| No, no. You know the whole French Thing. You get on the plane, its fine. It's fine.
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Ms. Valerie Lewton is a main character in Final Destination and is a survivor of the Volée Airlines Flight 180 plane crash. She taught at Mt. Abraham High School for five years as a Junior and Senior English teacher and French teacher and was one of the teachers aboard the plane.
Ms. Lewton is the third survivor of Flight 180 to die.
Biography
Ms. Lewton was born in Mt. Abraham, New York. She is very intelligent, but is very sensitive, and snobbish. She took a degree in Education, as implied by her job in Mt. Abraham High School. Along with fellow faculty members and staff, she was chosen to chaperone the students on their field trip to Paris. She is shown to be the most affected after the plane explodes.
Final Destination
Ms. Lewton, witnessed the plane explode.
After the Hare Krishna gave Alex Browning a booklet, Ms. Lewton shouted at him to leave her students alone and told Alex to move along. Later she broke up a small fight between Tod Waggner and George Waggner. She also asked where Billy Hitchcock was as the other students boarded the plane. After Alex had a premonition that the plane would crash, he panics, and a fight erupts between him and Carter Horton. The co-Pilot kicked off the students who were on the corridor at the moment, and Ms. Lewton volunteered to stay behind and look after the students who were kicked off. She convinces her co-worker, Larry Murnau to get back on the plane, but after the plane explodes, Ms. Lewton becomes extremely guilt ridden over his death.
At the memorial, she snaps at Alex, who she held personally responsible for the plane explosion. Two days later, she went to a coffee shop where she witnessed a bus suddenly hit and run over Terry Chaney. Following these events Ms. Lewton decides to leave town to restart her life.
Ms. Lewton outside the Coffee Beanery
Death
While packing her things, Alex arrives at her house to check if she is safe, but she suspects that Alex is up to no good and contacts FBI Agents Weine and Schreck, who take him in for questioning. After Alex is taken away, she prepares hot water for tea. When she sees the school logo on the ceramic mug, she panics and throws the water out. She instead takes vodka from the freezer and pours it into the same mug. However, she does not notice when the sudden temperature change causes the mug to crack.
Ms. Lewton, with a kitchen knife landing on her chest.
She walks over to her computer, unaware of the trail of vodka she is leaving behind. She sets the cup down over the monitor while she is packing up her stuff. While she is packing, the vodka drips into the monitor's circuitry, short-circuiting the computer. Ms. Lewton notices her monitor smoking and investigates it. When she leans in closer, the monitor explodes, sending shrapnel into her neck. On impulse, she pulls it out and began to bleed heavily from the throat.
When she limps to the kitchen, the computer sparks, igniting the vodka trail behind her. She reached the kitchen, but the fire reaches the vodka bottle which explodes, setting the kitchen on fire and throwing her to the floor. She reaches for a towel on the knife rack but when she pulls it down, the knives fall onto her and one of them falls into her chest.
Ms. Lewton's dead body with her eyes still open.
After being released, Alex arrives at her house and finds Ms. Lewton on the kitchen floor. But before he can help her the oven explodes, causing a chair to fall on top of her pushing the knife deeper into her chest, killing her. The fire spreads throughout the house, and Alex manages to flee as her house explodes.
Final Destination - Ms Lewton's death HD
Signs/Clues
- A shadow appears in Ms. Lewton's kettle before the explosion occurs.
- Ms. Lewton's house door has a dagger design on it.
- The door also has strong reds and oranges on it, echoing the house fire.
- "Rocky Mountain High" plays on Ms. Lewton's record player.
- On his way to Ms. Lewton's house, Alex sees ashes floating around his head, foreshadowing the fire.
- Once Alex figures out Death's design, he realizes Ms. Lewton is third to die.
- The woman in Alex's TV before he went to Ms. Lewton's house said, "Wow, That's a huge knife set."
- When Terry was run over by a bus, the camera pans last to Ms. Lewton when Alex, Carter and she were shocked.
- In the opening sequence, there is a picture of a knife in someone's chest.
- She frantically throws her mug into the air when she notices her school logo and says to herself "You're out of here. Pretty soon you'll be gone, you'll be gone."
- Her mug cracked, and started dripping, similar to what happened to her neck.
Final Destination 2
| Wait, wait, wait. The teacher I replaced, her name was Val Lewton. She was from Mt Abraham. She died in an explosion.
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Ms. Lewton was mentioned in Final Destination 2 by Route 23 pile-up survivor Eugene Dix. He reveals that after Ms. Lewton's death he was transferred to Mt. Abraham High School, and the substitute teacher who was sent instead was later stabbed to death by a homicidal student.
Final Destination 5
| Oh, excuse me. Um... Those passengers who got off the plane earlier, what was that all about?
Passenger, explaining to the Flight Attendant. A kid had a panic attack and wanted off the plane. Said he had some kind of vision. Flight Attendant, in reply. |
Ms. Lewton is seen being thrown off of Flight 180 moments before it explodes.
Ms. Lewton's stabbing in the opening sequence of The Final Destination.
Appearances
- Final Destination (portrayed by Kristen Cloke)
- Final Destination (novel)
- Final Destination 2 (in a photo) (portrayed by Kristen Cloke)
- Final Destination 2 (novel) (in a photo)
- The Final Destination (opening credits) (CGI image, not actor)
- Final Destination 5 (archive footage) (portrayed by Kristen Cloke)
Ms. Lewton's death being referenced in Final Destination 5's opening credits.
Trivia
- Mrs. Lewton's death appears in The Final Destination.
- Ms. Lewton has the longest death scene in the entire movie.
- Ms. Lewton is referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5. Where knives, burning windows, and burning kettles are show crashing the screen.
- In the script of Final Destination, she is described as: VALERIE LEWTON, 30, a feisty English teacher whose figure inspires all the boys' fantasies.
- Ms. Lewton's death is very similar to Evan Lewis's death (Final Destination 2) and Isaac Palmer's death (Final Destination 5), all three narrowly avoided being burned to death, only to get killed by something falling on them.
- She has the first ever Rube Goldberg style death from the Final Destination franchise.
- She is the only survivor of the Volée Airlines Flight 180 who was not a student.
- The Novelization mentions during the funeral that she has lost weight and looks haggard due to being traumatized by the victims of Flight 180..