Angel Trap

## Design and Function

The victim of this trap had a leather harness, which was secured by a padlock, put on his or her body and was suspended slightly above the floor by two chains. Attached to the victim's back was a heavy metal device with two mechanic arms, which, in their initial position, looked like two fold up wings. Additionally, twelve c-shaped metal brackets were laid tightly around the victim's chest, with six brackets on each side of the body. These brackets were hooked into the victim's ribcage and were connected with the contraption on the victim's back by several wires. In order to escape the trap, the test subject had to grab the key for the harness' padlock, which laid in an acid filled glass jar, which was suspended from the ceiling by two chains directly in front of the victim. Otherwise, the trap would be activated after 60 seconds. If this happened, the contraption on the victim's back would spread out its mechanic arms like wings and thereby brutally rip out the brackets hooked into the chest of the test subject, killing the person in the process.

## History

### Allison Kerry's Execution

The victim of this trap was Detective Allison Kerry, a detective working on the case of John Kramer, better known as the Jigsaw Killer. She was eventually targeted by him herself as she was so obsessed with her work, which primarily involved investigating the fates of dead people, that she neglected the living people around her and eventually even lost contact to her family. However, as John was severely weakened and bedridden due to an inoperable brain tumor and therefore ordered his apprentices, Amanda Young and Detective Mark Hoffman, to set up the game to test Kerry's will to survive. After abducting her in her own apartment, they took her to an underground location where they put her in the trap. Additionally, Hoffman clamped a bullet shell between Kerry's body and the device, which would later be found by his colleagues. Amanda however had started to doubt the methods of her mentor and therefore manipulated the trap, thereby giving Kerry no chance to survive.

When Kerry eventually woke up, she immediately realized what had happened to her and started to panic. Moments later, a TV turned on in front of her. A video tape, showing Jigsaw's mechanical ventriloquist puppet, told her why she was trapped and instructed her that she had to grab the key to the device from the acid-filled beaker in front of her. Otherwise, the trap would kill her after 60 seconds. When the tape ended and the TV turned off, Kerry further panicked and tried to tip the acid out of the beaker. However this wasn't possible as it was held in place by the two chains holding it. After some hesitation, she finally tried to get the key but pulled her hand back due to the massive amount of pain. However she could bring herself to try it once again and eventually got the key from the glass and opened the lock of her device. Unfortunately, the lock was without function, destroying her hope to survive. Mere seconds before the timer of the trap expired, Amanda entered the room. Kerry recognized her and realized it was her who had manipulated the trap. Moments later, her timer went off, causing the trap to tear her ribcage apart.