Nora Carpenter

Nora Carpenter
Full Name	Nora Carpenter
Gender	Female
Place of Origin	White Plains, New York
Status	Deceased
Died	Monday 14 May 2000
Cause of Death	Decapitated by an elevator
Occupation	Housewife
Relations	Tim Carpenter－Son; Deceased Mr. Carpenter－Husband; Deceased
Actor	Lynda Boyd
First Appearance	Final Destination 2
Last Appearance	Final Destination 2 (on screen) Final Destination 5 (Closing credtis)

Some people just need re-wiring. Nora comforts Tim, hours before dying by an Elevator that needed rewiring.

Nora Carpenter is a main character in Final Destination 2 and a survivor of the Route 23 highway pileup. She is the widowed mother of Tim Carpenter.

Nora is the third survivor of the Route 23 pileup to die.

Biography

Nora resided somewhere in New York, with her teenage son Tim. She and her son had a very overprotective mother/Mama's boy bond ever since her husband died four years prior the accident.

Final Destination 2

Nora, crying after witnessing her son's death.

Nora and Tim are on their way to the dentist when Kimberly Corman has a premonition of a pile up on Route 23. She blocks traffic, preventing the other drivers from entering the freeway. Nora wonders what is going on, and watches in shock as the crash occurs moments later. After the crash, she and her son are brought to the police station, where they learn about the curse of Flight 180, but Nora dismisses this and Eugene's "jokes".

Nora in the survivor meeting.

That night, Nora tells her somewhat concerned son that it isn't true, and some people just need some 're-wiring'. The next day, she and her son go to a dentist's office for a routine check-up. While leaving Nora witnesses Tim's demise, short before Kimberly and Thomas arrived, which leaves her devastated. When the remaining survivors reunite for safety, Nora tells Kimberly that she no longer cares whether she lives or dies, before leaving to plan her son's funeral. She also gets some Valium from Kat before leaving the house. It's clear she resents Kimberly for causing her son's death.

Death

Nora's head inside of an elevator, ripped off when Eugene and an elderly man with hooks tried to save her.

While standing in the elevator with Eugene Dix and an old man carrying prosthetic limbs, Officer Burke calls her phone. Startled, she drops it, and bends down to pick it up. Burke tells her that a "man with hooks" is going to kill her. Unaware that her hair is tangled in one of the prosthetic limbs, she quickly attempts to leave the elevator, but the hooks hold her back, causing her to panic. Although Eugene and the man try to untangle her hair, she runs out of the elevator, and the doors immediately close on her neck.

Nora's body outside the elevator, decapitated when Kat and Clear tried to save her.

Nora's body is lifted as the elevator rises. Eugene and the old man pull Nora's head inward, while Clear Rivers and Kat Jennings pull Nora's body outward. As Kat, Clear, Eugene and the old man desperately try to free her, the elevator continues to rise upwards, until the force finally decapitates her.

Signs/Clues

Nora Carpenter Death Scene - Final Destination 2 (Premonição 2) HD

• Rory sees a shadow of a man carrying hooks.
• Nora almost died when she was nearly electrocuted in a puddle at the dentist's office.
• Nora told Kimberly that, after her husband and son died, she was okay with accepting death. Ironically enough, right before she is decapitated, she can be heard screaming "I don't wanna die!".
• Nora told Kimberly she had a funeral to plan.
• The elevator that got Rory's shoe stuck in between the doors was the same elevator that got Nora's head stuck.
• Nora was supposed to be the fifth (or sixth; it depends if it was her son first) to die, but death decided to go backwards and made her third.
• Clear and Kat did not realize they are making it worse as Eugene and the man are also pulling her head up when they were pulling her body down.
• The elevator that Nora was hanging from was the 3rd floor. The arrow next to the 3 made it look like a 13.
• When Rory took the elevator up to Burke's apartment, "Rocky Mountain High" is playing as elevator music. This song played before the deaths of Tod Waggner, Valerie Lewton and Carter Horton.
• Eugene told Kimberly his head didn't release after morning.
• Nora told Tim "Some people need 're-wiring. later in the movie she was killed by the elevator because it was malfunctioning.
• In Kimberly's premonition she cannot stop her car because there was a water bottle blocking access to the brakes, the car pedal is crushing the head of the bottle reminiscing Nora's decapitation. 

Quotes

• "Some people just need rewiring, that's all." Nora to Tim.
• "If it's my time to go to the heaven and be with my family, I can accept that." Nora to Kimberly after Tim's death.
• "TIM!" Nora just before Tim gets crushed.
• "Oh, my God!" Nora after witnessing the Route 23 Pile-up.

Appearances

• Final Destination 2 (portrayed by Lynda Boyd)
• Final Destination 2 (novel)
• The Final Destination (opening credits) (CGI image, not actor)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by Lynda Boyd)

Trivia

Nora's decapitation in the skeletal version of The Final Destination.

Nora's death being referenced in Final Destination 5's opening credit.

• Like Tim and Evan, Nora had no established connection between the survivors of Flight 180. One of these three characters might have a connection to Alex Browning's death, however.
• The sweatshirt that Nora Carpenter wore while met with survivors of Route 23, is similar to that used by Pamela Voorhees. Both Nora & Pamela died as a result of being beheaded.
• Nora's death appears in the opening sequence of The Final Destination.
• Nora Carpenter is referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 by prosthetic limbs smashing the screen.
• Similar to Kimberly and the cast of the first movie being named after famous horror movie directors, Nora and Tim Carpenter are most likely named after horror movie director John Carpenter.
• Clear is partially at fault for Nora's death. Eugene and Nora were riding the elevator to the L level to leave Officer Burke's apartment, which is on the third floor. After seeing the sign of a man with hooks, Clear runs to the elevator, pressing the down button, but then decides to take the stairs. It was because of this that the elevator, after stopping at the L level, ascended upwards to reach the 3rd floor where Clear pressed the elevator button, and ultimately severing Nora's head (Eugene tried pressing the elevator buttons in the elevator itself, but Death broke it).
• It's possible she was meant to be killed by the same glass pane that killed her son since they both died in the same accident in the premonition, but one of the construction workers intervened. However, Death did not skip her as she was saved by someone who wasn’t on Death’s list. This also applies to when she was meant to be electrocuted at the dentist.
• After Tim's death, Nora became depressed and didn't care about whether she died or not, deciding to accept her fate if she were to die. Right before the elevator severed her head, she begged, "I don't wanna die!" She shares this similarity with Carter Horton who also proclaimed that he is ready to go after Terry died but he changed his mind in the moment when he should be killed by train. Carter similarly as Nora mentioned that he will see Terry again on the other side.
• Nora is very similar to George Lanter from The Final Destination. Both of their spouses and child had died before them, were okay with death killing them, and being in heaven with their family.
• In a case of life imitating art, surgical resident Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh would share a fate similar to Nora at a Houston hospital he worked at just months after the film's release. On August 16th, 2003, Dr. Nikaidoh went to catch an elevator that had recently re-opened after undergoing maintenance when the doors closed on his shoulders. Due to an improper wiring placement that wasn't corrected, the safety systems were disabled and Dr. Nikaidoh was decapitated when the elevator went up.
• Her role is similar to Samantha Lane from The Final Destination, being a mother.
• In an early draft of Final Destination 2 script, she was described as: NORA KESNER, 38.
• Even if Death's list was working backwards, Nora still died out of order as both she and Tim were killed at the same time in the premonition when their car crashed into the log and exploded, though it's possible that in the end, Tim died first by fractions of a second and Death took that into account.
• The basis of her and Tim's death in the premonition is that a water bottle rolled under the brake pedal stopping it from being sufficiently pushed down and stopping the car before they hit the log. Yet she is seen stepping directly on the water bottle and not the brake.
• In her alternate death, instead of directly going up, the elevator went up and down when she got decapitated, causing more blood to be seen on the doors.
• There was a glitch in the film, where the floor indicator displays shows going from L to 1 twice.
• In a TV edit of the film, her death was slightly censored by not showing her decapitated body fall to the ground with Clear and Kat.
• Nora could have possibly cheated death again if she did not panic.
• In an early script, Nora was actually paranoid about Death even before Tim's death by checking her closet and room the day before they went to the dentist.