SAW III, 2006In flashback scenes, Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) escapes the bathroom he was left in Saw II by breaking his foot. He gets into a vicious fight with Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith), who eventually overcomes him and leaves him for dead. Before she leaves, Matthews leaves several angry parting comments, calling Amanda a "junkie bitch" and telling her she isn't Jigsaw, causing her evident distress. Other flashbacks show that Amanda had been working with John Kramer, the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell), prior to the events of the first film, and had been the one who actually instigated the abduction of Adam under Jigsaw's orders. After the events of the first film, it is revealed, she had suffocated Adam in a mercy killing.
In the movie's present, Detective Kerry (Dina Meyer), Sergeant Rigg (Lyriq Bent) and Forensic Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) are investigating the corpse of Jigsaw's latest victim Troy (J. Larose), intrigued by the fact that his trap was inescapable in a break with Jigsaw's M.O. When Kerry returns home, she is kidnapped and finds herself in a trap of her own. When the escape method given fails and Amanda arrives, Kerry realizes this trap is also inescapable and is killed.
Meanwhile, a dying Jigsaw orders the abduction of two final victims: Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh), a skilled but depressed doctor, and Jeff Reinhart (Angus Macfadyen), a father obsessed with revenge against the drunk driver that killed his son. A collar holding several shotgun shells hooked to Jigsaw's medical equipment is locked on Lynn by Amanda, and she is tasked with keeping John alive until his tests are completed under threat of death (if John flatlines, the shells will go off and kill her.) Jeff is led through an abandoned meat packing plant where he is given the choice to rescue three of his top targets of revenge from a variety of timed traps. Jeff's attempts are mostly unsuccessful: he fails to rescue the bystander who did nothing to help him after his son was hit, and after saving the lenient Judge Halden (Barry Flatman) he accidentally fatally shoots him in a failed attempt to save his son's killer, Timothy Young (Mpho Koaho). With his tests nonetheless complete, Jeff leaves to find Jigsaw.
Lynn succeeds in keeping John alive, but during the course of operations he semi-consciously audibly professes his love for his old girlfriend Jill during a dream. Amanda interprets his comments as being towards Lynn, and in jealous anger does not follow his instructions to remove the collar after she completes her task. When Jeff reaches Jigsaw's room, Amanda shoots and wounds Lynn while Jeff fatally shoots Amanda in the neck. In her final moments, John expresses his disappointment with her over making her traps unwinnable, and that this was in fact a test designed for her. Her jealousy killed her, because by attacking Lynn she provoked Jeff to deliver a fatal blow. Last, Jigsaw reveals that Jeff and Lynn were in fact married.
Finally, John offers Jeff the chance to forgive him. Jeff opts instead to slash John's throat. Before he dies, John plays a tape explaining the details of Lynn's trap, explaining how he has effectively killed her, and that he has trapped his daughter in a room with a limited air supply and that he will have to play another game to find her. In short order the doors of the room seal, Lynn's collar kills her and Jigsaw dies, leaving Jeff screaming alone. The film ends with a quick montage of all the traps seen thus far in the Saw series.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_3 SAW IV, 2007The film opens with the autopsy of the deceased Jigsaw Killer, John Kramer, who was killed in the ending climax of Saw III. During the operation, a wax-coated audio cassette is found in Jigsaw's stomach. Detective Hoffman is called to the scene, where he plays the tape which states that, although Jigsaw is dead, "the games have just begun."
The scene changes to two men awakening in a mausoleum, finding themselves in one of Jigsaw's prearranged "games". One man has been rendered blind (his eyes sewn shut), while the other is mute (his lips sewn together). In a desperate attempt to escape, the mute man kills the panicking blind man, takes a key from the blind man's neck, and frees himself. He then begins screaming in terror which causes the stitches to tear free and blood pours from his mouth.
The police, meanwhile, have discovered the remains of Detective Kerry who was killed in the Angel Trap, set up by Amanda Young in Saw III. Sergeant Rigg, distraught at the find, leaves the scene as FBI Agents Perez and Strahm arrive and begin investigating. They quickly deduce that Amanda needed help in placing Kerry in the trap, and that Jigsaw has another apprentice who is still alive.
That night, Rigg is attacked in his home and left unconscious, awakening to a series of interconnected tests that have been arranged. In the first test, which takes place in his own home, Rigg struggles to free a woman named Brenda from a deadly device, though his tape suggests that he leave her alone. After saving Brenda's life, she responds by attempting to kill Rigg, who is forced to subdue her. He later learns that she had a test of her own, which was to kill him with a knife that was taped under the TV should he save her, or she would be jailed for prostitution.
The FBI raid Rigg's home, believing that he may be connected to Jigsaw. There they find that Brenda has died from her injuries. The evidence there leads them to suspect Rigg and also helps them to discover Jill, Jigsaw's ex-wife, as a possible source of information about the recent traps.
Finding clues to the next phase of the game, Rigg travels to a hotel and uses a key supplied by Jigsaw to gain access to a room that contains his next instruction. Rigg opens a chest on the bed and finds a pig mask and a photo of man inside. Rigg's objective is to capture the man who is the clerk for the hotel. Rigg captures Ivan and moves him to another room which contains a vice that Rigg is instructed to place Ivan's head in. Rigg also makes Ivan strap his arms and legs onto the bed. Rigg plays Ivan's tape and Ivan must either push two buttons that would gouge his eyes out or have the device rip off his arms and legs. Surrounded by photos and video evidence of Ivan's sordid past as a rapist, an enraged Rigg decides to follow Jigsaw's advice and forces Ivan in the trap, who fails to complete it and has his arms and legs severed.
We are then shown a flashback of Rigg's past before he became a member of SWAT, dealing with the apparent beating of a child by her father. Unable to confess the crime to Rigg, they were forced to let the man go; but not before his comments instigated Rigg to assault the girl's father. Rigg escaped prosecution, thanks to his underhanded lawyer, Art Blanc, the mute man from the first trap of the movie.
Meanwhile in present time, Rigg enters the now derelict school where the dreaded event took place, finding the deceased abusive father and his wife, chained together with a single spike piercing their body. A flashback shows the woman being instructed to escape her abusive relationship by removing the spikes from her body while simultaneously killing her husband. However, she is unable to remove the final spike due to the wounds inflicted by previous spikes. Instructed by Jigsaw that Rigg must stand aside and allow her to complete her own test, Rigg hands her a key which will unlock her from her shackles but tells her that she must remove the final spike herself as he follows his next clue but not before pulling the fire alarm to alert the authorities.
As the FBI and police investigate the crime scene, an accident with the now-completed trap occurs, spearing the forensic photographer through the neck and killing her. Frustrated and disgusted, Perez and Strahm search the school further, finding Jigsaw's puppet, Billy, and a tape addressed to themselves. Perez is told that Strahm is "about to kill an innocent man" and that "her next step is crucial". Peering closer to investigate a sound, the puppet's face explodes sending shrapnel into Perez's face and revealing a camera hidden in the puppets skull.
Desperate, Strahm attempts to elicit information from Jill. Flashbacks reveal that Jill lost her and John's baby due to the inadvertent actions of a drug addict named Cecil. John was sitting outside of the clinic where Jill worked, waiting to pick up Jill, where he was solicited for sex by Addison, whom he would later place in a trap in Saw II. Noticing Cecil running from a scene where he had accidentally slammed a door into Jill, John investigated, finding Jill wounded, and carried her to the hospital. However, the baby is lost and John is visibly distraught.
John became obsessed with the idea that only the victims can change themselves and began developing traps to test subjects. Jill, having healed from her assault, came to John's workshop with Art, discussing a project that they were partners in. John showed no interest, still consumed with his loss and told them both to leave. He tracked and abducted Cecil, then placed him in the first trap he constructed. There, John explained to Cecil that the purpose of the trap was to make Cecil "as ugly on the outside as he was on the inside". During the test, the trap collapsed, freeing Cecil, though his face and wrists already severely injured. John, unwavering, then goaded Cecil to assault him; Cecil lunged at John, who side-stepped the attempt, causing Cecil to throw himself into a pile of razor wire. John then left Cecil to die.
Moving back to current time, Rigg has followed his clue to the Gideon factory owned by John, with Agent Strahm close behind using information obtained from Jill. As Rigg and Strahm move through the facility, we see Jeff, the protagonist of Saw III, working his way through the building. Strahm follows the noise that Jeff is making, leading him away from Rigg, while Rigg finds a door that leads him to his final test.
Inside the room are Detective Matthews, Detective Hoffman, and Art Blanc, each involved in his own test. Flashbacks reveal that Matthews has been a prisoner of Jigsaw for six months. Art has been instructed that once the time for the test is up, he can activate a switch which will free them all. Part of the test requires him to give Matthews a revolver with a single bullet. Each subject discovers however, that if someone enters the main door they will trigger another trap which will instantly kill Detective Matthews. An exhausted Rigg lunges at the door, smashing through it as Matthews shoots him in a vain attempt to stop him. Unfortunately, the trap is still activated and Detective Matthews is killed, his head crushed. Rigg shoots Art, believing him to be Jigsaw's accomplice, fatally wounding him. As a final tape is played, Rigg is told that he has failed his test; his obsession to save others has inadvertently led to their deaths. Rigg had been warned by superiors on at least two occasions not to open unsecured doors, which he did once more causing Matthews death. Had he simply allowed time to run out and not saved them, they would have been safe from harm and released from their traps.
Meanwhile, Strahm follows Jeff into a sealed room where he finds Jeff and the bodies of Lynn, Amanda, and Jigsaw. As Jeff waves his weapon in a threatening manner, demanding to know the location of his daughter, Strahm kills him in defense.
As Rigg lies wounded on the floor, Hoffman releases himself from his trap, revealing that he is involved in the game, a new Jigsaw apprentice. He leaves Rigg to die, stating "Game Over," before sealing Strahm inside his room.
It is then revealed that the events of Saw IV have run concurrently to those of Saw III, with Strahm intercepting Jeff just after the deaths of Jigsaw, Amanda and Doctor Lynn. The autopsy scene that occurred at the beginning of the film is shown again, revealing it to have occurred after the events of the film and not before. As the tape found in Jigsaw's stomach is played again, Detective Hoffman is told that Jigsaw's games have only just begun, and he will be tested.
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