As John knew he would! Saw IV climaxes with the revelation that the events of Saw IV and Saw III are more closely related than even the most clever viewer could guess without devouring a suspiciously detailed Wikipedia plot synopsis.
There are no prior hints that will allow you to come to this conclusion, it just happens. Fast-forward to Saw VI , where the backstory of the previous Saw films is heavily — and hastily! There is no mention of a will in any of the other films. But bear with us: in the will John asks Jill to make Mark test several people. Bear in mind, Dr. Yes, they do acknowledge that John Kramer died. And characters do briefly and belatedly acknowledge the gruesome comically thorough autopsy that kicks off Saw IV.
But there is only a passing reference to Jill. This series is so convoluted that it stops being exasperating and soon becomes compulsively riveting. Meanwhile, Gordon, who heard some of the commotion at his house down a phone line, gets rather worked up. He believes that Adam has died, but declares that Gordon was too late in doing the deed. He failed to win the game, and that is the price for losing.
Adam took a bullet, but still stepped up to kill Zep and save Gordon. Gordon assures Adam that he will survive his bullet wound. Gordon crawls out of the bathroom to go find help. Years later, in Saw: The Final Chapter aka Saw 3D , we learned that Gordon made it as far as a steaming pipe in the corridor outside the bathroom.
He used the hot metal to cauterise his stump, and passed out from the pain of doing so. As a reward for success, Jigsaw would have given Zep the antidote to the slow-acting poison coursing through his veins. Is that what Jigsaw wanted? Would he have let Adam crawl away and live on if he had done a bit of self-dismembering? The more you look at this film, the more it feels like Jigsaw is happy to let random people die if it means testing other people.
Dick move, Jiggy. The key is not there anymore, because Adam accidentally pulled the plug when he woke up in the tub, and the key went down the drain — never to be seen again. What exactly was the point of putting the key in the bath with Adam?
If Adam had woken up without so much writhing and inadvertent plug-pulling, he might have found the key floating in the water. What would that have achieved? Adam pulling the plug and losing the key plays quite nicely on first viewing, folding into the massive montage of twists and flashbacks. As such, these devices force subjects into near-death situations where they are typically given the opportunity to either save themselves or die. In accordance with Jigsaw's ideology, the traps are meant to act as a form of immediate rehabilitation for the subject upon completion, rewarding the survivors with a new lease on life and ridding them of their vices.
These traps, also called "games" come in 7 varieties, though some can fall into more than one of these categories:. Many of the games, especially the Trials , involve a rigged area from which the victim must escape, which are often based on their interactions with other people.
In most cases, the traps are created for people Jigsaw deems unappreciative of their lives and are designed to ironically reflect the characters' flaws, with a few exceptions, such as the Security Traps.
In all these situations, the victim must perform dangerous tasks, mutilate themselves, or harm others to escape. The victims are usually informed about their traps by use of a recorded video or cassette tape, which either plays automatically once a victim awakens, or is played by the victim manually. The video recordings tend to feature Billy the Puppet giving the instructions to the victims.
A posthumous background antagonist in Spiral and the overall main antagonist of the franchise. John Kramer was a successful civil engineer. Along with his friend and lawyer, Art Blank , he founded the Urban Renewal Group , a foundation dedicated to property development for low-income people under the motto "Four walls build a home. The first building purchased and fixed up by the group was the Gideon Meatpacking Plant at Blake Drive. At one point in his life, John married a woman named Jill Tuck and supported her work at the Homeward Bound Clinic , an ambulant recovery clinic for addicts under the motto "Cherish your Life.
As they talked about their work, William presented him with a mathematical formula he had developed to decide which people would get insured by Umbrella. While William was visibly proud of it, John questioned this business policy because it put William in a position to decide about his clients' life and death. According to John, this business practice completely ignored the clients' will to live, which he deemed the most crucial element of human nature. However, despite their disagreements, John himself eventually became a client of Umbrella.
Besides his professional career, John's private life took a happier turn in as he and Jill were expecting their first child. John, who had already meticulously planned that their son should be born during the Chinese Year of the Pig, also gave him his name, Gideon , inspired by his first building.
Sometime later, John obtained a workshop , which he proudly presented to Jill. On this occasion, he also showed her an old clock, which was a part of a deal he had made. The clock greatly fascinated him because it still worked, even though it was almost years old.
As a surprise for Jill, he also presented her two homemade gifts for their son - a child's bed and a wooden ventriloquist puppet. Despite their happiness, John soon started to worry about Jill's safety, who continued to work at the clinic even during the late months of her pregnancy.
During an incident at the clinic, John had to interrupt a brawl between two patients named Cecil Adams and Gus Colyard. The two of them got into an argument when Cecil vociferously complained about the long waiting time, subsequently causing Gus to slap him in the face.
After having been separated from each other, Cecil pulled a knife from his pocket. Therefore, John tried to calm him down. When Cecil angrily asked him about the reason for his intervention, John merely answered that Cecil would soon become a problem for everyone around him due to his reckless behavior.
Even though Cecil finally put the knife away, John's worries about Jill's safety would soon turn out to be justified. Saw IV. One night in the fall of , John sat in his car and waited for Jill outside the clinic when he was approached by Addison Corday , a young prostitute, who offered him her company.
However, John declined her offer and told her to go home as a beautiful girl like her should not do such work. Shortly afterward, he suddenly noticed how Cecil stormed out of the clinic and ran away after he had tried to rob Jill. John immediately entered the building and found Jill squatting on the floor after Cecil had accidentally slammed a doorknob into her stomach.
Even though he took Jill to the Angel of Mercy Hospital , where one of the nurses, Deborah , immediately took care of them, the doctors could not save their unborn child's life. One of them, Dr. Steve , eventually delivered John the sad news.
While John sat at Jill's bed and held her hand, she told him that she only wanted to help the people at her clinic. John, however, bitterly answered that they could only save themselves. After Gideon's death, John suffered from severe depression, which ultimately caused him to withdraw from his wife and the Urban Renewal Group.
When Art Blank asked Jill about John's whereabouts, she helped him look for her husband, and they went to the latter's workshop together. While Art curiously looked at some blueprints and drawings on a table, Jill suddenly saw John sitting on a chair in a corner and asked him not to get angry with her for bringing Art to the workshop. When turning towards his partner, Art accidentally knocked the wooden ventriloquist doll that John had built for his unborn child off the table.
He asked John about his condition and offered his condolences to him. However, he also tried to convince John to continue his work for the Urban Renewal Group because forty low-income families were already waiting to move into the houses they planned to restore.
John, who was angry about his visit, told him to leave. After initially hesitating, Art gave in and asked John to call him once he felt better. Moments later, Jill left, too, and reminded John that she also suffered from the loss of Gideon. Once he was alone, he picked up the wooden puppet from the floor and stroked its hair, wistfully thinking about his lost child. His blunted affect eventually led to his divorce from Jill.
Furthermore, he asked her not to come back to him again. Shortly afterward, John's physical condition worsened. When he went to the Angel of Mercy Hospital, the renowned oncologist Dr. Lawrence Gordon diagnosed him with colon cancer and a frontal lobe tumor.
However, during an earlier visit to the hospital, one of the residents, Dr. Logan Nelson , made a careless mistake and inadvertently mixed up John's x-rays with those of another patient, Alex Rubinstein. Therefore, his cancer had further evolved and was no longer curable at the time of its diagnosis. Saw , Jigsaw. Thoroughly depressed, John ultimately tried to end his life by driving his car off a cliff.
Contrary to his expectations, he survived the crash. At this moment, John decided he wanted to live. Severely injured, he crawled out of the wreck and pulled a jagged piece of metal out of his body. Thereby, he realized that he had only learned to cherish his life when his death had been imminent. Because of this, John chose to spend the remaining time of his life testing other people's will to live, hoping that this would convince them to value their lives and the lives of those around them.
However, his newly discovered will to live could not reunite him and Jill again, and therefore, he continued to ignore her attempts to contact him. At this time, John began to focus on other people's lives and chose Cecil Adams as his first test subject. After observing him for some time and thereby discovering that Cecil had not changed his reckless behavior, John felt vindicated in his plan. Thus, he spent much time observing Cecil and emotionally prepared himself for the first part of his self-imposed mission.
When the time had come, John followed Cecil to a Chinese street festival celebrating the Year of the Pig. Upon doing so, he witnessed how Cecil talked to a saleswoman. After distracting her, Cecil quickly stole one of the small terracotta figures from her booth and went away. Meanwhile, John grabbed a pig mask to cover his face and a second mask, which he filled with a cloth drenched in chloroform.
Then, he pursued Cecil and sedated him in the crowd without anyone noticing him. After that, John took him to his workshop and strapped him to a chair.
Thereby, two blades, which were attached to the ends of the armrests, impaled Cecil's wrists. When Cecil woke up and saw the blades, he immediately panicked. As he recognized John, he begged him to let him go and asked for forgiveness for Gideon's death. John claimed to have already forgiven him and only put him in this situation to help him change his life. After a brief discussion, he revealed a vicious device to his prisoner, which consisted of eight sharp knives.
When Cecil asked him what it was, John explained that it was a tool, which could save his life. After that, he bolted it to the chair, so the eight horizontally arranged knives were positioned right in front of his face. While doing so, John confronted Cecil with his crimes and further explained that he had to press his face into the knives to free himself from his arm and leg restraints.
Otherwise, he would bleed to death. Cecil insulted him and desperately screamed for help. However, when John showed no mercy, he pressed his face into the blades while screaming in agony. In the end, the chair suddenly collapsed and allowed him to escape.
He immediately approached John and tried to strike him dead with a broken-off piece of the chair. However, John evaded his attack effortlessly, which caused Cecil to fall into a cage filled with razor wire, where he ultimately bled to death.
After his death, John cut a jigsaw piece from his skin to symbolize Cecil's lacking survival instinct. Furthermore, he took the stolen soldier figure from his body and kept it as a memento.
Afterward, he disposed of Cecil's corpse. Soon afterward, the body was discovered by the homicide division of the Metropolitan Police Department. When Jill learned of Cecil's death from a newspaper, she feared that John might have had something to do with it and went to his workshop to call him out on her suspicion.
Believing to be alone, she searched the rooms and found numerous photos of Cecil on a table. In the back part of the workshop, Jill also discovered a large, elongated construction hidden under a large cloth.
As she was about to pull it away to see what it was, John suddenly appeared. He angrily grabbed her arm and tried to drag her out of the room, scolding her for coming back to the workshop.
However, Jill broke free and confronted him with the photos and the newspaper article about Cecil's death. When she asked him what he had done to him, John told her that he had taught Cecil not to take his life for granted.
Shocked by the fact that John was indeed responsible for his death, she asked him what had happened to him. Her question angered John and provoked him to grab a crowbar and angrily smash the ancient clock before he managed to calm down again.
Afterward, he told her once more to leave, which she subsequently did. Despite the bleak prospects of his health, John's reinforced will to live encouraged him to undergo chemotherapy, external beam radiation therapy, and further examination by Dr. Gordon and Dr. Lynn Denlon. In addition, he regularly returned to the hospital for routine check-ups to keep track of his declining health.
During this time, he received broad support from his helpful neighbors, Anna and Matthew. However, as expected, the treatments and therapies remained unsuccessful, and John's health further declined. Saw III , Jigsaw. Eventually, John learned about an experimental gene therapy developed by a doctor in Norway, who believed that John was a promising candidate for a new test series. However, when John asked his insurance company, Umbrella Health, to bear the treatment costs, they repeatedly declined all of his requests.
Therefore, he went to William Easton's office to talk to him in person, hoping for the latter's understanding. While William initially had a sympathetic ear for him, he did not change his decision. Instead, he made it abundantly clear that accepting his motion was not financially feasible for Umbrella, mainly due to his age and the slight chances for recovery. Furthermore, he explained that John would lose his insurance protection entirely if he decided on the experimental therapy, much to the latter's anger.
John asked William if he thought that the living would have the ultimate judgment over him as the dead would have no claim over his soul and indirectly threatened him by stating that he may be mistaken in that regard.
Then, he threw the printout of his request in the garbage can and left William's office. Saw VI. Still believing in his self-imposed mission, John planned more games and created a mechanical ventriloquist puppet named Billy , a bigger, sinister version of the doll built as a gift for Gideon. He wanted to use it to speak to his test subjects and deliver them the instructions for their games. While looking for new test subjects, John soon realized how the relationship between his neighbor, Anna, and her husband, Matthew, went sour, especially after their child's birth.
One night, while John worked in his house , he heard Anna next door as she desperately yelled at her crying baby. Later that night, Matthew was arrested by the police after supposedly rolling over his baby while sleeping and thereby accidentally suffocating his child.
As he blamed himself for his child's death, he was committed to a psychiatric facility, where he eventually hung himself in his cell. However, John soon realized that Anna had smothered her baby in a fit of rage and then put her dead child next to her sleeping husband to divert suspicion from herself. Therefore, he chose Anna as a test subject for another game taking place in early Besides her, four other people were forced to participate in this test.
The first one was Logan Nelson, who was responsible for the delayed diagnosis of John's cancer. Another participant in the game was Carly , a thief who had inadvertently caused an asthmatic woman's death by stealing her purse, which contained her inhaler. The next test subject was Mitch , a young man who once sold a motorcycle with faulty brakes to John's nephew , which caused the latter's death in a car accident. The last victim was a man named Ryan. In his youth, his reckless behavior had caused a fatal car accident, resulting in the death of two of Ryan's friends and the driver of another car.
After that, Ryan had blamed his deceased best friend for the tragedy. Their game took place in a barn located on a pig farm , which belonged to Jill's family but had been closed down after an outbreak of Aujeszky's disease. After finishing his preparations, John abducted his five victims and took them to a room inside the barn, where the game was supposed to begin. Inside the room, he fettered each of them with a metallic neck shackle attached to long chains leading to five doors on the other side of the room.
Additionally, John put buckets with eye slits on their heads, which were attached to their shackles by two laterally positioned metal pins. Finally, he injected Carly with a deadly poison before leaving the room through a secret door. Shortly afterward, the prisoners were awakened by an audible alarm and the lights, which turned on around them. They immediately started to panic, screamed for help, and tried to remove their shackles.
These attempts, however, were interrupted by John, who spoke to them over a loudspeaker. He accused all of them of harming other people with their lies and demanded that they confess their sins to save themselves.
Furthermore, he explained that they all had to sacrifice some of their blood if they wanted to get out of the room alive. After his speech, the chains were tightened, and the prisoners were dragged towards the five doors.
Attached to each of these doors were several rotating circular saw blades in various sizes. After they initially tried to fight back by brute force, Anna finally realized that each of them had to sacrifice a small amount of blood and, therefore, reluctantly cut her arm on one of the blades. Thereby, she only suffered a superficial slash wound and was able to take the bucket from her head.
The others emulated her deeds and saved themselves. After that, the doors opened, and they were dragged to the next room by their chains. However, Logan, who only woke up near the end of the game, could not react fast enough and was pulled on his back into the blades. As he did not want to let him die due to an error, John deactivated the saws and left his hideout.
Unnoticed by the other prisoners, he removed Logan's bucket and freed him from his shackle. While the others faced their next test , John heaved Logan's unconscious body on a gurney, treated the severe cuts on his back, and sutured his wounds.
Meanwhile, the game went on and claimed Carly's and Mitch's lives, while Ryan lost his right leg in another trap. Eventually, Anna, who was still mostly unharmed, decided to leave Ryan behind and broke the rules by trying to escape through a door marked with the inscription "No Exit.
However, as she did so, John already waited for Anna and injected his former neighbor with an anesthetic while hiding his face behind a pig mask. Afterward, John also sedated Ryan and took the two of them to a milking room. There, he chained them by their legs to metal bars on the opposite sides of the room. After doing so, he gave his attention to a construction in the middle of the room, which he used to correctly adjust a mechanical mounting device that would be a part of Anna's and Ryan's final test.
When the two of them woke up shortly afterward, Anna was shocked to see John. She and Ryan begged for their lives, whereas John only scolded them for their sins, which had brought them into this situation in the first place.
While he confronted Ryan with the deadly car crash and Anna with the murder of her baby, he finished his work on the contraption in the middle of the room and told his prisoners that they did things "backwards.
Soon afterward, he returned and saw that Anna and Ryan had failed their test and died in the process. Convinced that she had to kill Ryan to save herself, Anna had tried to shoot him.
However, the shotgun had been manipulated, causing it to shoot backward and kill Anna in the process. Thereby, the keys to their shackles, which had been hidden inside the shell, were destroyed. Without any hope of survival, Ryan eventually succumbed to the severe loss of blood caused by the amputation of his leg.
When the game was over, John put their corpses next to each other and left them in the room. After Logan, the only survivor of the massacre, recovered from his injuries, John convinced him to join him in his mission.
As Logan felt responsible for the careless mistake at the hospital years earlier, he agreed to John's offer. Furthermore, John revealed that Logan had taught him that their actions must never come from anger or vengeance. He promised him that they would bring justice to those who wrongfully harmed others, telling Logan that they'd "speak for the dead. However, their collaboration quickly came to an end when Logan joined the US Army and was deployed to Fallujah in May Shortly afterward, in early June, someone else used John's modus operandi.
One of the detectives working on the Jigsaw case was Mark Hoffman , whose sister, Angelina Acomb , had been murdered by her boyfriend, Seth Baxter , during a domestic dispute in Even though Seth received a life sentence in , he was released from prison in May after five years due to a procedural error.
The following month, Hoffman abducted him and put him in a self-built trap without giving him any chance to escape. Then, after Seth's inevitable death, Hoffman cut a puzzle piece from his skin to throw suspicion on Jigsaw. However, John had observed Hoffman during the police investigation and knew that he had been responsible for the murder of Seth. Therefore, he gathered evidence against Hoffman and sent him an anonymous letter with the message, "I know who you are.
When Hoffman returned to his apartment house shortly afterward, John was already waiting for him in an elevator. While riding up, Hoffman noticed that only his floor had been selected on the panel. Furthermore, he realized that John was holding something in his hand. However, when Hoffman slowly reached for his gun, John suddenly attacked him and injected him with an anesthetic, which caused him to pass out.
Afterward, John took the unconscious detective to his workshop, strapped him to a chair , and positioned a shotgun in front of him. The trigger of this gun was connected to his arm restraints by a cord.
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