| “ | Yo, Buddha, slow down on the rice cakes. | ” |
–Isaac, when rubbing the Buddha statue. | ||
Isaac Palmer is a character in the film Final Destination 5. He is an employee at Presage Paper and a survivor of the North Bay Bridge collapse. He is also a womanizer and thief.
Biography
Isaac resided in New York, working at Presage Paper as a tech support employee. He is smart but sly, and somewhat shady. He is revealed to be a pervert, a womanizer, and a thief. He is one of the employees qualified to go on the company's corporate retreat to 180 Corporate Consulting.
Final Destination 5
Isaac, talking to a girl on his phone.
Isaac is on his way to a business retreat with his colleagues when Sam Lawton has a premonition that the bridge they're crossing will collapse, killing everyone on it. When Sam panics, a confused Isaac leaves the bus before the bridge collapses as Sam predicted.
Isaac at the memorial.
After the accident, Isaac and the other survivors attended the memorial service for the victims. When Isaac returns to the office, he raids the desks of his deceased co-workers and finds a coupon for a free therapy session at a Chinese spa.
Isaac is the second survivor of the North Bay Bridge to die.
Death
Final Destination 5 - Isaac's Death (1080p)
When Isaac arrives at the Ming Yun Spa, he sexually harasses the young, attractive receptionist. Disgusted, she decides to take him to receive acupuncture from an old, unattractive woman in a room full of candles and incense. When he walks in, he rubs a Buddha statue sitting on a shelf on the wall for good luck and pokes fun at its belly. His cell phone, which he uses to call multiple women, is taken from him by the masseuse and placed on a shelf next to a lit candle. The masseuse performs rough, violent body massage techniques on Isaac, which causes the bolts on the leg of the table he is lying on to give way. After the masseuse finishes the acupuncture on him, she leaves him to sleep for thirty minutes.
A Buddha statue falls on Isaac's head, crushing it.
One of the coals from the burning incense crumbles off and falls onto a piece of parchment below, setting it aflame. Isaac sees this, and in a panic, stumbles off the table, causing the legs to give way, sending him to the floor face down, driving the acupuncture needles painfully but non-fatally into his body. A large bottle of alcohol is knocked over and covers him and the floor. Isaac gets up painfully, with the needles stuck into his body and face, and tries to pull one out. During this distraction, Isaac's cell phone begins to vibrate, slowly moving the candle next to it off the shelf and into the alcohol. The alcohol is set ablaze, and Isaac stumbles into the far wall of the room; however, the fire stops just short of him. As he whimpers in relief, the shelf above him holding one of the Buddha statues gives way, and it crushes his head into pulp.
Signs/Clues
- When Isaac is looking through the deceased employee's drawers, he finds one full of thumbtacks, which could allude to the acupuncture needles.
- He pricks his finger like Sam did.
- A gust of wind makes all the candles flicker.
- While going into the room, he jokingly insults the Buddha Statue, which later kills him. Specifically, he comments on Buddha being fat, and it is the statue's weight that kills him.
- While walking towards the room, he knocks on the walls, making sure that they are soundproof.
- He rubs the Buddha's belly, which is something to do to get good luck.
- The spa that Isaac went to was called Ming Yun Spa. In Chinese, Ming Yun (命運) means fate or destiny.
- As Isaac talks on his phone, an attendant at the spa points to a sign saying "Please turn off all cell phones".
- During the premonition, Isaac lands frontally (on his chest) on the bus window. After the bed snaps and he falls on the ground, he falls the same way.
- After his head is crushed by the Buddha statue, the blood stain on his head makes a 'II', the Roman numeral for 2. Isaac is the 2nd survivor to die.
- After his death, six flyers of a person's head represent the remaining survivors of the bridge collapse.
- In Olivia's death, the doctor leaves her; in Isaac's death, the Chinese lady leaves him in the same way.
Appearances
- Final Destination 5 (portrayed by P. J. Byrne)
Trivia
- There seems to be a running joke with Isaac about how he is easily forgotten and never noticed by the others:
- Isaac goes to the bathroom on the bus in the premonition, but as the bridge collapses and the group rushes out of it, Isaac is left behind, completely forgotten by the others.
- Isaac was mentioned as one of the deceased by Dennis, even though he had attended the funeral.
- When Isaac was stealing things from his deceased co-workers, no one noticed him doing it.
- When Sam explains the events of the premonition to Molly, he says that everyone got off the bus despite that Isaac was left there, before correcting himself and remembering to that Isaac didn't get off.
- When Dennis learned about Isaac's death from Peter, he replied that he didn't know who Isaac was. After Peter explained who Isaac was, Dennis logically thought he had already died since he mentioned his name at the funeral as part of the deceased workers.
- Peter did not mention Isaac when he was listing all the people (Candice, Olivia, and Dennis) who did not deserve to die. However, Peter might have thought that Isaac deserved to die after all.
- Isaac has a particularly old Motorola cellphone, a nod to the fact that Final Destination 5 is a prequel to the first movie, which is set in 2000.
- In his alternate death, he is burned to death by alcohol.
- Isaac's name in an earlier script was ISAAC TURNER, but he is described as ISAAC PALMER, 30.