Joe

## Biography

### Raid on Wilson Steel

Joe was an officer who worked for the Metropolitan Police Department. He eventually became a member of the department's SWAT unit and joined a team led by Sergeant Daniel Rigg. At some point in his career, Joe got involved in the investigation of a serial killer case. When Detective Eric Matthews received a message from a wanted serial killer known as Jigsaw, he was able to identify the latter's hideout at the Wilson Steel Plant. The next day, Eric went to the Wilson Steel Plant, accompanied by Detective Allison Kerry and Joe's SWAT team. While the detectives stayed outside, Rigg entered the building with three of his men. Unfortunately, they accidentally triggered a booby trap set up by Jigsaw in a staircase, which caused two officers' death, while a third one, Officer Pete Baker, was severely injured. When Rigg called them in for reinforcements, Eric, Kerry, and the remaining SWAT members stormed the plant. Moments later, they finally made their way to the upper floor, where the Jigsaw Killer, who was, in fact, a civil engineer named John Kramer, sat at a table and waited for them.

### Eric Matthews' Test

Initially, Rigg ordered his men to arrest him. However, John spoke to Eric and told him that he should stay where he was until Eric had dealt with his "problem." Then, he told him to take a look in the next room. Eric carefully approached the door to the adjacent area, along with Kerry and Rigg. After securing the room, they discovered several surveillance monitors hidden under a white cloth. Upon looking at the monitors, they saw what appeared to be another one of Jigsaw's games. Eight people were trapped in a room, one of whom Eric recognized as his son, Daniel. When he saw the footage, Eric angrily attacked John. However, he was held back by Rigg. John explained the rules of his game to him. To save his son, Eric had to sit down and talk to John for two hours while his colleagues left the area. After that time, Daniel would be released. Otherwise, he and the other prisoners would succumb to deadly nerve gas. Eventually, Kerry convinced Eric to accept John's challenge and play by his rules while she kept an eye on the game's progress.

As the game went on, Eric became more and more distressed and ultimately lost his composure. To force John to reveal his son's whereabouts, he violently battered him, broke one of his fingers, and threatened him with his gun. Although Kerry tried to stop him, she was held back by Rigg. Eventually, John ended Eric's test with the words "Game Over" and promised to take him to the house. However, he demanded to go there with Eric alone. Eric agreed, and they left the building in a hidden elevator. As they escaped, Kerry sent the SWAT team after them while she stayed with Joe and a tech team, which traced the video feed to an address at 237 North Hyde Crescent shortly afterward. However, when Rigg and his team arrived there, they realized the game had taken place in a different house and was already over long before they even arrested Jigsaw. Upon learning that the video feed was merely a recording, Kerry told the team to come back. As the timer eventually went off, a safe in John's hideout suddenly opened and revealed Daniel Matthews, who had been locked up in the safe all the time.

### Troy's Death

Six months later, Rigg and his team were called to an elementary school. Following an emergency call about an explosion, they raided the building. Upon examining the location, the officers discovered that one of the classrooms' doors had been welded shut. They eventually cut it open with a Bunsen burner and stormed into the room. As they secured the scene, they found the torn up remains of Troy, a drug addict who had been killed by a self-made nail bomb during one of Jigsaw's games. Therefore, Rigg immediately ordered one of his men to call Kerry.

### Allison Kerry's Death

Four days later, Detective Mark Hoffman, accompanied by a SWAT team led by Rigg and Officer Lamanna, were called to the location. As they entered the area, their path was blocked by a chain-link door. Upon spotting a device connected to the door, Hoffman told the SWAT to send in a tactical robot before entering. Rigg ordered Officer Pete Baker to cut a hole in the door and send the robot in. The robot slowly made its way to the lower floor and soon reached a corpse hanging from the ceiling. When the robot's camera eventually captured her face, Rigg immediately recognized his colleague, Allison Kerry, who had been killed by another one of Jigsaw's gruesome traps. Horrified by the discovery, he broke through the door and ran to her, ignoring Hoffman's order to stand back. However, as he approached Kerry, Rigg realized that his hopes to save her were in vain and fell on his knees. Seconds later, the remaining SWAT officers entered the area and called for the forensics.

### Daniel Rigg's Trial

Later that day, Daniel Rigg was attacked and subdued in his apartment at 23 Park Place. Joe and his team, now led by Lamanna due to Rigg's absence, were called to his address after the police received an emergency call about a shooting. Upon breaking through the door and storming the apartment, they found the corpse of a woman, Brenda, lying in a puddle of blood in Rigg's living room. Meanwhile, Rigg had disappeared as he was forced to play one of Jigsaw's games. After the officers discovered Brenda's corpse and secured the flat, Special Agent Peter Strahm, Special Agent Lindsey Perez, and the police department's CSI team arrived at the scene and began their investigation.

Shortly afterward, the SWAT was called to the run-down Alexander Motel, where the next part of Rigg's game took place. When they arrived there, they went to room 261 on the upper floor and discovered the dismembered body of the proprietor, Ivan Landsness, whose limbs had been torn off by another trap. Once again, they called for the special agents and the forensic team, who appeared only minutes later. While they investigated the scene, Lamanna found out that the room had been rented for the past six days by a lawyer named Art Blank. However, the latter had been reported missing two weeks earlier. Upon informing the agents about Art's disappearance, Lamanna also told them that he owned several properties, the last known address being only two blocks away. Therefore, the SWAT officers went to the location and entered the basement. After securing the area, they found two labeled files left there for the agents, who subsequently concluded that they were Jigsaw's targets.

As Rigg's game went on, the SWAT was called to the same elementary school, where they had found Troy's corpse four days earlier, after Rigg set off the fire alarm. In one of the classrooms, they found a married couple, Morgan and Rex, strapped back to back to a metal pole while several spikes had impaled their bodies. Morgan had survived by pulling out the skewers and merely received non-lethal flesh wounds in the process. However, Rex had died of blood loss as the spikes had impaled his major blood vessels. The SWAT called for the CSI unit and the FBI agents, who arrived shortly afterward. While they examined the scene, the officers witnessed a tragic accident. When one of the investigators took fingerprints from a harpoon-like device used to pierce the victims' bodies, he accidentally triggered the contraption. Therefore, it shot a spike in Perez' direction. Although Agent Strahm reacted quickly and pulled her out of the way, the skewer impaled a crime scene photographer's head, killing her in the process.

### Raid on the Gideon Meatpacking Plant

Shortly after the events at the school, Joe and his team was called to the abandoned Gideon Meatpacking Plant after Agent Strahm had found out that this was Jigsaw's hideout and the place where Rigg's game was going to end. When they arrived there, Jigsaw and his accomplice, Amanda Young, had already died at the hands of Jeff Denlon, one of their victims. As the police was about to enter and secure the building, Hoffman came out through the delivery entrance along with a little girl, Corbett Denlon. Hoffman, who was in fact another accomplice of John Kramer, had merely pretended to be a victim held hostage at the plant. While the paramedics took care of Corbett, Hoffman was greeted by Fisk who asked him about the whereabouts of Daniel Rigg.

## Personality

Not much can be said about Joe's personality due to his short screen time.