.
Jim appears and interrogates the survivors after the North Bay Bridge collapse. He keeps in contact with the survivors' boss, Dennis Lapman, so he can monitor any suspicious or violent behavior in them. He is present after Candice Hooper's death, raising his suspicion of Sam, believing the accidents to be premeditated. He is also seen investigating the crime scene, but none of the investigators are able to explain how such an accident could happen in the first place.
When talking to Sam and Molly Harper after Olivia Castle died, he starts to believe them about the incidents, but is left speechless when Sam and Molly tell him that they were supposed to die on the bridge and that Death is after them.
Death
Jim is shot to death by Peter.
When Peter Friedkin attempts to kill Sam Lawton and Molly Harper at Le Cafe Miro 81, he fires off shots with his gun, which are heard by Jim. He requests backup and investigates, only to be shot and killed by Peter. The characters believe Peter has now stolen Jim's lifespan since Peter was not meant to be alive to kill him. That life was later passed on to Sam after Peter's death. However, two weeks later, on May 13, 1999, Sam was killed after Flight 180 detonated, implying that Block was scheduled to die on this day from unknown causes had Peter not intervened.
Trivia
Final Destination 5 Agent Block's Death (HQ)
- One possibility is that if he hadn't been killed by Peter, Jim would've possibly only lived on until the incident of Flight 180.
- In the script of Final Destination 5, he is described as: AGENT JIM BLOCK, an easy smile but old eyes that have seen the horrors of man.
- It could be noted that his last name is Block, and he blocked someone else from being shot.
- He is the only investigator of the whole franchise who, despite not being a part of Death's list, actually died in the movie.
- He's the first and only murdered victim in the franchise and not killed by Death itself. He could also be the second if one counts Roy Carson in the same film.