Saw: The Complete History of Jigsaw | Horror History

If you want to know more about Jigsaw's backstory, such as details that are only included in the comic, and if you want to see the

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chronology of what I believe is the only accurate timeline of the events of John's life Kramer on the Internet, then stay. until the end of this video. Many of my favorite

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villains are not monsters in the typical sense of having a terrifying appearance or intimidating behavior, but rather project psychological

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, often brought on by a distorted sense of how they view the world. Many of the best antagonists or antiheroes scare me because they truly believe they are doing the world a service with their misdeeds, and the agent of the events we've come to know as The Saw Franchise is a model example of this chilling behavior.

Welcome to Horror History, my name is Very fucking confused. "My name is very confusing, what is your name?" And in today's lesson I'll look at the man responsible for years of citywide panic, a host of copycats, a nefarious cult of followers, a massive federal investigation, and most importantly, the deaths of at least 57 victims. I am of course referring to the Jigsaw Killer, John Kramer, more commonly known by the nickname: Jigsaw, which originally derived from his practice of cutting Jigsaw pieces from the flesh of his failed victims as a symbol of the missing piece of their survival. . instinct.

In this video we will look at Jigsaw's entire life to put those pieces together and, as with any puzzle, the best way to start is by discovering the adjacent pieces, the cornerstone pieces, like John Kramer's past. We will also explore the mysteries of his past, the development of his psychopathy, the imposition of a God complex with religious parallels in his work and, finally, the understanding of his ultimate failure. So to understand how John Kramer's puzzle was constructed, let's go back to his birth. John Kramer was born in 1954, a fact that we can deduce from the mention of his age at the time of his death. “The subject's name is John Kramer. 52-year-old Caucasian male.

So he was in his early 50s during the Saw movies? Oh! With a capital letter YIKES. As if everything were capital. John's work consisted of a company he founded called The Urban Renewal Group, but despite how it sounds, this had nothing to do with mid-2000s hip-hop. John was a civil engineer who worked alongside a lawyer named Art Blank to build houses for low-income families, and sometimes he also created other buildings with the intention of helping people. John was extremely intelligent, which made him a world-class engineer, but he was also excellent at understanding people and anticipating their actions, which also made him quite successful in business.

He was quickly able to scale Urban Renewal Group to the point where he owned several buildings throughout the city and had a good amount of resources, which he channeled into helping the people of that city. The desire to help improve people's lives was the first key moment to understand his motivation, because it was this that drove his actions throughout his life. He would also speculate that it was the reason he fell in love with the woman he would become his wife, Jill Tuck, the doctor who ran a recovery center for drug addicts known as the Homeward Bound Clinic.

The clinic's motto was "cherish your life," a phrase John would also associate with his own work. John and Jill's love eventually led to marriage and plans to have a first child. As with his work, John meticulously planned every aspect of his life and the baby was no exception. The boy's name, Gideon, was also the name of his first building, The Gideon Meatpacking Plant, and may have been taken from the Hebrew name Gidon, meaning hero or judge, showing us John's subconscious desire to judge people by their sins. The baby's due date was 1995, the Chinese year of the pig, which was a symbol of rebirth, a concept in which John firmly believed.

The name Gideon and the pig symbol would have greater meaning later in John's story, but for now he was focused on caring for his pregnant wife. Some days he was waiting for her to finish her work and noticed some shady characters who were patients at the clinic. One night he has to intervene when a fight almost breaks out between two addicts named Cecil Adams and Gus Colyard, and John has to convince Cecil to put away his knife before things get much worse. This makes John question how effective her wife's rehabilitation methods really are, but he still encourages her to work, something he would later regret.

He also shows evidence that he is more world-weary when he meets an insurance magnate named William Easton, who sponsors a party at Jill's clinic. They seem to connect over their mutual need to predict human behavior in their respective jobs, but John disagrees with William's methods of trying to screen people and determine their likelihood of getting sick before providing them with insurance coverage. "But you're not taking into consideration the most important human element of all." "What is what?" "The will to live." This exchange would be another important piece of the puzzle in the creation of Jigsaw's character, because John believed that he was giving each of his victims a chance to survive by putting them through adversity.

However, as Gideon's due date approached, John continued to prepare for his son's birth by building a crib, a children's toy that resembled a ventriloquist's dummy, which he would name Billy the Puppet, and creating a video. home for the child during an Ultrasound monitoring. Again, we can extract a couple of pieces from the puzzle of John's preparation to be a father. The messages he intended to save for his son would be transmitted via videotape, and he would eventually use this medium to speak to his test subjects, while the puppet would be reimagined as the face of Jigsaw, an avatar that appeared in some of the tapes and that he sometimes made physical appearances to bring messages to his victims. "No, that's not creepy at all." Unfortunately, before John met his son Gideon, one fateful night tragedy would occur.

One night in late 1994, John warms up the car while his pregnant wife closes the clinic and notices a distraught Cecil Adams running out of the building. He immediately knows something is wrong and walks in to find Jill collapsed on the floor after being hit by the swinging door when Cecil had burst in. Jill was 7 months pregnant at the time, so fearing for the baby's safety, she rushes her away. a hospital. John endures a long night of emotional distress and Jill is shocked when doctors are unable to save the baby. This is the beginning of John's descent, his downward spiral, so to speak, into a psychopath.

The most common characteristic of a psychopath is a lack of empathy for his victims or remorse for his actions, and we see the beginning of this right after the loss of Gideon, when John changes his attitude towards the drug addicts whom he previously encouraged the idea. . help. "All he wanted to do was help them." “You can't help them. “They have to help themselves.” Trauma-induced psychopathy is one of the three main known ways this condition develops, and for John, losing the son to whom he had already devoted so much devotion was the harrowing catalyst that set things in motion.

We see how much he was affected by the fact that he buried Gideon and marked the spot with a tombstone, a practice not normally used for a miscarriage. Even the people closest to him, such as his wife and his business partner, were not in contact with him, which worried them. They decided to meet to confront him and find him sleeping in a chair in his workshop at the Gideon Meat Packing Plant. He is very unwelcoming to them and shows no desire to return to his normal life. Art encourages him to channel his negative energy into his Urban Renewal Project, where his designs would have been used to help low-income families, but he gives his shares in the company to Jill and, angry, He tells them to leave.

He had accomplished many things at this point in his life, but none had been enough to save his family from the unpredictable crimes of a drug addict, and in his depressed mindset, he forced himself to find a solution to people like Cecilio. It was the only way he knew to deal with the loss. He used the concept of “they have to help themselves” in his work and, in his disturbed state, he thought that the first person he should give that opportunity to was the murderer of his son. He locates Cecil during the Chinese New Year celebration, which, knowing John, was probably Gideon's intended birth date.

To disguise himself he steals a pig mask, he remembers, it was the Year of the Pig. I'm glad I upgraded to something a little creepier later on, because if I saw my kidnapper wearing this, I'd probably start losing my temper... like what are you going to do? Force me to star in children's programming on daytime television? Actually, that sounds horrible. But another reason it made sense for him to wear the pig mask was that the pig in the Chinese zodiac represented rebirth, and he saw the games of it as an opportunity for victims to be reborn as better people.

He chloroforms Cecil, who then wakes up in John's workshop. "You did this to me." "No, you did this to yourself." Yes, come on Cecil. You did this. This was it, friend. He is delirious. Cecil is trapped in the knife chair. John claims it's a tool to get his life back. If he can press his face through a barrier of eight knives and press a lever on the other side, his restraints will be released. John thinks this is appropriate because it will make Cecil's face ugly to match his greedy soul. Cecil manages to free himself from the chair, but this is not enough to rehabilitate him.

He attempts to attack John, who dodges it and sends him tumbling into the barbed wire trap, and in this case, he is unable to escape. John may have told himself that letting Cecil die after giving him a second chance was a good thing, that Cecil could not be rehabilitated and therefore killing him was just. Another trait of a psychopath is the need for repeated stimulation. Because John felt that he was doing Cecil a favor by putting him through this test, he soon had the desire to "help" more people and began creating more complex traps in his workshop.

But John's good intentions wouldn't be enough to make future traps fair and just, and before long, the police would recognize Kramer's actions as the work of a serial killer. GORDON: "The newspapers started calling him The Puzzle Killer." Hoping to do something about the decline of her marriage after losing the baby she was carrying, Jill decided to try to talk to John and give him one more chance, so she returns to the workshop. Before finding her husband, she discovers reconnaissance photographs of Cecil Adams. Cecil was believed to be missing and Jill wondered if John had anything to do with it.

He finds her snooping around and becomes very angry with her, telling her to never come back, which effectively means the end of her relationship and another sign of psychopathic behavior, her impulsiveness. They would divorce shortly after. After Jill leaves, she goes back to work on another trap, the glass coffin. This box would allow the user to be transported out of a collapsing room and to safety. John wouldn't survive long enough to use it himself. His successor would instead use it years later, but the fact that he was working on it back in the '90s is a testament to John's intelligence and ability to predict possible outcomes, one of the things that makes him so dangerous. as a serial killer.

Despite his impressive intellect, his physical condition was about to worsen, as John was diagnosed with colon cancer shortly after the divorce. Between the divorce and the cancer diagnosis, there were two tragedies in a row for John. Cancer hit him when he was already at his lowest point and, as a result, he decided to end his life. He decides to do this Groundhog Day style, driving his car off a cliff, but miraculously survives the accident. As he lies in the smoking mess, he realizes that he wants to live and, to do so, he must endure some more pain by pulling out a stake to escape.

Not only was this an eye-opener for John, as he was able to experience firsthand how testing his own will to live had supposedly healed his mind and given him a new appreciation for life, but it may also have directly inspired him to create The Spike. Trap. a trap that would be used years later and required the victim to remove metal stakes in order to escape; and Horsepower Trap, where a victim literally gets into a car accident. MEME GIRL: "Here he is. The son of a bitch" *Huge Crash* 🎵 "Don't stop, continue." 🎵 After walking away from his self-inflicted car accident, his faith in the rehabilitation method he had tried on Cecil was restored, and it is possibleHe realized that the pain factor would have to be amplified, because for it to work, the traps would have to test the very fabric of human nature.

He got to work on some new traps while being treated at the Angel of Mercy Hospital, where he ended up dissatisfied with the hospitality of almost everyone who worked there, marking them in his mind as future victims to rehabilitate. The people he found there were mostly just doing his job, but because John became increasingly frustrated by the tragedies of his life, he looked too hard for victims to punish them by finding reasons that didn't really exist. . Over the course of the next 5 to 7 years, John began to pay more attention to the world around him as he continued receiving chemotherapy for his colon cancer.

He came to meet some of the other people who he considered did not appreciate his life and planned to include them in his next trial game. A game, in his opinion, was a series of different traps involving several people, and which was supposed to add an element of social experiment to his patented rehabilitation process. Okay, it wasn't actually patented. To be honest, I thought that word sounded good. He hoped to do more than simply spend his time testing a series of individuals until his time on this Earth expired. Instead, he wanted to create lasting social change that would affect people long after he died, running his games and allowing a survivor to tell the story of his trial.

When news of the horrors they experienced became known, others would be less likely to make the same mistake for fear of becoming the next victim. John wanted to turn a random act of supposed vigilante justice into a full-fledged movement, but he soon discovered that it could become even more than that. He decided to run the first game of it as a test, so he created it and ran it secretly in a remote location, an abandoned pig farm that was still owned by his wife's family. He thought this was the perfect choice because it fit his idea of ​​the pig icon representing rebirth.

Some of the victims of this test game were people in his life at the time. This first game was a little different than the others, as it was more about getting the victims to admit the mistakes of their past. Later games were more about causing physical pain to the perpetrators, which is usually in some way symbolic of their evil deeds. There would be five players included in the Barn Game. There was Ryan, whose foolish actions got his high school friends killed; Carly, a thief who caused her victim to have an asthma attack; Mitch, who sold a defective motorcycle that caused the death of John's nephew;

Anna, who was John's neighbor and was normally very supportive of him during chemotherapy, but who also killed her baby and blamed her sleeping husband and Logan Nelson, a resident at Angel of Mercy Hospital who accidentally changed the labels on The Brain Scan of John was performed with that of another patient, which delayed the diagnosis of a tumor in John's brain. As a result of this, he was not correctly diagnosed until 2003, and by then it was too late. The doctors who worked on his case, Dr. Lawrence Gordon and Dr. Lynn Denlon, were cold and unsympathetic to him during his treatment, and John did not like the way Dr.

Gordon told him how long he needed was left of life. He planned to possibly test the two doctors in future games, but for now, he had gathered enough players to run the test game from him, so he gathered them up, took them to Tuck Pig Farm, and began John Kramer's first experiment. . JIGSAW: "Any attempt to violate my rules will kill you. I want to play a game." When the game begins, John keeps track of each player's progress by monitoring the rooms with security cameras. In later iterations of the games, he would be physically present to make sure the rules of each game were followed, so I assume technology was used here in the test game because two of the contestants, Anna and Logan, already knew who he was.

John. Kramer was. "Hello Anna." "John?" Each player wakes up with a cube on their head and is told to make a blood sacrifice, but Logan does not wake up at the same time as the others, giving him an unfair disadvantage. John recognizes this and doesn't think it would be right for Logan to die because of a small mistake, so he stops the spinning saw blades and rescues him. Logan had suffered large lacerations to his back, but with John's help, he was able to sew them up and survived. From there, the rest of the game proceeds as planned until only two survivors remain, Anna and Ryan.

With the updated version of the pig mask, John re-enters the game and sedates them once again. While they are unconscious, he moves them to another part of the barn called the slaughter room. If you're wondering if there's a reason it's called that, there is. And there is about to be a second. Ryan and Anna are locked on opposite sides of the room and John finally reveals himself to deliver the rules for this final challenge. JIGSAW: "Now the game is simple. The best ones are. You have a shotgun. You have a projectile." He doesn't specifically tell them that the gun is configured backwards.

The theme of this game from the beginning was for them to find salvation by looking within. JIGSAW: "While I'm sure there is a desire to point the finger at me for the blood that has been spilled, unless you turn that finger inward, I assure you that more blood will be lost." The same principle ends up applying to the JIGSAW weapon: “Now, if you want to achieve your freedom, you have to learn. You have to realize that you have been doing it backwards.” ...then when Anna doesn't take these clues into consideration and tries to kill Ryan with the gun, she ends up shooting herself.

The key that would have freed them was also hidden in the bullet casing that was left inside the weapon, so it is destroyed. when Anna shoots and so are Ryan's chances of escaping. That leaves only one survivor of the test game, Logan Nelson, and he would be the one to shape the next piece of the puzzle. a moment to the point where John Kramer is revealed in a game for the first time when he leaves to address Ryan and Anna, he is wearing a new costume, a hooded robe that almost makes him look like a monk or a priest.

The farm was not a temple, but the clothing brings me to the next piece of the puzzle: the religious aspect of John's teachings. When I said he was creating a movement, it wasn't just about scaring citizens into behaving the way he wants. to do so, based on warnings from survivors; but he also wanted to develop his own cult, his own group of followers who could pass on his teachings and eventually replace him when he was gone. To truly change the world, he would have to create something that would inspire this behavior for future generations, and the only way to do that was for his followers to pass on his values. "Change the world.

My final message. Goodbye." The first step to achieve this is to paint himself as a religious leader by wearing these robes. By doing so, he began to see himself as a God. As discussed in the Horror Story episode about Mark Hoffman, a complex of God is an unshakeable belief characterized by constantly inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. In other words, he believes that he can do no wrong. Religious attire was a kind of final step toward John truly believing that he was a God, and According to psychologist and author Harold Kaplan's definition of a God complex, Jigsaw's behavior fits the bill "A person with a God complex may refuse to admit the possibility of his or her error or failure, even in the face of irrefutable evidence and intractable problems." .In John's case, look no further than his previous cheating with Cecil Adams.

He believed that if Cecil suffered the chair-knife, he would be instantly rehabilitated. But he wasn't, he still tried to attack John after escaping. But even after seeing that, John refuses to believe that his methods are flawed and continues with his plans to create new traps. I also think it's no coincidence that Cecil's last name is 'Adams'. Cecil is John's first victim to be punished for his evil deeds, and in the biblical story of Adam and Eve, Adam is the one who takes the forbidden fruit, which expels them from the Garden of Eden. “I'm not really sure how I have to say this, but I just have to say it so that no one makes the same mistake as me. “I’m not sure how many of you know this, but I’ve actually been permanently banned… for life.” Other indicators of a God complex include "a person very dogmatic in his views," meaning that the person speaks of his personal opinions as if they were unquestionably correct.

Just listen to the way John addresses his victims, in a booming voice, God-like, I might add, as if his judgments about them were

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ly irrefutable. “You deny guilt, no doubt, for the circumstances in which you find yourself, salvation can be yours if you cleanse yourself of the habitual lies that have brought you here.” He even speaks using language that can be found in religious texts when he addresses his victims. The final indicator of a God complex is showing “no respect for the conventions and demands of society. They may request special considerations or privileges.” John's methods are obviously against the law.

He would soon begin to perform more public games, but since he considers what he is doing to be morally right, he ignores the rules of our society. OFFICER RIGG: "Get your ass out of here." JIGSAW: "Actually, I'll have to stay here while you solve your problem, Detective Matthews." So John is a textbook example of someone with a God complex, but a religion can't work with just a God or a leader, it also requires followers, and John had already found the first one. After saving Logan Nelson from the barn game, he takes him under his wing and trains him in Jigsaw's methods.

He explains the basic concepts on which he operates. Many religions use some type of text or commandments to imprint a moral code on their followers. Each of the Jigsaw games has rules, and the ideals expressed in these tapes serve as religious texts, the primary method of John Kramer's teachings. Most religious texts date back thousands of years or more, and John's teachings gain similar immortality when he founds a website to spread his word even after his death. DET. HUNT: "Uh Logan, have you ever heard of a website called Jigsaw Rules?" DET. HALLORAN: "It's a site dedicated to Jigsaw." And of course, the most important part of The Cult of Jigsaw, and the Saw franchise in general, are the traps.

In religion, there are often abstract concepts of sin that leads to punishment. The most popular ones include heaven and hell, while others use a system of karma and reincarnation. John's religion combines both ideas. Traps cause suffering, as a form of punishment for those who have sinned, but he considers this suffering to be transformative. He believes that survivors of his traps are reborn as better people. And he takes us back to Logan Nelson, who would become Jigsaw's first disciple. John taught him everything he believed in and also shared some of his knowledge in the field of mechanical engineering.

Together, they created what would become Jigsaw's signature trap: the reverse bear trap. The partnership would be short-lived, however, because Nelson had to go overseas to fight in the war, so John would have to look elsewhere to find more potential disciples. While still working to fight cancer, he discovers someone who he believes might have what it takes to be one of his followers. It all begins when John is conducting his own research into alternative treatments and discovers a doctor in Norway who has been administering an experimental therapy with a 30 to 40% success rate. He goes to visit his health care provider, Umbrella Health, run by William Easton, the man who once sponsored the party at Jill's clinic.

He explains the situation and asks for coverage, but William gives him this copy-and-paste answer about how his doctor would already be using the treatment if it worked, how it's not feasible with John's insurance policy, and that if he pursues this treatment independently, He will be removed from your current coverage. John responds with one of my favorite lines, which I always make sure to quote if I ever have to go to the doctor. When it's time to pay, the receptionist just says, "OK, CZsWorld, it's $50,000" and then I do my best John Kramer voice and say, "You know, in the Far East, people pay their doctors when they're healthy." " And then she says, "What?" And I say, "You think it's the living who will have final judgment on you..." No, but I think the reason John reacts the way he does to Mr.

Easton is more because principles, to make it clear that health system and not for personal reasons. I think thatHe knew he was going to die soon and had the money to pursue other treatments, but he wanted his legacy to say something about society, which is, again, something a religious icon could do. Later that year, things would take a turn for the worse with her health and it was time to release the Jigsaw icon to the world. The public was about to meet Jigsaw for the first time. In June 2003, Dr. Lawrence Gordon diagnosed John with an inoperable frontal lobe tumor or glioblastoma multiforme of the left temporal lobe.

In other words, he had brain cancer that was spreading very quickly. He underwent chemotherapy to try to kill the cancer cells and external beam radiation therapy to try to remove the tumor. Nine months later, on March 24, 2004, John was discovered to have progressive aphasia and right hemiplegia. That means the brain cancer was affecting his ability to speak and also limiting his ability to move the right side of his body. Look, we're also learning science here in the History of Horror classroom. This program is educational guys. They are not just memes. They are not just memes. *creating laughter and music to open the chest* "Wait until you see the... *creating laughter and music to open the chest* "Oh, no, no, no, no!" *creating laughter and music to open the chest chest* *EXPLOSION OF LAUGHING STYLES* Okay, but my point is that it's not all memes.

John was examined again and Dr. Gordon and Dr. Denlon discovered a mass in his left temporal lobe that was causing his brain stem to bulge. The cancer was also metastatic, meaning it was moving to different parts of the brain or possibly different parts of the body. An additional brain scan indicated signs of necrosis his brain cells were going to die as a side effect of the radiation therapy. It was meant to kill cancer cells, but it didn't necessarily distinguish between good and bad cells. On top of that, he had edema, so his brain was swelling inside his skull, forcing them to perform a craniotomy, a brain surgery that requires them to create a surgical opening through your skull.

You weren't paying attention to most of that medical jargon, basically all you need to know is that your guy was sick and Dr. Denlon told him, "there's no preventive treatment for what you have," in a very cold clinical tone. . John didn't appreciate that much. His brain may have had a recurring tumor, but it didn't seem to affect his memory, as he filed away Dr. Denlon's lack of empathy in his mind to make her another possible test subject in the future. In the meantime, however, Dr. Gordon and Dr. Denlon were able to improve his condition enough for him to be able to leave the hospital and enjoy his remaining time at home.

However, he had other ideas about how he wanted to spend his precious hours. Ironically, we don't actually see his first public victims, even though this area between March 2004 and October 2004 has been covered to death in the movies. But basically what we do know is that there were at least three traps in which none of the victims managed to survive. The reason I think this is because the next death we see is Seth Baxter's death in the pendulum trap, which was set up by Detective Mark Hoffman to make it look like Seth was another victim of Jigsaw.

But for this copycat crime to make sense, that means there had to be other Jigsaw traps that were discovered by the public in the first place. Although we don't see them on this list of Jigsaw's victims in Saw 5. Maybe there's another page on this list that we don't see, or maybe they were all so mutilated that they couldn't be identified. It certainly wasn't because the creators of this franchise are human and a mistake was made. In these first three public victims, some conventions are established, such as the use of a pre-recorded tape in which Billy the Puppet reads the rules of each trap to the victim, the idea that John is physically present at the site of each test . , and the fact that a puzzle piece is cut from each subject's flesh.

As a result of this, the police and press coined the name Jigsaw and John became known as The Jigsaw Killer. "My name is John". "I thought you liked being called Jigsaw." “It was the police and the press who coined the nickname Jigsaw. I never encouraged or claimed that. The Jigsaw piece I cut from my subjects was only intended to be a symbol that that subject was missing something.” Mark Hoffman used these elements in his imitation Jigsaw trap, but John had already been watching him for other reasons, so he discovered it immediately and decided to try it also in a crude trap called a shotgun chair, which prevented Hoffman from moving his arms if I didn't want to… you know… blow his head off.

The reason Hoffman is put on trial is because he didn't give his subject a second chance. “WE ALL DESERVE A CHANCE!” ...And you have a chance! And you have a chance! Hoffman will get one too, because John realizes that the two's intentions are not far apart. They both want to bring justice to the city, but John believes he has a better way to do it because of his God complex. He then brings Hoffman in as his next disciple. To ensure he stays in line, John threatens that the truth about Hoffman being Seth Baxter's killer will automatically be revealed if anything happens to him.

Hoffman is then forced to work with John, and John hopes this will help him see the light and begins to agree with John's methods. To begin this transformation, John carries Hoffman while he sets the next two traps. The two double-team a man named Paul Leahy and leave him in The Razor Wire Maze trap. Paul was a former addict who John had first met at Jill's clinic and had since resorted to cutting himself to feed her addiction. The maze appears to be an updated version of Cecil's second trap, and Paul had to crawl through it, cutting himself again to get out.

JIGSAW: “The irony is that if you want to die, you just have to stay where you are. But if you want to live, you will have to cut yourself again.” The hope was that this more painful punishment would make Paul appreciate the life he had, but once again it was in vain and Paul could not survive. The crime scene was "investigated" by Hoffman, but Deputy Police Coroner Allison Kerry presented the equation to two new investigators, Stephen Sing and David Tapp. Jigsaw would keep an eye on them from now on and then decided to make them Jigsaw's future victims.

Before this, I think you could at least argue that all the people he had examined... even if you don't want to say they deserved it, were bad people. (Not including Nelson, who didn't actually end up getting tested.) But Sing and Tapp only end up on Jigsaw's naughty list because they're trying to bring a serial killer to justice. This is both the psychopathy and the God complex within John really taking over and distorting his perception of reality. These two psychological conditions make him invent reasons to punish Sing and Tapp so that no one can stop him. He tried to tell himself that they deserved to be tested because they valued the glory of catching Jigsaw over the preservation of human life.

But in reality it was just an excuse to tear down those who opposed him. Then the God complex told him that no one should threaten his power, but his psychopathy told him that he was doing the right thing by subjecting them to almost inescapable tests. John set up a new workshop in an abandoned mannequin factory on Stygian Street. There, he would work on creating his next big game, The Bathroom Game, and create a trap for Sing and Tapp so that they would be killed if they tried to confront him or stop him. He does this by filming the videotapes he plays for his victims in front of recognizable graffiti to lure the two police officers to his territory, but they would not appear there for at least a few weeks.

Meanwhile, he had another topic to try and once again enlisted Hoffman's help. The victim's name was Mark Wilson. John discovered that Mark was faking an illness to scam others, so he tests it using the flammable gelatin trap. Mark needed to obtain the combination to a safe containing an antidote, using a candle to read the clues written on the walls. The floor was covered in sharp glass and one wrong move would ignite the flammable gelatin smeared on his body. That! That's why it's called: The flammable gelatin trap. After setting this trap, Hoffman tries to warn John that Tapp is after him, but John, the manipulative mastermind that he is, is already one step ahead of him.

One day, during his treatment at Angel of Mercy Hospital, John steals a flashlight from his oncologist, Dr. Gordon, and passes it to Hoffman, instructing him to leave it at the Flammable Jelly Trap crime scene so he can throw the other. researchers outside. The plan worked and gave John a little more freedom when it came to his next trap, which would involve two more former patients of the Homeward Bound Clinic. This trap would take place in May 2004, five months before the events of the bathroom game. GORDON: "That was five months ago." And the players this time were two drug addicts named Amanda Young and Donnie Greco.

This is another example of Jigsaw believing that his judgments are supreme, but in reality, the scenario he creates is unfair. Amanda is told that she must retrieve the key from her dead cellmate's stomach to remove the inverted bear trap and prevent it from opening her head. However, when she starts she discovers that Donnie is not actually dead, just asleep, but she has to kill him to get the key. We're not even at the beginning of the first movie yet and John is already breaking his own rules. And some screamed very loudly at that. “WE ALL DESERVE A CHANCE!” As I mentioned in my Saw episode of Things You Missed, it's possible that Donnie already got a second chance in his own trap, off-screen somewhere, but what's more likely happening here is that Jigsaw has developed a bit of a taste for for violence through his previous victims.

It is another trait of the psychopath, the need for stimulation. Ironically, this doesn't make him any better than the addicts he so likes to punish, because they are addicted to drugs and he is essentially addicted to setting people up. He has become judge, jury and executioner, and has begun to enjoy the power this gives him. What makes this even more dangerous is the fact that he is super intelligent and knows that he has to be sneaky in what he does in order for it to continue. At this point, Jigsaw is already a full-fledged monster. After Amanda unlocks the inverted bear trap from her head, Billy the Puppet arrives on a tricycle and congratulates her.

JIGSAW VOICE: “Congratulations. You're still alive. Most people are very ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore." John waits in his apartment for her to get home and tells her not to be afraid, because her life is just beginning. Amanda would be his next disciple. She was the first survivor of a game who truly believed that the experience had made her helped her overcome something and felt that her days of drug use were behind her now that she had come to appreciate life. For this reason, John saw great potential in her to continue his work, so he began to work with her more. closely as she developed her next game, hoping to hone her skills and catch up with Hoffman Two weeks later, in mid-to-late May, John predicts that Sing and Tapp are close to discovering her workshop.

He may have known this due to his excellent ability to anticipate the actions of others, but may also have been helped by Hoffman, who was still a police officer and may have been looking over Tapp's shoulder to warn John as he approached. . He begins wearing a bulletproof vest under his tunic as a precaution and kidnaps a man named Jeff Ridenhour. The reason why Jigsaw wanted to test Jeff is unknown, because his tape is never discovered, however, if we use the non-canon video game Saw II: Flesh and Blood as a clue, it would seem that Jeff had attempted suicide, and therefore, John felt like he didn't appreciate his life.

He imprisons Jeff in a trap known as The Drill Chair and waits for Sing and Tapp to find him. One day, when he enters his workshop, he realizes that someone has been there and prepares for a confrontation. He starts The Drill Chair by stepping on a switch on the floor and explains that he will kill Jeff in 20 seconds if the detectives can't find the key. Basically, they have to choose between saving his life or capturing Jigsaw. This is another example of him bending his own rules to benefit himself. Unless there's some off-screen scene where Jeff fails his first test, he's not really being given a second chance. “WE ALL DESERVE A CHANCE!” He also claims that he despises murder. “KILLING IS DISGUSTING!” Okay, calm down buddy, if you wake up your parents, the sleepover will be over.

But John physically turning on a machine designed to drill a hole in Jeff's head is no different than him pulling a trigger and shooting someone. “I have never murdered anyone in my life. The decisions arefrom them". From what we can see, Jeff never had the option to escape like many of the others did. Because if someone else was doing this, John would consider it unfair. But since Sing and Tapp are after him and he sees himself as a God, he will break any rules he wants to break down. My favorite example of a God complex in fiction is Light Yagami from Death Note, and we see something similar happening with him.

He starts out killing only criminals, but then tries to kill Detective L, who tries to bring him to justice. Jigsaw's way of testing the two cops is to see if they try to save Jeff or capture Jigsaw. Sing focuses on freeing the victim, but Tapp goes after John and as a result, he fails the test and has his throat slit. Then Sing makes the same mistake and goes after John, probably not wanting the mission to have been in vain. But John, who was always prepared for any scenario, was also prepared for this. Sing chases him down the stairs to a hallway, where the Quadruple Gun trap is set.

This is pretty simple: if you trip on a hidden fishing line, these weapons hidden on top will kill you. John steps over the wire safely and Sing shoots him with his own gun. John's bulletproof vest absorbs the shot, but he wisely stays on the ground and waits for Sing to approach, trip over the wire, and get himself killed... "Game. It's over. Hahahahahahahahahaha!" ...before getting up again and fleeing the workshop forever. I think one of the reasons he believed he would be able to achieve something like this was that he had endured so much pain from his cancer treatment, that falling to the ground with the impact of a gunshot, even at the fragile age of 50 in this point, it wasn't much in comparison.

He expresses a similar sentiment during another match a year later. “I don't mean to make fun of you, officer… but I am a cancer patient. How is it possible that you make me suffer more pain... than I already have? Detective Tapp ends up surviving the cut to his throat, so John has to abandon his workshop at the mannequin factory and move to a property that would later be called The Nerve Gas House. I would theorize that this was part of the Urban Renewal project, the housing project he abandoned at the end of his engineering career. There seem to be several of these houses throughout the city, but this particular one has been outfitted with a network of underground tunnels and hidden rooms, and one of these rooms was a ruined bathroom that John had configured perfectly for the site of the next big home. game.

If Jigsaw's life is a puzzle, a combination of the different pieces that make up his identity, we need to put those pieces together to fully understand him. You can take the same approach to understand some of his games. The Barn Game brought together people who had wronged others but refused to admit their mistakes and sought a confession from each of them. They were all united by that, but otherwise they weren't connected in any meaningful way. So for John's next game, the October 2004 Bathroom Game, he strategically chose subjects who were all different pieces of the same puzzle, and the central piece that connected to all the others was his oncologist at Angel of Mercy Hospital, Dr.

Lawrence Gordon. . The first guy John captured for this game was named Zep Hindle. He was a nurse at the hospital who really took great care of John and treated him well, but unfortunately for him, John needed him to make everything work. We don't find out why Jigsaw tested Zep; However, this is another case where we can turn to non-canon supplementary material for possible clues. Saw: Rebirth was a comic book and eventually a motion comic that aimed to tell a little more story about John Kramer. This isn't an official entry in the series, because it contradicts details from some of the movies, but I think it's relatively harmless to use his explanation for why Jigsaw decided to try out Zep.

I'm going to watch the clip, but as a warning, the voice cast isn't the best. The first voice you hear is supposed to be Zep and the narrator is John Kramer. With that in mind, let's move forward. “I bet the doctor was a real shoulder to cry on, huh? Cold-hearted bastards take them away. "What are you talking about?" “Everyone is screwing their wives. I’m sure I won’t be like that when I become a doctor.” “The orderly had his own problems. Now that my own life was slipping away from me, I paid more attention to the lives of others.” So it seems that Zep's big flaw was that he was a gossip.

Jigsaw injects him with poison and forces him to help facilitate the game if he wants to get the antidote. Zep was most likely responsible for kidnapping Dr. Gordon, while Amanda's job was to catch Adam Stanheight. Adam was a photographer hired by Detective Tapp to spy on Gordon, because Tapp suspected Gordon of being Jigsaw. However, before Amanda kidnaps him, John performs a ceremony to celebrate his rebirth. The ceremony appears to be another example of John attempting to turn his modus operandi into a religious experience. He puts on the black and red robe once again in a candlelit room and asks her to essentially make vows of devotion to him.

Interestingly, on the official Saw III soundtrack, the music that plays during this scene is called "Baptism" and, if you listen closely, there is choral singing in the background, which gives the feel of a church choir. 🎵 "Baptism" - Charlie Clouser 🎵 He leaves Amanda alone and heads to the bathroom to make final preparations. When she appears with Adam unconscious, he stops the Glam & Gore tutorial he was watching... He instructs her what to do with Adam as he pours a bucket of fake blood on the floor and prepares for his most ambitious game. Until now. "It's time to start our game." OMG I'll get the drivers!

TAPP: "I won't play your game. I won't! Aughhh!" CZ (v/o): Ohhhh, wait. I think I misunderstood. John injects himself with a serum that is supposed to slow down his heart rate, relax his muscles and make it less noticeable while he pretends, key word: he pretends, to be dead on the floor in the middle of the bathroom and Amanda takes him away. all. the other materials, he turns on the light and closes the door on Lawrence, Adam and John, who has a gun in his left hand and a tape recorder in the other. It would seem that he also hides a small remote control in the palm of his hand or something, that he has the ability to send a shock to Adam or Lawrence a la José Altuve.

Lawrence's goal in this game was to kill Adam before time ran out, and Adam's goal was to simply escape. He was put to the test because he spent more time spying on other people than examining his own life. Adam and Gordon are supposed to be enemies in this game, but they try to secretly work together to escape, unaware that the man in the center of the room is alive, listening, and so is the man responsible for his imprisonment. So when they develop a plan to make it look like Lawrence had killed Adam with the poison to try to fool Zep, who was watching through the camera, it doesn't work, because John overhears everything they said and surprises Adam to show him. to Zep. that he wasn't really dead.

Later, when Lawrence seems to have lost all hope, Jigsaw gives him a buzz that I saw while trying one last effort to reinvigorate Gordon's passion, make him stop feeling sorry for himself, and ignite a rage to motivate him to try. pass your test. I would say it works. Okay, well, roll the clip one last time. *screaming like crazy* That never gets old. Gordon ends up cutting off his foot to escape the shackle and, in a last desperate attempt to save his family, he pretends to kill Adam again, this time using the gun. I find it very interesting that John doesn't use the electric shock again to check if Adam is really dead.

It may be that he actually doesn't suspect it. The first time, he knew he must be skeptical because he could hear Lawrence and Adam whispering to each other in the dark. But on the second try, I'm pretty sure Dr. Gordon just winks at Adam; I've theorized that it's while his head is turned away from the camera right here. John has to keep his eyes closed, so he doesn't know that this is another attempt at faking it and that Lawrence's performance was good enough to sell that it was real. I know there will be people who think it's out of character for someone as smart as John to let himself be fooled like that, so if you have your own theory as to why he didn't surprise Adam right here, let me know in the comments.

At the end of the game, Dr. Gordon is the only one who makes it out alive, and that leaves Adam alone in the bathroom with John, who Adam still believes is dead. Then this happens. I swear, this isn't the start of a mattress commercial, THIS IS WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS... And if you get a mattress commercial, I swear it's a complete coincidence. After standing up, Jigsaw informs Adam that his chain key was inside the bathtub, which was now unreachable because the bathtub had been emptied. Adam tries to lift Zep's gun off the ground to attack Jigsaw, but a final electric shock sends it flying from his hands.

JIGSAW: "Game over." ADAM: (YouTube poop scream) John was now out of danger, but he wasn't done with his chores for the night. He leaves the bathroom to go find Dr. Gordon. After seeing the way the Dr. had handled the situation under pressure, he realized that he would be an excellent ally and, having passed the test, he would be the prime candidate to become a new disciple. He catches up to him and finds him about to faint due to blood loss. John splashes some water on his face as he congratulates him for surviving. He helps clean the wound and eventually rehabilitates him physically, giving him a prosthetic foot and taking him on as his next accomplice.

John would treat Dr. Gordon differently than his other students. He was already beginning to sense potential trouble with Mark and Amanda, whom he suspected had dark ulterior motives for harming the traps' victims instead of saving them. He feared that his platform, the name Jigsaw, might be misused after his passing, so, using Dr. Gordon, he established a system of checks and balances. By keeping Gordon's involvement a secret from the other apprentices, he had a hidden weapon to help preserve his legacy. I should note that Nelson was still overseas fighting in the US war in Iraq, so John didn't know if he would return or if he would be reliable anymore.

At some point in the following year, Jigsaw continues to perform smaller traps to test people he considers to have lost their appreciation for life. One of them is a woman named Joan, who survived his trap, but she decided not to become one of Jigsaw's followers for unknown reasons. However, she appreciates her life more and tells her story in the news. "That pure horror of absolute horror gave me light, and as wrong as it may seem, I'm better off for enduring it." The transmission reaches a man named Bobby Dagen, who is inspired by his transformation and, perhaps more significantly, his business potential.

The smart thing for Bobby to do would be to contact her and offer to write a ghost book about her experience with Jigsaw for a percentage of the profits, but what he does is write his own book, in which he pretends to be a victim of Jigsaw. John takes issue with this for reasons similar to what he had with Hoffman posing as one of his traps, and confronts him at a book signing. "In ancient Egypt, if you spoke under oath, you had to say, 'If I'm lying, take me to the quarries.' Does that mean anything to you?" After signing his copy, John removes the cover, with the photo of Bobby's face, telling him that he wouldn't need it now that they met.

I think this is John's small way of telling Bobby that he is the real Jigsaw. Obviously, Bobby isn't supposed to notice right away, but he's basically saying that he's very smart, that he'll always remember Bobby's face even in such a brief meeting, and he's hinting that they might meet again. However, they do not meet again, the task of testing Bobby Dagen would fall to one of Jigsaw's disciples. The next big game John would plan would be even more complex than the last. This game would involve two locations, and like with the bathroom game, he planned to place himself in the center of one of them to make things easier.

He also put Amanda in the middle of the action at the other location to make sure the rules were followed. Around October 2005, it was finally time for the game to take place. The first half of the game, created by Jigsaw, takes place in the aforementioned Nerve Gas House and contained a series of criminals who had ties to a police officer named Eric Matthews. One of these criminals was a con man named Obi Tate, whom John convinced to help him kidnap the other seven players. John then brought in Hoffman to sedate and brought in Obi as the eighth and final contestant.

After some finishing touches to one of the game's traps called the Magnum Eyehole, the Nerve Gas House was ready. In this game, each member breathed a deadly nerve gas and was tasked with completing their own trap to earn an antidote. Each one ofThey were a real criminal who was framed for a different crime that Eric Matthews didn't commit except one. Daniel Matthews was the son of Eric Mathews. He was also a criminal, although his crimes were much more childish. Part of the game involved everyone discovering that they were linked to Matthews in some way. The second half of the game was created by Amanda.

So Amanda was into John's part of the game, and John was into Amanda's part of the game. The second half took place at a disused steel plant called Wilson Steel, which had been the location of John's main workshop for the past year. Amanda, possibly with John's help, had set up video monitors of the events that had already taken place at the Nerve Gas House. This was the main motivation for Detective Matthews to participate in the game. He would see his son in danger and would be forced to play along. To add insult to injury, he re-recorded Daniel's voicemail greeting...?

JIGSAW: “You called Daniel's phone, he is not here at the moment. But if you... That really raises a lot of questions for me. Did you re-record each victim's voice messages? And if so, why wasn't it included as bonus content on the special edition DVDs of each Saw film? "Promotional DVD". JIGSAW: "Hi. You called Zac Morris's phone. He's not in right now because he didn't agree with my opinion on Saw 7. Amanda can walk Daniel through John's half of the game in the Nerve Gas House. , and Daniel is safely and secretly hidden inside Jigsaw's headquarters, but to lure Detective Matthews into his trap, John uses another trap, containing a clue to the location of Jigsaw's workshop, for the first time in his

history

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The victim this time was named Michael Marks, a police informant who was another former patient at the Homeward Bound clinic. Jigsaw felt that Michael was not worthy of the life he was given because, as an informant, everything happened. his time spying on others and had become a rat or a snitch. This shows us that Jigsaw has gone even further down the rabbit hole. John does exactly what Michael Marks does to find victims he believes are the. If anything, John himself is more guilty of this because of the number of people he watches. But his reasoning returns, once again, to the God complex, making him believe that he is allowed to do so, but others, or society as a whole, are not.

Michael wakes up with a device around his neck called the Venus Fly Trap, which will lock him and impale his face if he cannot obtain the key, which Gordon has hidden behind his right eye. Jigsaw asks him to look inward, instead of outward, and to give up one of the eyes he relies on to spy on criminals. Michael fails the test and John takes a piece of the puzzle from him and leaves a message for Detective Matthews, telling him to take a closer look. I also wonder if his misspelling of Matthews' last name was another sign that the brain cancer was really going to his head.

Matthews would look closer and discover that the victim was one of his informants and that the steel used to build the trap was from the Wilson Steel Plant, a place John knew Matthews knew about because he played a role in a case. of his past. Matthews leads his team there just in time to catch Jigsaw eating his Sunday morning Cocoa Puffs. "I'm cuckoo with the Cocoa Puffs. I'm cuckoo with the Cocoa Puffs! I'm cuckoo with the COCOA PUFFFS!!" *maniacal laughter* Sorry, I'm just imagining John Kramer doing that. *more laughter* Just watching this old cancer patient start jumping and losing control when he tries the cocoa...

The SWAT team comes in and handcuffs Jigsaw. matthewsse mocks him by learning and saying, "Is this close enough?" ADAM: “Uhm…yeah.” Matthews orders his men to book Jigsaw, but as I mentioned earlier in this lesson, John takes control of the situation by saying that he will have to stay put. The police find the video monitors and John confirms that the boy seen on the screens is, in fact, Matthews' son, Daniel. His facial expression while doing this is a sick example of how his psychotic tendencies have evolved. I talked earlier about the increased need for repeated stimulation that is sometimes seen in psychopaths.

This is because at first, John believed that he was doing the world a service by punishing criminals and other people he considered to have lost their way. He tortured these individuals using his traps, so his brain came to associate doing something good with doing something very bad: causing pain to others. As a result, he begins to like the idea of ​​hurting his victims. "It's your son Daniel, you remember him, right?" “I know who he is, you piece of shit. What is he doing on that damn monitor? "Well, I haven't looked at the monitors in a while, so it would be hard for me to say, but I imagine he's hiding in a corner with an expression on his face..." Where is he?

And he has an even bigger smile on his face when he describes in detail the torture Daniel might be going through. He has approximately two hours before the gas infiltrating his nervous system begins to break down his body tissue and he begins to bleed from every orpheus he has. Oh yeah. There will be blood." I feel like there's a Paul Thomas Anderson joke here, but I don't know what it is, so I'm going to put up this funny, if not irrelevant, meme. Alright, I think that's been on screen long enough. John told him explains to Matthews how he can see his son again, if he just sits and talks to John until the game is over without resorting to dirty police work like... "Tampering with evidence Ha, I bet you thought I was going to." saying "BRUTALITY!" Matthews reluctantly agrees to sit down with Jigsaw, who tries to communicate with him and make him understand the mistake of his past.

As for how far John has strayed from his original intention of helping people, I think that. He really does a good job during this game of staying focused and doing everything he can to make Matthews actually win the game. We also learn a little more about Jigsaw's mantra, the reason why he wants to gain followers and try to change the world. that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution no longer applies to modern man, because we live in a society where it is easy to survive without having the advantage or the will to survive. That is why John believes that his subjects have not appreciated his lives.

He then goes on to explain that his past, with cancer and the lost child, changed that for him, but before he can give Matthews that same epiphany, the detective storms off. That would be the closest John would come to converting to Jigsaw's church. Eric ends up resorting to destroying John's plans, which John points out is not the appropriate course of action for an officer who should be collecting evidence. But John really wants Eric to succeed, so he gives him another chance to turn things around. Finally, Matthews explodes when he sees a criminal on the monitor chasing his son and decides to follow his usual method: "BRUTALITY!" He breaks John's finger, destroys the walkie-talkie, which is basically his way of saying that he won't do things by the rules anymore, and puts his gun in John's mouth while he continually threatens him.

At that point, John has seen enough. He has realized that Matthews has passed the point of no return and that there is no hope for him. "Game...game over." Jigsaw realized there was no hope for Detective Eric Matthews after he laid a violent hand on him, and decided it was time to take him to the house where the Nerve Gas Game had taken place. However, this was all part of his game plan... or I guess technically it was Amanda's game plan, although it's hard to imagine that John didn't play a big role in it. Because John's most dangerous asset is, unlike many other horror movie villains, his intelligence.

We've seen him use his masterful engineering knowledge to his advantage, but he's also helped by an impressive understanding of the human mind. To put it in a term that seems almost comically appropriate, I would say that John was a master of game theory. “Hello Internet, welcome to Game Theory. So I did some research and found out that what if Shaggy from Scooby Doo was a smoker all the time? Haha, no, that's offensive. I'm not a smoker, don't do drugs or you might wake up to an upside down bear trap. But I recently learned that the beloved Internet show Game Theory is actually named after a real concept called Game Theory.

And yes, I plan to continue pronouncing it that way. GAME THEORY is the study of how players in a game will strategize in different situations. It is basically the science of decision making. The development of game theory was first developed by mathematician John Von Neumann to try to strengthen his poker skills. John Kramer used some of those concepts to make his games fit some of the most likely decisions players might make. He has thought through most, if not all, of the possible outcomes for each decision, but he uses GAME THEORY to determine which scenarios are most likely to occur and spends more time developing those outcomes.

Yes, it's more complicated than that, but like I said before, we don't do math here in the Horror History classroom, so I'll leave it in the simplest terms. John's understanding of game theory is the reason he was able to elude Cecil, the reason he could count on Zep to show up in the bathroom, and the reason he felt comfortable risking his life in The Wilson Steel. Plant. When Matthews loses his game, John has already predicted that Matthews will do what benefits him most at that moment, threatening John and forcing him to give directions to the Nerve Gas House.

John takes advantage of the fact that Matthews thought independently of the rest of his unit; While John takes him to the real Nerve Gas House, the police technical team follows the video feed to another house, from where the pre-recorded videos are played. Remember how I theorized that there were several houses, all part of John's Urban Renewal Project? I think Fakeout Nerve Gas House is just another one of these houses. When John and Matthews arrive at the royal house, John hangs by a thread from his life and gives him a key, without revealing that this would be the key that closes the fate of Eric Matthews. “Now you are locked up, helpless and alone.

Game over!" 🎵 "Forget To Remember" - Mudvayne 🎵 That's my favorite, in case you don't know. Amanda tried to leave Eric Matthews for dead, but Jigsaw, apparently seeing great potential in the boy and perhaps sensing that was close to communicating with him, he decided to give him one more chance. He saved Matthews and kept him in a cell for the next six months. During this period, John realizes that he is on borrowed time. He knows that his days are numbered. right now and still has many targets he wants to punish. Most importantly, however, he has yet to decide which of his disciples, now consisting of Amanda Young, Mark Hoffman and Lawrence Gordon, would continue his work after his death. games for each of them as a final test.

Amanda's game was planned to take place with John on his deathbed, while Hoffman's would be a post-mortem challenge. It is unclear if Gordon's final test was detailed. in the movies. It could be that the preparations he helped with for some of the other traps were part of his final test, or it could be that it happened off-screen. He also hoped to get his ex-wife back on his side by showing him that her rehabilitation methods had saved Amanda, even when the medical approach at Jill's clinic couldn't. "I brought proof that it works." JILL: “Amanda?” "Hello Jill." But there are many more traps and planned games that Jigsaw didn't have time for in his life.

He makes a tape for his ex-wife Jill and leaves it in his will, instructing her to play a game to help balance Jigsaw's power after he is gone. This included Hoffman's final test, but also five other people who were part of William Easton's Umbrella Health, the insurance company that had prohibited John from seeking alternative treatments for his cancer. The box he leaves behind is locked so that no one without the key can enter it, and he would keep the key for a while longer. He also prerecorded the tapes that would be played during the games and traps for other people like Detective Kerry, a repeat offender named Troy, SWAT Officer Rigg, a guy named Trevor who we know nothing about, John's former business partner Art Blank, another a pair of tapes for Trevor and Art Blank in case they survive the first one, a pimp named Brenda and an evil motel manager named Ivan, a pair of abusive parents named Rex and Morgan, an FBI agent named Lindsay Perez , another FBI agent named Peter Strahm, five citizens who participated in the building fire scandal, a malicious loan shark named Simone, a malicious loan shark named Eddie, a tabloid reporter named Pamela Jenkins, a love triangle formed by three young people: Brad, Dina andRyan, a gang of four rap-metal-loving racists, and the man who once tried to pass himself off as a Jigsaw victim would eventually become one: Bobby Dagen.

Note that Jigsaw did not assume the outcome of any game, so he probably also had several tapes for each person to take into account all possible outcomes. On top of ALL THAT, he left one last set of instructions for Jill to deliver to Dr. Gordon. “Take care of Jill. And if something happens to her, I want you to act immediately on my behalf. In exchange for that, I will not keep any more secrets from you.” I hope ol' Johnny loaded up some extra batteries for the camera and audio recorder, because there's a LOT of recording going on for Jigsaw...

But not as much recording as I had to do to make this video, so with that in mind mind. I think it's only fair that I take a little break before we get to the last game of John's life. John likely knew that the April 2006 games would be his last, regardless of the outcome. Two games would be played that day. The one involving Rigg, Blank, Matthews and Hoffman was designed by John, but would be performed primarily by Hoffman; while the other game, involving Lynn Denlon, Jeff Denlon, Amanda Young and John, was created by John and would be facilitated by John.

Originally, the game was going to feature Jeff Denlon going through a series of tests to try to forgive the people involved in a car accident that resulted in the death of his young son. The idea was that if he reached the end of the game, he would be forced to face Amanda, who is supposed to be his captor. Jeff's restraint would be tested by choosing whether or not to kill Amanda at the end, while Amanda's restraint would be tested by making sure she didn't sabotage Jeff's trial like he did with some of Jeff's other victims. him in the past.

Jigsaw was worried that Amanda was only involved because she enjoyed punishing victims and didn't want to see them succeed, pass her tests, and be rehabilitated like he supposedly had. Watching Amanda sabotage her recent traps to make them unwinnable disturbed John and may have made him begin to lose faith in her methods; or at least, lose faith in Amanda. The entire operation he had built was based on the idea that Amanda had been the first to be rehabilitated, the prime example of how suffering can cause a person to be reborn and lead a better life. He considered Amanda to be the closest person to truly understanding him, so he would probably be pretty defeated if she failed her final test now, after two years of training.

To make matters worse, he seemed to be developing a rivalry with the other known potential candidate to continue John's work: Detective Hoffman. Hoffman's training with John was also ongoing, and John did the best he could with the limited time he had to teach Hoffman to walk the fine line that Jigsaw is supposed to walk. He must respect the lives of the test subjects he captured, but also prepare to see them suffer to achieve retribution for their sins. The day these games took place was April 28, 2006. Before the fun begins, John's ex-wife shows up at the meatpacking plant to try to plead with him and get him to stop working.

Instead of listening to her, he gives her the key to the box that he left her in her will and tells her that he will know what to do with it when the time comes. With that, John feels that he has done all he could and asks Amanda to take him to her deathbed. His last game was about to begin and his assistants went to pick up the players, Dr. Lynn Denlon and grieving father Jeff Denlon. Hoffman finished capturing Jeff and placing him at the start of his trial moments before Amanda returned to Lynn, and used this time to have one last meeting with John.

It turns out that Hoffman shared the same concerns about Amanda letting her emotions get in the way of giving her victims a fair chance at survival. John rewards Hoffman for his honest work thus far by giving him a protection that Amanda doesn't have: anonymity. Amanda was already a known accomplice of Jigsaw; The police and FBI would have realized this when they saw her helping Daniel Matthews get out of the Nerve Gas House, as Daniel ended up being stored in Jigsaw's workshop. The FBI suspected there was another accomplice, but did not know for sure that it was Hoffman.

So John's willingness to keep Hoffman's involvement a secret showed that he had more faith in Hoffman than Amanda. In exchange for this anonymity, he asks Hoffman to perform one more task and gives him a file with instructions on a future game that would test Ashley Kuzon, Charles Salomon, Britt Stevenson, Scott Mallick and Luba Gibbs, all of whom played some roles. role in setting and covering up a deadly fire. *Jigsaw hands him the file* Hoffman: "What is this?" JIGSAW: "It's time to play." Those would be the last words John said to his oldest student, who slipped through a secret door before heading to the room where Daniel Rigg's final judgment would take place.

Moments later, Amanda arrived with Lynn Denlon, so her own game was about to begin. "Hello Dr. Denlon." John explains that she was once his patient and blames her for telling him that he is going to die in such a cold, clinical tone of voice. He claims that she is dead inside after leaving her husband and neglecting her daughter. But when John utters his second most used phrase on his list of top 10 phrases… “What do I want? I want to play a game." ...he's actually looking at Amanda, which means this is both his test and Dr. Denlon's.

This would be his last chance to prove that he can let a game play out fairly. without his desire for revenge and bloodlust getting in the way. I mean, obviously there's nothing fair about any of the Jigsaw games... but you get what I mean. When John sets the rules, he just says. which is testing his will to keep someone alive, which could apply to both Lynn and Amanda. Lynn must keep John alive and Amanda must keep Lynn alive. If John dies, his heart rate monitor. will stop, resulting in Lynn's shotgun necklace shooting him in the head; while if Lynn dies, Jeff will walk through the door at the end of his trial and take revenge on the first person he sees: Amanda Theme. game is forgiveness.

Can a father forgive the people involved in his son's premature death? Can Amanda forgive victims who had failed in life like she once did? And can Lynn Denlon forgive the man responsible for kidnapping her entire family by doing everything she can to keep him alive as long as possible? As usual with Jigsaw, each of these people were pieces of his puzzle, and they would all intertwine in the end. His confidence that each of them will eventually come together is another example of his mastery of GAME THEORY. Amanda would keep an eye on Jeff's progress while Dr.

Denlon began treating John. She believes John's brain is herniating and suggests they take him to a hospital, and John watches helplessly as Amanda loses her cool and gets angry at the doctor, basically telling him that he needs to perform an operation in this room. Normally, Jigsaw wouldn't interfere with anything that could change the outcome of his game, but in this case, he yells at Amanda. I think that's because she was the only one who had apparently recovered from her addictions, she was the only ray of hope that could make John believe that his treatment methods were really working, so he desperately wanted her to get through it. test to be able to die. thinking that she had actually been helping her test subjects the entire time.

Of course, John was completely delusional at this point. In reality, he had helped no one but himself and would soon show much more quantifiable signs of her deteriorating sanity. But his sanity was not the only thing that had failed, because moments later he would suffer a myoclonic episode that put his life at risk. John must have been well aware that he was nearing the end of his life, because it was very shortly after bringing Lynn Denlon into the picture that he convulsed into a dangerous state that required the combined efforts of Dr. Denlon and Amanda. to get it back.

The oxygen returns to his brain and saves his life. John was left very weak after this, but he refused to let that stop him from continuing to work on his legacy. He may have been crazy, but I have to admire his work ethic. Just as you should admire my work ethic for you to purchase this product. You can click the link at... I think it was while Lynn and Amanda were arguing in the next room that Jigsaw made the tape for Detective Hoffman to find after her death. Of course, he couldn't guarantee that Hoffman would be the only one to listen to him, so he had to speak in very general terms, without revealing the fact that they were actually working together. “Are you there, detective?

If so, you're probably the last man standing. Now maybe you will succeed where others have failed. Do you think you will come out untested? I promise that my work will continue.” John placed this tape next to his bed, and as Lynn prepared for the next operation, Amanda came in to inform her that Jeff had stopped by the first room of his trial. John informed Amanda about an envelope he had Hoffman hide in his desk. We never found out what he was supposed to say in this note, most likely he was offering Amanda some strength in words, but Hoffman changed the message.

If you want to know more about that, you can watch the Hoffman and Amanda Horror History episodes. When he sees that Amanda is overcome with emotion, he intervenes once again to try to get her back on the right path. "I can not do this". PUZZLE: “Amanda! Can. You are stronger now. This is another example of her blind ambition to prove that her rehabilitation process works, despite all the evidence pointing to the fact that it does not. The American Psychiatric Association notes that psychotic behavior can include an overinflated self-image and extreme arrogance. It seems that John has reached that stage, and he can't accept that he was wrong about something, especially after spending the last three years playing these games with the intention of proving that his test subjects were missing something, and that torturing them in their Traps would help them find it.

After Amanda watches Jeff complete the next room, she informs John, who is surprised at the rate at which he is progressing, but despite his rapid progress, the outcome of the game would depend entirely on what would happen next. . John gets a haircut, something I could use right now. ONE PANDEMIC LATER: If you only knew... in preparation for the brain surgery Lynn was about to perform. This would prevent the brain from pressing on John's skull and, in theory, would reduce his headaches and improve his motor skills. While it was possible to use numbing agents, John had to be awake and alert for this procedure, which involved Dr.

Denlon drilling a hole through his skull and opening a window using this small saw blade. Get it? Why did he see? That's the name of the franchise... “Ha ha. Ha…” Something about this procedure triggers some memories in his brain of a picnic he went to when he was married to Jill, which he had recorded on his camcorder. I'm sure that tape is there, on the shelf at home, along with all his other home videos. JIGSAW: "More comfortable in chains than in freedom." During the hallucination, John tries to tell her wife "I love you", but this makes it seem like he is telling Lynn Denlon that he loves her, which makes Amanda very jealous and angers her. "Just get out of here, you stupid dumb animal." Once again, Dr.

Denlon's efforts are able to buy John a little more time, and it seems as if she is really starting to change her attitude, for example, we see her put on her wedding ring again as if suggesting that seeing John fighting longer made her appreciate the time she spent with her husband. Amanda is still in jealous girlfriend mode, a very serious mental illness that I talked about in great detail in her own Horror History episode, and she walks in and starts kissing John's face and neck. Lynn tells her that John has passed out and she can't hear her, and again, Amanda's temper flares and she threatens to kill Lynn.

Once again, Jigsaw has to step in and scold her...wait a minute John, weren't you asleep? So you mean to tell me that you just regained consciousness and fully understood what was happening in the two seconds between when this happened and when it happened? And you were completely passed out and not pretending to be asleep when Amanda was on top of you right here? See you John Kramer. I SEE YOU! Meanwhile, Jeff continues with his trial and finally reaches the courtroom where he has the opportunity to save the murderer of his son from what John considers his favorite trap: The Rack.

The fact that John even has a favorite torture device is proof that he had developed a psychological dependence on the feeling he had when hurting others and that he no longer felt it.He was only trying to cure people. The trap is also a modern crucifix, adding credibility to his God complex and the development of his teachings as a religion. Back in the operating room, John asks Lynn to talk about her husband, causing Lynn to defend her marriage against him, which is essentially what he wants. He wants her to become passionate and take her life back.

She begs him to let her go and just as he takes her hand, Amanda enters her, making her more jealous. John says goodbye… “We're fine, Amanda. “We don’t need you.” It seems a little...counterproductive...for Jigsaw to do something to piss Amanda off like this when he really wants her to pass his test. It could be that he knew that she would have to endure some emotional turmoil to prove that she is capable of handling her emotions when he is no longer around her, but I don't think she was really in the state of mind to give it to her victims. “adequate” evidence at this point.

I think what was happening is that he felt like he was close to a breakthrough with Lynn and didn't want Amanda to interrupt him. Why would he settle for one successful patient when he could possibly have two? "If you can get through this, Lynn, you'll thank me one day, just like Amanda did." As he continued to talk to Lynn, he knew it wouldn't be long before Amanda announced that Jeff had passed through the last room and that he would soon be heading to the operating room. With this, the possibility arose that Jeff would try to get revenge on his captor, so it was time for John to hide the tape he had previously recorded for Detective Hoffman.

Since Amanda's safety was also not guaranteed, he covered the tape with a protective layer of candle wax and swallowed it, so that medical examiners would find it in her stomach and send it to Detective Hoffman. Sometimes when people know they are going to die, they can enjoy their favorite food as a final meal. John gets a wax-covered audio tape. So…. "The less we eat, the less fat we consume." Not long after, Amanda entered the room to convey the message that Jeff had completed his final test. This meant that Lynn had kept John alive long enough to pass her test, and he orders Amanda to set her free.

Only Amanda has... other ideas... "I said no." The Jeff Denlon trials, like the barn game, the bathroom game, and the nerve gas house game, end when the pieces of the puzzle, the people involved with those being tested, come together; and just like with The Bathroom Game, this time they literally all get together in the same room. Amanda's temper and jealousy once again get the better of her and she refuses to let Lynn go free after passing her test. John knows that he can't directly say what will happen if Amanda kills Lynn, but he does note that Lynn's life is important, because she controls the outcome of Amanda's life.

That ends up angering Amanda even more, and John tries to justify it by mentioning the victims Amanda had murdered, how he had cleaned up her mistakes and forgiven her, but how he won't allow her to continue as a murderer. Amanda maintains that Lynn couldn't have been rehabilitated, because no one she had examined really changed. She proceeds to shoot Lynn Denlon and, when she does so, Jeff is there to see it. In retaliation, Jeff fights back and kills Amanda. With Lynn dying on the ground, Jigsaw has one last test for Jeff. The lesson he had been trying to teach during all this effort was to forgive.

Although Jeff had shown signs of forgiveness at every stage of his trial, he was unable to save any of the people involved in the accident that resulted in the death of his son. Now we would be faced with one more decision: get revenge on the man responsible for putting him and his wife through even greater hell, or let Jigsaw live in exchange for a chance to save Lynn's life. After much deliberation, Jeff makes the decision for him. “I forgive you…” But in this case… forgiveness is not enough. Even John, faced with death, can't help but smile when Jeff turns on the circular saw blade.

I think the irony of this twist was not lost on you. After all the people he had made suffer, it would be one of his most tortured test subjects who would reverse that suffering on him. And with a rotating circular saw blade no less, the same type of weapon he used on his victims in the first part of his first game in the barn. It's almost like that baseball game I mentioned before, where Aroldis Chapman gave up the winning home run of the American League Championship Series, and all he can do is flash that weird smile, because he knew Altuve was waiting on an out-of-bounds pitch. speed was no coincidence.

With the last of his life, John shoots Jeff's tape. "Hi Jeff. He made this tape as an insurance policy, so to speak. …I was your final test of forgiveness and if you are listening to this, then you failed. Now you must pay the price.” The tape reveals that Jeff's other son, Corbett, is locked up somewhere and only John knows the location. By killing Jigsaw, Jeff had essentially closed the grave of his own daughter. Even if John had lived, there is no excuse he could have given his followers for ensnaring an innocent young girl just to punish Jeff.

Then, on the night of April 28, 2006, John's heart rate monitor stops and the man feared by an entire city as Jigsaw's killer is no more. With his death, Lynn's necklace breaks and Jeff is locked inside the operating room for life. After years of insisting that his methods worked, John died knowing that he had failed. At the beginning of May, they would perform an autopsy on John's body and inside his stomach they found, not only John's chocolate balls, but also the tape he left for the detective. Hoffman who would continue to occupy Jigsaw's place until March 2007 John's body was buried in a local cemetery, where he would remain until 2016, when his first disciple, Logan Nelson, dug up his coffin and exchanged his body with that of Edgar Munsen.

It is unknown where Kramer's body currently resides. Throughout this video, we have discovered the different pieces of the puzzle that make up John Kramer's life. Just as he played with his victims, his own life, in a way, was a game in which each of these pieces came together to form an icon called Jigsaw. After a lifetime of his own agony, he gave himself the power to judge the lives of others and, as a result, developed a dependency on human suffering. This caused him to become a psychopath, something that rivals the greatest serial killers in all of fiction.

He developed a God complex and transformed his work from a series of acts of violence into a movement: a religion with its own symbols, code of conduct, and followers. He claimed to offer all of his subjects a second chance at life, but in reality he destroyed the lives of over 50 people, some of whom were bad criminals and others who were completely innocent. He was able to get this far thanks to two things he did very well. The first was his engineering degree, he was a mechanical genius, making his traps perfect machines from which he could only escape the way he intended.

The second was his ability to anticipate the human mind, he was a master of game theory, so every imaginable possibility for every game, and really for anything he did in life, was already thought of and had. a solution. And what does that leave us? A puzzle almost finished. Because with all of John's intellect and ability, he was never better than any of the people he tried. Jigsaw was missing a vital piece. If you're a Saw fan, click the playlist on the left for my Horror Story analysis of other Saw characters. And if you love horror, be sure to subscribe to CZsWorld to receive new horrors every week, ring the death bell to receive notifications and I'll see you next time.

Assuming we both survive.