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Sam Lawton is the protagonist of Final Destination 5. He is an employee at Presage Paper and the visionary of the North Bay Bridge collapse.
Biography
Sam resided in New York. He works at Presage Paper as part of the local sales division. His sales for the last quarter are very poor, which causes him to reevaluate his future with the company. He is dating Molly Harper and is good friends with and a subordinate of Peter Friedkin and Nathan Sears. He also works part-time as a Chef at a French restaurant called Le Cáfe Miro 81, and has dreams of going to Paris for his apprenticeship, although he is reluctant to take the position, because he doesn't want to leave Molly behind.
Final Destination 5
Sam's premonition
Sam and his co-workers are on their way to a corporate retreat when Sam has a premonition that the North Bay Bridge will collapse, killing almost everyone on it. When he panics, he convinces several of his fellow employees to leave before the accident occurs as he predicted. Later on, he is interrogated by Agent Jim Block, who initially believes Sam is a terrorist.
Sam and Peter encounter William Bludworth for the first time
Some time later, he goes to the memorial service where he and Peter encounter a mysterious coroner who warns him that "Death doesn't like to be cheated." Confused, he and Peter initially disregard this and walk away. He returns to his daily life as an employee at Presage Paper.
Later on, an intern and the girlfriend of Peter, Candice Hooper, dies in a freak accident at a gymnasium. Sam visits Peter at the gymnasium, where he spots the same coroner from the memorial service watching them from a distance. The following day at work, a depressed Peter invites Sam, Molly, office assistant Olivia Castle, and Nathan to drink with him.
After Olivia leaves to go to the eye clinic, Nathan, Peter, Molly, and Sam receive news that another assistant, Isaac Palmer, had died during a massage treatment. They meet the same coroner once more, who tells them that if they want to live, they must kill someone who was never meant to die on the bridge, and take their remaining lifespan. He and Molly decide to warn Olivia, suspecting she might be in danger.
They arrive at the clinic, but are too late to save Olivia when she falls out of a multiple-story building after getting her eye burned by a malfunctioning LASIK machine. Afterwards, Nathan accidentally kills his co-worker, Roy Carson, in a warehouse accident, and takes his remaining lifespan. When their boss, Dennis Lapman, arrives to question what happened, he is suddenly killed by a flying wrench launched by a belt sander.
Sam at Le Cáfe Miro 81.
Later on, Sam works at Le Cáfe Miro 81 and finally accepts the apprenticeship. After work, he asks his manager if he can reserve the restaurant for a date with Molly. Peter later shows up and talks about how he almost killed a woman by shoving her into traffic, but couldn't bring himself to do it. He then points a gun at Molly, and they both flee to the restaurant's kitchen. Peter follows them and knocks out Sam, and continues to pursue Molly. Fortunately, Jim arrives to help but is shot and killed by Peter. Peter continues to pursue Molly but is eventually stabbed in the back with a cooking skewer by Sam. Since Peter stole Jim's life, and Sam killed Peter, this leads Sam to believe he was given Jim's intended lifespan.
Sam is the seventh survivor of the North Bay Bridge to die.
Death
Two weeks later, Sam and Molly board a plane to Paris. As they are taking their seats, Sam watches Alex Browning and Carter Horton fight and get thrown off the plane with several others.
A curious Sam
When the plane takes off, Sam experiences the same omens that he got on the North Bay Bridge. A flight attendant passes them, and a passenger asks what the earlier fight was about.
Sam being burned to death in the Flight 180 explosion
The flight attendant explains that one of the passengers had a panic attack after claiming to have had some sort of vision. As Sam realizes this, the plane's left engine explodes and rips open the side of the plane. After failing to hang on to Molly, Sam is painfully incinerated in the Flight 180 explosion.
Final Destination 5 Sam's and Molly's Death (HQ)
Witnessing the engine explode
Signs/Clues
- The lights at Molly's house and Le Cáfe Miro 81 flicker momentarily when Sam is present. Later on, Sam sees a sign flicker on Flight 180.
- When Sam was in Molly's house, he looked at a picture of him and Molly. A nearby vase was reflected in the glass. The reflection resembled the head of an airplane.
- Sam works at a restaurant chain called Le Cáfe Miro 81. About seven months later, Carter Horton dies at the France branch location.
- Molly reads a magazine with the Lasik advertisement on the back.
- Sam says to Molly, "As long as we're together, that's all that matters." This was when they were talking about when his death would happen.
- During his shift before his date with Molly, Sam gets worried about his death and observes his surroundings in the kitchen. Two of the things he saw involved fire,
- When Peter turns on all of the stoves inside Le Cafe Miro 81, the fire on the stoves rises uncontrollably.
- Sam cuts himself on his finger on Flight 180 just like he did on the North Bay Bridge.
- The song "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas is heard on the plane and the bus on the North Bay Bridge.
- Sam expresses a strong desire to "start over" with Molly in Paris.
- A model plane is seen on his cubicle when he, Molly, and Olivia discuss Candice's death.
- The model plane and the cars in his cubicle hint at the following disasters in the series that set off the events of the first four films.
- Sam and Molly's assigned seat number is at "Seat 23". It is the number in the seat configuration where survivor Clear Rivers sits. Also, the pile-up in Final Destination 2 was on Route 23.
- After the friends finish off a bottle of wine, Sam says, "This is the end. So, what are we toasting to?"
Appearances
- Final Destination (unseen, died in plane crash)
- Final Destination 5 (portrayed by Nicholas D'Agosto)
Trivia
- Interestingly enough, Alex's premonition death is the same as, and the cause of, Sam's real-life death.
- The music that plays during the plane crash is a reprise of the opening theme of Final Destination 5 .
- In the script of Final Destination 5, he is described as: SAM LAWTON, handsome but unaware of it.
- While Sam and his co-workers were having drinks, there's a model plane and cars in his cubicle, which hints at the following disasters in the series that set off the events of the first four films.
- Chronologically, Sam is the first of the movie series' visionaries to die.
- Sam is the only visionary to have only one premonition and no visions of omens.
- Sam is the first survivor of the series to intentionally kill another survivor, though this was done to defend Molly.
- Sam is the only visionary to not figure out Death's design on his own, as the other visionaries were able to figure out Death's design on their own.
Mistakes
- As the flames are burning the flesh off of Sam's face, the breathing masks, which can be seen blowing towards the back in the flames, are not melting, despite being made of plastic and/or rubber.