Sara Palski

Sara Jennifer Palski is a main character and one of the main protagonists of Shark Night, alongside Nick LaDuca. 
She was portrayed by Sara Paxton. 
==Shark Night 3D==
===First appearance===
Sara first appears when she is at the school's gym working out on a treadmill. When she notices she is late, she leaves to go get ready to go to her family's lake house with her friends near the Louisiana bayou on the Lake Pontchartrain causeway for spring break. Meanwhile Sara's friend Maya calls their other friend Beth and asks her if she's ready, Beth who is at a tattoo parlor getting a new piece says yes. While Gordon and Nick (who has a crush on Sara) are in the backseat of Sara's SUV she asks them if there's room for one more, they say yes thinking she will ride along with them but she calls her dog Sherman to ride in the back with them instead. The seven friends (Sara, Nick, Malik, Maya, Beth, Gordon, and Blake) get into Sara's SUV and drive towards their destination.
After what seems a day of driving, the group wind up at a local bait shop/convenience store. Sara warns the group there is no hard line and cell phones won't work at the house that they should make their calls now. Sara and Beth go into the bathroom. Beth mentions how cute Nick is and this would be a perfect time to "take his innocence". Sara scoffs at that, and mentions she thought Beth was after Blake. Beth denies it saying he sprays tans everywhere, including his genitals. When they had sex she had tanning marks all down over her body. It's clear that Beth knows Nick likes Sara and she is teasing her about it, being aware that Sara similarly reciprocates Nick's feelings.
Outside Malik and Maya have an altercation with Dennis and Red and when Sara comes out she recognizes Dennis as her ex boyfriend from three years ago. Sara and Dennis have an awkward reunion with Sara saying it was nice to see him again. The group get back into the SUV.
They head to the docks on Sara's boat (the house is on an island). Nick unsuccessfully tries to talk to Sara and soon they see a police boat behind them. The group is worried, but Sara guns the engine and drives to the house. Sheriff Sabin comes up and Sara remarks he lost again (they used to race their boats when she regularly used the house). Sabin notes she hasn't been up here in three years. Sabin tells her he'll be up tomorrow and for the kids to have fun and be safe. 
The group soon arrives at Sara's family's lake house and proceed to make themselves at home.
===First Shark Attack===
Later while Sara is sunbathing, Nick, Maya, Blake, and Malik takes Sara's boat out to go do some wake boarding, while Sara is playing fetch with Sherman. Before they go wakeboarding, Nick asks Malik if Sara is seeing anyone, and Malik tells Nick that Sarah, in the three years he has known her, never dated someone or went to a party, with the only one she was ever close to was Sherman. Soon Malik is attacked by a shark and is knocked off his board. He remerges from the water approaching and calling to a sunbathing Sara who immediately becomes shocked and horrified at seeing that he is missing an arm. Malik reaches out to her for help before he collapses to the ground from shock and blood loss. 
Nick, Blake, and Maya return to the house in shock as Sara calls Gordon and Beth for help. Blake thinks Nick ran Malik over, but Nick denies it. Sara runs back to her house to find a first aid kit. When Sara returns with the kit, she manages to prevent the argument over Malik's missing arm from escalating into a fight, and manages to calm a panicked Nick over getting Malik's severed arm into a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, while Sara removes Malik's life jacket. Nick runs and jumps into the water to go find Malik's arm (the idea being, him being a medical student, he would know that a limb has a limited amount of time before it cannot be reattached). Waiting for Nick at the dock, Sara notices a shark chasing him and screams in horror, calling out to Nick to hurry. Nick manages to escape, with the shark hitting the dock and knocking the ladder off it, with the impact causing Nick to fall on top of Sara, before the two recover and look at the departing fin in utter terror.
The gang is shocked about sharks being in the water though Nick states that since Lake Pontchartrain is a saltwater lake, sharks could plausibly live in it. But they have bigger problems. Malik is bleeding out and Nick decides to take the boat with Sara driving in order to get Malik to a hospital and hopefully reattach the arm. Malik will be with them and his severed arm is in a cooler with ice in order to keep it viable. They have two hours before the arm cannot be reattached or saved, and with the nearest hospital being two hours away, saving his arm will be very close. Nick orders Gordon and Blake out of the boat to give the boat additional speed, but Maya goes with them, swearing she will not leave Malik who is her fiancé.
===Second Shark Attack===
As Maya holds the bleeding Malik in her arms the group doesn't realize he is dripping his blood into the water through the drainer, which attracts the attention of another shark. The shark attacks the boat as it turns and Maya is thrown overboard. She calls for help as Nick tells her to swim and throw's her a floatation ring just as he sees the shark approaching her. Sara guns the engine to try and outrun it but it is no use. Maya is soon grabbed by the shark and is devoured as she disappears under the water. Having no choice Sara continues steering, only for the shark to keep attacking the boat which causes the throttle to stick and the steering go bad. Sara loses control of the boat and she and Nick grab Malik and the cooler and jump off, just as the boat crashes into the pier nearby at Sara's home and explodes. Returning to the house, the group gets Malik onto the bed, in a desperate hope to try to stabilize and keep him from losing anymore blood, since the fact that they cannot cross the water safely means that there is no hope of getting his arm reattached. Beth, having learned about Maya's death, enters a meltdown and starts screaming about they never should have come here. Despite Sara's attempt to reassure her, Beth enters a further meltdown and threatens to take legal action against Sara, until Sara administers a dose of Zanaxx that finally manages to calm Beth down. That night, as Nick completely wraps Malik's stump into a full tourniquet with the hope of keeping him from bleeding out, Sara enter the room, where she tells Nick about Beth's legal threat. After looking at Malik, Sara wiped the blood off of Nick's hands, to his gratitude, but the moment is interrupted by the sounds of gunshots. It turned out to be Blake firing at Dennis and Red, and after preventing a fight between the two, Crim and Red learn about the sharks, Maya's death, and Malik's condition. Red noted the severity of the injury and suggested a nearby hospital, but Dennis noted that it was not possible for the hospital to deal with an amputated limb. Crim suggested Saint Francis Hospital, but Nick declared that with the missing limb and the shock, Malik was still in critical condition and they could not move him from the bed at all to ensure he did not lose anymore blood. Crim decided that he and Red along with some of the group would go down to the Marina, get a cell phone signal and alert the authorities to the sharks and Malik's condition. If they were lucky, they could get a helicopter to the area in just an hour, and Malik could possibly be saved, albeit with the loss of an arm. When Crim asked who would come with them, Beth volunteered immediately. Blake attempted to argue, but Beth stated that she would not stay on the island any longer, and would get her things to leave. Gordon went along with them, and despite Nick urging him to reconsider, Gordon pointed out Beth's emotional state and that he did not trust either Crim or Red. When Nick warned the two about how the sharks had destroyed Sara's boat, Red revealed a device that would paralyze any shark that approached their boat, and Crim noted they should not have to worry. Red then punctures a scuba tank, in order to use it to scare off any sharks that don't get paralyzed. As the two leave, Sara thanks Dennis, who noted that she owed him, but Dennis replied that they were good.
Sara later finds Nick sitting down at the stone circle in her yard, clearly haunted by everything that has happened, and especially haunted by Maya's death, admitting that he could not get the image of her being pulled under and devoured out of his head. Nick tells Sara that he never should have let Maya on the boat when they tried to save Malik's arm. Sara told Nick that nothing could have convinced Maya to leave the boat. When Nick states that he could have gone after Maya after she fell overboard, Sara tells Nick that playing the blame game would never end if he decided to play it, and even if it did, it would not be worth the torment he would endure as a result. Nick asks her why she never returned to her vacation home in three years. Sara reveals that Dennis had been her teacher, when she was learning how to dive. Recalling how she had fallen in love with him, Sara states that they had dated for two summers. However, when she decided to leave to go to college, Dennis could not accept leaving the lake, and as a result, Sara ended the relationship. On their last day together, when diving with him for a few minutes, her diving equipment began malfunctioning, and Sara began to drown. When she reached out for Crim to share his air, Crim moved away and did nothing to help her. A disgusted Nick realized that it was because of the bad relationship with Crim that Sara never came back, and that memories of the bad relationship were why Sara had such a small social life. Sara then stated that after she made it to the surface, when she went to activate their skiff's engine in order to leave, Crim had been directly under the propeller, meaning it was her that was responsible for Crim's horrible scars. Nick told Sara that what she did was an accident, but Sara states that after she rushed Crim to the hospital to save him from such severe injuries, which led to him losing his job as a diving instructor due to having an inappropriate relationship with a student, Sara left the lake and never deigned to come back, clearly realizing how horrible the relationship between the two was. Sara then told Nick that Beth was completely correct and Sara never should have considered bringing the group to the lake. Nick tries to tell her everything will be okay, but after holding his hand for a moment, Sara says she wishes she could believe Nick and went back into the house. Gordon and Beth are soon killed and devoured next after Dennis and Red feed them to sharks (bull shark for Gordon and cookie cutters for Beth).
When Malik, who had regained consciousness and was told by Blake that Maya was dead, kills a hammerhead shark in revenge for Maya's death and getting more badly injured in the process, Sara, Nick and Blake bring both the shark and the severely wounded Malik ashore, as Malik tells the group he told them he would kill it. Nick then states that two sharks went after them, and states the second he saw was a different species. When Sara asks if he was certain, Nick says it was definitely a different species look at the shark and wonders how the sharks got into the lake. Sara notes that during the hurricane season, the floodgates are opened under the highways and it is possible that the sharks might have gotten in that way due to the water from the the Gulf of Mexico entering the lake. Nick notices a camera on the dead shark's body and realizes to his horror that someone put the sharks in the lake. Malik is now far more severely injured and struggling to breathe, and a horrified Blake proceeds to tell Sara and Nick that he will take Malik back across the lake, asking Sara if her Wave Runner could make it across the lake in enough time. Sara pleads with Blake to reconsider and wait for a medevac chopper, but Blake notes that the severity of Malik's injuries means that waiting is no longer an option. Nick tells Blake that with the severity of Malik's injuries and the fact that there are multiple sharks in the water, they cannot put Malik near the water, but Blake is adamant that he will not wait for Malik to bleed to death, and asks if the two will help him. Reluctantly, Sara and Nick get the Wave Runner ready, and they get Malik into a life jacket and position him onto the Wave Runner behind Blake. Blake apologizes to Nick for yelling at him, but Nick says it does not matter now, and tells Blake to get to the other side of the lake as fast as possible, as Sara pulls Malik close and hugs him briefly. The two help Blake shove off and watch him depart, with Sara clinging to Nick as she sees her two friends depart. The two are pursued by a great white, and Malik, knowing he has lost a fatal amount of blood, deliberately drops himself into the water and lets the shark kill him. Blake almost manages to make it out of the lake and into open water, but another shark lunges at him and devours him whole, leaving the Wave Runner abandoned.
===The Truth===
Sheriff Sabin soon comes to the house, having been alerted by the fire Malik made before he went on his forlorn hope against the sharks. Not knowing anything, Sabin sees the shark and is quickly informed of the sharks, the death of Maya, Malik being likely fatally wounded, Blake taking him across the lake and Beth and Gordon having gone with Crim and Red. After being informed of the situation, Sabin radios in to tell the Fish and Game Service to immediately monitor the lake for the sharks, and to have Saint Francis Hospital to be prepared for Malik's arrival in the event he makes it there alive. Sabin proceeds to tell the two that if Blake and Malik managed to get across the lake alive, they will be found. Nick then faints, and a horrified Sara helps Sabin take Nick to the couch. Upon getting Nick to the couch, Sabin told Sara that the stress of all that had happened in the last 24 hours probably finally got to Nick and she should get a cold towel in order to wake Nick up. When she heads to the kitchen, Sara soon finds her dog Sherman unconscious with a thermos of the spilled chicken soup that Sabin had brought on the floor and spilled right next to him.
Looking at the thermos, Sara hears Sabin's radio activate, and then hears Red's voice, asking where he is. Red then proceeds to say that Sabin had missed watching Beth get torn apart by the sharks and that Sara was to be delivered to Red and Dennis. Realizing that Crim and Red were responsible for the sharks, and that all of her friends were now dead, Sara turned the radio off, and briefly stood still, realizing in horror that Sabin had made sure nobody was going to save them. Getting over her shock, and realizing that Sabin had spiked Nick's soup with a drug to knock them out to turn them over to be shark food, a livid Sara proceeded to grab a knife, preparing to stab Sabin in the back. As she raised her arm to deliver a fatal stab, Crim arrived and managed to disarm Sara, the two having caught on to Sabin not answering his radio. After Sabin mockingly noted that despite the scars she gave him, Sara and Crim would make a good couple, Sara then bit Crim on the finger and shoved Sabin away and tried to run for it. Crim quickly drew his tranquillizer gun and shot Sara, managing to hit and subdue her. While still conscious, Sabin mocked Sara for forcing them to use the tranqulizer gun and that she should have had his spiked soup. Falling unconscious, Sara was taken to Crim and Red's boat.
Waking up in a giant cage, Sara demanded to know where Nick is. Crim mockingly noted that a person who wanted to be a doctor was the person she expressed interest in, before noting Nick could at listen to her. Repeating the question, Crim told Sara that Nick was in Sabin's hands and that he would be dead soon. When Sara asked why Crim was releasing these sharks and letting them kill people, Crim asked her to repeat herself in the ear he still had since she had cut off his ear in the accident years ago. Sara was adamant that what happened was an accident, but Crim noted that she didn't drown. Crim then furiously stated that he remembered having to undergo surgery to repair the face she had accidentally slashed apart, grabbing Sara. At this point, Sherman, who Red had brought onboard began to bark at Crim. Letting Sara go, Crim angrily berated Red for bringing Sherman onboard. Red argued with Crim about keeping Sherman, but Dennis wanted Sherman gone. Red complied, and threw Sherman into the water to be devoured by the sharks. A horrified Sara called out to her dog and furiously called Crim and Red bastards for condemning her dog to death. Crim then grabbed Sara and held a knife close to Sara's face, toying with Sara about whether or not he would scar her face in retaliation.
===The Final Confrontation===
As dawn approaches, Sara tries to plead with Dennis, reiterating that what happened three years ago was an accident. She was so traumatized by this she hasn't been able to be close to another guy in years. She came home in part to make right with him, to apologize for what went wrong. Sara tells him she did love him and they seem to have a moment where he will reconsider sparing her. However, she was using it as a distraction to grab his gun. Dennis raised his arms in surprise and attempted to make an excuse, but a furious Sara made it clear she was not interested in excuses and demanded that she be let out. Unfortunately, Sara's shaking causes her to lose her grip on the gun, and Dennis takes advantage of the gun not being on him to disarm her. Furious at being deceived, Dennis tells Carl, the bait shop owner who is providing them with the sharks, to release an eight foot great white shark to feed on Sara. Nick soon comes to and manages to escape Sabin, setting him on fire, and causing Sabin to fall into his own shark pool and get devoured by the tiger sharks that were going to devour Nick. Leaving the shack Sabin had him imprisoned in and seeing Crim and Red's boat in the distance, Nick swims to Dennis's boat to rescue Sara.
After Sara is submerged partway through the water at dawn, she pleads with Crim not to do this as Red cuts up fish in order to create a bait for the great white shark on its way. Sitting down and briefly looking at Sara, Crim notes they had some good times together, before standing up. As he grabbed a bucket full of fish blood and cuts, Sara asked Crim what he was doing, and Crim stated that he was going to do the exact same thing he did to Beth, before throwing the blood and guts over Sara. Covered in the blood, Sara is then briefly submerged, in order for the blood to attract the shark. As Crim prepares to fully submerge her, Sara proceeds to plead with Crim to let her out of the cage. Nick then reveals himself, demanding that Sara be brought up. Nick had managed to grab the tranquilizer gun and was holding Red hostage, demanding that Sara be brought out of the water as Sara called his name. Red tells Crim to listen to them and let Sara free in order to save his life. Dennis pretends to comply but instead grabs a knife and tells Sara that Nick is here to save her before throwing a knife into Red's chest, killing him and causing his body to fall into the lake. Taking advantage of the distraction, Crim and Nick fight, and Crim mocks Nick by telling him that the weapon was a tranquillizer gun and not a real firearm Nick and Dennis scuffle and Nick knocks him off the boat. Nick tries to pull the cage up to Sara relief, but Dennis climbs on top of the cage and detaches it, submerging it and Sara and forcing Nick to dive into the water after grabbing a harpoon.
In the water, Nick tries to shake the cage open, but it won't budge. Sara begins losing consciousness from lack of air so Nick kisses her for oxygen. Dennis grabs Nick from behind, causing him to lose the harpoon and Crim begins to strangle Nick as the great white shark begins to approach. Sara then grabs Crim's head and bangs it into the cage, drawing blood and making Crim let go of Nick. Dennis gets his leg caught in the cage as the Great white shark gets closer. Realizing that Sara had ensured his leg would get caught in the cage, Crim looks at Sara, who flips him off and mouths "**** you!" at him, before Crim sees the shark about to devour him. Sara moves to the back of the cage and looks utterly apathetic as the shark devours and kills Crim.
As the shark begins to advance on Sara, Nick gets to the surface to breathe, where Sherman, who had not been killed by the sharks after all, had recovered the spear and brought it to Nick. As the shark bashes its way into the cage, Nick uses the spear to kill it. Having been violently thrown around and submerged, Sara lost consciousness due to the lack of air. Bringing her to the surface, Nick and Sherman then drag Sara back to the boat. Nick soon realizes that Sara is not breathing and uses CPR to revive her. She thanks him for saving her and finally realizing there really is someone she can love, she kisses Nick out of gratitude, agreeing that she can be with him. As the camera pulls back from a distance in the lake and the films ends, a great white shark jumps towards the camera signifying that sharks are still in the lake right before the credits roll.
==Trivia==
*Sara is described in the script as "a gorgeous brunette... emotionless face staring straight ahead -- focused green eyes... This is SARA PALSKI (21)."
* After the movie is over, Sara, Nick and Sherman attend Beth's funeral. Many of Beth's family members also attend there because they are the lucky ones since Beth was not swallowed whole, but just bitten and ripped apart by the cookie cutter sharks.
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