Tim Carpenter is a supporting character in the horror film Final Destination 2. He is the son of Nora Carpenter and the youngest of the survivors of the Route 23 pileup incident. He is the second survivor to die in the film.
History[]
On May 13th 2000, Nora was driving her son Tim to a dentist appointment when traffic was held up by Kimberly Corman, who had blocked the road onto Route 23 with her SUV. While the Carpenters waited for Officer Burke to get traffic moving again, a terrible accident occurred on the highway, resulting in the deaths of eighteen people. Little did Tim or his mother know that Kimberly had just saved their lives, as they were fated to die in the pileup as well.
Kimberly and the other witnesses to the incident were brought into the police station for counseling and questioning. There, Kimberly explained that she had experienced a vision prior to the accident and had seen each of the people around her die. Invoking the Flight 180 tragedy of the previous year, Kimberly reminded the group how all of the survivors of that incident had died one by one under mysterious circumstances, convinced that the same thing was going to happen to them. While Tim was unnerved by this revelation, Nora dismissed it completely.
Death[]
The day after the pileup, Nora took Tim for his dentist appointment. While Tim was in the dentist's office, Nora sat in the waiting room, unaware that Death was coming for her. The fish tank in the waiting room suddenly sprung a leak and water poured down over an electrical socket. The plug in the socket hadn't been pushed in all the way and the water leaking from the fish tank was creeping towards Nora's feet, threatening her with electrocution. Meanwhile, Tim was in the dentist's chair while pigeons were flying straight into the window. When a pigeon smashed through the window outside the office, the dentist left Tim in the chair while he was being administered laughing gas. Water fell 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 blowfish fell from the mobile hanging above the dentist's chair, landing 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 consciousness faster. However, another dentist arrived before Tim lost consciousness and pulled the blowfish out of his mouth.
After leaving the dentist's office, Nora and Tim stepped outside and saw Kimberly and Officer Burke running towards them. Kimberly cried out "PIGEONS!", having seen an omen of pigeons earlier. Tim, still high on laughing gas, saw several pigeons on the ground and impulsively ran towards them, scaring them away. Some of the birds flew above a construction worker in a crane, and he accidentally hit a lever with his elbow, causing a heavy glass pane to fall onto the street below. When Nora tried to save him, a construction worker pulled her back, saving her. Tim looked up as the pane fell on him, crushing him to death.