Samantha Lane

Samantha Lane
Full Name	Samantha Lane
AKA	Woman with the kids, MILF by ( Hunt Wynorski )
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Green
Place of Origin	Lakeview, Indiana, USA
Born	1971
Age	38
Status	Deceased
Died	Thursday January 8, 2009
Cause of Death	Shot through the right eye by a rock
Relations	Edward Lane－Husband Ryan Lane－Older son Luke Lane－Younger son
Actor	Krista Allen
First Appearance	The Final Destination
Last Appearance	The Final Destination (on screen) Final Destination 5 (Closing credits)

"I've got my eye on you two." Samantha's last words

Samantha Lane is a character in the film The Final Destination. She is a survivor of the McKinley Speedway crash and the mother of Ryan Lane and Luke Lane.

The Final Destination

Samantha putting tampons in her sons' ears.

Samantha is visiting the McKinley Speedway with her family when Nick O'Bannon has a premonition of a deadly race car crash. Before the premonition, Samantha put tampons in her son's ears, despite their objections, to block them from the noise. Hunt Wynorski and Nick O'Bannon laugh at them. After the premonition, Nick panics, and her sons follow him to the parking lot, and Samantha follows them with her husband before the accident occurs.

Samantha later visits the memorial service being held at the McKinley Speedway with her husband, where they thank Nick for saving their lives. Nick and Lori said they're not heroes, but Samantha and Edward disagree. Lori says they're happy because the couple was safe and they go their separate ways.

She is the third survivor of McKinley Speedway to die.

Death

After a flying rock is shot through her right eye, Samantha collapses, dead.

Final Destination 4 - Samantha's Death-0

Days later, Samantha visits a beauty salon with her sons. Before she enters, her boys start throwing rocks at a stop sign. As she is leaving her hair parlor, she is unaware that one of the stones landed in the grass near a man riding a lawnmower. The driver of the lawnmower runs right over the rock, and it is shot through the exhaust pipe. When Samantha is about to exit the salon, she turns around, and the rock shoots through her right eye and out the back of her head, instantly killing her and breaking the window behind her. She collapses onto the floor, dead, as her sons and the staff scream in horror.

Signs/Clues

Nick's vision of Samantha's death

• Ironically, her face had been disfigured in her death and Nick's vision.
• Nick sees a vague vision of someone dying from a stone.
• Immediately before her death, Samantha tells her sons, "I've got my eye on you two!"
• The salon closes at 6:00 PM, which in twenty-four-hour time is 18:00.
• The salon she visits is named "Salon Dante."
• The reflection in the hand mirror of the ceiling fan that prompted Nick's vision of Samantha's death had a small pile of stones next to it.
• In the news article that Nick read about her death, in the right-hand Related Stories column, a news topic read, "Bus crash on HWY 180 kills 32."
• Samantha and a store employee discuss the prospects of sending her sons to military school. Her death involved being shot in the eye, inadvertently caused by her sons.
• It's possible that Samantha was originally supposed to be crushed by the falling ceiling fan, but her children intervened by slipping on the hair gel and causing Samantha to look away and move out of its path. However, it was implied in Nick's vision that someone would die from a stone, so the falling fan may have just been added to stall her.
• Dee Dee aims her scissors twice at Samantha's right eye, foreshadowing her death.
• An X-Acto knife falls onto Nick and Lori's picture. The knife aims at Lori's right eye, foreshadowing Samantha's death.
• The hairdressing scene is alluded to in the opening sequence.
• Both of her sons are wearing sports shirts during her death. The numbers on the shirts are "9" and "20" - 9x20 = 180.
• Both of her sons drink the slushy that Ashley and Ashlyn drank in Final Destination 3, which resembles blood.

Appearances

• The Final Destination (portrayed by Krista Allen)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by Krista Allen)

Trivia

• In the script of The Final Destination, she is described as: SAMANTHA LANE, 38.
• Samantha Lane is partially referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 by bloody scissors coming towards the screen.
• In the original script for The Final Destination, the red herrings that she experiences in the salon are different.
  • A piece of foil wrapped around her hair starts to collect bleach at the edges, right above Samantha’s closed eye. She opens her eye to ask a question, but sees the dangling drop of bleach. However, she is ironically saved by the injury when a pedicurist trimming her toenails accidentally jabs the tool deep into her toenail, causing Samantha to shriek and jerk her head back. The sudden movement causes the bleach to fall onto her cheek instead.
  • After resting her cup of water on the dolly with a towel over her eyes, she takes a cup of bleach by mistake. She nearly drinks it before the hairdresser intervenes and offers her a refill, while Samantha remains completely oblivious to the situation.
  • Instead of a ceiling fan, the hairspray can is launched to a large display of faux scissors, which similarly land in front of Samantha like the fan.
• In the original script, she dies differently in Nick’s premonition. She struggles to make her way through the crowd due to her skirt and trips over Nick’s broken seat. She faceplants onto the back of a seat, which busts her lip and knocks out several teeth. She is not killed instantly when the car engine block lands on her, as she succumbs to her injuries (presumably off-screen) while trying to shove the searing 600 pounds of metal.
• It should be noted that her husband and two sons are all survivors of the McKinley Speedway accident. All three are like Isabella Hudson.
• Some fans believe that while Death did not kill Samantha more gruesomely, her death was more cruel since she was killed in front of her young sons.
• In the show MythBusters, Samantha's death was tested to see if it would actually kill you like that, and they proved it would.
• In an early trailer for The Final Destination, she says, "I've got my eye on you two," in a very different and light tone.
• During the end credits, she is credited as MILF/Samantha, and in the film, Hunt says, “We just lost a really hot MILF.”