List of Saw Characters
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The following is a list of characters who've appeared throughout the Saw film series, either as main characters, victims of games, or others. This list places the characters in alphabetical order based on surname, or first name if the former is not confirmed in any Saw media.
[edit] Addison
Addison was portrayed by Emmanuelle Vaugier.
Addison first appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It is hinted at that she was a prostitute or a stripper who was framed by Detective Eric Matthews. She eventually seperates herself from the team after finding out that one of the others is Eric's son. While under the influence of the toxic gas being pumped throughout the house, she stumbled into a rigged room, where she fell victim to the Razor Box trap, which left her arms stuck inside a glass box, reaching for a spilled syringe, with razor blades lining the arm holes, preventing her from pulling out her arms. Unknown to her, Addison had a number written on the back of her neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Addison's neck was a blue 9. As she screamed for help in the glass box, Xavier, another prisoner in the house, came to read the number that had been written on the back of her neck before leaving her to bleed to death.
[edit] Corbett
Corbett was portrayed by Niamh Wilson.
Corbett was the daughter of Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart in Saw III. After both her parents were kidnapped for their individual games, Corbett was also taken as a part of her father's game. She was locked away and given a limited air supply. Had Jeff let Jigsaw live, Corbett's position would be revealed. However, Jeff killed Jigsaw and Amanda, in turn killing his wife, and being forced to play another unknown game to find his daughter.
[edit] Lynn Denlon
- Main Article: Lynn Denlon
Lynn Denlon was portrayed by Bahar Soomekh.
Lynn was a doctor who was kidnapped in Saw III with the task of keeping John/Jigsaw alive under the threat of death. Along with Jeff Reinhart, she was Jigsaw's main subject in the film. She was killed instantly after Jigsaw died, activating the trap placed around her neck by Amanda, blowing her head away.
[edit] Adam Faulkner
- Main Article: Adam Faulkner
Adam Faulkner is portrayed by Leigh Whannell.
Adam was a photographer who was hired to follow people and take pictures of them for money. He was kidnapped and placed in a game of Jigsaw's, along with Lawrence Gordon. He was meant to cut off his foot if he wanted to leave, but was instead locked away after Lawrence escaped. Following that, he was suffocated to death by Amanda Young, Jigsaw's apprentice, who felt guilty for leaving him there.
[edit] Alison Gordon
Alison Gordon was portrayed by Monica Potter.
Alison appeared in Saw as Lawrence Gordon's wife. She was angry with him because she knew he lied to her, and because he was always busy with his job. Alison, along with her daughter Diana, was taken hostage by Zep Hindle in another game created by Jigsaw. If Lawrence failed to kill Adam by 6:00PM, Zep would be forced to kill the mother and daughter to save himself. Lawrence failed, but Alison managed to escape with her daughter.
[edit] Diana Gordon
Diana Gordon was portrayed by Makenzie Vega.
Diana appeared in Saw as Lawrence Gordon's daughter. She was worried that her father was going to leave her mother. She, along with her mother Alison, was taken hostage by Zep Hindle in another game created by Jigsaw. If Lawrence failed to kill Adam by 6:00PM, Zep would be forced to kill the mother and daughter to save himself. Lawrence failed, but Diana managed to escape with her mother.
[edit] Lawrence Gordon
- Main Article: Lawrence Gordon (Saw character)
Lawrence Gordon was portrayed by Cary Elwes.
A doctor, Lawrence was the one who gave John Kramer the bad news of his cancer. He and his wife and daughter became involved with Jigsaw's games after Gordon was kidnapped while leaving a hotel (He had just broken off an affair with his medical student). Waking up chained to a pipe in a bathroom, he soon escaped after cutting his foot off. It is unknown if he got out alive.
[edit] Dylan
Dylan was portrayed by Stefan Georgiou.
Dylan only appeared in flashbacks and photographs in Saw III. He was the son of Jeff Reinhart and Lynn Denlon, who had been hit and killed by a drunk driver while riding his tricycle.
[edit] Gus
Gus was portrayed by Tony Nappo.
Gus was a con-artist who was first seen in Saw II, as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House, along with seven others. Waking up in the small starting room with the others, he remembers a report he saw on TV about a man who spent 9 years locked in a cell with no light. He continues to sweat and panic before he sides with Xavier in a small arguement with Amanda concerning a key. Gus peers into the peephole of the locked door as Xavier turns the key in the keyhole, triggering a gun to go off and shoot Gus in the eye through the peephole. Unknown to him, Gus had a number written on the back of his neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Gus' neck was a red 2. Xavier stumbled upon the numbers when he accidentally pulled off the coat covering Gus' corpse while trying to get into the safe.
[edit] Judge Halden
Judge Halden was portrayed by Barry Flatman.
Halden was the judge that had presided over Jeff Reinhart's son's murder case. Jeff was angry with him because he had only sentenced Timothy Young, the driver who hit Jeff's son, six months in prison. Jeff got his chance at revenge on the judge in Saw III, while walking through a warehouse filled with tests. Judge Halden was found by Jeff, bound at the neck to a silo. Above him, several circular saws were activated, and a rotating chain began to drop dead pigs into the saws, splashing the liquified remains onto the judge. Jeff had to burn all of his son's possessions in an incinerator to retrieve the key needed to unlock the judge's neck brace, which he did, just before Halden began to drown. The judge then followed Jeff to one of his last tests, where the former was accidentally shot in the head and killed.
[edit] Zep Hindle
Zep Hindle was portrayed by Michael Emerson.
Zep was an orderly who worked in the hospital that John Kramer, the Jigsaw Killer, was treated at. He formed a sort of friendship with John while he was being treated for cancer, and would later be forced to watch Adam Faulkner and Lawrence Gordon play out their game in a bathroom trap. If Lawrence failed to kill Adam by 6:00PM, then Zep would be forced to kill Lawrence's wife and child in order to save himself from the slow-acting nerve agent in his bloodstream. He would then have to kill Lawrence himself and presumably retrieve an antidote from Jigsaw. Lawrence failed, but his wife and daughter managed to escape from Zep's grip before he could kill them, as Zep was attacked by David Tapp, a dispatched detective who was watching the Gordons' home from across the street. Zep was forced to flee down to the sewers to kill Lawrence, but Tapp followed him, which resulted in a small fight. Zep managed to shoot Tapp in the stomach and continue to the bathroom, where he found Adam and Lawrence. Lawrence shot Adam, and tried to shoot Zep, but didn't have enough bullets. As Zep was about to kill Lawrence, Adam knocked him down with a toilet lid, bludgeoning him to death with it.
[edit] Jeff
Jeff was portrayed by Ned Bellamy.
Jeff first appeared in Saw as a victim of one of Jigsaw's experimental traps. Jeff was bound to a chair with two drills facing his neck. Once activated, the drills began moving towards his neck, and Detective Sing was told that the key to stop them was on a ring filled with dozens of keys. Instead of using a key, Sing shot the drills, successfully deactivating them. He is not connected to Jeff Reinhart, the protagonist of Saw III.
[edit] Jill
Jill was portrayed by Betsy Russell.
Jill first appeared in the graphic novel Saw: Rebirth. It is revealed that she used to be John's girlfriend, who broke up with him because of his fear of commitment. She was later possibly seen in a series of flashbacks in Saw III (Jill in the comic had dark hair, in the film she was blonde), when John was undergoing brain surgery. As the hallucinations proceeded, John confessed his love for her, not knowing that he was actually speaking to Lynn, the person operating on him.
[edit] Jonas
Jonas was portrayed by Glenn Plummer.
Jonas first appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It is revealed that he, like several of the others, was framed and sent to jail by Detective Eric Matthews. Jonas seemed to be one of the only ones in the house using logic, trying to think of a game plan or talk it out, but ended up getting in a fight with Xavier, who killed Jonas by hitting him in the back of the head with a nail-studded bat. Unknown to him, Jonas had a number written on the back of his neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Jonas' neck was a yellow 16.
[edit] Detective Kerry
Detective Kerry is portrayed by Dina Meyer.
Detective Kerry first appears in Saw when she, along with Detective Tapp and Detective Sing, are investigating a crime scene. She shows them the the Razor Wire Maze, which Paul is in, hanging dead in the wires. She points out what had happened and shows them a cassette player with the tape inside left for Paul. She then shows them the the Flammable Jelly trap used on Mark. She also points out that someone was watching through a hole in the wall.
Kerry's next appearence was in Saw II. She and Detective Eric Matthews are at Jigsaws lair, along with a SWAT team, trying to figure out how to save the victims in the Nerve Gas House via a couple of TV screens showing the house. She and the SWAT team later find out the TV screens were not a live feed, but a recording of what had already happened. She then discovers Eric's son, Daniel, in a safe but couldn't tell Eric because he had already left with Jigsaw to the house.
Kerry returns in Saw III while investigating another Jigsaw-related crime. Worried that the victim may be Eric, she soon realizes that the trap is unusual for Jigsaw's MO, as there was no possible escape. Later, while watching the tape left for Troy, her TV switches to a camera's point of view, coming from her closet. She walks up to it after firing a couple rounds into the closet door, and opens the door hesitantly before Amanda sneaks up behind her and kidnaps her.
Kerry then wakes up, hanging from a ceiling in several chains that are connected to a harness on her torso. As she awakes, a key is dropped down into a suspended jar that is just above her head. The key begins dissolving in the liquid inside of the jar, and a TV in front of Kerry turns on, revealing Billy, Jigsaw's puppet, who delivers a message that informs Kerry that she has spent most of her life with the dead, understanding them more than she does the living. The message also informs her that the harness is hooked into her ribcage, and that once the tape ends, she'll have one minute to get the key out of the corrosive acid and unlock her harness before it tears her torso open. Kerry then plunges her hand in to get the key, but pulls it out in agony before putting it back in a second time, this time successfully retrieving the key. She quickly stuffs the key into the padlock, and is horrified to find that it does nothing to open the harness. She looks up as Amanda walks in, realizing that the harness, like Troy's body chains trap, has no escape. She pulls down on the chains as the harness rips her torso wide open, exposing her internal organs.
[edit] John Kramer
- Main Article: Jigsaw Killer
John Kramer, alias the Jigsaw Killer, is portrayed by Tobin Bell.
John Kramer is a cancerous vigilante who builds and creates games and traps for victims whom he believes take their life for granted. After learning of his inoperable frontal lobe tumor, he tried to kill himself by driving off a cliff, but survived. From then on, he decided to test the fabric of human nature.
[edit] Laura
Laura was protrayed by Beverley Mitchell.
Laura first appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It is discovered that she was a kleptomaniac who was framed and put in jail by Eric Matthews. Once the door opened to the rest of the house, Laura helped Amanda look for clues before finding a door that led down to the furnace. After a tape is played explaining Obi's game, she remembered that it was him who kidnapped her while she was starting her car. After Obi died in the oven, Laura became weaker, unable or unwilling to stand for very long, instead relying on Daniel for support when she wasn't sitting against the wall. She pointed out a picture with a cracked frame, which led to the discovery of Daniel's father's identity. Laura was then the first one to succumb to the effects of the toxic nerve agent being pumped through the house, having a fatal seizure while resting in Amanda's arms. Unknown to her, Laura had a number written on the back of her neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Laura's neck was a purple 8.
[edit] Michael
Michael was portrayed by Noam Jenkins.
Michael first appeared in Saw II. He found himself in one of Jigsaw's contraptions, set to drive nails into his head if he didn't cut his eye out to grab the key. Jigsaw took an interest in him because of his occupation as a police informant, using his eyes to snitch on people. He died when the venus flytrap-like Death Mask closed on his head.
[edit] Daniel Matthews
Daniel Matthews was portrayed by Erik Knudsen.
Daniel first appeared in Saw II as the son of Detective Eric Matthews. After an arguement with his father, Daniel was told to just leave, and went missing. As Eric Matthews uncovered Jigsaw's lair, he discovered that his son had been taken prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. The seven others were all arrested at one point or another by Eric, but only after having evidence planted against them by the detective. Once Daniel wakes up in the house, he assists Laura in getting from room to room, and talks to Amanda about how to survive. When it is discovered that the corrupt detective was Daniel's father, everyone in the house turned their back on Daniel. At that point, Xavier started his rampage through the house looking for the numbers on the back of everyone's neck. Amanda grabbed Daniel and escaped into the foundation of the house with him, while Xavier followed close behind, eventually ending up in the bathroom trap from the first movie. Daniel pretended to pass out on the floor, but sprung to life when Xavier reached for him, slicing his neck with a leftover hacksaw and killing him. From there, he was administred an antidote by Amanda, who then brought him to Jigsaw to be locked in a safe with oxygen, as part of Eric's test. The safe later opened up, revealing to Kerry and the rest of the SWAT team that he was safe.
[edit] Detective Eric Matthews
- Main Article: Detective Eric Matthews
Eric Matthews is portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg.
Eric Matthews is a detective who leads a SWAT team to Jigsaw's latest lair in Saw II, along with his ex-partner Kerry. Eric soon finds that his son has been kidnapped by Jigsaw, and is forced to play a game of his own, which he fails, resulting in his lock-up in a bathroom trap. However, he manages to escape his shackle by breaking his foot with a toilet lid. He then confronts Amanda, the one who put him in the bathroom, and the two fight before Amanda kicks him in the ankle and leaves him to die.
[edit] Obi
Obi was portrayed by Tim Burd.
Obi first appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It is revealed by his own individual test in the house that he was the one who kidnapped the others. His test would have allowed him to get two antidotes for the poisonous gas being pumped into the house, breathed in by the prisoners. He had to crawl into a furnace and grab the two syringes from the chains, but when he was indside the furnace, he grabbed one, but had difficulty grabbing the second one. When he did manage to pull down on the second one, it triggered the door of the furnace to slam shut and lock. Once it closed, the inside of the furnace ignited. Obi would have had to twist a knob that would shut off the gas to the furnace, but he would have to burn himself to do it. He ended up dying as he attempted to crawl through a broken window on the other side of the furnace. Unknown to him, Obi had a number written on the back of his neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Obi's neck was a green 11.
[edit] Jeff Reinhart
- Main Article: Jeff Reinhart
Jeff was portrayed by Angus Macfadyen
Jeff was Jigsaw's main subject in Saw III. He became obsessed with vengeance against those that brought about the death of his son Dylan, and was sent into a series of games in which he had the opportunity to save those he held grudges against or let them die. His last test turned out to be Jigsaw himself, who asked for forgiveness. Jeff killed him with a buzzsaw, in turn killing his wife Lynn, and setting himself up for another game to save his daughter Corbett.
[edit] Rigg
Rigg was portrayed by Lyriq Bent.
Rigg was a SWAT officer who first appeared in Saw II. He assisted Detective Kerry and Eric as they uncovered Jigsaw's warehouse lair and attempted to arrest him. He seemed to know both Kerry and Eric personally, as he blocked off Kerry from stopping Eric as he began brutalizing Jigsaw, which he encouraged. Rigg appeared again in Saw III briefly while investigating the remains of Troy.
[edit] Mark Rodriguez
Mark was portrayed by Paul Gutrecht.
Mark is first featured in Saw as one of Jigsaw's first victims. Apparently, he would claim to be sick or have injuries of some sort when he was perfectly healthy so he could skip work. In Saw: Rebirth, John notices him at the hospital claiming he is sick when he appears to be healthy.
He was stripped nude in a dark room, and had a slow acting poision in his bloodstream. From the message Jigsaw left for him, the antidote was inside a safe in front of him and the combination was written on the wall. However, the wall was filled with hundreds of numbers, and he had to choose the right set. The floor was covered in glass, and Mark's body was smeared with a flammable substance. The only source of light in the room was a wax candle. Slowy, Mark began to try each combination. However, he fumbled with the candle and ignited the substance covering him, burning him alive. His charred corpse was found by the police some time later.
[edit] Danica Scott
Danica was portrayed by Debra Lynne McCabe.
Danica Scott was the only witness to the death of Jeff Reinhart's son Dylan. Instead of staying to testify, Danica fled the scene, and was later kidnapped as part of Jeff's tests. She was stripped nude and was hung from her arms in a freezer room. The key to the lock binding her arms was hanging behind a set of frozen pipes. Once Jeff entered, cold water began spraying on Danica, and she was able to convince Jeff to help her. He managed to get the key, tearing part of his cheek off in the process, but it was too late, as the water had already frozen and left her dead in a sheet of ice, from head to toe.
[edit] Detective Steven Sing
Steven Sing was portrayed by Ken Leung.
Steven Sing was a detective who was called to the scene of one of Jigsaw's victims. He and his partner, David Tapp, were assigned the case, and Tapp found a clue in one of the tapes left over from the crime scene, leading Sing and Tapp right to Jigsaw's hideout. There, they found a man named Jeff, stuck in an experimental trap with drills aimed at his neck. Jigsaw arrived and activated the trap, telling Sing that they key to stop the drills was on a ring, along with dozens of others. Sing shot the drills and deactivated them, and pursued Jigsaw through the warehouse after Jigsaw slashed Tapp's neck. While chasing down a hallway, Sing accidentally stepped across a tripwire, which triggered four shotguns to shoot down on Sing, blasting a shotgun shell into his head.
[edit] Paul Stallberg
Paul was portrayed by Mike Butters.
Paul was one of Jigsaw's first victims. He had attracted Jigsaw's attention after cutting his own wrists, which Jigsaw thought to be a cry for attention more than a suicide attempt, as Paul had a good life with a wife and kids. Paul was placed in a room with razor wire strung across in every direction. He had to get to the exit by finding a path through the maze, but he only had 2 hours. The irony in the situation was that if he wanted to live, he'd have to cut himself again. Paul didn't make it to the exit, and died hanging on the wires.
The graphic novel Saw: Rebirth reveals Paul was a coworker of John's at a toy factory.
[edit] Detective David Tapp
David Tapp was portrayed by Danny Glover.
David Tapp was a detective who was assigned to work on one of the Jigsaw-related crime scenes, along with his partner Steven Sing. After studying one of the tapes left by Jigsaw for one of his victims, he finds a clue as to the whereabouts of his hideout, and he and Sing rush over there during the middle of the night to arrest him. However, when they get there, they find a man in an experimental trap, with two drills aimed to kill him. Jigsaw arrives, activates the trap, and makes an run for it, but not before slashing Tapp's throat. Sing manages to stop the drills from killing the man, and pursues Jigsaw throughout the warehouse before being killed by a barrage of shotguns aimed down on him.
Tapp survived the neck slash, but was dispatched from the force after becoming obsessed with the case. He hired Adam Faulkner to take pictures of Lawrence Gordon, a past suspect that Tapp believed to be Jigsaw. Tapp eventually noticed Zep Hindle waiting in Dr. Gordon's house, and when he noticed gun shots, he rushed over and confronted Zep, saving Lawrence's wife and daughter before chasing Zep into the sewers. Zep ended up shooting Tapp in the stomach, and he died.
[edit] Troy
Troy was protrayed by J. Larose.
Troy first appeared in Saw III as a victim in one of Amanda's first traps. He had chains pierced through his flesh and bone in numerous places, including his hands, arms, shoulders, torso, legs, and jaw. He was forced to attempt to tear them all out and escape before a bomb went off in the room, but was unable to get the chain out of his jaw in time, instead getting blown to pieces. Detective Kerry later investigated the gruesome scene, realizing that Jigsaw was not responsible for the trap, as it had no escape; the door to the room had been welded shut.
[edit] Xavier
Xavier was portrayed by Franky G.
Xavier first appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It is revealed by his own individual test in the house that he was a drug dealer who was framed by Detective Eric Matthews. After waking up in the house, Xavier was the one who unknowingly caused Gus' death by turning the key in the Magnum Eyehole door. Once the door opened, Xavier took off into the house on his own, not wanting to be slowed down by the group. He threatened Obi with a knife to make sure he went into a furnace to retrieve two antidotes for the toxic nerve agent being pumped into the bloodstreams of everyone in the house, and later threw Amanda into a pit of needles that was part of his own trap. Amanda found the key in the pit that was needed to open the door to get another antidote, but Xavier fumbled with the key and failed to open it in time. After that, he discovered that numbers had been written on the back of everyone's neck, and when put together, they would give the combination to a safe which contained another antidote. Xavier found the one on the back of Gus' neck before killing Jonas with a nail-studded bat. He then continued to read the numbers on everyone's neck, leaving Addison to bleed to death in her own trap before attempting to hunt down Daniel and Amanda. After cornering the two of them in the bathroom, he realized he'd have nobody to read his own number, and instead used his knife to cut off the skin on the back of his neck. Once that was done, he reached forwards for Daniel, who jumped to life and sliced Xavier's throat with a leftover hacksaw, killing him.
[edit] Amanda Young
- Main Article: Amanda Young
Amanda was protrayed by Shawnee Smith.
She was a heroin addict who Kramer met at hospital, and subsequently became one of his first three victims. She survived her trap, however, and proceeded to become Jigsaw's apprentice.
[edit] Timothy Young
Timothy Young was portrayed by Mpho Koaho.
Tim Young was a drunk driver who had accidentally hit and killed Jeff Reinhart's son Dylan. Timothy only received 6 months in prison for his crimes, and it is revealed that he later became a medical student and was on his way to becoming a doctor after being released from prison. He was later kidnapped and placed in a mechanism Jigsaw called "The Rack", which began twisting Tim's hands and feet around in a 360 degree angle, breaking his bones before beginning to twist his head around. Jeff would have to take a bullet for Tim if he wanted to retireve the key. Jeff failed to get the key into the lock in time, and Tim's neck was broken.
[edit] Other characters
[edit] Billy the puppet
- Main Article: Billy the Jigsaw Puppet
The puppet that John uses to send messages to his victims. While not being a character proper, the puppet has become iconic to the Jigsaw character, both in the film's fictional universe and in real life.
[edit] David
Jigsaw's victim in the 2003 promotional short. This character plays the part of Amanda in the short, which was an early version of the "Reverse Beartrap" scene. He was portrayed by Leigh Whannell, who played Adam in the first official film.
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