Presage Paper is the paper company where Sam Lawton and his colleagues worked. The local site consists of a manufacturing warehouse and a sales office. Presage (présager) is French for omen or something that indicates the future.
History
Final Destination 5
In 1999, Presage Paper hosted a corporate retreat at 180 Corporate Consulting. However, as the bus carrying the employees crossed the North Bay Bridge, one employee, Sam Lawton, had a premonition that the bridge would collapse. As the bridge collapsed, seventeen employees of Presage Paper were amongst the casualties, including the local facilities manager. Meanwhile, Sam and seven other employees got off the bridge thanks to Sam's warning.
After the bridge collapse, a memorial service was held for the employees killed, and the corporate headquarters shut down the sales and administrative division. In the following days, the survivors would be killed off one by one in bizarre ways due to cheating Death. The remaining survivors soon encountered William Bludworth, who told them that if they took the life of a person who wasn't on Death's list, they could gain that person's lifespan. On one occasion, Nathan Sears ended up killing an abrasive employee named Roy Carson, therefore gaining Roy's lifespan. On the other hand, Peter Friedkin, driven mad over the death of his girlfriend, Candice Hooper, attempted to kill Sam's girlfriend, Molly Harper, as she was meant to survive the bridge collapse in Sam's premonition, but ended up killing FBI agent Jim Block instead. However, as Peter attempted to kill Molly to eliminate witnesses, he was ultimately killed by Sam, thereby allowing the latter to gain Block's lifespan.
Two weeks later, Sam and Molly boarded Volée Airlines Flight 180 for Paris, where they witnessed Alex Browning, Carter Horton, a teacher, and several other high school students get off the plane after Alex began yelling that the plane would explode, but they paid no heed to it. Shortly after Flight 180 departed from JFK Airport, the plane exploded due to a catastrophic engine failure, killing Sam, Molly, and everyone else on the plane. Block's remaining lifespan was likely a short period and wasn't enough for Sam to live longer. Meanwhile, on the ground level, Nathan learned that before Roy's death, he had an enlarged blood vessel in his brain and had little lifespan remaining. Right after, Nathan was killed by a piece of Flight 180's landing gear during Roy's memorial service at Cocktails.
Employees
Local sales division
Memorial Held for Presage Paper employees who met their demise at the North Bay Bridge.
- Dennis Lapman — Manager of local sales division of local site.
- Sam Lawton — sales division employee with poor sales record.
- Molly Harper — local sales division employee.
- Peter Friedkin — assistant manager of local sales division.
- Nathan Sears — local manufacturing division supervisor.
- Olivia Castle — local sales division employee.
- Candice Hooper — local sales division intern.
- Isaac Palmer — local tech support employee and self-professed ladies man.
- Bradley Breyer
- Chris Boylan
- David Buckler
- Robert Johnson
- Debbie White
- Jennifer Alcott
- Armond Babaian
- Stacy Nadu
- Heather Slay
- Marie Green
- Kelly Gaither
- Richard Sanchez
- Jane Woo
- Clive Morin
- Kathy Fulton
- Bruce Higgs
- Trevor Winn
Factory
- Roy Carson — local manufacturing division employee, and union locale boss.
- John — factory worker