Tim Carpenter

Tim Carpenter
Full Name	Tim Carpenter
Gender	Male
Height	5'11"
Weight	120 lbs.
Place of Origin	White Plains, New York
Born	Thursday August 29, 1985
Died	Monday May 14, 2000
Cause of Death	Crushed by a glass pane
Occupation	Student
Relations	Nora Carpenter－Mother; Deceased Mr. Carpenter－Father; Deceased Eugene Dix－Teacher, deceased
Actor	James Kirk
First Appearance	Final Destination 2
Last Appearance	Final Destination 2 (on screen) Final Destination 5 (closing credits)

If he gives me the gas and I wake up with my pants unbuttoned, we ain't payin'. Tim telling his mother about the dentist.

Tim Carpenter is a main character in Final Destination 2 and is a survivor of the Route 23 highway pileup. He is the teenage son of Nora Carpenter.

Tim is the second survivor of Route 23 to die.

Biography

Tim was a fifteen year old boy living in New York with his mother Nora. He and his mother share an overprotective Mama's boy bond, ever since his father died four years earlier.

Final Destination 2

Tim at the dental clinic.

Tim and his mother were on their way to the dentist when, Kimberly Corman has a premonition that a pile-up will occur on Route 23. She blocks the road, preventing the other drivers from entering the highway, and he and his mother witness the accident occur moments later.

Tim at the dentist's office.

They are later brought to the police station where they learn about the curse of Flight 180, but Nora dismisses this and leaves with Tim. That night, Tim is still a little concerned about what the other survivors said but again his mother dismisses it. The next day, Tim goes to the dentist with his mother, and becomes nervous. The dentist mentions Tim's smoking habits and then finds a cavity which needs to be drilled. During the drilling, pigeons continue to fly into the window, and the dentist decides to give him laughing gas instead. When another pigeon flies inside the lobby, the dentist leaves Tim unattended. While Tim is unattended water falls into the electric socket of the tank mixing oxygen into the laughing gas, meaning the laughing gas would be pure when he breathed it in. Suddenly a plastic blow fish falls inside Tim's mouth. This left Tim in a conundrum where he couldn't intake oxygen, if he took a breath through his nose he would inhale more laughing gas and make him lose more consciousness and he wasn't able to breath oxygen through his mouth nearly suffocating him until another dentist arrives and pulls out the fish.

Death

A falling glass pane lands on Tim, instantly killing him.

The remains of Tim after he is crushed by the falling window pane.

Final Destination 2 Tim's Death

After leaving the dentist's office, Tim and his mom begin to walk into the streets. While walking, they see Kimberly and Officer Thomas Burke running towards them, with Kimberly screaming out "Pigeons!" Still groggy, Tim notices a flock of pigeons in front of him, and on impulse, he runs up to the birds and starts scaring them away.

Some of the birds fly above a construction worker in a crane, and he accidentally hits a lever with his elbow, causing a heavy glass pane to fall onto the street below. When Nora tries to save him, a construction worker pulls her back, saving her. Tim looks up as the pane falls on him, and crushes him to death.

Signs/Clues

• Tim almost died when the electricity in the dentist's office malfunctioned and he nearly choked to death on laughing gas and a toy blow fish that fell into his mouth.
• In the opening credits, there appears to be a puppet hanging on a string, and the shadow looks like a glass pane falling on someone.
• In the dentist room, Tim sits in a chair with a small, square mirror hanging over him.
• When Nora dims the light to Tim's bedroom after tucking him in, his face is illuminated with a skull outline, this image can be better seen when the scene dissolves into the next.
• Kimberly sees pigeons flying towards her before heading to the dentist's office, even though not a pigeon was in sight. Also, she saw it through a reflection in a glass window.
• The calming music instrument version of the song "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver can be heard barely in the dentist's room.
• Tim's dentist asks him, "Your mom says you've been having some pane lately?"
• The pane that kills Tim is visible from the dentist's office.
• A pigeon banged on the window of the dentist's office. And there is a superstition that when a bird hits your window then somebody you know is going to die.
• Tim is standing in the intersection of tiles, making it look like an "X" and implicating that he is the target.
• In the dentist's office, the fish tank has a skull inside.
• One of the fish inside the fish tank was sucked into a filter, just like how the plastic blowfish fell into Tim's open mouth. This doesn't cause his death, however.
• A sign reading CAUTION is seen before his death.
• One of the pigeons actually breaks through a window, and gets inside the waiting room. According to some superstitions; a bird being inside a building means that someone in the building will die.

Appearances

• Final Destination 2 (portrayed by James Kirk)
• Final Destination 2 (novel)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by James Kirk)

Trivia

• At 15 years of age, Tim is currently, by far, the youngest known survivor to die in the series.
• The reason Death didn't skip him after the dentist assistant saved him from suffocating on a plastic blowfish, is because he was saved by someone who wasn’t on Death’s list. This is further proved by Nora who was meant to be crushed by the glass pane with Tim but was saved by a construction worker, and later decapitated by an elevator.
• It looks like Kimberly is the reason why Tim died, because if she wasn't yelling "PIGEONS!", he probably wouldn't have scared the one that caused the construction worker to accidentally drop the window pane.
• When Final Destination 2 was in its earliest stage, Tim was thought of as a five to seven year old and then later a thirteen year old, but no one wanted to make a movie with a young child dying in a freak accident. This may explain the lack of logic in his decision to scare the pigeons. The reason he scares the pigeons is because Kimberly is yelling "PIGEONS!" and alerts Tim to them; he's also still slightly woozy from the gas in the hospital; that's why he's holding Nora's arm as he leaves the hospital.
• Tim's death is very similar to Ian McKinley's (Final Destination 3) and Carter Horton's(Final Destination) deaths, as all three were crushed by something large, used for building.
• Tim is similar to Erin by both of their deaths involved pigeons (in the alternate death).
• There is a slight similarity to Samantha's death in The Final Destination (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 Tim experienced were actually planned deaths that were intervened, while Samantha’s red herrings were all to stall her so that she could reach the front door in time for the rock to launch to her eye.
• Tim's Death was the one of the only actual deaths shown on screen in the original "Trilogy" not to be referenced in The Final Destination's opening sequence. Other deaths not referenced are Brian Gibbons and Lewis Romero. However, the drill in the opening could've been Dr. Lees' medical drill, representing Tim's dentist appointment.
• Tim's surname is derived from John Carpenter, director of Halloween.
• In a TV edit of the film his death was censored by when the glass pane makes contact with his face it cuts to the next scene without showing his body getting crushed.
• In an early script for Final Destination 2, it is revealed Kimberly thought Tim was 16. 
• Zack Halloran's death is similar to Tim's death as both of their deaths involved a glass pane falling on them.