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"Is this supposed to be happening?"


Olivia helplessly watching her LASIK Surgery Machine malfunction.

Olivia Castle is a main character in Final Destination 5 and is a survivor of the North Bay Bridge collapse.

Olivia was the third survivor of the bridge collapse to die.

Biography

Olivia was a provocative office assistant working for the local sales division at Presage Paper, and was also the archrival of Candice Hooper, a Presage Paper intern.

Final Destination 5

Olivia is on her way to a corporate retreat with her colleagues when Sam Lawton has a premonition that the bridge they are crossing will collapse, killing everyone on it. When Sam panics, she leaves the bus and witnesses the bridge collapse moments later just as Sam predicted. 

She later meets up with the other survivors at the memorial service. During Dennis Lapman's speech, she can't help, but laugh at Isaac and Nathan's jokes even during such a sad occasion. After Candice's death, she returns to work and approaches Sam and Molly about the grievance pay. When they discuss Candice's death, Olivia jokes about how everyone should see "that coming" due to the dangerous stunts gymnasts perform. Sam and Molly, however, are less than impressed at her comment. Olivia then has some drinks before visiting her eye doctor so that she could her live her life the fullest without glasses.

Death

When Olivia goes to have her eye surgery, her head is tightly secured and her right eyelid is pried open with a speculum. She squeezes a teddy bear out of nervousness, pulling off one of its eye's which falls on the floor. When the eye doctor sees there is missing file information he leaves to consult his secretary. A cup of water that Olivia left on top of a water cooler falls over when the cooler bubbles, and the cup spills onto the power unit of the laser machine plugged into the wall. The intensity of the ray increases and the laser machine starts to shake. As Olivia reaches for the emergency stop button on the control, she accidentally knocks it to the floor, and the activation button is pressed instead, discharging the laser into her right eye.

Olivia screams in anguish. As Olivia cries out for help, the laser discharges into her left hand as she used it to try to shield her left eye. The laser discharges into her eye once more. When Sam and Molly arrive at the front office to save her, the doctor assures them that she is fine. When they hear Olivia screaming, they rush to her room.

Sobbing in pain, Olivia manages to release her head from the clamp and gets off the table, before they arrive. However, being in high heel boots, Olivia trips over the teddy bear's glass eye on the floor and stumbles out the window, shattering it, and plummeting 4 stories onto a parked car's windshield below, instantly killing her. As Olivia's body drops onto the ground, her undamaged eye then rolls into the street and is soon run over by a passing car.

Signs/Clues

  • Many signs of Olivia's death have to do with eyes, cars and falling:
    • Before Olivia leaves, she knocks over her photo frame which make a crack pointing at her right eye. The picture shows that Olivia had been in McKinley Park with her friend.
    • The necklace she wears is in an oval-shape with the center as an empty hole.
    • The view of the laser device up close strangely resembles an eye pupil.
    • While Sam and Nathan were talking, there is a toy car in Sam's cubicle.
  • Some of the things her doctor does and says foreshadow how she will die:
    • The doctor asks her, "What made you decide to take the leap today?"
    • When she hears a noise, and asks what it was, the doctor says, "Relax. It looks a lot worse than it really is."
    • As her head is secured, she says, "I can't move my head." The doctor replies, "Perfect. Just what we want."
  • The motto of the LASIK center was "See the Beauty in Your Life".
  • Olivia's Clue

    Olivia's clue of how she will die.

    When she was talking about Candice Hooper when she died, she says "Guess we should have seen that coming". The sentence is similar to how Tim Carpenter from Final Destination 2 was asked by his dentist "Your mom said you have got some pain (pane) lately".
  • Olivia with her co-workers work in Presage Paper. Presage means an omen of something bad happening.
  • During Olivia's death, A teddy bear replicates the way she die:
    • When Olivia dropped down the teddy bear, it fell off the table in a similar fashion as to how she fell off the building.
    • When she squeezed the teddy bear tight, it's left eye popped out in a similar fashion to hers.
    • Olivia stepping on the removed eye of the teddy bear foreshadows the car running over her own dislodged eye.
  • When she is getting burned by the laser the teddy bears are looking at her just like when Tod from Final Destination is getting strangled and the bath toys are looking at him.
  • When she is starting to lay down for the procedure a dark shadow and an ominous wind blows over her.
  • As the machine starts up during her surgery session, the noise represents a faint scream.
  • When her eye is getting lasered one of the teddy bears looking at her looks like it's missing its left eye, like how Olivia's left eye poped out and got run over by a car.
  • In Sam's premonition, Olivia loses her glasses before she dies.
  • Olivia was originally supposed to die by having a car slamming into her head in the lake, which presumably would've split her open. Nonetheless, she survived this thanks to Sam's vision, causing her to be targeted by Death. These events are replicated in her actual death sequence where, had she not had to strength to set herself free, she would've had her head split open by the laser. Unfortunately, her escape directly led to her own demise.
  • Olivia's surgery takes place on the fourth floor of the building. In Japanese and Chinese, the number 4 is spelled the exact same way as the word death.
  • Both in the premonition and in real life, a car is directly involved in her death. In the premonition, a car fell on her, but during her real death, she fell onto a car.
  • Both in the premonition and in real life, her last words were: "HELP ME".
  • Both in the premonition and in real life, Molly calls out her name right before Olivia dies.

Appearances

Trivia

  • Olivia's last name is most likely a reference to famous 50s and 60s horror film director, William Castle.
  • Doctors are prohibited to leave their patients alone with the machinery, especially in the middle of performing surgery. Though the doctor did have the machine on, he didn't start the procedure, and obviously didn't think anything would happen if the laser was off.
  • In real life, eye surgery lasers are not powerful enough to cause an eye burn (let alone skin burn, especially permanent damage), specifically to prevent accidents. The worst damage they can do accidentally is the harsh temporary irritation of an eye for a few days.
  • Olivia wouldn't be able to roll her eye because the eyedrops administered before LASIK paralyze and numb the eye muscles, in order to prevent the eye from moving mid-surgery.
  • Olivia is the fourth character to die involving the right eye in the series, first was Evan Lewis, second was Samantha Lane and third was Ashlyn Halperin.However, if the events are arranged chronologically, she was the first. Contrary to these Evan and Samantha, the damage of her eye was not the cause of her death.
  • In the Blu-ray version, Olivia's Alternate Death is the same, but this time both of her eyes get lasered, and she falls out of the window, hitting a different car in the same direction.
  • In the script of Final Destination 5, she is described as: OLIVIA, 22, sexy skirt and killer heels. She has traffic-stopping looks and she knows it. Glitter on her face from some club.
  • Because of her personality as well as very original death scene, Olivia has become one of the franchise's most recognisable characters.
  • In an earlier script her name was Olivia Reynolds.
  • Many fans believe Olivia's death is the most controversial death in the entire film series. This is due to the fact that only her left eye was really injured before her death. Also, she only fell 4 stories on a car, making the injury not as likely as if she hit the concrete.
  • While Olivia was drinking with her fellow co-workers, there are model cars and planes in Sam's cubicle that hint the following disasters in the series that set off the events of the first four films.
  • Olivia's death involves her falling and a car in both the premonition and in real life. In the premonition, she falls into the water and a car falls on top of her. In real life, she falls from a window and onto a car.
  • In the premonition, when her glasses fell she could see very poorly, yet before she got on the bus she walked around a car and got her glasses with no problem.
  • The scene before Olivia dies in the premonition where her glasses are knocked off seems to be a nod to the Scooby Doo franchise, since, in a running gag, the character Velma always loses her glasses in a similar manner.
  • The outlet that Olivia's cup of water spills on, (which causes the LASIK machine to malfunction) is a GFCI outlet. Ironically in reality, these are designed to prevent overall shortages and to temporarily shut down when wet or overloaded.
  • Considering that she experienced the most prolonged death and previously made light of death, it is implied that Death additionally hates people who mock its existence.
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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