Ashlyn Halperin is a main character in the horror film Final Destination 3. She is a survivor of the Devil's Flight roller coaster derailment and the second survivor to die in the film.
History[]
Ashlyn was a high-school student from McKinley, Pennsylvania. She and her best friend Ashley Freund were always seen together and were considered the popular girls at school, though didn't quite fit the stereotype of "popular girls" since they were genuinely nice to their peers as opposed to looking down on them.
When Ashley and her classmates visited an amusement park for the senior class field trip, they boarded the Devil's Flight roller coaster, although they were harassed by former classmate Frankie Cheeks, who was recording them with his video camera. Before the ride started, Wendy Christensen appeared to have a panic attack, screaming that the ride was going to derail and everyone would die. Wendy and most of her friends got off the ride before it started, but afterwards, the roller coaster did derail and crash as she had predicted, killing everyone on it.
Weeks later, as graduation neared, Ashley and Ashlyn invited Wendy to come to the tanning salon with them in order to take her mind off of her boyfriend Jason, who had died on the roller coaster. Wendy declined the offer, but Ashley gave Wendy her cellphone number in case she changed her mind or wanted to talk. After school, the two friends visited the salon where they saw the manager, Yuri, on the phone to his boss. The girls headed into one of the tanning rooms, though Yuri told them to get rid of the large drinks cups they had. Ashlyn binned her drink, but Ashley kept hers as they went inside.
Death[]
Inside the tanning room, Ashley and Ashlyn undressed before getting into their tanning beds. Ashley put her slushie on a table to the side, unaware that the VAC machine controlling the tanning beds was right underneath it. Ashlyn decided to turn up the heater, stating that a few degrees wouldn't hurt. Ashley then decided to look through the CD's on a wooden shelf above one of the tanning beds. While doing so, she accidentally pulled the shelf loose.
After the girls got into their tanning beds, Ashley's drink cup started to condensate. The condensation pooled around the cup and dripped off the edge of the table, spattering the VAC and causing the machine to malfunction. This caused the temperature in the tanning beds to rise, but only Ashlyn noticed. As she tried to warn Ashley, the air conditioner on one side of the room turned on and blew over a coat rack. As Ashlyn was about to open her tanning bed, the coat rack knocked down the CD shelf from the wall which fit into the opening in the handle for Ashley's bed and the handle for Ashlyn's bed. Because of this, neither of the girls could open their beds and get out.
As the temperature in the tanning beds rose, the girls began sweating profusely and Ashley began to have trouble breathing. She tried lifting the lid of her tanning bed again, but touching it burned her hand. Both girls panicked and screamed for help, and while Yuri did hear them, he found himself accidentally locked outside and unable to help. Ashley and Ashlyn were unable to escape as the glass within the tanning beds cracked and shattered. The raw ultraviolet rays from the tanning bed lamps broiled the girls' flesh and they both died as their beds burst into flames.
Alternative Fate[]
In the bonus features of Final Destination 3, viewers get to choose the fate of various characters in the film. If the viewer chooses to change the temperature that Ashlyn decides to set, the tanning bed scene will change to the alternative death. In this scene, the events that start the scene are the exact same up until the point where Ashlyn notices that the temperature is too hot.
In this version, Ashlyn decides to get out earlier while Ashley remains in her bed which leads to Ashlyn getting knocked out by the falling shelf (which was knocked off by the coat rack). The shelf then slides across the gaps in both beds, locking in Ashley while Ashlyn is unconscious on the floor. As the temperature rises, Ashley tries desperately to escape her tanning bed, pounding on the lid to try and free herself, but only to end up burning her hands each time. Desperately, Ashley screams out for help but to no avail as Ashlyn is still out cold. At this point Ashley's skin is burnt brown and shiny due to the sweat pouring out of her. A look of terror spreads across Ashley's face as the glass above her cracks and shatters, slicing her face and chest.
Trying to slide through the end of the bed, Ashley screams for Ashlyn for help. Ashlyn finally starts to wake up to the screams of a terrified Ashley which are getting higher and higher, repeating her cry for help. Ashlyn quickly makes it to her feet and pulls the shelf out of the wedge in the tanning bed and opens the lid to a terrified Ashley, with her arms covering her chest and face to protect herself from the heat. Ashley's entire body burnt to a dark brown and her skin shiny with sweat. Ashlyn looks at her in shock of how burnt she, but Ashley just stares back in relief. Ashlyn extends her hand to lift Ashley up, Ashley grasps her hand in relief. As Ashlyn lift her up the extent of her injuries is clear, her chest covered in shards of glass and cuts from that glass. As she is lifted out of the bed the glass under her shatters, exposing the live wires underneath. In an instant Ashley and Ashlyn are electrocuted, frying her brain, as well as her heart. The shock leaves Ashlyn's body on the floor and a steaming, burnt Ashley still in the tanning bed.