Jigsaw

### Appearances

Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Jigsaw, Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh and Blood, Saw: Rebirth, Saw: Full Disclosure Report

### Cause of Death

Throat slashed with a circular saw by Jeff Denlon

### Occupation

Civil Engineer (Former)Toymaker (Former)

Serial Killer

### Family

Jill Tuck (Ex-Wife)Gideon Kramer (Son)

Unnamed Nephew

### Portrayed By

Tobin Bell George Williams

**John Kramer,**known as the **Jigsaw Killer**or simply **Jigsaw,**is the main antagonist of the Saw franchise. He is a former civil engineer dying from an inoperable frontal lobe tumor that had developed from colon cancer. So, John decided to dedicate the rest of his life to inspiring the appreciation of lives in others. His methods include forcing his victims through deadly scenarios which is referred to as "games" and "tests", in which they were forced to inflict pain upon themselves or others in order to escape. These tests were typically symbolic of what Jigsaw perceived as a flaw in each person's moral character or life.

## History

### Final Preparations

When Amanda came out of the house with severe injuries, John knew that something went wrong and told Hoffman to look for Eric without Amanda's knowledge. John and Amanda then went into hiding, as their identity was now revealed to the police. Due to his worsening health, which eventually resulted in a right-sided hemiplegia, John became weak and bedridden and was more and more forced to rely on his apprentices, including Amanda, even though he knew of her unstable state of mind. Knowing that he was going to die sooner or later, he began to plan his final games. He targeted many new victims and prepared their games with the help of his accomplices, while he himself stayed at his hideout in his first building, the Gideon Meatpacking Plant.

About two weeks before the final game began, John ordered one of his assets to abduct his former lawyer and partner, Art Blank, and a man named Trevor. It was Dr. Lawrence Gordon who arranged their game by sewing Art's mouth and Trevor's eyes shut and forcing them to play another one of John's games in a mausoleum. After killing Trevor and escaping his trap, Art was forced to prepare a series of games which involved the FBI special agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez, Officer Daniel Rigg and Detective Eric Matthews, as well as three other clients defended by him.

Four days before the final game, John ordered Amanda to test two more victims, Troy, a patient at Jill's clinic, and Detective Allison Kerry. However, he learned that Amanda gave them no chance to win their games, intentionally killing them in the process. This caused him to realize that Amanda, whom he had originally planned to continue his work after his death, was too dangerous and therefore decided to test her once more. John targeted another victim, Jeff Denlon, a man who lived for his thirst for revenge, after his son died in a car crash caused by a drunk driver three years ago. John also incorporated his wife, the renowned surgeon, Lynn Denlon, in the game as she was suggested to him by Lawrence.

On the day of the last games, Amanda was leading John into his room, when they came across Hoffman, who prepared another trap called the Rack by John. When John saw that Hoffman switched the trap's gear ratio, he told them he'd have to change the gear grease to match the increased friction and berated him for making these changes without asking him first, stating that he would do so next time. When Hoffman asked him how many next times there will going to be, John merely answered that their work would go on as long as necessary.

### Death

After Amanda's death, Jeff pointed his gun at John and the latter berated him for not having learned anything from his test, stating that his thirst for vengeance would only harm his loved ones. Furthermore, he told him that he couldn't kill him. Despite this, Jeff eventually pulled the trigger, but didn't have any bullets left. John then told him that Lynn was about to die and when Jeff comforted her and promised to bring her home, she uttered that she loved him. John then warned him that she would die if she tried to bring her way and offered to call an ambulance. Jeff eventually agreed and asked John what he wanted in exchange for his help. John demanded one final test from him to see if he has overcome his obsession with revenge. Jeff could either kill him with the tools lying on the table in the room or he could forgive John for all the pain he had caused him and his wife, proving that he had learned from his previous tests. Despite Lynn begging him to stay at her side, Jeff stated he forgives John however only seconds later, he raised a circular saw and despite Lynn yelling at him to stop, he eventually slashed John's throat while claiming again that he had forgiven him. Seconds later, the collar around Lynn's neck activated.

With the last of his strength, John took out and started a tape recorder, which explained to Jeff that John had been his final test of forgiveness. Furthermore, he finally explained what he meant when he told Jeff that he couldn't kill him, stating that he had also abducted his and Lynn's daughter, Corbett, and was the only person who knew about her whereabouts. If Jeff wanted to see her again, he had to play another game. When the message ended, John succumbed to his wounds, activating Lynn's collar in the process, which killed her by blowing off her head.

### Post-Mortem

Just moments after his death, Peter Strahm entered the room and was threatened by Jeff, who demanded him where his daughter was, causing Strahm to shoot and kill him in self-defense. Moments later, he was trapped in the room by Mark Hoffman, who locked the door behind him and turned the lights off. When Strahm found the hidden door out of the room, he received an audio tape from John, who told him to stay where he was until the police arrived. However, Strahm refused to do so, and entered the secret hallway behind the door, leaving the corpses of John, Amanda, Jeff and Lynn behind him. Shortly afterwards, the police finally arrived and took the corpses to the morgue.

After the events at the Gideon Meatpacking Plant, Dr. Adam Heffner conducted an autopsy on John's corpse. Upon further examination of his stomach, he discovered a wax-coated tape that John had swallowed after his brain surgery and called Hoffman. When the latter arrived and listened to the tape, it was revealed that it was actually a message for him, claiming that the games have just begun, and that he would not get away untested. The threat soon turned out to be true, as Hoffman continued to play John's games, just as the latter told him to do before his death. Due to the new games and the increasing casualty figures, John remained the central figure of the Jigsaw story in the news reports, even after his death.

## Personality

John Kramer was a hard-working man devoted to both his wife and his unborn son, but also to his work, which was dedicated to help those who were disadvantaged by society. He had strong convictions and even before his tranformation into Jigsaw, he believed that only the knowledge of impending death could show if a human was actually willing to fight for his life and survive. Additionally, he had a genius level intellect as well as a great knowledge of facts on diverse fields but he was also somehow spiritual and interested in esoterics such as Chinese astrology.

However after his son died and he was diagnosed with cancer, John became depressed and turned away from his wife. Eventually, he tried to commit suicide but survived and this incident caused him to realize that he actually wanted to live, and therefore, he decided to spend the rest of his life teaching other people the appreciation of their lives and the lives of the people around them.

When he became Jigsaw, he began to test peoples' will to survive by putting them in horrible, potentially deadly traps. Despite the immense brutality of his games, John took no pleasure from the suffering of his victims but believed that it was necessary to make them cherish their lives. Throughout his murder series, he always tried to keep an emotional distance between him and his work and did not allow his own feelings affect his mission. John never doubted that his mission was necessary and that it was the right thing to do. He also saw it as a way of bringing justice to his victims for the things they did to themselves and others.

## Abilities

John Kramer is a very intelligent man who has a degree in civil engineering and is very skilled with mechanics. Using his skills, he is able to build elaborate traps, often from very basic materials and he is also very convincing and manipulative, able to convince different people to help him with his work. He is also able to form long and complicated plans, with backup plans for every one, even if these plans aren't going to come to fruition for years.

## Victims

* **Cecil Adams:**A drug addict and a petty thief tested for causing the miscarriage of John Kramer and Jill Tuck's unborn son, Gideon. He was abducted by John at a Chinese street festival with a pig mask filled with chloroform and then placed in the Knife Chair, where he had to push his face into a set of kitchen knives to break the chair or he will bleed out from his bladed restraints. He managed to severely cut his face and escape the trap, however tried to attack John and accidentally fell in a box full of razor wire, cutting him severely and causing him to die from blood loss.
* **Logan Nelson:**Tested for mislabeling John Kramer's X-Rays and delaying his diagnosis of an inoperable brain tumor. He was kidnapped and placed in a trial along with four other people, however during the initial Bucket Head trap, Logan failed to wake up until the others freed themselves due to a drug overdose and was cut by the blades. However, John saved Logan from the trap, deciding he should not have to die over his innocent mistake and mended his wounds, and Logan became John's first secret apprentice.
* **Anna:**Tested for smothering her child out of range and then framed her husband for the crime. She was kidnapped and placed in a trial along with four other people and attempted to cheat and escape the farm by slipping through a doorway however John caught and captured her. She was chained up in a room with Ryan and John places a loaded shotgun between them, explaining they got his message "backwards" and claims the shotgun is the "key" to their survival. Anna misinterprets John's message and tries to shoot Ryan only for the rigged shotgun to backfire, killing Anna.
* **Ryan:**Tested for being responsible for the death of three people in their adolescence. He was kidnapped and placed in a trial along with four other people and attempted to go through a door named "No Exit" to escape the farm but his leg was trapped in razor wires and he pulled a lever to "free" him, instantly severing his leg. Ryan is then captured by John again and chained up in a room with Anna and John places a loaded shotgun between them, explaining they got his message "backwards" and claims the shotgun is the "key" to their survival. Anna misinterprets John's message and tries to shoot Ryan, but the rigged shotgun backfires and kills her. The keys to their chains were hidden inside of the gun and was destroyed when Anna pulled the trigger, so Ryan fails to escape and dies of blood loss.
* **Mitch:**Tested for selling a defective motorcycle to John's nephew, which resulted in his death after colliding with a truck. He was kidnapped and placed in a trial along with four other people and was eventually dragged upside down into the Cycle Trap after pressing a tape, where he had to reach the brake of a motorcycle which was causing the trap to spin at the bottom of the trap. Anna interfered and used a metal rod to jam the wheels which temporarily stopped the trap however the motorcycle breaks the rod and begins spinning again, causing a panicked Mitch to swing and accidentally throw himself into the hot coils, killing and mutilating him.
* **Carly:**Tested for stealing a woman's purse and being responsible for her death after dying from an asthma attack as her inhaler was in the purse. She was kidnapped and placed in a trial along with four other people and was poisoned, so she had to choose one of the three syringes as one was a cure while the others were a harmless saline solution and a deadly acid. If Carly didn't choose a syringe however, the others would be hanged. Due to Carly refusing to choose a syringe, Ryan grabs all three and injects them into Carly, causing her to bleed from her neck, eyes and ears before dying.
* **Seth Baxter:**Tested for the murder of Mark Hoffman's sister, Angelina Acomb. He was captured by Mark Hoffman and placed in the inescapable Pendulum Trap, where he had to use the devices to crush his hands or he will be killed by the swinging pendulum blade. Despite Seth crushing his hands, Hoffman rigged the trap so Seth was cut in half by the blade.
* **Mark Wilson:**A software analyst who is tested for lying about being seriously ill to avoid work and scamming an health insurance company. He was abducted and placed in the Flammable Jelly trap, where he had a flammable substance smeared on his body and a poison was injected into him, so he had to use a candle and walk on the ground covered in broken glass to find the combination to the safe, which contained the antidote, written among hundreds of numbers on the walls. However Mark accidentally ignited the flammable substance with the candle, burning him alive.
* **Paul Leahy:**Tested for attempting suicide despite having a family and being a middle-class man. He was abducted by John and Hoffman at night outside and was placed in the Razor Wire Maze, where he had to cut himself to go through the maze to find the exit or the exit will close, leaving Paul to die. Paul eventually died from blood loss from cutting too much on the razor wire, mainly from his femoral artery.
* **Donnie Greco:**Tested for his drug addiction. He was abducted and involved in Amanda Young's game, where he was an opiate overdose so he couldn't move or feel anything and was forced to swallow a key, then a question mark was painted on his stomach. Amanda was instructed to cut open his stomach to obtain the key in order to survive and she did, killing Donnie.
* **Amanda Young:**Tested for her addiction to heroin. She was abducted and placed in the Reverse Beartrap, where she was instructed to retrieve the key by cutting open the stomach of Donnie or the trap will kill her by ripping her jaws apart. Amanda managed to escape the trap and became John's apprentice, however when began deliberately killing her test subjects with inescapable traps, John decided to test her again without her knowledge: Amanda had to keep Lynn Denlon alive but failed when she shot her, resulting in her husband, Jeff, to shoot Amanda in the neck and kill her.
* **Adam Stanheight:**A freelance photographer who is tested for constantly spying on other people. He was abducted in his apartment and placed in the Bathroom, where he was merely instructed to survive and escape the bathroom. Adam failed his game after Lawrence Gordon escaped and John sealed the bathroom, leaving Adam to die however Amanda mercifully killed Adam by suffocating him with a plastic bag.
* **Lawrence Gordon:**A renowned oncologist who is tested for cheating on his wife and being cold and uncaring towards others. He was abducted in a parking lot and placed in the Bathroom, where he was instructed to kill Adam before 6 o'clock or else his family will be killed along with him. Lawrence failed to kill Adam but his family still survived and he managed to escape the bathroom after cutting off his foot. While trying to stop the bleeding and passing out, John rescued Lawrence due to surviving his game and became his apprentice.
* **Alison and Diana Gordon:**The wife and daughter of Lawrence and is used to exert leverage on Lawrence. They were involved in Lawrence and Adam's game and held hostage by Zep Hindle, who had to kill them in order to complete his own test if Lawrence failed his test. However despite Zep trying to kill them, Alison and Diana escaped.
* **Zep Hindle:**A hospital orderly who is tested for badmouthing others behind their back and enviously hating them despite trying to improve his own life. He was injected with a poison and his test involved kidnapping Lawrence's family and he was forced to execute them if he had failed to kill Adam before 6 o'clock in order to gain an antidote from John. Zep failed to kill Alison and Diana due to Lawrence failing and so, went to the bathroom game to kill Lawrence but was instead killed when Adam bludgeoned him with a toilet tank cover.
* **Joan:**A woman tested for unknown reasons. After being captured and tested, she managed to survive her unknown game.
* **Michael Marks:**A police informant who is tested for constantly spying on other people for Eric Matthews. He was abducted and placed in the Death Mask, where he had to cut out his own eye to retrieve the key or the spike-filled mask will close on his head and kill him. Michael failed and the trap closed on his head, penetrating his head with the spikes.
* **Gus Colyard:**Tested for his drug addiction and being innocently framed by Eric Matthews. He is abducted and placed in the Nerve Gas House, where he was instructed to retrieve an antidote in order to survive the poison nerve gas. He was killed when Xavier Chavez accidentally triggered the Magnum Eyehole, which shot Gus in the eye.
* **Obi Tate:**Tested for lying and defrauding others and being innocently framed by Eric Matthews. He is abducted and placed in the Nerve Gas House, where he was instructed to retrieve an antidote in order to survive the poison nerve gas. He had to go through the Furnace to obtain two antidotes but was burned alive when he failed to pull a lever to escape the furnace.
* **Jonas Singer:**Tested for being innocently framed by Eric Matthews. He is abducted and placed in the Nerve Gas House, where he was instructed to retrieve an antidote in order to survive the poison nerve gas. He was killed in a fight by Xavier by hitting him in the head with a spiked baseball bat.
* **Laura Hunter:**Tested for being innocently framed by Eric Matthews. She is abducted and placed in the Nerve Gas House, where she was instructed to retrieve an antidote in order to survive the poison nerve gas. She was killed when she succumbed to the poison due to being more affected than the others.
* **Addison Corday:**Tested for prostitution and being innocently framed by Eric Matthews. She is abducted and placed in the Nerve Gas House, where she was instructed to retrieve an antidote in order to survive the poison nerve gas. She attempted to obtain the antidote from the Razor Box, but failed to find the key to open it and put her hands through the holes, causing it's blades to cut her repeatedly and cause her to bleed to death.
* **Xavier Chavez:**Tested for being a drug dealer and being innocently framed by Eric Matthews. He is abducted and placed in the Nerve Gas House, where he was instructed to retrieve an antidote in order to survive the poison nerve gas. A test of his own involved the Needle Pit, where he had to dig through the used syringes to find a key to open a door with an antidote on the other end. However, Xavier instead threw Amanda into the pit and she retrieved the key, but Xavier failed to use it in time so the door was permanently locked. Eventually, Xavier realized that everyone has a colored code on the back of their heads and goes hunting for them to retrieve the antidote in the safe, but this ends in him getting his throat slashed by Daniel Matthews and getting killed.
* **Daniel Matthews:**Eric Matthews' son and is being tested for petty theft and being used to exert leverage on Eric. He is abducted and placed in the Nerve Gas House, where he was instructed to retrieve an antidote in order to survive the poison nerve gas. However, John had Amanda made sure he was kept alive and after the game, he was placed in a safe with limited oxygen which had a timer until it opened and would be rewarded to Eric after passing his test. The safe eventually opened and Daniel was freed.
* **Eric Matthews:**A homicide detective who is tested for his police brutality and corruption. He is tested by John into talking and listening to him for two hours and he would see Daniel again. Believing the footage on the monitors of the game is live, Eric resorted to brutalizing John and failed his test, resulting in John leading him to the Nerve Gas House, where the game was over, and was captured by Amanda and locked up in the bathroom, then left to die. Eric however escaped the bathroom but was abducted by Hoffman, who had Eric play another game and placed him in the Ice Block Trap, where he had to rely on Daniel Rigg not to open the door in under 90 minutes. However Rigg opened the door in under 90 minutes, causing two ice blocks to crush Eric's head and kill him.
* **Jeff Denlon:**Tested for being obsessed with vengeance over his son's death and neglecting his daughter. He is abducted in his home and is placed on a trial, which he had to complete within two hours or the building will be locked and he'd be left to die. Jeff completed his trial but was tested to either kill or forgive John, however Jeff killed John, resulting in his wife's death and the whereabouts of his daughter being unknown to him, and Peter Strahm eventually entered the room and shot Jeff dead after Jeff threatened him.
* **Lynn Denlon:**Tested for cheating on her husband and neglecting her daughter. She is abducted in the hospital and placed in the Shotgun Collar, where she had to keep John alive for a certain amount of time or if John died, the collar's signal to John's heartbeat rate would be lost and it would detonate. Lynn saved John long enough however Amanda shot her in the neck and then Jeff killed John, causing the Shotgun Collar to detonate and blow Lynn's head off.
* **Danica Scott:**Tested for witnessing the death of Jeff's son and didn't help. She is placed in the Freezer Room and she had to rely on Jeff to free her. Jeff attempted to save her, but it was too late as Danica was frozen to death by cold sprays.
* **Halden:**Tested for lightly sentencing Timothy for reckless manslaughter. He is placed in the Pig Vat and he had to rely on Jeff to free him or he would be drowned in pig remains. Jeff saved Halden however later when Jeff retrieved the key from a shotgun, he accidentally triggered the gun and Halden was shot, killing him.
* **Timothy Young:**Tested for killing Jeff's son in a car accident while being drunk. He was placed in the Rack and he had to rely on Jeff to free him. Jeff attempted to save him, but it was too late as Timoty's limbs were broken and his head was snapped.
* **Corbett Denlon:**Used to exert leverage over Jeff Denlon. She is abducted in her home and trapped in a cell, where Jeff had to play another game to free her but he was killed. Eventually, Hoffman rescued Corbett during his "escape" from the Gideon Meatpacking Plant.
* **Troy:**Tested for repeating prison sentences. He was abducted by Amanda and placed in her inescapable Classroom Trap, where he had to rip chains from his body and jaw in order to escape the nail bombs. However Troy failed and was killed by the explosion, but Amanda locked the door of the room, making escape impossible anyway.
* **Allison Kerry:**A homicide detective tested for overly enjoying her work in situations involving death which made her seem "dead on the inside". She is abducted by Amanda and placed in her inescapable Angel Trap, where she had to retrieve the key from a jar of acid before it dissolved and free herself or the device will rip apart her ribcage and kill her. However despite using the key, the trap was inescapable and her ribcage was ripped apart anyway, killing her.
* **Art Blank:**A criminal defense lawyer who is tested for defending people who are guilty of crimes. He is abducted and placed in the Mausoleum, where his mouth was sewn and had to retrieve the key from Trevor, this resulted in Art killing Trevor to get the key to free himself from the trap and he ripped open his mouth. A Spine Cutter was also placed which would severe his spine if he refused to set up Rigg's trial and did so. However after Eric was killed after his trap was triggered, Art's spine was severed and after trying to give Rigg a tape recorder, Rigg believed it to be a weapon and shot him in the head, killing him.
* **Trevor:**A man tested for unknown reasons. He is abducted and placed in the Mausoleum, where his eyes were sewn and had the key to escape the trap, however due to his blindless and Art's sewn mouth preventing him from speaking, he assumed Art as an enemy and used the weapons near him to try to kill him. However, Art managed to use a hammer to kill Trevor by smashing his head in with it.
* **Daniel Rigg:**A SWAT officer who is tested due to his obsession with saving everyone. He is put on a trial where he had to complete a series of tests within 90 minutes in order to save Eric and Hoffman. However Rigg reached them in under 90 minutes, resulting in Eric's death however before his death, Eric shot Rigg in the chest in an attempt to stop him and died of blood loss.
* **Brenda:**A pimp tested for forcing young women into lives of prostitution. She is abducted and placed in the Scalping Seat where she had to rely on Rigg to enter the combination to save her. After her hair was nearly pulled out of her scalp, she was freed but attempted to kill Rigg after being informed that he will attempt to use the evidence on her to convict her, resulting in Rigg throwing Brenda through a mirror in a fight and killing her.
* **Ivan Landsness:**A motel propertier tested for violently raping women. He is abducted and placed in the Bedroom Trap where he had to press two triggers to cause two scythes to cut out his eyes to survive or it will dismember him. After cutting out one eye, Ivan failed to cut out the other so the trap ripped out Ivan's limbs and killed him.
* **Rex:**The husband of Morgan and father of Jane and is tested for physically absusing them. He is abducted and placed in the Spike Trap, with the spikes being through his major arteries and Morgan was instructed to pull the spikes out, saving her and causing Rex to die. Rex attempted to prevent her from doing so but Morgan did it anyway and Rex succumbed to his wounds.
* **Morgan:**The wife of Rex and mother of Jane and is tested for allowing Rex to physically abuse her and Jane. She is abducted and placed in the Spike Trap, with the spikes placed throughout her body and she was instructed to pull the spikes out, saving herself however this would kill Rex. Morgan pulled the spikes out and freed herself but killing Rex.
* **Mallick:**Tested for burning down an apartment in exchange for heroin and thereby killed eight people. He is placed in a trial with four other people and after surviving the 10 Pints of Sacrifice by sacrificing five pints of his blood, resulting in him surviving the trial.
* **Brit:**Tested for orchestrating a plan to burn down an inhabitated building. She is placed in a trial with four other people and after surviving the 10 Pints of Sacrifice by sacrificing five pints of her blood, resulting in her surviving the trial.
* **Charles:**Tested for holding back his knowledge about a case of arson in which eight people were killed. He is placed in a trial with four other people and after being hit by Luba Gibbs during the Ceiling Jars, he was locked outside and killed by the explosion of the nail bombs.
* **Ashley:**Tested for faking an accident report to cover a case of arson in which eight people were killed. She is placed in a trial with four other people and failed to retrieve the key in the Collars, causing her to be decapitated by the trap.
* **Luba Gibbs:**Tested for granting building permits in exchange for bribes. She is placed in a trial with four other people and during the Electric Bathtub, Brit stabbed her in the neck and used her body to complete the test and escape the room full of nail bombs.
* **Peter Strahm:**A FBI special agent tested for his obsession with solving the Jigsaw case. He is placed in a trial where Jigsaw attempted to convince him to stop his investigation and after being warned about continuing, Strahm was captured and placed in the Water Cube which intended to execute him, but Strahm used a pen to perform a tracheotomy on himself which enabled him to breath. Strahm later continued the investigation and found the Glass Coffin, where he was instructed to go into the coffin to save himself however Strahm fought Hoffman and placed him in the coffin, resulting in Hoffman escaping and Strahm being crushed by the closing walls.
* **Lindsey Perez:**A FBI special agent tested for trying to solve the Jigsaw case. She is placed in a trial where Jigsaw attempted to convince her to stop the investigation and found a rigged Billy the Puppet which warned Perez that Strahm would kill an "innocent man" and warns that her next actions are critical before exploding and causing shrapnel to fly into Perez's face, causing her to be sent to the hospital and her death was faked to protect her. Perez then continued on the Jigsaw case until Hoffman's identity as Jigsaw's successor was exposed, resulting in him stabbing Perez repeatedly in the stomach and killing her.
* **Simone:**A money lender tested for predatory lending. She is placed in the Pound of Flesh and was instructed to offer more flesh than Eddie in order to survive or she will be killed by her helmet's drills in her head. She cuts off her arm and survives the trap.
* **Eddie:**A money lender tested for predatory lending. He is placed in the Pound of Flesh and was instructed to offer more flesh than Simone in order to survive or he will be killed by his helmet's drills in his head. He cuts off the fat of his stomach but fails and the drills pierce his head and kill him.
* **William Easton:**A health insurance executive who is tested for not providing health insurance for the seriously ill. He is abducted in his office and is put on trial and within 60 minutes, he has to face a series of tests to save his sister, Pamela Jenkins, and also is wearing Explosive Bracelets on his limbs which will detonate if he fails to reach his sister within 60 minutes or tries to skip some of the tests. At the end of his trial, Tara and Brent Abbott are given the choice to kill or spare William for refusing to save Tara's husband, Harold, and Brent chooses to kill William. William's body is injected with hydrofluric acid and is melted from the inside.
* **Hank:**A janitor who worked at Umbrella Health and is tested for heavily smoking despite a history of health restrictions. He is placed in the Oxygen Crusher with William where if they breathe, they will be slowly crushed by the device, and one has to die for the other to escape. Hank ends up breathing too much and the trap crushes his ribcage, killing him.
* **Addy:**William Easton's secretary and is tested for working for him. She is placed in the Gallows, where William has to choose to either save her or Allen from being hanged. William decides to save Addy and she is freed.
* **Allen:**William Easton's file clerk and is tested for working for him. He is placed in the Gallows, where William has to choose to either save him or Addy from being hanged. William decides to save Addy and he is hanged.
* **Debbie:**A lawyer tested for defending Umbrella Health. She is placed in the Steam Maze, where William has to help her make it through a deadly maze before being instructed to retrieve the key to her trap which will pierce her brain from William, which has been surgically placed in his body. After escaping the maze, Debbie tries to kill William for the key but she fails and a spike pierces her brain, killing her.
* **Shelby, Josh, Dave, Emily, Aaron and Gena:**Six of William's health insurance inspectors who are tested for finding errors in policies so the seriously ill won't get insurance. They are placed in the Shotgun Carousel and William can only save two of them while four has to die. Shelby and Emily are saved from the trap but Josh, Gena, Dave and Aaron are shot by the shotgun and killed.
* **Pamela Jenkins:**William Easton's sister who is tested for sensationalizing Jigsaw and twisting the facts for her own personal gain. She is trapped in a cage in the Acid Room where she is underneath acid sprinklers which will set off and kill her if William failed to save her by completing a series of tests within 60 minutes. She is saved when William reaches her and she survives.
* **Tara Abbott:**The wife of Harold Abbott, a man William refused to cover, and mother of Brent and is used to decide William's fate. She is placed in the Acid Room and has to choose to kill or spare William for choosing not to save Harold. Despite wanting to kill William, she couldn't bring herself to do it so Brent kills him instead, and then she escapes.
* **Brent Abbott:**The son of Harold and Tara and is used to decide William's fate. He is placed in the Acid Room and has to choose kill or spare William for choosing not to save Harold. Brent kills William vengefully and then escapes.
* **Brad:**Tested for committing crimes to fulfill Dina's material needs. He is placed in the Public Execution Trap where he has to either kill Ryan or save Dina or Ryan can kill Brad with a sawblade. Brad and Ryan choose to let Dina die and he survives.
* **Ryan:**Tested for committing crimes to fulfill Dina's material needs. He is placed in the Public Execution Trap where he has to either kill Brad or save Dina or Brad can kill Ryan with a sawblade. Ryan and Brad choose to let Dina die and he survives.
* **Dina:**Tested for manipulating and cheating on Ryan and Brad. She is placed in the Public Execution Trap where she has to rely on the decision of Brad and Ryan to kill each other in order to save her or to let her die. They allow her to die and Dina is cut in half by the middle sawblade.
* **Evan:**Tested for racism. He is placed in the Horsepower Trap and has been instructed to rip his back, which is glued to the backseat of a car, off and pull the red lever to save himself and his friends or let a deadly chain of events occur due to failure. Evan fails and all of his friends are killed before Evan is sent flying through the windshield and is killed.
* **Jake:**Tested for racism. He is placed in the Horsepower Trap and has to rely on Evan to save him. Evan fails his task and is overrun by the car.
* **Dan:**Tested for racism. He is placed in the Horsepower Trap and has to rely on Evan to save him. Evan fails his task and his jaw and arms are ripped off by the chains connected to the car.
* **Kara:**Tested for racism. She is placed in the Horsepower Trap and has to rely on Evan to save her. Evan fails his task and her head is crushed by the car's wheel.
* **Alex:**Tested for abusing his girlfriend, Sidney. He is placed in the Lawnmower Trap where he has to cause Sydney to fall into the lawnmowers in order to survive but Sydney causes him to fall into the lawnmowers, killing him.
* **Sidney:**Tested for allowing Alex to physcally abuse her. She is placed in the Lawnmower Trap where she has to cause Alex to fall into the lawnmowers in order to survive and she manages to cause Alex to fall into the lawnmowers and kill him, allowing her to be freed.
* **Bobby Dagen:**An author who is tested for falsely claiming he was in a Jigsaw trap and subsequently profiting from that lie. He is abducted in his car and put on trial where he has to save his wife, Joyce, within 60 minutes by completing a series of tests or she will die. Bobby fails to save Joyce from being killed but he manages to survive and escapes.
* **Nina:**Bobby's publicist who is tested for publishing his lies. She is placed in the Silence Circle where she has to rely on Bobby to retrieve the key to free her from her stomach and she also has to stay quiet or the spikes will increase their speed. However, Nina screams due to the receiving pain and the spikes penetrate her neck, killing her.
* **Suzanne:**Bobby's lawyer who is tested for covering his lies. She is placed in the Impalement Wheel where she has to rely on Bobby to save her but he fails, causing spikes to stab through Suzanne's eyes and mouth to kill her.
* **Cale:**Bobby's best friend who is tested for supporting his lies. He is placed in the Hangman's Noose where he has to rely on Bobby to guide him through the area to avoid falling and being hanged and also has to rely on Bobby to retrieve a key to save her. Bobby fails and Cale is hung by the trap.
* **Joyce Dagen:**The wife of Bobby Dagen who is tested for her materialistic attitude. She is placed in the Brazen Bull where she has to rely on Bobby to save her but he fails, causing Joyce to be roasted alive by the trap.
* **Edgar Munsen:**A criminal who is tested for murdering Christine Nelson. He is provided with a trigger which will begin the game of some people he doesn't know or he will be killed on his own and goes on a rooftop to press the trigger, but is shot in the chest with a sniper rifle by Logan Nelson. Logan later abducts Edgar and slits his throat.
* **Halloran:**A detective who is tested for his police corruption. He is abducted and placed in the Laser Collars where he has been instructed to confess his sins. Logan also placed himself in a false version of the trap to observe him and Halloran forces Logan to go first and refused to confess his sins. Due to breaking the rules, Logan reactivates Halloran's collar and his head is cut into eighths by the lasers, killing him.

## Quotes

* "I want to play a game."
* "Game over."
* "Never been better."
* "Death is a surprise party."
* "Suffering? You haven't seen anything yet."
* "Yes, officer, I'm sick. Sick from the disease eating away at me from the inside, sick of people who don't appreciate their blessings, sick of those who scoff at the suffering of others. I'm sick of it all!"
* "Matrimony has always fascinated me. Husbands barely able to look at their wives, wives on their backs in hotel rooms with perfect strangers; able to hear children to bear children only to neglect them; until death do us part indeed."
* "I don't condone murder and I despise murderers."
* "The marks on your arms, they're from another life. We'll leave that life behind. When you walk down that corridor there is turning back. Do you understand that?"
* "Maybe my life isn't the one you are saving, after all."
* "If you make it through this, Lynn, you're going to thank me one day just as Amanda did."
* "Do you remember me?"
* "It's time to start our game."
* "I apologize for her behavior. She swims in my sea. In the end she will be the closest I've ever gone to a connection. To being understood. But her emotion is also her weakness."
* "It's the last house on the left."
* "Some people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you...not anymore."
* "X marks the spot."
* "Those who do not appreciate life do not deserve life."
* "Can you imagine what it feels like to have someone sit you down and tell you that you're not dying? The gravity of that? Then the clock's ticking for you. In a split second your awe is cracked open. You look at things differently, smell things differently. You savor everything, be it a glass of water or a walk in the park. But most people have the luxury of not knowing when the clock's going to go off. And the irony of it is that that keeps them from really living their life. It keeps them drinking that glass of water but never really tasting it."
* "The jigsaw piece that I cut from my subjects was only ever meant to be a symbol that the subject was missing something. A vital piece of the human puzzle. The survival instinct."
* "You see, the knowledge of death changes everything. If I were to tell you the exact date and time of your death, it would shatter everything."
* "Not too long now till your son starts pissing blood!"
* "Your son is in a safe and secure state."
* "Oh, yes, there will be blood."
* "Go ahead, destroy it. We both know the sort of person you are. The sort of person who guns down an unarmed suspect. The sort of person who plants evidence in order to obtain a conviction. The sort of person whose wife leaves him and his son hates him."
* "How much blood will you shed to stay alive?"
* "No, you did this to yourself."
* "It's the tool, that's going to save your soul."
* "Time is an illusion that cannot be given."
* "Cherish your life is the motto this whole organization is built on. Cherish your life...your life."
* "You think it's the living who have ultimate judgement over you, because the dead will have no claim over your soul. But you may be mistaken."
* "We'll see."
* "Live or die, make your choice."
* "Piranha!"
* "Did you know that in the Far East, people pay their doctors when they're healthy? When they're sick, they don't have to pay them. So basically, they end up paying for what they want, not what they don't want. We got it all ass-backwards here. These politicians, they say the same thing over and over again; healthcare decisions should be made by doctors and their patients, not by the government. Well, now I know they're not made by doctors and their patients or by the government. They're made by the fucking insurance companies."
* "Maybe you will in the next life. You see things aren't sequential. Good doesn't lead to good nor bad to bad. People steal, don't get caught. Live the good life. Others lie, cheat and get elected. Some people stop to help a stranded motorist and get taken out by a speeding semi. There's no accounting for it. How you play the cards you're dealt, that's all that matters."
* "I am the man you call Jigsaw."
* "Killing is distasteful...to me."
* "I want to know if you have what it takes to survive."
* "I think we're both going to the same place."
* "If you're good at anticipating the human mind, it leaves nothing to chance."
* "They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery."
* "Congratulations, Dr. Gordon...you survived."
* "Now the games are simple. Best ones are. You want mercy? Play by the rules."
* "The truth will set you free."
* "You're about to play a game."
* "All you need to do is confess."
* "Failure to make the right choice could result in death."
* "I want to play a game. Your life is a lie. Now comes your moment of truth. As a drug user and a hustler, you played roulette with other peoples' lives. Today, you play with your own."