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Saw III is a horror film and is the third film in the Saw franchise.

## Plot:

Following the ending of **Saw II**, Detective **Eric Matthews** is trapped in the dilapidated bathroom after being chained to a pipe by **Amanda Young**. However, he eventually frees himself from his shackle by breaking his foot with a toilet tank lid.

Despite his injuries, Eric took the flashlight and **Xavier**'s knife with him and reached the door, which was unlocked. As he stumbled through the tunnels and shouted for his **son**, he found a metal rod that he used as a crutch. While looking for the way out, he soon realized that he wasn't alone, as Amanda had not left the tunnels yet. Surprised by his quick escape, Amanda started to panic as he came closer to her and hid behind some pipes.

When she thought that the coast was clear, she carefully left her hiding spot but was beaten down with the metal rod by Eric when she turned a corner. Stunned by the blow, she tried to crawl away and fight off Eric, who bit the back of her knee and smashed her head against the wall several times while demanding to know where his son was. When Amanda refused to answer and instead spat blood in his face, Eric pulled out the knife he had taken from Xavier's corpse and threatened her. However, she embraced her opportunity and brutally kicked his broken foot.

Overwhelmed by the pain, he fell to the floor, giving Amanda the chance to leave. As she was weaving towards the exit, Eric shouted after her, insulting her and telling her she was nothing compared to Jigsaw. These insults caused Amanda to stop for a moment before she reluctantly left the house, unable to fulfil her revenge and kill Eric due to her severely injuries as Eric passes out from his severe injuries towards his leg. As Amanda leaves, she swears to herself to return to exact revenge against Eric.

Six months later, following both Eric Mathew and **John Kramer**'s disappearance, Lieutenant **Daniel Rigg** and detectives **Allison Kerry** and **Mark Hoffman** find another victim of the Jigsaw Killer in a trap set up at an elementary school. The victim, Troy, had to rip out several chains pierced through various parts of his body to escape a nail bomb. However, the trap was inescapable as the exit door was welded shut, leading Kerry to assume that someone other than John Kramer was responsible for Troy's death.

Meanwhile, at a mausoleum, two men named **Trevor** and **Art Blank** are chained by their necks to a winch-like device in the middle of the room. Trevor's eyes and Art's mouth have been sewn shut, making communication nearly impossible. Unable to see anything, Trevor accidentally activates the device. While the contraption slowly pulls them toward each other, Trevor attacks Art in a panic but is ultimately killed in self-defense. Art retrieves a key attached to Trevor's chain and uses it to free himself. As he begins to scream, he rips his mouth open.

A week later, a SWAT team led by Officer Daniel Rigg and Detectives Allison Kerry and Mark Hoffman raided an underground area, where Rigg believed the corpse was Eric Mathew's corpse and Rigg recklessly barges in the doors, believing he spotted Eric Mathews trapped, but... instead to Rigg's surprise, he founds the beaten and worn rotten corpse of John Kramer instead. After securing the crime scene, Rigg was reprimanded by both Kerry and Hoffman, and Rigg admits to his depression and determination/obsession over trying to find Eric Mathews, in which Kerry sympathizes. Hoffman however, has Rigg sent home where, after an intense argument with his violent estranged wife **Tracy Rigg**, which results Tracy leaving the apartment, Rigg is attacked and subdued by Amanda Young in her pig costume.

After waking up again, an altered videotape by (Amanda as) Jigsaw informs him that Eric is, in fact, still alive and has 90 minutes left to save himself. The survival of Detective Hoffman, who was also abducted, is connected to Eric's fate. However, Jigsaw warns Rigg that their survival depends on his obsession with saving them.

As Rigg explored his now destroyed apartment, Rigg finds his wife Tracy chained to a mechanical chair in his living room. Although another tape urges him to go away and leave her behind, Rigg tries to save her nonetheless and thereby accidentally activates the chair. The contraption subsequently begins to tear off her scalp. Eventually, Rigg manages to free her. However, Tracy suddenly attacks him with a knife hidden underneath the TV. After killing her in self-defense, Rigg finds a tape recorder, which had told Tracy, who worked as a pimp, to kill Rigg as he would arrest her for her crimes if she refused to do so. Rigg cries at the death of his own wife and is heartbroken at how his now late estranged wife didn't even hesitate to kill him, unaware his wife was put on a high dosage of cocaine...

After a while Rigg leaves the scene to find his second test, Kerry arrives to Rigg's apartment, to check up on him. When Kerry enters the apartment, Kerry gasps when she finds Tracy's corpse and several photos on the wall. While most of them show the victims of Rigg's game, including Eric, Hoffman, and Tracy. Kerry calls for backup and immediately demands to trace Rigg's phone.

Meanwhile, Rigg arrives at the Alexander Motel to face his second test. He finds another audio message in one of the rooms, telling him to abduct the motel proprietor, **Ivan Landsness**. Ivan, whom Rigg encountered upon entering the motel, is a violent serial rapist who repeatedly escaped justice. Angered by seeing videos and photos of Ivan's crimes, Rigg forces him into a prearranged trap. Ivan has to either gouge his eyes out within 60 seconds or be dismembered by the contraption. As he can only bring himself to sacrifice one of his eyes, his limbs are ripped off his body.

Rigg leaves the motel after finding the next clue, which leads him to an elementary school where Rigg had once attacked a man named **Rex**, whom he suspected of physically abusing his daughter, **Jane**. As he arrives at the school, he finds Rex and his wife, **Morgan**, in one of the classrooms, chained back to back and impaled by several metal spikes. When Rigg finds them, Rex has already succumbed to his wounds because the skewers had pierced his major arteries while only inflicting non-lethal wounds on Morgan. Before Rigg's arrival, Morgan had been given a choice to die of blood loss or remove the spikes, which eventually resulted in her abusive husband's death. Upon investigating the classroom, Rigg finds a clue to Eric Matthews' and Mark Hoffman's location and a message that tells him to go home. Therefore, Rigg sets off the fire alert to ensure that Morgan is found while he leaves the school to go to the location of his final test.

Shortly afterward, the police, alongside Kerry, arrive at the school in time to save Morgan. They discover that Tracy, Ivan, and Rex had committed various crimes but were successfully defended by the same lawyer, Art Blank. As they further investigate the school, they find a mechanical ventriloquist puppet in the principal's office. Another audio tape tells Kerry that her partner Rigg "will soon take the life of an innocent man" and warns her that her "next move is critical." Ignoring the warning out of pure desperation, she takes a closer look at the puppet, where a name "Gideon" is revealed. Moments later, the doll's face explodes, severely injuring her face and neck with shrapnel. Kerry collapses, and in her final moments, realizes where Rigg's final test is due to realizing Gideon, had the same name as John's first building as a civil engineer, the Gideon Meatpacking Plant, and concludes that this was the place of Rigg's final test and weakly but quickly tells the current other officers as she succumbs to her wounds.

Meanwhile, Rigg arrives at the abandoned plant and finally reaches the room where Eric and Hoffman are trapped alongside Art Blank. Both detectives are at the opposite ends of a giant seesaw. Eric stands on a melting ice block with a chain noose around his neck while Hoffman is strapped to an electric chair. If Eric jumps off the ice block or too much of it melts away, the water will flow to Hoffman's side and cause the chair to electrocute him. Art Blank has one of Jigsaw's devices strapped to his back and is forced to oversee the game until the 90-minute-timer for Rigg's game expires. Afterward, he can press a button and release all three of them. However, if the entrance door is opened before the time runs out, Eric's head will be crushed by two large ice blocks.

As they see Rigg through the door's window, Eric frantically tells him not to open it. To prevent him from entering, he shoots him with a gun Art gave him earlier, all the while unaware it's Rigg. Even though he is shot in the chest, Rigg breaks through the door and witnesses Eric's death. Believing that Art is responsible for the game, Rigg shoots him in the head when the latter reaches for his bag. However, Art merely grabbed a tape recorder with a final message for Rigg. The tape tells him that he had failed his test as it was not his task to save Eric but to let him save himself. Just as Rigg realizes his mistake, Hoffman frees himself from the electric chair and reveals himself as Amanda/Jigsaw's very own accomplice. He ends the game and leaves the room while Rigg lies on the floor and succumbs to his gunshot wound as Amanda smirks and watches it all on a feed.