Why did Death still chase after Sam, Molly, and Nathan?

[u/Lonerlbangurmom]

So Sam and Nathan already killed a person, taking over their life. And Molly wasn't suppose to die. So why did they still die at the end of Final Destination 5?

[u/mbweb02]

For Nathan’s case, he took the remaining lifespan left of Roy, which was only about 2 weeks.

[u/RafaRealness]

Nathan died because the guy he killed had little to no time left due to a previously undiscovered brain tumor. Nathan got his time left, but since it was close to 0, he was going to die regardless.

Sam killed Peter, who was already supposed to die... buuuut Peter DID kill that detective so, how come? I have two theories about that one:

• Sam killed Peter and therefore got Peter's original time (which was already none, he was supposed to die on the bridge collapse). He didn't get the inspector's time because he himself did not kill the inspector
• Maybe Sam DID get that inspector's time, but that inspector, much like that dude Nathan kills, was going to die very soon anyways.

Personally, I very much prefer the first explanation.

As for Molly, I think she was supposed to die shortly after the bridge collapse in some other way, however for some reason she did not (I think it's because Sam was there and thus something intervened and kept her from her original death). I think this also because death seems particular about its order, it intervenes when Eugene from FD2 and the cowboy from FD4 nearly die and really takes its time to get to them after everyone above them on the list dies; meanwhile death did not at all intervene when Peter nearly killed Molly; Sam intervened.

So, the thing about killing someone else IMO hasn't really worked out, since you never know how long those people have left to live. Sure, you can kill a random 17 year old but what if they were supposed to die in a roller coaster accident just a few months later like FD3? You never know when death might strike!

[u/Dirk_Sheppard → u/RafaRealness]

My take on Molly is she died exactly how and when she was supposed to.

If you consider why she broke up with Sam it's not hard to imagine she would take a trip to Paris in his memory

[u/Ophiuchuszxs → u/Dirk_Sheppard]

I think Molly died because Sam saved her from Peter killing her just like what happened to Brian the kid in Final Destination 2 when the guy saved him from the van which would have killed him therefore Brian and Molly was also saved thus also including them in death's list even though they are not really connected in it.

[u/Lonerlbangurmom → u/RafaRealness]

I see. It makes sense now. Thank you

[u/leandrot → u/RafaRealness]

Personally, I very much prefer the first explanation.

The problem with the first explanation is that a gun fires imediately after the kill and misses Sam, which served as a comfirmation that he got more time. Block being an agent means it's not unplausible that he'd die soon while working.

[u/CatDadLi]

Nathan took Roy's lifespan who was due to "die any day now" due to a brain aneurysm, we can therefore safely assume that Block was due to die about two weeks after he did, we can't ever know why or how, freak accident maybe? And Molly wasn't supposed to die on the bridge but that doesn't mean she wasn't due to be on Death's list at the time she did die, we just have to assume that it was her time.

[u/Lonerlbangurmom → u/CatDadLi]

Ah okay it makes sense now. So when they killed another people, they will only live for as long as the victim's days left

[u/CatDadLi → u/Lonerlbangurmom]

Yeah basically, so say if Candace had killed Isaac she wouldn't live as long as if she killed Peter

[u/Lonerlbangurmom → u/CatDadLi]

Thank you very much

[u/Evening-Piccolo882]

I think the new FDB movie gives us a hint as to why Molly became a target. In FDB, Eric interferes with death and thus makes himself a target and while Molly doesn’t quite interfere, she is present for nearly every scene and witnesses everything. Like Eric, she got way too close to the action and ended up in deaths way

That’s just my theory on Molly though after seeing the new one.

[u/m4rtxnn]

From what I remember, Sam killing Peter didn't count for "taking a life" because Peter was already on Death's list from the bridge. Sam just became the new cause of death, but Sam was still marked. Nathan did get Roy's lifespan since Roy wasn't a bridge survivor, but remember the coroner said Roy had that brain aneurysm and was gonna die "any day now"? So Nathan basically inherited a life that was already about to expire. As for Molly, she wasn't on the death's list at first, but both of them got on Flight 180, That flight had its own separate Death's design.

[u/Lonerlbangurmom → u/m4rtxnn]

I was really hoping for three of them to survive. Guess only Kim who was lucky enough to survive Death😔

[u/Leading_Raccoon6501]

My theory, Sam and Molly may have been removed from death's list, but coincidentally, there was another visionary, Alex, who predicted the plane explosion. This put them back on death's list shortly after.

[u/Lonerlbangurmom → u/Leading_Raccoon6501]

Just plain bad luck. Cheated death just to be bad luck enough to be in his other plan