Samantha Lane

Samantha Lane
Full Name	Samantha Megan Lane
Gender	Female
Height	171 cm
Weight	59 kg
Place of Origin	New York City, New York
Born	Thursday April 23, 1971
Died	Thursday January 8, 2009
Cause of Death	Eye perforated by a stone
Relations	Edward Lane－Husband Ryan Lane－Older son Daniel Lane－Younger son
Actor	Krista Allen
First Appearance	The Final Destination
Last Appearance	The Final Destination (on screen) Final Destination 5 (Closing credtis)

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

Samantha Megan Lane is a main character and survivor of the McKinley Speedway crash in The Final Destination.

She is the third survivor of the crash to die.

Biography

Samantha was born on April 23, 1971 in New York City, New York, and later lived in McKinley, Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons after graduating from Penn State University.

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 sons ears, but despite their objections to block them from the noise. Hunt and Nick laughed at them. After the premonition, Nick panics and her sons followed 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 were not heroes, but Samantha and Edward disagree. Lori says they were happy because the couple were safe and they go their separate ways.

Death

After a flying rock is shot through her right eye, Samantha falls down, 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 was 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 6:00PM, 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.
• On the news article that Nick read about her death, on 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 crumbled 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 build suspense.
• 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.

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's zodiac sign is Taurus.
• Samantha Lane is partially referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 by bloody scissors coming towards the screen.
• Samantha's death is the third to involve the victim's right eye - the first was Olivia Castle from Final Destination 5, and the second was Evan Lewis from Final Destination 2.
• 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 land in front of Samantha in a similar fashion to the fan.
• In the original script, she dies in a different manner 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.
• There is a slight similarity to Tim's death in Final Destination 2 (despite the fact that they both died differently), in that both victims were subjected to various red herrings, before having a sudden death, when they appeared to be safe.
  • However, the red herrings that Samantha experienced were meant to stall her enough so she could reach the front door in time for the rock to launch to her eye while Tim’s red herrings were actually planned deaths that were intervened.
• Some fans believe that Death did not kill Samantha more gruesomely, but was more cruel since she got killed in front of her two children.
• 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.
• Samantha's death is similar to that of Cub's death in Happy Tree Friends web series episodes, "Chip Off the Ol' Block".
• Her death is kind of similar to Olivia's death. Right eye crushed, Having this coincidence with Olivia: Olivi(a) Castl(e) Samanth(a) Lan(e).
• while during the end credits, she is credited as MILF/Samantha, and in the film, Hunt says “We just lost a really hot MILF.”.

Mistakes

• When Samantha falls to the floor after getting hit in the eye with the stone, she is shown smiling a bit.