Dr. Stewart Tubbs is a character in the novel Final Destination: Destination Zero. He is a doctor who performs several autopsies at the city morgue and a survivor of the Mornington Crescent explosion. Late at night, Stewart attends a séance at Madame Adrienne's house in hopes of uncovering that she is a fake, when one of the attendees, Juliet Collins, has a vision of the house catching on fire and exploding due to a gas leak from construction underneath the house. Juliet freaks out and causes a commotion that convinces everyone inside the house to get out, excluding Adrienne and her servants. As they leave the house, an explosion occurs just as Juliet thought would happen. Stewart isn't shaken up by the accident and is annoyed that Juliet ruined his chances for the fame he would have received, but he does find the circumstances a tad bit odd. A few days afterwards, the survivors begin to die, and Tubbs is shocked to find his friend Matthew Upton's body during an autopsy, who was severely burned from the inside out. Stewart is even more baffled upon hearing that three Egyptologists were all swarmed by several cobras and killed.
Tubbs is the fifth survivor of Mornington Crescent to die.
Death
Inside a hotel with a prostitute, Stewart encounters a gruff man (most likely sent by Bill Sangster) who corners him in the room and becomes hostile. He then accuses Stewart of being the infamous Jack the Ripper, and Stewart, not wanting to be killed or beaten by the man, or being hunted by the authorities over the rumor, jumps out the window and escapes. Running through the streets wearing nothing but a bed sheet, Stewart realizes he needs some clothes to warm himself up in the cold night. He breaks into a dark room and looks for the light switch, only to bump into an unknown container that contains noxious gas. Stewart is unaware of the gas before it begins to sift through his system, and he passes out. Later on, his body is discovered by Keith Swallow, and he decides to take the opportunity to perform a live autopsy in front of his students. After cutting open Stewart from crotch to chest and breaking open his ribs, he pulls out a lung, just in time to see a faint heartbeat. Miraculously, Stewart is still alive. He opens his eyes and loosens his bowels just before he sits upright and tries to scream, his other lung filling up with blood. Unable to do anything more, Stewart dies on the operating table.
Signs/Clues
- At the morgue, Stewart pours himself a glass of whiskey and makes a toast to a skeleton, stating, "Here's to us."
- Once the gas begins to leak, Stewart sees what appears to be the eye sockets of a ghost staring back at him.
- Stewart notices that the gas, instead of dissipating, appears to be zeroing in on him.
- Under the influence of the gas, Stewart feels a dangerous cold chill around his body before passing out.