List of Saw characters

Actors who have portrayed central characters of the series. Top, left to right: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Cary Elwes. Bottom, left to right: Costas Mandylor, Danny Glover, Betsy Russell.

The Saw series of horror films features a large cast of characters created primarily by directors and screenwriters James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Darren Lynn Bousman, Patrick Melton, and Marcus Dunstan. The series focuses on the character of John Kramer (Tobin Bell), the "Jigsaw Killer", who seeks out those he considers to be wasting their lives and subjects them to torturous and lethal traps, referred to as "tests" and "games", in an attempt to make them appreciate living. The series comprises seven films: Saw (2004), Saw II (2005), Saw III (2006), Saw IV (2007), Saw V (2008), Saw VI (2009), and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter (2010).

Saw

Adam Stanheight

Adam was a freelance photographer hired by the discharged detective David Tapp to follow the man he suspected of being the Jigsaw Killer, Dr. Lawrence Gordon. Adam was kidnapped and placed in a game alongside Gordon, which took place in a large dilapidated bathroom, and each of them were given conflicting goals to accomplish by a certain time. Lawrence was tasked with killing Adam, while Adam had to try to escape; if they failed to complete their respective tests by six then they would both die. After failing to complete their tests by the deadline they were confronted by Zep Hindle. Adam beat Zep to death with a toilet tank cover, believing him to be their captor, but after Lawrence crawled away to get help, the real Jigsaw Killer revealed himself, and sealed the bathroom door, leaving Adam shackled to die.

Flashbacks from Saw III revealed that Adam was abducted by Jigsaw's apprentice, Amanda Young, and she subsequently suffocated him with a plastic bag out of guilt. Adam's decomposing corpse is seen in Saw II, Saw III, and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter. It is revealed in Saw V that Adam's last name is Stanheight, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm.

Alison and Diana Gordon

Alison and Diana are the wife and daughter of Lawrence Gordon. In Saw, Alison and Diana were held hostage by Zep Hindle as a part of Lawrence's test. When Lawrence failed his test, Zep attempted to kill both Alison and Diana, but they were saved by Detective Tapp.

Allison Kerry

Allison Kerry was one of the first detectives assigned to the Jigsaw case, and one of the most knowledgeable of how he works. She first appeared in Saw, working alongside Detectives David Tapp and Steven Sing. In Saw II she worked with Detective Eric Matthews and Lieutenant Daniel Rigg in order to try and save Matthews son. In Saw III, after Matthews disappears, and is presumed dead, Kerry becomes wracked with guilt. She and Detective Mark Hoffman were called to the scene of an inescapable trap, and Kerry is the first to suspect that someone else was responsible, as the trap didn't follow Jigsaw's modus operandi. She was later captured and placed in her own trap, but even though she followed the rules, the trap (which was built and rigged by Amanda Young) tore her rib cage apart anyway, killing her. Her corpse was later discovered by Rigg and the FBI. It was revealed in Saw IV that Kerry's first name is Allison, as seen on a file observed by Rigg. In Saw V a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Kerry is among the officers honored.

Amanda Young

Main article: Amanda Young
Smith portrayed Amanda Young, Jigsaw's apprentice.

In Saw, Amanda is introduced as a heroin addict, and the only known survivor of a Jigsaw "game", who ultimately believes that John helped her. It was revealed in Saw II that John recruited her as his apprentice, and Amanda was intended to carry out John's legacy, but she became disillusioned with his philosophy and started designing inescapable traps. Unwilling to let a flatout murderer continue his legacy John designed a test in Saw III, in which Amanda was to prove that she had what it takes, but she ultimately fails when she shoots Lynn Denlon, and Jeff Denlon retaliates by shooting Amanda. Amanda's corpse is seen in Saw IV and Saw V, and she appears in flashbacks in Saw V, and Saw VI, the latter of which reveals that Mark Hoffman blackmailed Amanda into killing Lynn, using the knowledge that she had a role in the death of John's son. Amanda was John's second apprentice.

Carla Song

In Saw, Carla was a medical student at St. Eustice Hospital, and Dr. Lawrence Gordon's mistress. She played a larger role in the video game Saw II: Flesh & Blood where she is targeted by Jigsaw for stealing vital pharmaceuticals and selling them on the street for profit. She is found by Michael Tapp with her arms secured to the ceiling of an elevator shaft and her legs secured to the roof of an elevator. Michael is tasked with completing a test in order to release her safely, his failure resulting in the elevator lowering, tearing Carla in half. It is revealed that she is part of a criminal conspiracy alongside Henry, Joseph, and Sarah; Carla being responsible for procuring more specialist items from her clinic. Even though she and Michael work together, she is soon left with Henry Jacobs, who slashes her to death with a pair of scissors.

David Tapp

Main article: David Tapp

David Tapp was a detective assigned to investigate the earlier Jigsaw crimes. Evidence led him to suspect that Dr. Lawrence Gordon was the Jigsaw Killer. Tapp and his partner Steven Sing later found Jigsaw's warehouse, but before they could apprehend him, he activated a trap, which threatened the life of Jeff Ridenhour. Sing rushed to help the victim while Tapp attempted to arrest Jigsaw, but Jigsaw slashed Tapp's throat with a concealed blade and fled. When Sing pursued Jigsaw, he was killed by a shotgun booby-trap for which Tapp blamed himself. Tapp was subsequently discharged from the force, but continued to obsess over finding Jigsaw.

Tapp monitored the Gordon's residence, still convinced Lawrence is Jigsaw, and rushed over after hearing gunshots. There he found Gordon's wife and daughter being held captive by Zep Hindle. Zep fled pursued by Tapp, and the chase led to an underground room where Tapp was shot after a brief struggle and left for dead. In Saw: The Video Game, it is shown that Tapp was nursed back to health by Jigsaw and placed in a series of traps in an asylum, forced to overcome tests and other victims sent to kill him. In the game's "Freedom" ending, Tapp manages to escape the asylum but committed suicide sometime afterwards, unable to overcome his obsession with Jigsaw. In Saw V a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Tapp was among the officers honored.

Donnie Greco

Donnie Greco[1] first appeared in Saw. As a part of Amanda Young's game, he was heavily tranquilized (injected with an opioid overdose) and unable to move or feel anything. The key to unlock her trap was placed in his stomach, and to get it, Amanda had to cut him open. Donnie is seen again in a flashback in Saw III in which Jigsaw is shown preparing the trap. He appeared again in a flashback in Saw IV exiting Jill's health clinic with Paul Leahy. The original Saw script reveals Donnie to be Amanda's drug dealer.

Jeff Ridenhour

Jeff[2] first appears in Saw as a victim of one of Jigsaw's experimental traps. He is bound to a chair with two drills aimed at his neck. Jigsaw activates the trap, and the drills slowly move towards Jeff's neck. Jigsaw tells Detective Steven Sing that the key to free him is on a ring with dozens of others. Without enough time to try all the keys, Sing shoots the drills to stop them.[3]

He later appears in Saw: The Video Game. Jeff is shown to have become suicidal due to trauma. As such, Jigsaw kidnaps Jeff once again and places him in a trap that would impale him with spikes. Detective Tapp manages to free him, but an injured Jeff runs away and leaves Tapp behind. During the events of Saw II: Flesh & Blood, it is revealed that two days after Jeff escaped from the asylum, he committed suicide.

John Kramer

Main article: Jigsaw (Saw)
Tobin Bell has portrayed John Kramer ("Jigsaw") in the films.

John Kramer was a successful civil engineer, married to Jill Tuck and expecting a son to be named Gideon. Following the miscarriage of his son caused by Cecil Adams and Amanda Young, John became distraught and later learned he had an aggressive inoperable brain tumor. He attempted suicide but ultimately survived finding a new appreciation for life. Using his wealth and skill, John began testing others' will to live by placing them in deadly traps, which he referred to as "games" or "tests", hoping to give those who survived a new appreciation for their lives. Those who failed would have a jigsaw-shaped piece cut from their flesh to represent they were missing "the survival instinct". John was then nicknamed "The Jigsaw Killer", or simply "Jigsaw" by the media. Although John's throat is slashed by Jeff Denlon in Saw III, he appears in flashbacks throughout the series.

Lawrence Gordon

Cary Elwes portrayed Dr. Lawrence Gordon in the first film, and appears in the seventh film.

Dr. Lawrence Gordon is the man who diagnosed John Kramer's cancer and was initially a suspect in the Jigsaw case. John targeted Lawrence for being cold and uncaring, and having an affair with his medical student, Carla Song. Lawrence was placed in a trap alongside Adam Stanheight and was tasked with killing him before the time limit ran out or his wife and daughter would be killed. He failed to do so, but severed his own foot to free himself from his shackle, and crawled away to get help. Lawrence passed out after using a hot steam pipe to cauterize his ankle stump. John found him unconscious shortly after and helped him recover, fitting him with a prosthetic foot.

John recruited Lawrence afterwards, and used his medical skills to prepare other traps (such as sewing the key behind Michael Marks' eye for his test, sewing Trevor's eyes shut for his game against Art Blank, recommending Lynn Denlon as the bedside figure for John, and being the one who wrote the blackmail letter to Detective Mark Hoffman). Following John's death, his ex-wife Jill delivered a package to Lawrence that had been left to her in John's will; it contained a videotape with instructions from John to watch over Jill and act on his behalf if anything was to happen to her. When Detective Mark Hoffman kills Jill and attempts to flee the city, he is ambushed by three people in pig masks, led by Lawrence. After chaining Hoffman to a pipe in the bathroom, Lawrence throws the hacksaw he used to sever his own foot out of the room, and leaves Hoffman to die.

Mark Wilson

Mark,[4] a 30-year-old software analyst,[4] was one of Jigsaw's earliest victims, targeted because he feigned illness to excuse himself from his responsibilities. Mark was stripped naked and informed that he had a slow-acting poison in his body, the antidote to which was locked in a safe in the room. Mark had to overcome the broken-glass covered floor and use a candle to read the safe combination written on the wall, wary of the fact his flesh was smeared with wax. Mark eventually fumbled with the candle burning himself alive, and his charred corpse was later found by police. It is shown in Saw V that his surname is Wilson, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm.

Paul Leahy

Paul was one of Jigsaw's earliest victims, chosen because he attempted suicide by cutting his wrists despite having a good life with a wife and kids. Paul was placed in a large cage lined with a maze of razor wire and was given two hours to crawl his way to freedom; ironically if Paul wanted to live, he would be forced to cut himself over and over again, but, if he wanted to die, all he had to do was wait. Paul dies from his injuries before reaching the exit. Paul is later seen in Saw IV leaving Jill's drug clinic. In Saw V, Paul is shown being kidnapped by Jigsaw and Hoffman for his test in Saw.

Steven Sing

Steven Sing was one of the first detectives assigned to the Jigsaw case. He and his partner, David Tapp, used clues from a tape to find Jigsaw's warehouse. There, they found Jeff Ridenhour in a trap with drills aimed at his neck. Jigsaw arrived shortly after and activated the device when the officers exposed themselves, forcing them to choose between arresting him or saving Jeff. Sing shot the drills and pursued Jigsaw through the warehouse, after Jigsaw slashes Tapp's throat with a hidden wrist blade. While pursuing him, Sing accidentally activated a tripwire triggering four overhead shotguns to discharge, killing him. Tapp blamed himself for Sing's death, which ultimately causes him to obsess over capturing Jigsaw. In Saw V a police memorial service was held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Sing was among the officers honored.

It is shown in the video game that Sing has a wife named Melissa and a son named Franklin. Melissa encounters Tapp during the game and blames him for the death of her husband.

Zep Hindle

Zep was an orderly who worked at St. Eustice Hospital, where John Kramer was being treated for his cancer. He formed a bond with John while he was being treated, but John considered him to have "issues of his own".[5] Zep was forced to monitor Adam Stanheight and Dr. Lawrence Gordon's game, in order to obtain the antidote for the slow-acting poison in his blood stream. He was instructed to hold Allison and Diana Gordon captive and kill them and Lawrence, if Lawrence failed to kill Adam by six o'clock. Lawrence failed, but Allison and Diana managed to escape, when Detective Tapp arrives and chases Zep to an underground sewage system. After shooting Tapp, Zep proceeded to the site of Adam and Lawrence's test. Zep prepared to kill Lawrence since he shot Adam after the deadline, but Adam, having survived the gunshot, knocks Zep to the floor and beats him to death with a toilet tank cover, believing him to be their captor.

Throughout the film the audience is led to believe Zep is Jigsaw; it's not revealed until the end that Zep is a victim of Jigsaw's game rather than Jigsaw himself. On the DVD commentary for Saw, Leigh Whannell and James Wan stated that Zep enjoyed the sense of power he is given over others which he did not have before. Zep's decomposed corpse is later shown in Saw II, Saw III, and Saw 3D.

Billy

Billy is a ventriloquist puppet created by John Kramer to communicate with his victims. Billy usually appears on a TV screen when talking to victims, but sometimes appears in person. Billy gives the victims instructions on how to escape their traps before the time expires. Billy has also appeared in every adaption of Saw, becoming an icon of the series. Billy was created for John and Jill Tuck's unborn son Gideon.

Saw II

Addison Corday

Addison was a prostitute, and a victim in the Nerve Gas House. Like the other victims, she was framed by Detective Eric Matthews. She attempts to work with the other captives to survive, but upon learning that another victim, Daniel, is Eric Matthews' son, she begins working alone to find an antidote. She reaches into a glass box to retrieve an antidote, and her arms get caught in the razor-blade lined sockets. Xavier finds her, but leaves her to bleed to death after reading the number on the back of her neck. In a flashback in Saw IV, she is seen offering John her services, prior to John becoming the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback in Saw V, she is seen lying unconscious as John and Hoffman set up the Nerve Gas House.[6] According to the Saw II website, Addison is written to be 29 years old.[7]

Daniel Matthews

Daniel is the son of Detective Eric Matthews. After a falling out with his father, Daniel goes missing but is revealed to have been captured and placed in the Nerve Gas House, with seven adults who had served prison terms after being framed by Eric. As the game progresses, Daniel's lineage is discovered and he is abandoned by the other victims. Amanda returns after discovering Jonas' body, and they attempt to flee from Xavier. The chase leads to the bathroom from Saw, and Daniel slices Xavier's throat with a hacksaw, killing him. After these events, Amanda (revealed to be Jigsaw's apprentice) takes an unconscious Daniel to Jigsaw's lair where he is locked in a safe for Eric's test; the safe opens after a two-hour timer expires, and he is found by a SWAT team. Daniel appears in a flashback in Saw V, lying unconscious on the floor, while John Kramer and Mark Hoffman prepare the Nerve Gas House. Daniel briefly appears again in archive footage in Saw 3D.

Daniel Rigg

Daniel Rigg is a SWAT Commander that first appears in Saw II, assisting detectives Eric Matthews and Allison Kerry in apprehending Jigsaw. In Saw IV Rigg is put through four trials, in which he is forced to understand Jigsaw's modus operandi. He suffers a gunshot wound to the stomach in his final test, and it is revealed in Saw V that he died of blood loss. In Saw V a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Rigg is among the officers honored.

Eric Matthews

Main article: Eric Matthews (Saw)

Eric Matthews is a police detective who leads a SWAT team to Jigsaw's lair in Saw II. When the police raid the lair, Jigsaw reveals that he has captured Matthews' son, but promises that Matthews will be able to find him in a "safe and secure state" after talking with Jigsaw for two hours. Matthews has been chosen for the game due to his history of police brutality and planting evidence to convict people of crimes they did not commit. Matthews soon loses patience and assaults Jigsaw, forcing him to take him to the Nerve Gas House. When he enters the bathroom from Saw, Amanda incapacitates him, chains him to a pipe, and leaves him to die.

In Saw III, Matthews escapes the bathroom by breaking his foot and ankle. He pursues and beats Amanda before she gains the upper hand and leaves him for dead. Jigsaw later finds Matthews and imprisons him until the time comes for Daniel Rigg's tests in Saw IV. Rigg fails his final test, triggering two large ice blocks to swing down from the ceiling and crush Matthews' head. In Saw V, a memorial is set up to honor Matthews and the other police officers who have died in their effort to close the Jigsaw murders.

Gus Colyard

Gus, a businessman, is a victim of the Nerve Gas House. He and Xavier attempt to use a key on a booby-trapped door, and Gus is shot through the eye while peering through the peephole. Like the other victims, Gus was in the house because he was framed for crimes he did not commit by Eric Matthews.[7] He later appears in a flashback in Saw IV, in which he quarrels with Cecil in Jill Tuck's health clinic. In a flashback in Saw V, Gus is seen lying unconscious while Jigsaw and Mark Hoffman set up the nerve gas house. It is shown in Saw V that his surname is Colyard, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Strahm.

According to the Saw II website, Gus is written to be 38 years old.[7]

Jonas Singer

Jonas appears in Saw II as a prisoner of the Nerve Gas House. Like the other captives, Jonas had previously been framed and jailed by Detective Eric Matthews, and it is implied that he was gang affiliated. Jonas attempts to work with the others to find an antidote, and is eventually killed by Xavier, with a spiked baseball bat. It is shown in Saw V that his family name is Singer, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm. Jonas appears briefly in Saw V, in which he is seen lying unconscious on the floor, while Jigsaw and Mark Hoffman set up the Nerve Gas House.

According to the Saw II website, Jonas is written to be 41 years old.[7]

Laura Hunter

Laura appears in Saw II as a prisoner of the Nerve Gas House alongside seven other victims, all but one of whom were framed for crimes they did not commit by Detective Eric Matthews. A flashback reveals that Obi Tate had kidnapped her for Jigsaw. Laura works with the others to find an antidote, but succumbs to the nerve agent shortly after discovering that another victim, Daniel, is Eric's son. Laura appears briefly in Saw V lying unconscious, while Jigsaw and Mark Hoffman set up the Nerve Gas House. It is shown in Saw V that her surname is Hunter, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm.

According to the Saw II website, Laura is written to be 24 years old.[7]

Michael Marks

Michael was a police informant working for Detective Eric Matthews. He awoke with a spike-filled mask locked around his neck. A videotape and a set of X-ray slides revealed that the key had been surgically implanted behind his right eye, and in order to retrieve it he must remove his eye with a scalpel. He can not bring himself to do it, and when the timer expires the mask closes, killing him.

Michael is seen again in a flashback in Saw IV, in the waiting room of Jill Tuck's clinic. It is shown in Saw V that his surname is Marks, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm. He makes an appearance in Saw 3D, where it is revealed that Dr. Lawrence Gordon sewed the key behind his eye.

Obi Tate

Obi Tate[8] is an arsonist, and a victim of the Nerve Gas House. He remains isolated from the rest of the group until they come across a trap intended for him. A tape recorder reveals that Obi aided Jigsaw in kidnapping the other victims, and Obi is instructed to retrieve two antidote syringes from a furnace; he could use one for himself and give the other away. When he attempts to retrieve the syringes, he inadvertently triggers a trap that seals and ignites the furnace, burning him alive. A clue given on Obi's tape indicates that he could save himself by turning a valve within the furnace with a picture of a devil next to it, but would burn his arm in the process.

Obi makes a brief appearance in a flashback in Saw III. In a flashback in Saw V, his unconscious body is shown being dragged into the nerve gas house by Mark Hoffman. Obi appears in Saw: The Video Game where he is rescued from another furnace by David Tapp. In Saw: The Video Game it is revealed that Obi desires to be tested by Jigsaw repeatedly, thinking of it as a "gift".

Xavier Chavez

Xavier Chavez[9] is a drug dealer and a victim of the Nerve Gas House. Like the other victims Xavier had served time in prison after being framed by Detective Eric Matthews. Xavier is instructed to search for antidote syringes hidden around the house. The group finds a test intended for him, in which a key is hidden in a pit of hypodermic syringes, but he throws Amanda into the pit instead. He fails to unlock a door containing the antidote in time, and frustrated by their lack of success, abandons the others. Recalling hints left by Jigsaw on a tape recorder, Xavier realizes that each victim has a number written on the back of their neck which, when combined, will open a safe containing the antidote. Xavier begins hunting down the other victims to collect their numbers before realizing that one of the victims, Daniel, is Eric Matthews son. He corners Daniel and Amanda in the bathroom from Saw, but Daniel slashes Xavier's throat with a hacksaw, killing him. His corpse appears in Saw III and Saw 3D. In Saw V, he is seen lying unconscious while Jigsaw and Mark Hoffman set up the Nerve Gas House. According to the Saw II website, Xavier is written to be 40 years old.[7]

Saw III

Corbett Denlon

Corbett is the neglected daughter of Jeff and Lynn Denlon. She is kidnapped and hidden in Jigsaw's lair, given a limited air supply. Jeff learns of her kidnapping upon killing Jigsaw, revealing that to get Corbett back he would have to play another game. However that game never materialized since he is shot dead by Agent Peter Strahm in Saw IV. During Saw IV, Hoffman is seen holding one of Corbett's stuffed animals when he talks to Agent Lindsey Perez. Corbett has a brief appearance in Saw V where she is seen with the stuffed animal being carried out of the warehouse and given to a police officer by Hoffman. After the credits roll on the Director's Cut of Saw VI Amanda is seen talking to Corbett through the door of the room she's captive in, urging her not to trust Hoffman when he saves her.

Dylan Denlon

Dylan Denlon is Jeff and Lynn Denlon's deceased son. He is run over by a drunk driver named Timothy Young. Since Timothy did not get the punishment he deserved, Jeff becomes vengeful, which is why he is tested in Saw III.

Danica Scott

Danica Scott was the only one to witness the hit-and-run that left Jeff Denlon's son dead. Instead of staying to testify, Danica fled the scene, and is later kidnapped as part of Jeff's tests. She is stripped nude and suspended by her wrists in a freezer room. Once Jeff enters, two metal poles start spraying Danica with water at random intervals. She manages to convince Jeff to help her, but she freezes solid before he can retrieve the key from behind frozen metal bars. According to the final draft of the Saw III script, Danica is written to be in her 30s.[10]

Halden

Halden is a judge who presided over the case of Timothy Young, the drunk driver who killed Jeff Denlon's son, Dylan. Halden is captured and positioned as part of Jeff's test of forgiveness to see if Jeff could overcome his anger at Halden for only giving Timothy a six-month sentence. He is chained at the neck to the bottom of a large vat being filled with liquefied pig corpses. The key to free him is in an incinerator filled with Dylan's belongings; Jeff reluctantly burns the items to retrieve the key, and frees Halden in time. Later, while confronting Timothy Young, Jeff accidentally triggers a shotgun that discharges into Halden's face, killing him.

According to the final draft of the Saw III script, Halden is written to be in his 50s.[11]

Jeff Denlon

Jeff is one of Jigsaw's victims in Saw III. Due to his obsession with vengeance against those that were involved in the death of his son, Dylan, Jeff is kidnapped and subjected to a series of encounters with those he held accountable for the incident and is faced with the choice of saving them or allowing them to die in their traps. In Jeff's final test he confronts Jigsaw himself to prove he has learned how to forgive. Jeff tells Jigsaw he forgives him before slicing his throat with a circular saw. Upon killing Jigsaw, Jeff inadvertently triggers a device that kills his wife Lynn. Before dying Jigsaw plays a tape revealing Jeff must undergo another test to save his daughter, but he is killed by Agent Peter Strahm shortly after.

Jill Tuck

Jill Tuck, the ex-wife of John Kramer, appears briefly in Saw III as part of a memory that John recalls while he is undergoing brain surgery. She is interrogated by FBI Agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez in Saw IV, revealing Jigsaw's backstory. In Saw V, after John's death, Jill visits his lawyer to hear his will, during which she is bequeathed a box containing his last intended test subjects, including one test that Jill must carry out herself. Submitting to his final wishes, Jill placed Mark Hoffman in a seemingly inescapable trap, intending to kill him.

After Hoffman escapes the trap, Jill flees to his precinct station and asks for help from Detective Matt Gibson in Internal Affairs, offering to incriminate Hoffman in exchange for immunity and protection. While Jill is in protective custody, Hoffman infiltrates the station and kills her with the reverse bear trap. Her death is subsequently avenged by Dr. Lawrence Gordon, who was instructed in a tape left for him by John to watch over Jill and to act immediately on John's behalf if anything happened to her.

Lynn Denlon

Lynn is an ER doctor who is kidnapped in Saw III by Amanda and tasked with keeping John Kramer alive until another victim completes his test. Amanda Young locks a collar around Lynn's neck; if John dies or she moves too far out of range the collar will fire five shotgun shells at her head. She looks after John and performs an improvised brain surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, while her husband Jeff faces a series of tests. Amanda refuses to free Lynn after Jeff completes his test, jealous of the attention John showed her and not believing she had learned anything. Amanda, unaware that Lynn is married to Jeff, shoots her. Jeff enters the room after Lynn is shot and retaliates by shooting Amanda; he then kills John with a circular saw, unwittingly activating Lynn's collar. Her corpse is seen in Saw IV and Saw V. It is revealed in Saw VI that Hoffman blackmailed Amanda into killing Lynn. In Saw 3D, it is revealed that it was Dr. Lawrence Gordon who suggested her as a test subject.

Mark Hoffman

Main article: Mark Hoffman

Mark is briefly introduced in Saw III as a detective investigating the scene of Troy's inescapable trap. In Saw IV he is placed in a trap as a part of Lieutenant Daniel Rigg's test; however, he is later revealed to be Jigsaw's accomplice when he frees himself and leaves Rigg for dead. Saw V reveals that Hoffman's sister was murdered by her abusive boyfriend, and that Hoffman took revenge by placing him in an inescapable trap styled after Jigsaw's games. Jigsaw found out about the trap and blackmailed Hoffman into working for him, but Hoffman eventually became a willing apprentice and aided him in nearly every subsequent trap.

When Agent Peter Strahm closes in on him, Hoffman kills and frames him. In Saw VI, he kills two FBI agents and a technician who threaten to expose his secret. Jill Tuck attempts to kill him with an updated reverse bear trap, as per John's request, although he manages to escape wounded. In Saw 3D, he sneaks into the police station, kills everyone standing between him and Jill, then kills her with the original trap Jigsaw had used on Amanda Young. After she dies, he destroys his warehouse and attempts to leave town. However, before he can leave, Hoffman is abducted by Dr. Lawrence Gordon and left to die in the bathroom from Saw. He was John's first apprentice.

According to producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg, Hoffman is named after late Saw producer Gregg Hoffman, who died shortly after the announcement of Saw III.

Timothy Young

Timothy Young is the drunk driver who killed Jeff Denlon's son, Dylan. Timothy is only sentenced to six months, fueling Jeff's thirst for vengeance. In Saw III, he is kidnapped and placed in a device called "The Rack", which begins to rotate, twisting and breaking each of his limbs one-by-one. Jeff is initially content with watching Timothy die, but decides to help him. However, Jeff is too late and the device twists Timothy's head, fatally breaking his neck. Timothy appears in a flashback in Saw VI, lying unconscious before being placed in The Rack.

According to Jigsaw, Timothy was 27 years old when he died.[12]

Troy

Troy is one of Amanda's first victims, chosen because of his long prison record for unnamed crimes despite having a privileged upbringing. Troy is tasked with tearing eleven chains from his flesh before a bomb detonates. He is unable to remove the final chain in his mandible in time. It is revealed that Troy's only exit from the trap had been welded shut, leaving him no means of escape even if he had removed all the chains. Troy is later seen in a flashback in Saw IV, in the waiting room of Jill's clinic.

Saw IV

Dr. Heffner

Dr. Adam Heffner is the medical examiner who performed John's autopsy, in the beginning of Saw IV. He appeared briefly in Saw VI, where he tells Hoffman and Agents Perez and Erickson that he performed the autopsies on all of Jigsaw's victims, and that a different knife was used to cut the jigsaw piece from Seth Baxter's flesh. In Saw 3D, he is killed by Hoffman, who hides in a body bag in order to gain access to the morgue.

Art Blank

Art was a lawyer involved in a housing development project with John Kramer and Jill Tuck, before John's transformation into The Jigsaw Killer. Art is targeted by John for successfully defending guilty people, including Brenda (a pimp), Ivan Landsness, (a rapist), and Rex (an abusive husband). Art first appeared in a trap that pits him against another victim, Trevor. Both were chained at the neck to a winch and Art's mouth was sewn shut, as were Trevor's eyes, rendering communication impossible. Trevor panics and attempts to kill Art and Art is forced to kill Trevor in order to retrieve the key attached to his collar, tearing his mouth open in the process. He later has a hand in setting up the tests for Daniel Rigg. He is tasked with keeping Eric Matthews and Mark Hoffman alive until the 90 minute timer expires, after which he would be able to free himself and both captives. However, Rigg crashes through the door with one second to spare, causing Eric's death, and then shoots and kills Art after mistaking the tape recorder in his hand for a gun. He is seen in archive footage in Saw V, and is seen in a photograph with John outside the Gideon Meatpacking Plant in the police station's evidence room in Saw 3D.

Brenda

Brenda is a female pimp who appears in Saw IV as a victim in Daniel Rigg's game. Art Blank had acted as her lawyer in previous criminal trials and got her acquitted. Brenda is placed in a machine designed to tear her scalp from her head and Rigg is instructed to simply walk away from her as she is not worth saving. After he dials in a lock combination written on the gears and releases her, she attacks him with a knife that had been hidden in the room. Rigg subdues her by throwing her into a mirror, and by the time the police arrive at the scene she is dead. She had been told by Jigsaw that the only way to prevent Rigg from sending her to prison for her crimes was to kill him.

Cecil Adams

Cecil[13] is a drug addict who played a large role in John Kramer's transformation into The Jigsaw Killer. As Jill Tuck is closing down her drug clinic for the night, he begs her to let him back in; once inside, he robs the facility and shoves a door into her stomach while fleeing, inadvertently causing her to have a miscarriage. John later abducts Cecil and places him in the first Jigsaw trap: a chair with razor blade restraints, from which he can only escape by pushing his face through a set of knives. The chair collapses and Cecil charges at John, who steps aside allowing Cecil to fall into a tangle of razor wire, killing him. In Saw VI, it is shown that Cecil robbed Jill's clinic at Amanda Young's request.

Fisk

Fisk is a detective who first appears in Saw IV working with agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez. In Saw IV, he discovers Daniel Rigg's fingerprints at the scene of Allison Kerry's death on a bullet casing lodged between her body and the trap. In Saw V, he is present at the Gideon Meatpacking Plant when the FBI rescues Mark Hoffman and Corbett Denlon. Fisk is also seen in flashbacks with Hoffman at the scene of Seth Baxter's death and is later told by Hoffman to keep him in the loop about the Jigsaw murders.

Ivan Landsness

Ivan appears in Saw IV as the clerk of the Alexander Motel. Suspected of multiple, vicious rapes but freed repeatedly due to the efforts of his lawyer, Art Blank, Ivan is part of Daniel Rigg's second test. Following instructions, Rigg forces him into an adjoining motel room, where they are both confronted with video and photographic evidence of Ivan's exploits. Enraged, Rigg forces Ivan into a prearranged trap, and supplies him with the tools to escape: two buttons that will drive blades into his eyes. Ivan only blinds one eye before the 60-second timer runs out, and the trap rips off three of his limbs and throws his body across the room.

Lindsey Perez

Lindsey Perez is an FBI agent assigned to the Jigsaw case along with her partner, Agent Peter Strahm. Informed by Detective Allison Kerry that two officers might be in danger, she and Strahm investigate the disappearances of Daniel Rigg and Mark Hoffman. As they follow the trail of Rigg's tests it becomes apparent that they themselves were being targeted by Jigsaw. Lindsey barely escapes death when Strahm pulled her out of the firing path of a harpoon (which in turn hit a crime scene photographer). Minutes later, they entered a room where they were confronted with a Billy doll and a tape meant for Perez. As she leaned in to hear the tape, the Billy doll's face exploded sending shrapnel into her face and neck. In Saw V, it is implied that she died from her injuries; her last words to Strahm were "Detective Hoffman", leading to Strahm's initial suspicion regarding Hoffman.

She is revealed to be alive in Saw VI, with prominent facial scars, and is back on the Jigsaw case. Dismissive of Strahm being Jigsaw's accomplice, she and Agent Dan Erickson investigate abnormalities in each crime scene that implicates Strahm, including a distorted tape made by Hoffman. As soon as the tape is unscrambled Hoffman fatally stabs Perez. When Hoffman demands to know who else is aware of his secret, she says "everyone" before dying. Her body, and everything else in the audio lab is set on fire to destroy the evidence.

Morgan and Rex

Morgan and Rex are a married couple. Rigg suspected Rex of abusing his wife and their daughter Jane but is unable to arrest him as Morgan and Jane refused to testify against him. In frustration, Rigg punches Rex, prompting his lawyer Art to threaten him with a lawsuit. Hoffman intercedes, claiming Rigg was acting in self-defense and the matter was dropped. Rex and Morgan are later put into a Jigsaw test as part of Rigg's game. The pair are locked back to back in a harness, their bodies impaled with several long spikes. A tape left for Morgan informes her that she could free herself by removing the spikes but would kill Rex in the process. When Rigg found the pair, Rex was dead and Morgan was unconscious, having removed all but one spike. He gave her the key to the harness and told her she would have to save herself, then set off a fire alarm to alert the authorities to her location. When found by Strahm and Perez, Morgan said that Rigg had saved her. The Director's Cut of the film shows Rigg removing the final spike himself.

Peter Strahm

FBI Agent Peter Strahm.

Peter Strahm is an FBI Agent assigned to the Jigsaw case. He and his partner, Lindsey Perez, arrive at the scene of Allison Kerry's death shortly after the police find her body. He is the first to theorize that Jigsaw may have had more than one accomplice. He interrogates Jill Tuck gaining information on Jigsaw's background, while pursuing Daniel Rigg. His investigation leads him to the Gideon Meatpacking Plant, where he discovers the corpses of Jigsaw, Amanda, and Lynn, in the makeshift sickroom. Strahm kills Jeff Denlon in self-defense before Hoffman locks him in. Strahm finds a hidden exit, but is captured and placed in a trap meant to kill him. He survives and his boss Dan Erickson kicks him off the case. Strahm conducts his own investigation, now suspicious of Hoffman. He is eventually crushed to death when he fails to follow Hoffman's instructions.

Hoffman subsequently frames Strahm as Jigsaw's second acomplice, planting his mobile phone at a Jigsaw crime scene, and using his severed hand to place fingerprints at more Jigsaw crime scenes. As soon as Perez and Erickson unravel the deception, Hoffman murders them and again places Strahm's fingerprints at the scene.

Tracy Rigg

Tracy Rigg, the wife of Daniel Rigg, is often home alone because he spends so much time at his job. He arrives home just as she is about to leave for a few days and stay with her mother; she tries to persuade him to come with her, but he declines. Before leaving, she tells him that he cannot save everyone.

Trevor

Trevor appears in Saw IV as a victim placed in a trap with Art Blank. Both are chained at the neck to a winch; the key is attached to Trevor's collar, however, Trevor's eyes are sewn shut, as well as Art's mouth, rendering communication impossible. In a panic, Trevor blindly stabs Art in the leg with a hook, and Art kills him to retrieve the key. In Saw 3D it is revealed that Dr. Lawrence Gordon had sewn Trevor's eyes shut.

Saw V

Angelina Hoffman

Angelina Hoffman, the younger sister of Detective Mark Hoffman, was murdered by her boyfriend Seth Baxter. He received a life sentence, but was released from prison on a technicality after only five years. For revenge, Hoffman captured Seth and placed him in an inescapable trap that slices him in half with a pendulum, even though he follows the instructions. Jigsaw learns of the trap and uses this knowledge to coerce Hoffman into becoming his apprentice.

Ashley

Ashley is one of the five victims placed in the main game in Saw V. In the first room, the victims have collars locked around their necks connected to cables that will pull them back toward a set of blades positioned to decapitate them. The keys to the collars are at the other end of the room, and they have 60 seconds to free themselves before the collars retract. All but Ashley free themselves in time. She is a former fire inspector who lost her job after writing a report to cover up an arson fire in which eight people died.

Brit

The vice president of a real estate company, Brit is placed in a series of four traps along with four other people. The five victims believe that one person will have to die in each room in order for the others to move ahead; Brit fatally stabs Luba through the neck with a hairpin in the third room. However, in the final room, she realizes that the group could have worked together so that everyone would survive. She and Mallick, the only other person to reach this point, also learn that the members of the group were connected through a building fire that killed eight people, which she had orchestrated. Brit and Mallick are forced to saw their arms in order to obtain enough blood to open the exit door. As she crawls from the room, Dan Erickson finds her and calls for medical assistance.

Charles

Charles, a reporter, is a victim in the main game of Saw V alongside four other people. He is shown to be intelligent and to possess knowledge about the other victims and their mutual involvement in an arson scam. He attacks Mallick in the second room, to obtain a key to a bomb shelter, but is attacked by Luba with a metal bar and left to die as the other three victims move to safety from the explosive devices in the room. Charles realizes, too late, that the bomb shelters are large enough to fit more than one person, and dies when the bombs detonate. Charles had been writing a report about the arson of the building that burned down, but buried the story.

Dan Erickson

Dan Erickson[14] is an FBI agent in charge of the Jigsaw case, with Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez working under him. He relieves Peter Strahm of duty following his narrow escape from a Jigsaw trap and becomes increasingly wary of him as Strahm becomes obsessed with Jigsaw. When he is informed by Hoffman that Strahm believes there to be another Jigsaw accomplice, Erickson places a trace on Strahm's mobile phone to find him. He finds the phone (planted by Hoffman) at the scene of a Jigsaw game, and puts out an all-points bulletin for Strahm's arrest.

In Saw VI, Erickson and Perez, whose death was faked for her protection, resume the investigation and probe Strahm's apparent link to Jigsaw. As they uncover evidence that indicates Strahm was framed, their suspicion of Hoffman grows. Once their audio lab technician removes the distortion from the Seth Baxter tape, revealing Hoffman as Jigsaw's accomplice, he slashes Erickson's jugular vein and stabs Perez to death. Erickson is still alive as Hoffman pours gasoline over him and sets the lab on fire to destroy the evidence.

Luba Gibbs

Luba, a city planner, was a victim in the main game of Saw V, alongside four other people. After surviving the first room, Luba assaults Charles after he attacks Mallick, leaving Charles to die when explosive devices in the second room detonate. In the third room, Brit fatally stabs her in the neck, saying that she did not trust Luba, and she and Mallick use the corpse as an electrical conductor to open the door to the final room.

It is revealed that Luba played a role in an arson scam that killed eight people, an event that links all the victims of the game. She had accepted bribes from a sports team owned by her father, Richard Gibbs, to allow a stadium to be built on the site of a building Mallick burned down.

Mallick

Mallick, an arsonist and heroin addict, is one of five victims in the main game in Saw V. Suspicious of the other victims, Mallick managed to survive the first trap, and is saved by Luba in the second test at the expense of Charles' life, but she turns on him in the third trap. Mallick is rescued by Brit who murders Luba and the pair used Luba's body to close the circuits and open the door to the final room. In the final test, Mallick began to understand his connection to the other victims that is through an incident, orchestrated by Brit, in which he burned down a supposedly abandoned building, killing eight people and leaving him guilt-ridden. Mallick and Brit, realizing that the victims were meant to work together to win, are forced to provide 10 pints of blood to open the exit door. Mallick passes out from blood loss as Brit crawls out of the room. In Saw 3D, Mallick appears in Bobby Dagen's support group, wearing a cast on his injured arm.

Pamela Jenkins

Pamela is a reporter following the Jigsaw killings who first appears in Saw V, attending a press conference being held by Mark Hoffman. In Saw VI she begins pursuing Jill Tuck for information about Jigsaw, presenting her with a letter found at an earlier Jigsaw crime-scene, later revealed to be that given by Hoffman to Amanda. She is kidnapped and placed in a cell opposite Tara and Brent's with a message telling her that she is there as punishment for sensationalizing his story and twisting his message for her own gain, and will be forced to "experience the meaning of sacrifice" and "see the consequence for those who unjustly hurt others". At the end of William Easton's game, he is confronted by Pamela, who is revealed to be his sister, and the family of a man whose medical insurance had been denied by William, in part leading to his death. The man's son activates a device which kills William as Pamela watches. Pamela also appears in Saw: The Video Game, providing information to another journalist, Oswald McGullicuty, who plans to write a book and not credit Pamela. Knowing this, Pamela steals all his notes, preventing him from writing the book, in order to write a book of her own. Despite her relationship to William Easton, the game and films show her last name as Jenkins.

Seth Baxter

Seth Baxter is the boyfriend and murderer of Hoffman's younger sister. After serving five years of a life sentence in prison, he is released on a technicality. Hoffman, enraged by the death of his only family member, kidnaps Seth and puts him in a trap that mimics Jigsaw's methods but is rigged to be inescapable. He is told that he must put his hands into two presses and push buttons to crush them in order to avoid being killed by a swinging pendulum blade. Even though he does so, the pendulum still descends and slices him in half as Hoffman watches through a peephole.

Saw VI

Addy and Allen

Addy and Allen, William Easton's secretary and file clerk, are victims forced to take part in his second game at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute.[15] They are standing on retractable ledges with barbed wire nooses around their necks and their hands tied behind their backs, while William holds two chains connected to the ledges. In order to move on, he has to drop one chain and let that person die. He is presented with information that Addy is a diabetic and in poor health but has a family, while Allen is young and healthy, but is all alone. William is forced to choose whether to act by his company's policy or by his own morale, and the chains are gradually reeled in, making it harder for William to keep holding them; he finally chooses to save Addy, and Allen is strangled to death when his ledge retracts.

Addy is seen in Bobby Dagen's survivor group meeting in Saw 3D.

Brent and Tara Abbott

Brent and Tara Abbott are the teenage son and widow of a man named Harold Abbott whose health insurance policy is revoked by William Easton on a technicality, resulting in his death. They are captured and placed in one of two cages at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute[15] at the end of William's series of tests, with Pamela Jenkins in the other. Once William reaches the end, Tara and Brent are given the choice of sparing his life or ending it. Despite expressing anger for her husband's death, Tara listens to the pleas for mercy from both William and Pamela, and cannot bring herself to kill William. However, Brent cannot forgive him and triggers the device himself, causing a platform of needles to swing down into William's back and inject him with hydrofluoric acid. Pamela, Tara, and Brent watch in horror as he is dissolved from the inside out.

Tara appears in Saw 3D at Bobby Dagen's support group. Devon Bostick was offered to return as Brent, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with Hidden 3D.[16]

Carousel Room Victims

Aaron, Dave, Emily, Gena, Josh, and Shelby (collectively referred to as "The Dog Pit" by their boss, William Easton) are six of William's junior associates, who did the investigative work as a team to weed out health insurance applications and claims that can be denied. They are placed at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute[15] in the last of William's four tests, and are chained to a carousel facing a shotgun. Just as their work resulted in ⅔ of all applications being denied or prematurely terminated, William can save only ⅓ of the group of six; two of them can be saved by pushing buttons that will drive a spike through his hand, and divert the shotgun upward while the other four will die. If he does nothing, all six will be killed. Each argues, trying to win William's favor as he struggles with his decisions. Aaron begs for William to follow the company's policy, Emily states her two kids can't grow up without her, Gena claims she is pregnant, Dave tries to bribe William, Shelby pleads for her life to take care of her sick parents, while Josh attempts to appease William while claiming that Shelby is not to be trusted. William ultimately decides to save Emily and Shelby, who are respectively the second and fifth to be stopped on the carousel. Aaron (the first), Gena (the third), Dave (the fourth) and Josh (the last) are left to die in that order.

In Saw 3D Emily is part of Bobby Dagen's support group.

Debbie

Debbie is the attorney for Umbrella Health and William Easton. She is kidnapped and placed in William's third test at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute;[15] a device is strapped to her chest which will shoot a spear through her head unless she reaches the end of a steel-cage maze in 90 seconds. William has to help her by diverting jets of scalding steam away from her path and onto himself. After reaching the end of the maze, she discovers that the key to her device is sewn into William's side. She attacks him with a circular saw but is unable to retrieve the key before her time runs out, and the device activates, killing her.

Eddie

Eddie is a predatory lending banker, who is a part of a game in Saw VI, along with his co-worker Simone, in which they are placed in adjoining cells. He wears a head harness with screws poised at the temples, and has a knife and a meat cleaver. A balance scale is placed between his and Simone's cell, and the one who can cut off more weight in flesh in 60 seconds will live, while the other will be killed by the screws boring into his or her skull. Eddie, being overweight, slices several chunks of flesh from his stomach, but Simone severs her left arm and tips the scale in her favor, leading to Eddie's death.

Hank

Hank is a janitor for Umbrella Health, working for William Easton. He is kidnapped and placed in the first of William's four tests, a vice-like trap which will crush either his or William's chest, leaving only one survivor. Jigsaw informs them that every breath they take will cause the vice to tighten and that Hank is a smoker, despite a history of health problems. Even though William encourages Hank to hold his breath he is unable to do so, and continues breathing heavily until the vice crushes him.

Harold Abbott

Harold is the husband of Tara and father of Brent. Flashbacks throughout Saw VI reveal that his health insurance policy was revoked by William Easton due to a discrepancy found on his application, and he eventually died from heart disease. Tara and Brent are placed in a game in which they can choose to let William live or die. Brent kills William by activating a platform of needles which inject hydrofluoric acid into his body, as an act of revenge for William's role in Harold's death.

Simone Bethson

Simone Bethson is a predatory lending banker, who is placed in a game with her co-worker Eddie. They are placed in adjoining cells. Since they have figuratively extracted "pounds of flesh" from loan recipients who they knew could never pay them back, they will literally have to do the same in order to survive. She wears a head harness with screws poised at the temples, and has a knife and a meat cleaver. A balance scale is placed between her and Eddie's cell; whichever one cuts off the most weight in flesh in sixty seconds will live, while the other will be killed by the screws boring into his or her skull. Eddie, being overweight, slices several chunks of flesh from his stomach, but Simone chops off her left arm and tips the scale in her favor. Simone survives and is later questioned by Hoffman and the FBI in her hospital room. She angrily lashes out at Hoffman when he asks her if she learned anything from her experience.

Simone appears in Saw 3D, at Bobby Dagen's support group, still bitter from her experience and wearing a prosthetic arm.

William Easton

William Easton is an insurance executive at Umbrella Health who is tested in Saw VI. He helped fund Jill Tuck's rehab clinic; later, he informed John that his company would not cover the cost of an experimental treatment for John's cancer, based on a probability formula he invented, which his company uses to reject insurance coverage for people with fatal conditions. He is placed in the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute[15] and given 60 minutes to complete four tests, or else the explosives strapped to his limbs will detonate. The tests force him to make decisions about who will live or die and re-examine his policy. After completing his tests William is confronted by the widow and son of a man whose coverage had been canceled by William, and who subsequently died. Though he and his captured sister, Pamela Jenkins, convince the widow not to, her son activates a device that drives a bed of needles into William's back. A vat of hydrofluoric acid is pumped through the needles, dissolving his body in half and killing him.

He is mentioned in Saw 3D on a newscast stating that his remains were found along with the other victims from Saw VI.

Saw 3D

Brad, Dina, and Ryan

These three victims are placed in a storefront window at a public shopping center. Brad and Ryan are chained by the wrists to opposite ends of a worktable, while Dina is suspended above them. A movable carriage with three razor wheels is attached to the table. Billy the puppet informs them that Dina has manipulated both men's affections for her in order to coerce them into stealing for her. Since she claimed to love each man, they will have the chance to fight for her love and their survival. In order to free her, one will have to push the carriage to the other's end within 60 seconds, killing him; alternatively, they can spare each other and Dina will die once the timer runs out. After a brief fight in which Dina tries convincing both men to kill each other, Brad is slightly wounded. Ryan then offers a truce and they allow Dina to be cut in half by the center wheel.

They are later seen at Bobby Dagen's Jigsaw survivors meeting. According to the producers commentary Brad and Ryan are the two men in the pig masks that help Lawrence Gordon abduct Hoffman.

Ryan was originally written to die but this was changed during filming.

Bobby Dagen

Bobby Dagen is the author of a self-help book based on his accounts of surviving a Jigsaw trap. In reality, however, he has made the entire story up in order to find quick fame and success. He is abducted and put into a series of six tests at the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital, along with his wife Joyce and three of his key staff members. The first test requires him to escape from a cage suspended above a bed of knives on the floor, which he achieves by releasing the cage's bottom end and swinging himself far enough to jump free. The next three tests each lead to the death of one staffer; in the fifth, he must pull out two of his teeth in order to obtain the combination to the door leading to Joyce. For the final test, he must undergo the ordeal that he claimed to have endured in his book: drive two meathooks through his pectoral muscles, then haul himself up to connect two extension cords and shut off the electrified wire around Joyce's platform. As he is about to plug in the cords, the hooks tear through his flesh and he drops to the floor, and he watches helplessly as a large metal capsule slams shut around Joyce and she is incinerated within it.

Cale

Cale is Bobby Dagen's best friend and co-conspirator. He is accused of "hearing no evil", after choosing to help Bobby carry out his scheme to become famous by fabricating an account of surviving a trap. At the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital, Cale is blindfolded, with a noose attached to a winch, standing at one end of a hallway with no floor, only the support beams and a few loose planks. Bobby is at the other end, and the key to free Cale hangs from the ceiling between them. In 60 seconds, Bobby attempts to guide Cale across the hallway, and get the key. Bobby throws the key to Cale, who misses catching it and dies when the winch lifts him off his feet.

Dan, Evan, Jake, and Kara

These four victims, all members of a skinhead gang, are placed in a trap set inside a junkyard's garage. Evan's back, arms, and legs are glued to the driver's seat of a car whose rear end is up on jacks. His girlfriend Kara is tied to the floor with barbed wire, her head directly beneath the rear wheel; Dan stands strapped to a pole behind the car, with chains attached to the bumper connected to his wrists and jaw; Jake is chained to the closed garage door, in front of the car. In order to save them and himself, Evan must tear himself loose from the seat and pull a lever protruding from the car's engine compartment within 30 seconds. He fails to do so, and the car is dropped off its jacks, crushing Kara's head. As it speeds forward Dan's arms and jaw are ripped off, Jake is hit and killed, and the car crashes into a pile of wrecked cars outside, causing Evan to go flying through the windshield and killing him.

Matt Gibson

Matt Gibson is an internal affairs detective who takes an interest in the Jigsaw case when Jill Tuck asks to speak to him personally. She offers to turn over evidence of Hoffman's crimes in exchange for police protection and immunity from prosecution. When Gibson was a uniformed officer, he was attacked by a homeless man who took his gun; Hoffman ordered the man to drop the weapon, then killed him. The incident led Gibson to mistrust Hoffman from that moment on, and he and his partner Rogers lead the efforts to find him. Clues left by Hoffman lead Gibson to the observation area of Bobby Dagen's tests, where he and the two officers accompanying him are killed by a remote-controlled machine gun placed in the room.

Joyce Dagen

Joyce is Bobby Dagen's wife, and is unaware that he lied about surviving a Jigsaw trap. She is placed in Bobby's test at the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital. She wakes up with a collar connected to her neck which gradually draws her closer to the floor, as she watches Bobby's progress. He makes it in time to save her, and must re-enact the test he claimed to have survived; however, he fails to complete it, resulting in Joyce being enclosed in a brazen bull and incinerated.

Nina

Nina is Bobby Dagen's publicist, who is accused of "speaking no evil" by being his greatest link to the media but never revealing the truth of Bobby being a fraud. She is brought to the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital; locked in a straitjacket and surrounded by four spikes aimed at her neck, Nina has a fishing line down her throat, with a key on the hook at its end. Bobby has 60 seconds to pull the hook up from her stomach. Attached to the mechanism is a decibel meter that brings the spikes closer to Nina whenever the sound level rises above a whisper. The timer starts and Bobby repeatedly stops to quiet Nina's screams before he finally retrieves the key, but he is too late and the trap kills her.

Rogers

Rogers is an Internal Affairs officer who helps Gibson investigate Hoffman. Once Gibson figures out Hoffman's location, he puts Rogers in charge of guarding Jill Tuck, who has been moved to a holding cell in the police station for her protection. After Hoffman sneaks into the station, he kills every officer standing between him and Jill; Rogers is killed when he is shot through his eye.

Palmer

Palmer is an Internal Affairs officer who works with Gibson and traces Hoffman's location based on video messages he sends in. As Hoffman searches for Jill Tuck, he kills Palmer by breaking her neck, then uses her body to trick another officer into opening the door leading to the holding cell area.

Sidney

Sidney is a Jigsaw survivor who appears at Bobby Dagen's support group. She reveals that she had been placed in a trap with her abusive boyfriend, Alex. Hanging above a series of upturned lawnmowers, Alex tried to knock her to her death but fell, killing himself in the process and saving her.

Suzanne

Suzanne is Bobby Dagen's lawyer, who is accused of "seeing no evil" by ignoring her duty as a lawyer and turning a blind eye to Bobby's fraud. Her test occurs at the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital; she is placed horizontally inside a steel frame that begins to rotate her in a standing position, where three spikes are placed to pierce her eyes and mouth. To save her, Bobby must lift a pair of weights at shoulder height and hold them for at least 30 seconds, until the 60 second timer expires, in order to stop Suzanne's rig from approaching the spikes. However, as he does this, two rods pierce his sides. Bobby attempts to hold it, but continues to drop it. Suzanne is inches from death, and with just one second left, Bobby drops it and she is killed.

Saw: The Video Game

Jennings Foster

Jennings is the head of a CSI team who cooperates with David Tapp's department to solve murder cases. Unbeknownst to others, Jennings committed a hit-and-run years ago that led him to frame an innocent citizen to avoid conviction himself. For this, Jigsaw places Jennings as a victim for Tapp to save in a pendulum trap. Tapp saves him, but Jennings blames Tapp for being there and runs away. He also makes a brief appearance in Saw II: Flesh & Blood, where he is seen assisting the investigation into Tapp's death and photographing the crime scene at David Tapp's apartment. In one of the case files, he seems to be very grateful towards Tapp for saving his life.

Melissa Sing

Melissa is the widow of Detective Steven Sing, who is killed after falling victim to one of Jigsaw's traps in Saw. Upon Steven's death, Melissa becomes a neglectful parent to her son, Franklin and blames David Tapp for ruining her family. For this, she is placed in Whitehurst Asylum during Saw: The Video Game in an iron-maiden trap for Tapp to save her from. Tapp saves her, but she left him quickly. During the finale of the game, if the player chooses the Truth door, Melissa is revealed to have been held against her will following her trap and was forced to help Jigsaw, keeping Tapp's game going until 6:00, or her son would die. Attempting to evade Tapp, she is accidentally killed by a shotgun trap. However, in the Freedom ending, she is saved along with the other surviving victims in the asylum and set free, never having her incidental ties to Jigsaw revealed.

A file written by Tapp in Saw II: Flesh & Blood confirmed that Melissa survived the events of the previous game.

Oswald McGullicuty

Oswald is the newspaper writer who coined the nickname "The Jigsaw Killer". One of his articles is seen in Saw. In the game, Oswald is placed in Whitehurst Asylum due to Jigsaw believing Oswald is perverting his message and also for blaming Tapp of being the real Jigsaw Killer. It is revealed in case files that Oswald was originally writing a novel about Jigsaw, but his notes were stolen by Pamela Jenkins in an effort to thwart him and write a book of her own. Tapp finds Oswald in a folding table trap, which he releases him from, only to be killed by sharp slabs of metal immediately after.

Pighead

Pighead is a masked person who works for Jigsaw. He appears in Saw: The Video Game and watches over Detective Tapp's game. He is shown to be hostile and is witnessed by Detective Tapp killing several test subjects around Whitehurst Asylum. Pighead seems to taunt Detective Tapp throughout the game, and sometimes attempts to come after him. Later on near the end of the game, Detective Tapp is required to fight Pighead, who wants to kill Tapp and sabotage his game in order to surpass Jigsaw. Tapp manages to kill Pighead and get hold of a key to the library where his final choice is awaiting. Jigsaw rhetorically asks Tapp if he's a "murderer" for killing his servant. Pighead wears a red boxer robe and the infamous pig mask concealing his identity. He is referenced in one of David Tapp's audio tapes in Saw II: Flesh and Blood, with Tapp feeling guilt having killed him, not knowing if the person in the costume had a family or is another victim forced to obey Jigsaw.

Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Campbell Iman

Campbell is a playable character in Saw II: Flesh & Blood. He is targeted by Jigsaw because of his addiction to drugs and his estrangement from his son, who is also a drug addict. His last name is mentioned in a case file which also revealed that he has lymphoma. Jigsaw places him in a "Venus Fly Trap" device which he escapes by cutting out a key buried near his own eye. After traversing several traps, Campbell is informed that there is another subject, Michael Tapp, in the game and that only one may live. Campbell is given the choice of sacrificing himself for a stranger, who has a potentially long life ahead of him, or saving himself, knowing he has only a short time to live because of his cancer. This choice decides the fate of Michael Tapp at the end of the game.

If Campbell sacrifices himself, he gets crushed by spiked moving walls. If Campbell chooses to save himself, Michael dies and Campbell meets Jigsaw who informs him that his son is safe, having passed his own test prior to the events of the game, and all he has to do is leave through the exit. Campbell instead attempts to attack Jigsaw only to be killed by a concealed, falling scythe.

Henry Jacobs

Henry is the Chief of Police in David Tapp's precinct. He is involved in the Jigsaw cases and is the chief officer involved in the investigation into Detective Tapp's death. Henry is involved in a conspiracy alongside Joseph, Carla, and Sarah to steal seized drugs and sell them on the streets, bringing him to Jigsaw's attention. When Michael finds him, Henry is strapped to a chair with a revolver placed in his mouth that will fire unless Michael can pass a test. Even though he appears helpful upon his release, he begins stalking Michael throughout the game in order to kill him and prevent his corruption from being revealed. After Joseph escapes, Henry finds and allies himself with Joseph in order to find Michael and any others who could reveal their secrets, leading him to murder Carla Song. Henry later runs into Pighead II, who stabs him repeatedly in the chest.

Joseph Poltzer

Joseph is a corrupt vice cop who abused his position to steal drugs seized from criminals and sell them in a cartel, alongside Henry, Carla, and Sarah. As a member of the group, he is kidnapped by Jigsaw and placed in a vice trap designed to crush all of his limbs and his skull unless Michael can save him. Michael's father had accidentally uncovered their drug cartel while investigating Jigsaw, so he teamed up with Henry Jacobs to hunt and kill Michael, Carla, and Sarah to tie up any loose ends that could reveal their criminal actions. He later executes Sarah as she is about to reveal the true identity of Pighead II. He and Michael get embroiled in a fight which results in them breaking through a wall and plummeting into an alley below. They struggle over Joseph's gun, but Michael eventually triumphs and fatally shoots Joseph in the head.

Michael Tapp

Michael Tapp is Detective David Tapp's estranged son and the main, playable character in Saw II: Flesh & Blood. He is a reporter, investigating his father's recent death when he is captured by Pighead II and forced to undergo a series of lethal traps set up by Jigsaw. As he progresses through the game he saves several people, freeing Henry, Sarah, Joseph, Carla, and Solomon while surviving other victims loose in the game; criminals previously arrested by his father after revenge on his son. Though initially friendly, Henry, and later Joseph, begins stalking Michael in order to kill him and prevent his corruption and role in a drug cartel being revealed, should Michael escape. Henry is killed by Pighead II before he can kill him however and Michael is able to kill Joseph himself. During the game, Michael is revealed to have abused his strained relationship with his father to steal documents pertaining to the Jigsaw case, including David's botched sting that resulted in Detective Steven Sing's death. Using this information for personal gain and revenge against his father for feelings of abandonment, Michael wrote an exposé which destroyed his father's career, unwittingly aiding the drug cartel run by Henry and Joseph, and partially contributing to his father's eventual suicide.

In the finale, it is revealed that Campbell and Michael's tests had occurred concurrently, with Michael's fate left in Campbell's hands. Campbell is given the choice at the end of his own test to sacrifice himself for Michael, a stranger, or save himself at Michael's expense. If Campbell chooses himself, Michael is trapped and crushed to death by a spiked moving ceiling. If Campbell sacrifices himself, Michael survives. Jigsaw reveals that Michael's real test is to see if he had the ability to punish the corrupt (Henry and Joseph) and so he is given a choice between two doors; one leads Michael to freedom and the chance to use the evidence found by his father to print the story of Jigsaw and the drug cartel. The other door reveals a Pighead costume and an offer to help people see the truth inside themselves, implying Michael can become Jigsaw's apprentice. The choice made is not revealed to the player.

Pighead II

Pighead II is a character in the second video game, a replacement for the Pighead who died during the events of the first game. Little is known about the character except that he is garbed in similar attire to the original Pighead and that he is involved in placing some individuals into their respective traps, including Carla. Throughout the game, he can be seen kidnapping Michael and killing other victims. He later corners and kills Henry Jacobs. Before her death, Sarah Blalok indicated that Michael Tapp knew the man behind the pig mask and that he is a friend of his father's. However, she is killed before she reveals his identity. Although Pighead appears to work for Jigsaw, he commits acts of murder against his philosophy.

Sarah Blalok

Sarah is a drug addict, prostitute, and an informant for David Tapp. David gives her a second chance by helping her escape from her previous life. Following his death, however, she begins to fall back into her previous lifestyle. She blames Michael Tapp for betraying his father and contributing to his suicide. Michael finds her trapped in a sealed tank slowly filling with water and is forced to solve a puzzle to free her before she drowns. Though initially hostile towards Michael, she later becomes more friendly, explaining that his father loved Michael even after his betrayal. She is revealed to have been part of a criminal conspiracy alongside Carla, Henry, and Joseph; her role being to sell drugs on the streets. While searching for Jigsaw, David Tapp discovers their drug cartel and Sarah is used to mislead him, even though she is aware that he is not concerned about the drug cartel because of his obsession with Jigsaw. Through her own admission, it is revealed that she had feelings for David. She is found by Joseph Poltzer as she is about to disclose the identity of Pighead II. Joseph sneaks up on Sarah and shoots her in the head.

Solomon Bates

Solomon is an accountant involved in a housing development project with John Kramer and Art Blank before the events that would turn John into Jigsaw. He is later responsible for using his accountancy role to hide the illegal money made by the drug cartel consisting of Henry, Joseph, Carla, and Sarah, thus bringing him to Jigsaw's attention. Solomon is initially found trapped inside a movable cage alongside Michael during the latter's first test prepared by Jigsaw. Both men had to race to push their cages over a floor covered in broken glass towards the exit, with the winner receiving their freedom. Solomon manages to reach the end first and escapes. After Jigsaw gives Michael a second chance, Michael later encounters Solomon again during his trials. Solomon is seen chained to a suspended cart set on a track filled with slowly rising flames that will burn him alive unless Michael pushes him out of harm's way. Upon his release, he reveals the truth about the members of the drug cartel and that Michael's father accidentally stumbled on their operations during his search for Jigsaw. He is last seen being cornered by Pighead II and thrown into a pit of syringes. Pighead II then seals the door before Michael can enter.

Zeke

Zeke is a Jigsaw victim whose original trap mangles his hands beyond repair, stripping away much of the flesh. He is a pedophile who molested little girls. He is saved from his trap by Michael, but passes out from blood loss. Between this event and the events of the game, he has his damaged forearms replaced with large blades and becomes psychotic, chasing and attempting to kill Michael at any opportunity. Michael manages to lure him in between two spiked wall devices in front of a door way that snap shut and crush him.

References

  1. ↑ The name Donnie Greco appeared in a document observed by Agent Strahm, speculated to be the man Amanda Young had to kill in order to survive her test. This is confirmed in Saw II: Flesh & Blood via a case file
  2. ↑ His last name is stated to be Thomas in the first Saw video game. However, it is shown in Saw V that his surname is Ridenhour, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Strahm, and in several case files found in Saw II: Flesh & Blood
  3. ↑ http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L0XMTV1G First Draft
  4. 1 2 Full Disclosure Report: Piecing Together Jigsaw
  5. ↑ Saw: Rebirth
  6. ↑ David Hackl (production designer) (2005). The Traps of Saw II: The Hand Trap (DVD). Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Official Saw II website". Lionsgate. Archived from the original on October 7, 2007. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  8. ↑ Obi's surname is listed as "Tate" in a document observed by Agent Strahm in Saw V
  9. ↑ Xavier's surname is listed as "Chavez" in a document observed by Agent Strahm in Saw V
  10. ↑ Saw III script, Danica's age
  11. ↑ Saw III script, Halden's age
  12. ↑ Saw III script, Tim's age
  13. ↑ Cecil's last name, "Adams", is shown in Saw IV, on a file that Jigsaw had obtained. This surname is again referenced in Saw II: Flesh & Blood. However in Saw V, the name Cecil Fletcher appears. Because of this, Cecil's surname is not completely clear
  14. ↑ Saw V end credits
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 The zoo's name is mentioned at the beginning of Saw 3D on a TV while Hoffman is stitching up his face
  16. ↑ Devon Bostick, David Murphy and Matt Horn (September 30, 2010). "Demon FM Meets....Devon Bostick (at 11:15– 11:55)". Demon FM (Podcast). Retrieved October 1, 2010.
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