After watching a news report on the cause of the explosion, Alex concludes that Death is reclaiming the survivors according to the sequence of each intended demise on the plane. Nevertheless, he is too late to save Ms. Lewton, whose house explodes after she is impaled by a falling kitchen knife. The remaining survivors reunite, and Alex explains the situation as they drive through town. Carter (who would be next, according to Alex's plan) is still enraged over Terry's death. He stops the car on a train crossing, intending to die on his own terms. The others flee the car, and Carter changes his mind at the last minute. When his seatbelt jams, Alex saves him just before the car is smashed by the oncoming train, but it flings shrapnel from the wreckage, decapitating Billy. Alex surmises from this that, because he intervened in Carter's death, Death skipped to the next person in the original sequence.