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Heather Fitzgerald is one of the main characters and the final girl along Kelii in the original script.

Biography[]

Heather is the spoiled rich sister. She does not agree with the tradition of buying the famous serial killer Billy, who used to live in the very sorority house she does, to buy a Christmas present for him. Heather complains a lot and is not considerate of others when the murders begin, only thinking of herself. She suspects a fellow sorority sister for the killings, and while investigating finds newspaper articles and a doll in the sisters room. However Heather later discovers this sisters dead body. After doing so, she insists that they all leave. However many characters would rather stay as they feel they need to wait for the missing sisters to turn up. Most of the sisters don't get a long with her, but some of the sisters do.

Death[]

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Heather´s Death in the car

When Heather and Ms. Barbara MacHenry attempt to drive to the police station, Barbara at first wants Heather to clear the windshield but Heather, being from the south, doesn't even know what the brush is used for.  Barbara exits the car and cleans the windshield, mumbling that Heather is a "Priveliged bitch" and a "frigid Southern princess." Heather is butchered in the car by Billy, spraying blood all over the front window. Her death is most unknown out of all of the sisters. In the script, Heather has to get out of the car and survive Billy's attack from the car and enter the sorority house, she being the last one with Kelii to survive in the hospital and leave with her after a discussion in the house with Kelii and Leigh about her emotions and that her father sends her to the sorority house to get rid of her big mouth. every time this script was rewritten and she dies in the end

Relationship with sisters[]

Heather has a very strained relationship with her fellow sorority sisters, especially Lauren Hannon. She envisions herself as the best among the crowd and treats the girls as if they were below her. Heather's short temper does not help at all. At various points of the film, she was seen arguing with her fellow sisters, including Dana, Melissa and Kelli. When she and Mrs. Mac decided to run away, Kelli tells her off about how Heather treats her other sisters. Despite showing sings of sadness, she still left with Mrs. Mac, which, eventually, ended in tragedy. Also, the only time Mrs. Mac cursed in the film was about Heather. As Heather, does not know what an ice scraper is, Mrs. Mac is forced to scrape the ice off the windscreen herself, and silently uttered, "Priveliged bitch. Frigid Southern princess..."

Trivia[]

  • Months before the film was released, it was always considered that "Lee" was Heather's last name. However, when the special featurette "Remaking of Black Christmas" hit televisions, Mary Elizabeth Winstead revealed the character she had portrayed was Heather Fitzgerald. Since then, there had been a whole lot of confusion with her last name. In the end, it was considered her full name was Heather Lee-Fitzgerald to fulfill both sides of the story.
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead had previously worked on Final Destination 3 also released in 2006 with Crystal Lowe who plays Lauren in this film. Kristen Cloke, who plays Leigh Colvin, portrayed Valerie Lewton in the first Final Destination film.
  • Heather receives a glass unicorn statue from Eve identical to the one used to kill Barb in the original film.
  • She is the only sorority sister to never face Agnes.
  • A deleted scene that was posted on Youtube showed Heather Trying to start the car, But then she senses that somethings not right, She turns her head to see Billy Lenz holding his knife. She screams in horror as Billy brings down the knife that she manages to dodge in time. She then pleads for Barbara MacHenry to open the door but she can't hear her because she's busy wiping the snow off the windscreen, Billy then stabs Heather a bunch a times and eventually stabs the knife into her back Before stabbing her again as she screams. Barbara hears Heather screaming and gets confused, After a bunch of stabs, Heather is out of breath and Billy finishes her off by stabbing her hard causing Heather to let out her last scream and squirt blood all over the windscreen. Barbara backs away as Billy gets out of the car and walks towards her as she whimpers in fear, Billy then pulls out an icicle as Barbara screams bloody murder before Billy stabs her with the icicle offscreen.
  • Heather, along with Megan Helms, and Dana Mathis appear to have no clear parallel to any character from the original film, although Heather might be loosely based on Clare Harrison because both are very high strung and disapprove of the way the sorority girls handle the calls
  • She’s the only sorority sister who got killed by Billy Lenz the rest of the sorority sisters who were killed got killed by Agnes

Quotes[]

  • "At least my family wants me to come home." To Lauren
  • "What are you doing? [Mrs. Mac grabs an ice scraper] What is that thing?"
  • "You really shouldn't provoke someone like that." To Lauren
  • "Mrs. Mac why don't you open the present we got you?"
  • "Okay, I... I drew that name. [Everyone turns to her] But can i say, I'm sorry, I'm just? I'm really not okay with this, Ieam, buying a Christmas present for a serial killer?"
  • "Oh, whatever, Melissa, Okay? I'm just offended by a pagan sacrifice, to ward off evil spirits on Christmas."
  • "Eve's car! She never left?"
  • "What she doing? Sleeping in her car? It's like zero degrees out here. "
  • "We'll just go over to the ADG house and get help."
  • "All right, then get your coats! [Calling Melissa] Mel, come on, we're leaving! Let's go!"
  • "LET ME OUT!!! LET ME OUT!!" To Barbara MacHenry (Deleted Scene, Also her last words)
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