Saw VI (2009)

Mark Burg

## Overview

Predatory lenders Eddie and Simone, locked in head harnesses with screws aimed at their temples, have one minute to each carve flesh from their bodies with their provided cutting tools and weigh the scale in their favor for survival. While the overweight Eddie slices chunks of fat from his stomach, the contraption kills him after Simone chops off her arm and tips the scale before the timer expires. Their game is observed by Detective Mark Hoffman, who had just escaped from the trap that killed FBI agent Peter Strahm. He then uses Strahm's severed hand to plant his fingerprints at the scene. The police and FBI agent Dan Erickson investigate alongside FBI agent Lindsey Perez, whose survival was concealed by Erickson for her protection. During Eddie's autopsy, Dr. Adam Heffner reveals the blade used to cut the flesh pieces from his body is the same blade used years ago on Seth Baxter. Perez and Erickson re-open the investigation to analyze the videotape found at the crime scene and distort the speaker's voice.

Hoffman arrives at Jill Tuck's clinic and demands her to hand him five envelopes containing photographs of the following game's test subjects from the box left to her in John Kramer's last request. The game involves health insurance executive William Easton and his associates, whose company's dubious business policy turned down their clients' coverage for medical treatment, including John. After Hoffman abducts them to an abandoned zoo, William and his janitor Hank are suspended in chains with large metal vises that will crush their bodies each time they breathe in their oxygen masks. The vise kills Hank as William proceeds to his other three tests to unlock the remaining bomb shackles from his limbs. The second test at an aquarium forces William to save his elderly secretary Addy over his file clerk Allen, who hangs to death from his barbed-wire noose. At the boiler room, William unwittingly releases his lawyer Debbie, who attacks him to retrieve a key inside his body and unlock a speargun attached to her harness. He fights her off until the device kills her. William's last test involves his six subordinates chained to a rotating roundabout where he is only able to save two of them from a mounted shotgun. The game is viewed by mother Tara with her teenage son Brent, and news journalist Pamela Jenkins from two opposite animal enclosures below the observation room.

During the game, Hoffman is called away by Erickson to the audio lab after obtaining the videotape. Erickson, now aware of Strahm's demise, confronts Hoffman after discovering the abnormalities found in Strahm's fingerprints at the time of his death. When Hoffman's voice is unscrambled from the tape, he kills Erickson, Perez, and a technician as they discover his identity as Jigsaw's accomplice. Hoffman returns to the observation room and finds the letter he wrote to Amanda Young, who indirectly instigated Cecil Adams' robbery at Jill's clinic that resulted in her miscarriage; Hoffman used this knowledge to blackmail Amanda into killing Dr. Lynn Denlon. The letter was found by Pamela and given to Jill, who then uses it to ambush Hoffman. Jill, who had the remaining contents from her box including a sixth envelope containing Hoffman's photo, restrains him and locks a modified reverse bear trap to his head, posthumously fulfilling John's will to test Hoffman after his death.

William reaches the end of his path and enters the cages where he reunites with Pamela who is his sister. He is confronted by Tara and Brent who are the widow and son of Harold Abbott, a former client who succumbed to his heart disease after William denied his medical request. John's videotape informs Tara to decide William's fate by using the lever in her cell connecting to tanks of hydrofluoric acid from each cage. As William and Pamela try to persuade the family, an enraged Brent pulls the lever which releases a platform of needles that kills William by injecting acid into his body. Jill exits the room as Hoffman escapes his wrist restraints. He slips out of his trap as it activates, ripping apart his right cheek in the process.

## Cast

* Tobin Bell as John Kramer / Jigsaw
* Costas Mandylor as Detective Mark Hoffman
* Mark Rolston as Agent Dan Erickson
* Betsy Russell as Jill Tuck
* Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young
* Peter Outerbridge as William Easton
* Athena Karkanis as Agent Lindsey Perez
* Samantha Lemole as Pamela Jenkins
* Tanedra Howard as Simone
* Marty Moreau as Eddie
* Shawn Ahmed as Allen
* Janelle Hutchison as Addy
* Gerry Mendicino as Hank
* Caroline Cave as Debbie
* George Newbern as Harold Abbott
* Shauna MacDonald as Tara Abbott
* Devon Bostick as Brent Abbott
* Darius McCrary as Dave
* Shawn Mathieson as Josh
* Melanie Scrofano as Gena
* Karen Cliche as Shelby
* James Gilbert as Aaron
* Larissa Gomes as Emily
* Billy Otis as Cecil Adams
* James Van Patten as Dr. Adam Heffner
* François Sagat as Male Addict
* Karl Campbell as Security Guard
* Ginger Busch as Sachi
* Mpho Koaho as Timothy Young