Saw ll

***Saw II*** is a horror film written and is the second film in the *Saw* franchise.

## Plot

Following the ending of **Saw**, Dr. **Lawrence Gordon** is crawling through a hallway after sawing off his foot and escaping the bathroom. Along the way, he comes across a steaming pipe and uses it to cauterize his stump and stop the bleeding, causing him to lose consciousness due to the pain, unaware **John Kramer** was approaching the now unconscious Lawrence. Leaving Lawrence's fate ambiguous.

A few months later, **Michael Marks**, a police informant, wakes up with a spike-filled mask locked around his neck. A videotape informs him that he has one minute to retrieve a key hidden behind his right eye. Michael, however, cannot bring himself to withstand the pain of cutting out the key with a scalpel and is killed when the mask closes on his head. When Michael's corpse is found shortly afterward, his employer, Detective **Eric Matthews**, is called to the crime scene by Detective **Allison Kerry**. The latter discovered a message left for him by the Jigsaw Killer.

Initially reluctant to become involved in the investigation, Eric quickly manages to locate Jigsaw's hideout at the abandoned Wilson Steel Plant and therefore decides to join Kerry and Sergeant **Daniel Rigg** as they raid the plant with a SWAT team. They find the killer, John Kramer, severely weakened by his cancer disease. However, as the officers are about to arrest him, John reveals that he has already planned his apprehension and shows them a set of surveillance monitors. On these monitors, Eric and the others witness eight people, including **Daniel Matthews**, Eric's son, and **Amanda Young**, the only known survivor of one of John's games, who are all trapped inside a big house. While trapped there, they breathe in a deadly nerve agent and have two hours to find syringes with the antidote hidden all around the house. John assures Eric that he will see his son again in a "safe and secure state" if he agrees to talk with him alone until the two hours are over. Pressured by Kerry, Eric reluctantly agrees to John's ultimatum to buy time for a tech team to arrive and track the signal from the video feed.

The eight victims in the house - Daniel, Amanda, **Xavier Chavez**, **Jonas Singer**, **Addison Corday**, **Laura Hunter**, **Obi Tate**, and **Gus Colyard** - find an audiotape left by Jigsaw, informing them about the nerve gas and the antidotes. One antidote is locked in a safe. According to Jigsaw's message, the combination required to open it is "in the back of their minds," while the correct order of the numbers is found "over the rainbow." Besides the tape, the prisoners also find a key and a warning message, which tells them not to use the key to open the room's door. However, Xavier refuses to heed the warning and uses the key, causing Gus to be shot by a booby trap connected to the lock.

Following his death, the group makes their way to the basement, where another tape reveals that Obi helped Jigsaw abduct the others. Pressured by Xavier, Obi crawls into a furnace to retrieve two antidotes but inadvertently activates the oven and is burned alive. As the remaining prisoners search the rest of the house, Jonas leads them to another room upstairs. Another tape tells them that one antidote is hidden behind a steel door, and the key to open it lies in a pit filled with thousands of used syringes. This test is meant for Xavier, who is a drug dealer. However, he throws Amanda into the needles instead of accomplishing his task on his own. Although she manages to obtain the key, Xavier fails to unlock the door in time and subsequently abandons the group out of frustration.

Meanwhile, John passes the two hours with an idle and cryptic conversation with an increasingly frustrated Eric. He eventually talks about his cancer diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt, which led to his new esteem for his life. In his remaining time of life, John hopes to inspire the same appreciation in others by testing their will to survive. As he explains his moral ideals to Eric, the tech team finally arrives. At Kerry's suggestion, Eric tries to provoke John by destroying several documents, blueprints, and sketches around the area. John, however, is barely impressed and reveals that all of the victims in the house, except for Daniel, have all been innocently framed by Eric for various crimes they did not commit. Furthermore, he warns him that Daniel's life will be endangered once the other prisoners learn about his connection to Eric.

In the house, Xavier returns to the first room where they initially woke up and discovers a colored number on the back of Gus' neck. He realizes that every prisoner has one number of the safe's combination written on their neck. Desperate to get his hands on the antidote, he kills Jonas in a fight and begins to hunt down the others. Meanwhile, Laura collapses and eventually succumbs to the nerve agent. Additionally, Amanda and Addison abandon Daniel after finding a photo of him and Eric. Amanda, however, returns after finding Jonas' corpse. As they try to find a place to hide from Xavier, Addison discovers a room with another antidote locked inside a glass box. However, as she puts her hands through two holes in the box to grab it, her arms are trapped in the razor blade-lined sockets. Moments later, Xavier finds her but leaves her to die after reading her number.

Amanda and Daniel return to the first room and find a hidden tunnel, which leads them to the dilapidated bathroom from the first film, which still contains the severed foot of Dr. Lawrence Gordon and the decomposing bodies of **Adam Stanheight** and **Zep Hindle**. Weakened by the gas, Daniel passes out moments before Xavier finds them. Amanda points out that he cannot read his number without her help, hoping to prevent Xavier from harming them. However, Xavier refuses her help and instead cuts off the skin from his neck. After that, he approaches them to get their numbers but is caught off-guard by Daniel, who attacks him and slashes his throat with a hacksaw.

At the Wilson Steel Plant, Eric brutally assaults John after witnessing Xavier's pursuit of Daniel and forces him to take him to the house. John agrees to do so but demands to go there alone with Eric. The latter agrees, and both men leave the building in a hidden elevator. At the same time, the tech team traces the video feed to another house. However, as Rigg and his men arrive, they realize they had merely watched a recording of the game the entire time, while the game itself had already been over before they raided Jigsaw's hideout. Just as they realize Jigsaw's deception, the time expires, and a large safe opens at the Wilson Steel Plant, revealing Daniel, who has been trapped inside the safe the entire time.

Unaware of this revelation, Eric arrives at the actual location of the game and enters the house alone. He eventually finds the bathroom but is attacked and subdued by a pig-masked figure. He finds himself shackled by the ankle to a pipe upon waking up. An audiotape beside him reveals that Amanda Young became John's accomplice after surviving her game and merely pretended to be a victim in the house to observe the other prisoners. Furthermore, the tape tells him that Amanda will continue John's work after his death and that he is supposed to be Amanda's first test subject. As the recording ends, Amanda appears outside the bathroom and seals the door with the words "Game Over," leaving Eric to die. John still in the vehicle Eric had left him in, weakly smiles as he hears Eric's yells before succumbing to his wounds caused by Eric.