| ◄ | Mrs. Valerie Lewton | Billy Hitchcock | Carter Horton | ► |
- "Carter, you dick!"
- ―Billy's famous quote
William 'Billy' Hitchcock is a character in Final Destination. He is the fourth survivor of Flight 180 to die.
Billy is played by Seann William Scott, who is mostly known as Steve Stifler in American Pie film series.
Biography[]
Billy was a student at Mt Abraham High school and did not get along well with Carter as Billy is seen to have a foolish and clumsy personality.
Final Destination[]
He was removed from the aircraft because he was still in the aisle when Alex and Carter started fighting.
After Alex has a premonition that plane will crash, Billy is caught in the middle of Alex and Carter's fight and removed from the plane along with the others. Billy tells Mr. Murnau that he was stuck in the bathroom and had nothing to do with the fight, but is ignored. Billy then watches the plane take off as Alex and Carter start fighting and makes a comment about their unlucky position.
Later, Billy appeared at the the memorial service where he asks Alex a bunch of questions thinking he is a psychic, but Alex ignores him.
Death[]
He was ¾ decapitated, from the jaw by a piece of metal shrapnel from Carter's car wreckage after it was destroyed on impact with a train.
Alex manages to save Carter seconds before the train smashes into the car, and Billy began insulting Carter, believing he was still next; "Oh, you will be. You're dead... you're dead and you ain't taking me with you!".
Billy's final moments
Billy's corpse.
Billy getting decapitated
Billy's half head on the ground
However, as he was still standing next to the railroad, a chain underneath the train swipes up a piece of shrapnel from the car wreckage which is sent flying in Billy's direction. He turns around as the shrapnel decapitates him from the jaw up. After the train passes, his body collapses on the ground.
James gave this death "The Golden Chainsaw" award because of how cool the effects look and how it sets the tone for the deaths in the series.
Signs/Clues[]
- When Carter is driving, Alex sees the reflection of the train out his window.
- During the opening credits, in a book of French history, there is a picture of a guillotine (which is used to behead people).
- At the memorial service, Billy tells Alex about after barely passing his driver's test, his instructor told him, "Young man, you're gonna die a very young age." His eventual death did indeed involve a car.
- While Billy, Carter and Clear are driving to Alex's home, Carter sarcastically threatens to "kill Billy" after he constantly expressed fear of his imminent death, foreshadowing Carter's subsequent actions indirectly causing Billy's death.
- While he is looking up at the plane taking off, the reflection of the plane is shown across his face. It is flying in a line right where the piece of the car shrapnel decapitates him later on.
- Throughout the film when he went clumsy and fell to the ground, the action is similar to one after he got decapitated.
Trivia[]
- His surname is obviously a reference to director Alfred Hitchcock, who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres and directed many classic horror-thriller films from the 1950s and 1960s.
- Billy is the only one of the survivors who personally witnesses the explosion of Flight 180. A fight has just broken out between Alex and Carter, who are being restrained by a pair of security guards and Tod, Terry, Clear and Ms. Lewton are focused on Alex and Carter while Billy watches as the plane flies away. He can be heard screaming "Oh shit!" immediately after the plane explodes and before the shockwave shatters the airport windows