“	I don’t know why we're even here. And what do you want from me?	”
–Evan, talking to Detective Suby

Evan Lewis is a character in the film Final Destination 2 and a survivor of the Route 23 pileup. He is a lottery winner and was deemed one of the luckiest people alive.

Biography

Evan lived in an apartment in New York. Before the pile-up, he won the lottery, which has caused him to become very vainglorious and boastful.

Final Destination 2

Evan is driving in his new car when Kimberly Corman has a premonition that there will be a deadly pile-up on Route 23. She blocks traffic, preventing them from getting on the freeway, and Evan gets out of his car to tell Kimberly to move, but Officer Thomas Burke tells him to get back in his vehicle. Suddenly, the pile-up occurs as Kimberly predicted, killing 18 unlucky people, including three of her friends.

Evan is later interrogated at a police station by Detective Suby. He questions why he is even being interrogated. After the interrogation, he goes back home to his apartment.

Evan is the second survivor of Route 23 to die.

Death

Evan walks into his apartment with a stack of newly purchased items and lays them down on the kitchen table. He opens his windows and throws out his old spaghetti. He then turns on the music, takes off his shirt, and looks for something else to eat in his fridge. He puts some noodles in the microwave, unaware that a fridge magnet has fallen inside, and pan-fries mozzarella sticks. He then listens to his messages, to find that it is filled with women who had learned of his lottery win and wanted to hook up. At the same time, he puts on his new watch and checks out his ring. His microwave begins to spark from the magnet, startling him, and his ring falls down the drain.

He reaches in to grab the ring, but his hand gets stuck because of his watch, while the microwave continues to spark and the frying pan catches fire. He tries using a towel to put out the fire, but accidentally knocks the pan over, starting a fire in his apartment. As the fire spreads, he manages to get his hand out of the hole and uses the fire extinguisher to try to put out the fire. When the extinguisher runs out, he runs for the windows. They shut, and he is unable to open them, so he grabs a chair and smashes the window.

The apartment explodes seconds after Evan escapes, and he climbs down the metal stairs. He grabs onto an escape ladder, which gets stuck. He forces it down and manages to land perfectly on the ground. After reiterating how lucky he is, Evan slips on the spaghetti he previously threw out the window. The ladder falls, but stops inches before impaling Evan in the eye. Evan then sighs in relief before the ladder falls all the way and impales him in the right eye.

After the accident, Evan's death is broadcast on the news, alarming the other survivors. His body is later prepared for cremation by William Bludworth.

Signs/Clues

• The fridge magnets on Evan's refrigerator spell HEYE. The H falls, leaving the word EYE.
  • The H that fell also looks like part of a ladder, foreshadowing the fire escape ladder that would fall on Evan's eye.
• Evan's car has a phoenix design on its hood.
• While Evan is carrying his purchased items to his apartment, he accidentally steps on a baby doll's face, and the doll is missing an eye.
• Evan shouts out, "JESUS!" several times during his death scene.
• On the day he died, his shirt read Bill Wall Leather. This same line could be seen on the truck that started the pile-up.
• While Evan is about to pour cooking oil into a pan, a gust of wind brushes past him.
• One of the items carried into his room is an Apple "iMac," where the "I" is pronounced "eye."
• In the opening credits, an X-Acto knife was pointing at Kimberly's right eye, hinting that someone was going to be impaled in the right eye.
• Evan has a phoenix sticker on his apartment door.
• Evan was about to walk under the ladder before he died, which is a common superstition said to bring bad luck.
• Both his real-life death and premonition death involve fire.
• In Kimberly's premonition, Evan gets stuck in his car, which relates to his hand getting stuck in the sink.
• The song in the background, "Vitamin" by Incubus, references an eye multiple times in the song.
• The brand of mozzarella sticks on the box that Evan was cooking was called ''SUREFIRE SNACKS''.
• He nearly trips on a toy ambulance, which has the words "Mt. Pleasant" on the side, which is identical to the ambulance that would pick him up after his death.
• When Evan narrowly escapes his exploding apartment, he states, "Shit, I'm lucky..." ironically enough, he dies shortly afterward.

Appearances

• Final Destination 2 (portrayed by David Paetkau)
• Final Destination 2 (novel)
• The Final Destination (opening credits) (CGI image, not actor)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by David Paetkau)

Trivia

• Evan owned a 1987 Pontiac Firebird (License plate: ROA-680).
• His death appears in The Final Destination's opening sequence, but it is shown differently from the original death. In the opening credits, the ladder is shown going far deeper into his skull in comparison to his actual death.

• Evan's zodiac sign is Pisces.
• Evan Lewis is referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 by a fire escape ladder falling into the screen, and his microwave exploding (the noodle is still inside).
• Evan is the only survivor of Route 23, who was interrogated by police separately from the other survivors.
• Jonathan Cherry originally auditioned for the role of Evan, but he got Rory Peters instead.
• In an early draft of the Final Destination 2 script, he was described as: EVAN SCHAEFFER, 21, flashes a cocky smile.
• The song playing in the background is Vitamin - Incubus.
• Evan's death was featured on a homemade animated episode of 1000 Ways To Die.
• In a TV edit of the film, both his premonition and real death have been censored.
  • In the premonition death, a lot of the fire is cut out, and his real death is completely censored by fading to black before the ladder impales him.
• It is stated in the DVD commentary that the reason the ladder stops for a few seconds, before continuing to fall and killing Evan, was to fool viewers who would look away during the death scenes that it was safe to look back, as they would likely look away when the ladder fell the first time, and start watching again just as the ladder falls.

Navigation

Final Destination 2
Disaster(s)
Route 23
Survivors
Isabella Hudson | Isabella's baby | Kimberly Corman | Evan Lewis | Tim Carpenter | Nora Carpenter | Kat Jennings | Rory Peters | Eugene Dix | Thomas Burke | Dano | Shaina | Frankie | Biker | Biker’s Girlfriend
Casualties
Dano | Shaina | Frankie | 15 other people
Others
Michael Corman | Detective Suby | Nikki | Tawny | Mrs. Jennings | Physician | Clear Rivers | Jean | Dr. Lees | William Bludworth | Skate Punk | Marcus Hudson | Man in Elevator | Deputy Steve Adams | Mr. Carpenter | Man with Hooks | Frank | Mrs. Corman | Peter Gibbons | Mrs. Gibbons | Brian Gibbons | Mrs. Peters | Rescue Worker | Dr. Ellen Kalarjian | Trevor | Sheriff Mortimer Perry
Locations
White Plains, New York | Corman Household | Route 23 | Police Station | Evan's Apartment | Stonybrook Institution Psychiatric Treatment Center | Ellis Medical Complex | Bludworth Funeral Homes | Thomas's Apartment | Gibbons farm | Lakeview Hospital