Episode Report Card Sars: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Final Destination
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.18.2000
Alka-Seltzer product placement. Alex blows off Brown Ali's phone call. Dad gives Alex a pep talk while Alex numbly watches TV. Alex starts to tell Dad what's up, then spots a news report about the crash; the NTSB has ruled that it's accidental in nature, but they show a seating chart that grabs Alex's attention for some reason. Apparently, it has to do with Rothbale's seat and how death had actually come for the betties or some damn thing, but I went into the kitchen to get another handful of cookies and when I came back, Alex had figured out the design. Cut over to Sassy's house, where she's waxing trembly on the phone with a friend of hers and blaming herself for the death of the French teacher some more while packing up her house. She looks out into the front yard to see Alex lurking there. She calls Henchguy. Alex creeps around Sassy's car, apparently trying to get a tire off. Henchguy and friend pull up and make him get into their car. Sassy watches from behind a curtain. Seatbelt joke. Sassy moves away from the window. Ominous breeze. Window? Closed. Alex believes Sassy "is next." Henchguy doesn't buy it. Alex explains about the pattern. Henchguy humors him. Sassy keeps packing. She comes across an old record and puts it on; it's -- ready? Hope you're sitting down -- John Denver. Sassy seals her doom. Alex didn't ask for "what happened on the plane" to happen. But he saved six lives. It's not PTSD. He's not "going Dahmer on" them. There's a pattern. Yeah, there's a pattern, Zitty Kelley. It's on your face. It's called acne, and it's disgusting. OxyClean. Look into it. Sassy sees death reflected in the side of her tea kettle. John Denver. Ominous strings. Pointed close-up on butcher-block knife caddy. The flame on the stove goes out. A very suspenseful lighting of the pilot light, except for the "suspenseful" part. Close-up on the burner, which lights uneventfully. Henchguy can't explain why the other survivors have died, but he knows that nobody can control life or death "unless they're taking lives or causing death." Thanks for that, Henchguy. Alex can't control it as long as he's "in here, sorry." They let him go. Whatever. Alex gives Henchguy's partner the creeps. He almost believes Alex. The partner gives Henchguy the creeps. Oh, the comedy. Oh, the cookies. Tea and Sassy. She throws her tea at a bug, then tells herself to chill. She pours vodka into the mug instead. The mug cracks. Vodka creeps out onto the counter. Sassy dribbles over to her desk and drips onto her monitor, sipping the vodka like it's water. The monitor shorts out. Smoke begins to rise from the monitor. Sassy stares at it. The monitor explodes, and a shard of glass embeds itself in Sassy's throat. Sassy wheezes and staggers about, bleeding. The moral here: Never give your monitor Smirnoff, kids. It'll just get angry and kill you.