Patricia "Patti" Fuller is the main character of the novel Final Destination: Destination Zero. She is a journalist for Borderlands Patrol and the visionary of the South Hill Metroline bombing. She is also the girlfriend of Will Sax. After Will's shift at his job ends, Patti and Will decide it'd be better to take the subway home instead of driving, since it'd be quicker. While they were in the subway station, Patti has a vision of the train they were riding exploding due to someone planting a bomb on the locomotive. Patti creates a fuss and prevented a few people from getting on by blocking the turnstiles. One of the pedestrians, Al Kinsey, attempted to slap Patti out of the way, and Will punches him in the nose and breaks it. Due to the commotion, the train leaves, leaving Al, Will, and Patti, as well as Susan Fries, Zack Halloran, and Hal Ward at the station. A few minutes later, Patti's vision comes true, and the train explodes, wounding many people at the station and killing 38 passengers.
After the bombing, Patti and the other survivors are taken to the hospital and interrogated to find out if anyone saw anything suspicious. Patti doesn't believe it was because of terrorists, and merely stays with her fact that it was just a dream. However, it wasn't until a few days later, after Hal drowned during a flash flood and Zack was cut in half by a glass pane, that Patti knew it was more than a coincidence. She and Will went over to Borderlands Patrol and found several articles that went back to 1888 about similar situations where someone had a vision of an accident and prevented people from heading into danger, only for those people to die in gruesome accidents a few weeks or months later. One of these incidents involved her great-great-grandmother, Juliet Collins, who survived a house fire, only to have many of the survivors die days later.
Will and Patti go see a psychic named Julianna Fiegl in order to find out what was happening with the survivors, and she tells them that they were a virus inside a body, one that needed to be eradicated as soon as possible. Upon hearing this information, Patti calls a conference with the remaining survivors of the bombing late at night, as well as Jim Castle, the ATF agent who interrogated her. During the conversation, Jim tells them that the terrorists who bombed the train, Sean Reilly, Leon Khalid, and Dan Hoffman, are the real threat, not Death. Susan believes it's all a ploy constructed by Patti to earn higher ratings for her career, and she leaves. Al believes Patti, but thinks he should simply cherish his remaining moments before he dies, and he leaves as well. The next morning, Susan dies when her chest is burned all the way through by ignited thermite.
After Susan's funeral, Will and Patti head to Al's job to try and locate him before he too becomes a victim of Death. They find out from his secretary, Grace, that he had already left and was cruising around town. With no other option, Patti has a man from the phone company named Eddie track Al's phone number so she can track him through her Palm Pilot. Speeding down the highway, they find a red Ferrari crashed into the wall, and as they look inside the vehicle, they find a wounded prostitute and Al's body, his head cut off by a flying hubcap. Later that night, Patti and Will realize they have to die on their own terms and come back to life, similar to what happened in Flatliners. While Will goes back to his job at Circuit City, Patti stays home and sleeps. She then has a dream where Sean tells her that he didn't mean to kill Hal, Susan, Zack, Al, or Will. Since Will isn't dead, Patti knows he's next on Death's list and rushes over to the store to save him. Unfortunately, she arrives too late and finds his body sliced and stabbed by multiple CDs and DVDs.
Death
Depressed over Will's death, Patti goes back to Borderlands Patrol to find information on her great-great-grandmother. She learns she cheated Death after drowning in a river and was resuscitated immediately afterwards. Knowing there's a dog pound nearby, one with enough anesthesia to be considered lethal, she goes over to the pound (and is almost run over in the process). Taking the veterinarian hostage, she threatened to break his arm before finding out where the drugs were stored. Patti takes a syringe and fills it with an overdose of anesthesia and injects herself with it, thus killing herself, ironically, before an antenna almost impales her in the head.
After being revived, Patti has a dream of meeting her great-great-grandmother in the hospital. The next day, she is visited by Jim and his wife. Patti, now only a day old, starts her new life.
Signs/Clues
- After learning how her great-great-grandmother cheated Death's list, Patti noticed that the weather report only showed one cloud over Sherman Oaks, which was right over her location. She notes as if it were like the cloud had come for her.
- On her way to the veterinary, Patti notes the sky looked "impassive and inscrutable". She takes this as a message from Death.
- A fire occurred at the Sherman Halls hotel near the veterinary. This is where the antenna that failed to impale Patti came from.
Trivia
- Patricia is one of only six characters throughout the entire Final Destination franchise who have cheated Death using the New Life method. The others are:
- Juliet Collins, a survivor of the Mornington Crescent explosion from Final Destination: Destination Zero and the great-great-grandmother of Patricia Fuller. She was saved after drowning in the Thames River, and is also the only survivor who is known to have survived long-term, having mothered at least one child since her revival.
- Kimberly Corman, a survivor of the Route 23 pileup from Final Destination 2 who drowned herself.
- Jessica "Jess" Golden, a survivor of the Club Kitty collapse who was revived after being electrocuted with a taser while crawling through a puddle.
- Jamie, a fellow survivor of the Club Kitty collapse who was saved when he was revived alongside Jess after being shot in the chest.
- Louise King, a survivor of the subway collision in Final Destination: End of the Line who was revived after being accidentally given a fatal dose of lidocaine by Kate Shelley.
- Patricia shares her surname with Beatrice and Mr. Fuller.