“	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.

Timothy "Tim" Carpenter is a character in the film Final Destination 2. He is the teenage son of Nora Carpenter and a survivor of the Route 23 pile-up.

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 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.

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 that 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 blowfish 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 lose more consciousness, and he wasn't able to breathe oxygen through his mouth, nearly suffocating him until a nurse arrives and pulls out the fish.

Tim is the third survivor of Route 23 to die.

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 blowfish 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's 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 no pigeons were in sight. Also, she saw it through a reflection in a glass window.
• The calming instrumental of "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 pain (pane) lately?"
• The pane that kills Tim is visible from the dentist's office.
• A pigeon bangs into the window of the dentist's office. There is a superstition that when a bird hits your window, somebody you know is going to die.
• Tim is standing in the intersection of tiles, making it look like an "X" and implying 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 was the youngest survivor in the movie series until Final Destination Bloodlines, which introduced a much younger character named Alfred Milano, although Alfred is only shown in the opening and mentioned to have died off-screen in a news article as an adult.
• The reason Death didn't skip him after the dental assistant saved him from suffocating on a plastic blowfish is that 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 Corman 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, although this concept would finally be used in Bloodlines with Alfred being crushed by a piano in Iris Campbell's premonition, although Alfred survived and would later be killed off-screen as an adult. This may explain the lack of logic in his decision to scare the pigeons. The reason he scares the pigeons is that 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.
• There is a slight similarity to Samantha Lane's death in The Final Destination (even though 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 in, 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 at her eye.
• Tim's death was 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. Lee's 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 via when the glass pane makes contact with his face, where it cuts to the next scene without showing his body being crushed.
• In an early script for Final Destination 2, it is revealed that 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.
• Richard Harmon, who plays Erik Campbell in Bloodlines, has stated numerous times during his interviews that Tim's death is his personal favorite of the franchise.

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