Acid Room

The **Acid Room** is a trap, as well as a fictional location, from the *Saw* franchise. It was an important location in *Saw VI*.

## Design and Function

This trap was the last one in a series of tests. It was located in a room of the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute. This room was divided into three segments. While the central part of the room was the entrance area, the left and right part of the room were formerly used as animal enclosures and were separated from the middle segment by metal grids. In both of these enclosures was a large tank filled with hydrofluoric acid. The tank in the left room was connected to several sprinklers at the ceiling. To survive, the victim trapped in this room had to rely on the help of another test subject, who had to reach the enclosures within 60 minutes. Otherwise, the victim would be killed by the acid coming from the sprinklers.

The tank in the second enclosure was connected to a contraption in the middle room by several tubes. This contraption, which was mounted to the ceiling, was in fact a large, heavy metal grid with long, pointy needles attached to it. Additionally, there was a panel with a lever in the enclosure, with the words "Live" written above and "Die" below it. Right in front of the cage was a pressure plate on the floor, which supplied the panel with power. If the lever was set to "Live", all participants in the game would survive. However, if it was set to "Die", the contraption in the center of the room would swing down and pierce the body of the victim trapped in this area with the needles. Afterwards, the victim would be injected with the acid and dissolved from the inside. Furthermore, the lever was linked to another trap in an observing room located above the enclosures. If it was set to "Die", this trap's 60-second-timer would be activated.

## History

### Tara Abbott's Test

Shortly afterwards, William eventually reached the last room of his game, with only one second left on the timer. Thinking he had won, he yelled in triumph, when suddenly, the two enclosures to his left and his right were opened. Thereby, he was shocked to see Brent and Tara in one of them. However, one moment later he noticed his sister, who was trapped in the second enclosure. Upon seeing her, he immediately went to her cage and asked her if she was okay, which she affirmed. William angrily yelled that their abductor should let her go as he had followed his rules and finished his test. Meanwhile, Tara and Brent glared at him in hate and disgust.

Moments later, the TV outside their enclosure turned on, showing a video of John Kramer. He told Tara about the sacrifices William had made to save his sister, but also reminded her that he had been responsible for the death of her husband. Therefore, it was now up to her to decide whether William should live or die. Shocked by this, William approached her cell and thereby stepped on the pressure plate on the ground, which activated the panel with the lever. William and Pamela desperately begged Tara for mercy and tried to convince her to forgive William, but due to her anger, Tara still wanted to kill him, claiming that it wasn't because of what William had done to her, but because she didn't want him to do it to anyone else ever again. However, in the end, she couldn't bring herself to pull the lever. Therefore, Brent grabbed the lever and, despite the protests of his mother, pulled it down. Moments later, a large metal constructions with needles attached to it swung down from the ceiling and pressed William against the grid of the enclosure. Then, the hydrofluoric acid was pumped through the tubes connected to the nail bed and was thereby injected into William's body. William was slowly and painfully dissolved by the acid from the inside. Upon his death, William's molten lower body collapsed, spilling his entrails on the floor.