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Amanda Young is a fictional character that has appeared in the Saw film series. She is portrayed by Shawnee Smith. At first a minor character in the original film, her role expanded in the sequels until she became one of the most important characters in the series.

[edit] Jigsaw's test

John Kramer first met Amanda at a hospital. He was just told that he had cancer and had little chances of recovery. Amanda was recovering from an accidental overdose on Heroin. John was disgusted that such a bright young woman would throw away her life away so easily. Although she had survived the ordeal, he doubted she had learned anything from it.

John Kramer would later take on the persona of Jigsaw (a name not coined by him but the media due to the puzzle-piece engravings that he cut out of his victims after they died), a psychopath who would place his victims in deadly traps. There was a method to his madness, however; those who he kidnapped were people he considered to be unappreciative of their lives. There were ways (however difficult they were) to escape the traps. Those who survived would, according to him, find a better appreciation for their lives.

One of his more significant 'subjects' was Amanda. After Jigsaw abducted her, he placed her in trap with a heavy metal apparatus (a reverse bear-trap) to her jaw. Jigsaw communicated with her via a talking puppet on a nearby television set. When the a timer went off, Jigsaw explained, the trap would rip her jaws open if she did not find the key. The key was in the stomach of a dead man lying across the room from her, her former drug dealer. To get the key, she would have to cut into the man's stomach.

Upon further realization, it was revealed that the man was not dead, but rather heavily sedated with opium. Amanda killed him, retrieving the key from his stomach just in time and unlocking herself just before the bear trap exploded.

As Amanda reeled from what she had just been through, Jigsaw's puppet appeared before her, congratulating her for surviving. "Most people are so ungrateful to be alive...but not you. Not anymore."

Later, while being interviewed by a detective, her past as a drug addict was once again brought up. When she was asked if she was grateful, Amanda responded tearfully, "He helped me."

Although her role in the first film was brief, the shot of Amanda in the reverse bear-trap grew to be one of the most iconic images from the film, appearing in many of the posters, advertisements and other promotional material.

[edit] Someone to follow

In Saw II, Jigsaw was apprehended by Detective Eric Matthews and the S.W.A.T. team. But before he could be taken into custody, Jigsaw showed a series of television sets that revealed he had taken several people hostage and placed them into a locked house rigged with traps. There was a poisonous gas inside the venting systems, and if an antidote was not found in time, everyone would die. To Matthew's horror, one of those people was his teenage son, Daniel. All Matthews could do was watch the events unfold on the television screens.

Jigsaw told Matthews about his set of 'rules' for the game: all the detective had to do was talk with him for a certain amount of time, and then his son would be found in a safe and secure place. As the evidence displayed seemed to show the opposite, Matthews was doubtful about Jigsaw's sincerity.

One of the people in the house happened to be Amanda. When another person referred to Jigsaw as a serial killer, Amanda defended him, saying that he wanted them to survive as long as they played by the 'rules', explaining to the others about her previous encounter with him.

As the hours progressed, more and more people began to die; either from failing to complete Jigsaw's tests, or from the poison that was slowly overriding their systems. Tension began to rise as it was revealed that sometime in the past they had all been arrested by Matthews for crimes they did not commit (Matthews would often illegally plant evidence to incriminate people he believed were guilty) and that his son was with them. Amanda was once again tested by Jigsaw, albeit in a trap not meant for her; a pit of hypodermic needles meant for Xavier, a drug dealer who would have to, in Jigsaw's words, go through what he forced his customers into each day in order to find an important key. Instead of going in himself, Xavier pushed Amanda into the grisly pit. Although she managed to survive and find the key, it was too late and the timer went off, rendering the key useless.

Meanwhile, Matthews had engaged in a battle of wits with Jigsaw and was losing his cool in the process. He even took some of Jigsaw's designs and experiments and destroyed them in front of him, in an attempt to get him to break down. All Jigsaw did was quip that by destroying the evidence it would be harder to incriminate him.

Back at the house, Xavier had discovered that on the back of everyone's neck was a small number that would correspond in a safe that had the antidotes inside. He examined all the dead bodies to find the numbers, even deliberately leaving another person to die in one of Jigsaw's traps. With Amanda and Daniel the only people left (and the only people still alive), he pursued them throughout the house, ending up in the same bathroom that the original Saw film took place. After an intense confrontation (in which Xavier, upon realizing that Amanda would not tell him what his own tattoo read, sliced off the skin on the back of his neck) Daniel used his remaining strength to kill Xavier with the same saw that Dr. Lawrence Gordon used to saw off his foot.

Now at the end of his rope, and watching all the prior events on what he believed to be a live feed, Matthews attacked Jigsaw and proceeded to brutalize the dying old man in an attempt to find out the location of the house. Jigsaw relented, telling Matthews that he'd take him to to the house but only with him alone. Meanwhile, the SWAT's tech team had managed to find out where the feed was coming from.

Jigsaw led Matthews to the house. The detective explored the house, finally entering the same bathroom that he believed his son to be in moments before, only to find out Daniel was missing. Before he could realize he had been set up, a robed figure in a pig mask (the same outfit that Jigsaw wore in the first film) leapt out of the bathtub, injecting Matthews with a hypodermic needle and knocking him unconscious.

Meanwhile, the SWAT team had finally tracked down the live feed from the video tapes, only to find out that it wasn't live at all; all the tapes were broadcasting previously taped data that took place in a different house. A timer went off at Jigsaw's warehouse, causing a safe to open revealing Daniel, sedated, but safe and sound, just as Jigsaw had promised.

Matthews wakes up up to find himself chained in the bathroom with a tape cassette player nearby. Playing it, he hears Amanda's voice. Amanda explains that she was guilty of many things, but not the false drug charges that he set her up for. Because of him, she became involved with her drug addiction. Amanda goes on to explain that when Jigsaw had taken her, she was guilty.

Amanda goes on to tell him she found a father figure and someone to follow in Jigsaw. When he dies, she will follow on in his place to ensure that his legacy will live on, thus making him "immortal". And Matthews, she says, is her first test subject.

Amanda then appears in the doorway, telling him that the game was over, before shutting the door and leaving him to die alone in the dark.

[edit] Amanda's future

Amanda's role will increase in the upcoming Saw III. Apparently we will learn more about the relationship between Jigsaw and Amanda, and be filled in on the blanks as on how he 'recruited' her. Her main plot will most likely focus on Amanda dealing with her mentor's failing health. To help him stay alive to perform one last test, Amanda kidnaps Dr. Lynn Denlon to keep him stable long enough.

Says Shawnee Smith about Amanda and Jigsaw's relationship, "It's like Romeo and Juliet. It was this love story that developed. Not weird — well, kind of — but like this true love."[1]