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One of the main focuses of the [[Saw (film series)|''Saw'' film series]] are the '''traps''' that the characters [[Jigsaw Killer|Jigsaw]] and his apprentice [[Amanda Young|Amanda]] created for their victims.  
[[Image:Saw-III-Starts-Shooting-Today-2.jpg|right|thumb|180px|The signature puzzle-piece cut from Jigsaw's failed victims.]]
These traps, also called games or tests, come in two forms. The first are traps based around devices applied to the victim, usually with the effect of causing serious bodily harm or death if they were not removed by the end of specified time. The others involved a rigged area which the victim has to escape, which are often based around interactions with other people. In both cases, they are created for people Jigsaw deems unappreciative of their lives, and were designed to ironically reflect the problems of the characters. Some exceptions include the [[List of traps in the Saw film series#Quadruple shotgun trap|Quadruple Shotgun]] and [[List of traps in the Saw film series#Staircase cage|Electrified Staircase]], which are used by Jigsaw for security and protection; the [[List of traps in the Saw film series#Drill chair trap|Drill Chair Trap]], in which Jigsaw used the victim as an experiment; and the [[List of traps in the Saw film series#Magnum eyehole|Magnum Eyehole]] and [[List of traps in the Saw film series#Jeff's tests|Jeff Reinhart's tests]] in ''Saw III'', in which the traps are not based on the victims. Often, the victim must perform dangerous tasks, mutilate themselves, or harm/kill others to escape.  

The victims are usually informed about the traps by use of a recorded video or cassette tape, which either plays automatically once they awaken, or when they start the recording themselves. The video recordings tend to show [[Billy (Saw)|Billy the puppet]] giving the details. On other occasions, however, Jigsaw gives the directions to the trap in person, while in security traps, little or no warning was given. While most of the traps had solutions to them, with the exception of Amanda's inescapable games, few characters have survived them. A few failed victims were marked by Jigsaw or Amanda, who cuts away a small portion of the victim's flesh in the shape of a jigsaw-puzzle piece, a symbol made to represent the survival instinct the victim was missing.

==''Saw''==
Most of the [[Saw (film)|first movie]] played out in a bathroom, the setting of one of Jigsaw's more complicated tests. However, a lot more of Jigsaw's creations were viewed at his lair, located in an abandoned mannequin factory on Stygian Street. Detectives David Tapp and Steven Sing arrived there after following clues hidden on one of the video tapes played for one of Jigsaw's victims. After arriving at the factory, Tapp and Sing found everything shrouded in red blankets. Removing them, they found numerous things hidden beneath them, including the puppet Billy, a diorama of the bathroom trap, and an experimental victim. After pursuing Jigsaw down a hallway, Sing fell victim to another hidden trap, getting shot from above. The majority of the traps and tests seen in the movie were as follows:

===Razor wire maze===
[[Image:PaulRazorMaze.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Paul in the Razor Wire Maze.]]
This trap involved a victim who woke up partially naked inside a fenced-in area of a basement. Between the victim and the door was a gauntlet of densely strung together [[barbed tape|razor wire]] that the victim had to navigate in order to find an exit. The door out of the basement was set on a timer and the victim had to escape before the timer went off (in about two hours). [[List of Saw characters#Paul Stallberg|Paul Stallberg]] was the victim in this trap. He was a man with a decent life, yet he decided to slit his wrists, presumably for attention. According to Jigsaw, the irony of his situation was that if he really wanted to die, he just had to stay where he was (since the door to freedom would close, trapping him in), but if he wanted to live, he would have to "cut himself again". Footage from the movie shows him pushing his way through the maze, eventually dying on the wires, therefore being trapped in the basement "forever". Detectives found him hanging dead on the razor wires with cuts so deep that they found traces of [[gastric acid|stomach acid]] on the floor.
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===Flammable jelly===
[[List of Saw characters#Mark Rodriguez|Mark Rodriguez]], who committed worker's comp fraud, was tested on his so-called "illness", and was stripped of his clothes and covered in a [[flammable]] jelly. He was in a dark room with broken glass completely covering the floor, hundreds of numbers written on the walls, and a safe in the middle of the floor. A platform suspended from the ceiling supplied Mark with a candle, a box of matches, and the recorder to receive his instructions. From the recording, Mark found out that there was a slow-acting poison in his system and he had about two hours to find the correct combination and take the antidote for the poison which was stored inside the safe. The combination could be found along the walls.  While looking at the walls however, he drew too close to the candle and went up in flames.  His scorched body was found afterwards by detectives who also found a peephole in the wall, showing that Jigsaw liked to "book himself front row seats to his own sick little games."

===Jaw splitter===<!-- This is known as the Jaw Splitter. "Reverse Bear Trap" is just a fan reference from the tape. -->
[[Image:S3amandajawtrap.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Amanda in the Jaw Splitter, as depicted in ''Saw III''.]]
One of the most infamous and iconic traps, to the extent that it was used on [http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Saw-Posters_i1373348_.htm promotional posters] for the first film and on plenty of ''Saw'' merchandise, this trap was used on a [[heroin]] addict named [[Amanda Young]], whose wrists were bound with duct tape to armrests on a chair in a dark room with a heavy metal apparatus hooked into her upper and lower jaw.  The [[Billy (Saw)|Jigsaw puppet]] appeared on the TV screen and revealed that Amanda had one minute to get the trap off of her head before it would snap open like a reverse [[Animal trapping#Foothold traps or leghold traps|bear trap]] (the term "Reverse Bear Trap", referenced from Amanda's instructions, gained fame as a fan name for the device). This would rip her jaws wide open in the process, killing her. To emphasize the point, a demonstration was shown to Amanda, who watched as the device went off on a mannequin head, which exploded as the device opened.  The puppet told her that the key that she needed to remove the device was in the stomach of the dead [[List of Saw characters#The unnamed man|man]] lying across the room from her. As the tape ended, Amanda was forced to wriggle her arms free from the duct tape, at which point she stood up, pulling and snapping a trigger wire that set off the one-minute timer on the back of the contraption on her head. She quickly raced over to her cell mate, whereupon she had to cut into his stomach and retrieve the key, although it was revealed that he was not actually dead as the tape had suggested, but in an [[opiate]]-induced state of [[paralysis]], unable to feel pain. He began stirring and eventually woke up as Amanda cut into his stomach with a scalpel and retrieved the key. Amanda managed to remove the device just in time, grabbing it from her head and tossing it to the floor as it snapped open. The Jaw Splitter would later be seen in Jigsaw's lair in the third movie, again on a mannequin head, where it was examined and set off by Lynn Denlon.

'''Original Idea:''' The Jaw Splitter was also used in the original [[Saw (2003 film)|''Saw'' short film]], attached to a character named [[List of Saw characters#David|David]]. The scenario played out the same as the later version, with David escaping from the contraption seconds before it went off.
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===Drill chair trap===
This trap involved two power drills attached to the sides of a chair.  As the time pressed on, the drills moved closer to the victim's head, which was held steady by a metal neck brace.  In this case, a man named [[List of Saw characters#Jeff|Jeff]] was shackled in, and the trap was activated when Jigsaw stepped on a button in order to test a couple of detectives, seeing if they prioritized saving a man's life over arresting him. Jigsaw yanked the wire to prevent the detectives from stopping the drills with the button. Inside a box connected to the chair was a key ring with countless keys.  Detective Sing was told he had 20 seconds to find the right key before the man would be killed, but did not know which one was the one needed to unlock the neck brace, and instead shot the drills, deactivating them moments before they reached Jeff's head.

===Quadruple shotgun trap===<!-- This section is linked from [[List of traps in the Saw film series]]. See [[WP:MOS#Section management]] -->
This trap was used by Jigsaw for security reasons instead of having a test for the victim. It involved four double-barreled shotguns suspended from a ceiling in a hallway, each connected by a tripwire strung across the hallway below. When the victim stepped across the tripwire, which was hidden among cobwebs, it would pull the triggers of the shotguns. The four shotguns would go off simultaneously, firing at the victim and shooting them down. In this case, the victim was [[List of Saw characters#Detective Steven Sing|Detective Sing]], who was chasing Jigsaw through his warehouse in an attempt to capture him.

'''Original Idea:''' According to the ''[[Saw (film)|Saw]]'' commentary and different interviews, the creators wanted a trap that consisted of two things that would spring from the walls and snap shut on Sing and fold him up into a box. They described it as an "iron cocoon."<ref>http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmtv/features/saw/interview.asp Original iron cocoon idea</ref> They decided against the idea, as it would have cost too much money for visual effects.

===Bathroom trap===
[[Image:AdamSawLawrence.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Adam and Lawrence find themselves shackled to pipes in the Bathroom Trap.]]
The setting for the majority of the first film, this test involved two victims, [[Adam Faulkner]] and [[Lawrence Gordon (Saw)|Dr. Lawrence Gordon]], who had both been confined in a grimy industrial bathroom. Both were shackled at the ankle to pipes at opposite corners of the room. The pipes were connected to a remote electrical source, which could conduct through the metal chains and shackles to shock the captives. In the middle of the bathroom lay a corpse, sprawled face down in a pool of poisoned blood, holding a gun in one hand and a tape player in the other, just out of reach of Adam and Lawrence. Adam was chained near a toilet, while Lawrence was chained near the light switch. Adam and Lawrence found envelopes with tapes to play to learn their rules, while Lawrence also received a bullet. Following clues from their tapes, Adam found a garbage bag filled with photos he'd taken of Lawrence while stalking him for money, as well as a pair of hacksaws that were not intended to cut through the chains, but were rather meant for the victims to use to cut their feet off in order to escape. Lawrence was told to kill Adam by 6 on the clock, under the threat of death for his wife and child. Adam was simply told to escape, with the only apparent means being the hacksaw, which he broke trying to cut through his chain, and a key that went down the drain of the bathtub Adam had awoken in. Following more clues, Lawrence managed to find a box in the wall next to him, and was then supplied with a cellphone that could only receive calls, a pair of cigarettes, and a lighter. With the cigarettes, Lawrence found a note from Jigsaw informing him that he didn't need a gun to kill Adam, leading Lawrence to assume he could dip the tip of a cigarette in the poisoned blood that the corpse was lying in before giving it to Adam. Not willing to kill Adam, Lawrence attempted to fake it by dipping one of the cigarettes in the blood before swapping it with the untainted one. Adam went along with the game, pretending to die, but the act was blown when Adam was remotely electrically shocked through his chain. At 6 o'clock Lawrence received a call from his wife and daughter, both of whom were being held captive. Lawrence became desperate as he had heard a struggle on the other end of the phone (his wife attempting to free herself from her captor), but the phone had hung up and he could no longer reach it. He therefore used his hacksaw to cut his foot off before grabbing the gun from the corpse and shooting Adam, albeit too late. Later it was revealed that Adam was not fatally wounded, and Lawrence crawled out of the room, slowly bleeding to death, to find help. Adam, however, remained trapped. The dead body in the room was revealed to be Jigsaw, who, after getting off the floor, told Adam that the key to unlock his chain was in the bathtub. The bathtub was filled with water at one point, and Adam accidentally drained it when he woke up, unwittingly sending the key down the drain. According to commentaries on ''Saw III'', Amanda was supposed to have tied the key around his foot before leaving him, but had instead just left it on his stomach. ''Saw III'' revealed that Amanda had tied the chain to the bathtub stopper to Adam's ankle without being told to by Jigsaw. When Adam awoke, he scrambled from the tub, pulling the stopper out and sending the key down the drain. Adam's corpse was found in the Nerve Gas House in ''Saw II''. In ''Saw III'', it is revealed that Adam did not in fact die of starvation or dehydration after being locked away, but by suffocation. Amanda, against Jigsaw's orders, held a strip of plastic wrap over his head, suffocating him in a mercy kill.

'''Original Idea:''' According to an interview with Leigh Whannell, Adam and Lawrence were originally going to be trapped in an elevator.<ref>http://sawtheblog.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_sawtheblog_archive.html Original elevator idea</ref>

===Zep's test===
Some time before placing Lawrence and Adam in the Bathroom Trap, Jigsaw arranged for [[List of Saw characters#Zep Hindle|Zep Hindle]], a hospital orderly, to become involved in a game of his own; in order to attain the antidote to a slow-acting poison in his blood, Zep would have to monitor the Bathroom Trap while holding [[List of Saw characters#Alison Gordon|Alison]] and [[List of Saw characters#Diana Gordon|Diana Gordon]] hostage in their own home. Zep hid in Diana's closet and waited for her father, Lawrence Gordon, to leave before grabbing Diana and her mother and tying them up. With a gun at his disposal, Zep taunted the two hostages while monitoring Lawrence and Adam through a computer screen. Zep's rules were to kill Alison and Diana if Lawrence failed to kill Adam by 6. When 6 finally came around, Zep forced Alison, Lawrence's wife, to make the call to tell him he failed, but when Zep was about to shoot her, Alison fought back, managing to stab Zep in the leg with a pair of scissors before escaping with Diana. With [[List of Saw characters#Detective David Tapp|Tapp]] (an ex-detective who was monitoring the house, convinced that Dr. Gordon was the Jigsaw Killer) chasing him, Zep left the house and drove to an entrance into the sewer system. After a struggle with Tapp in the tunnels below, Zep managed to fatally shoot the detective before arriving at the bathroom where Lawrence and Adam were being held captive. Upon arriving, Lawrence, who had since sawed his foot off, attempted to shoot Zep with an empty gun before Adam, thought to be dead, tripped and beat Zep to death with a toilet tank cover. After Lawrence left to find help, Adam looked through Zep's pockets, hoping to find a key to his chain. He instead found a tape recorder and played back the message, finally realizing that Zep had been acting under a threat of death. He stopped the tape before the specifics of Zep's tape could be heard.

==''Saw II''==
While most of ''[[Saw II]]'' was played out in the Nerve Gas House, listed below, other prototype traps were also seen in Jigsaw's lair, which was based at an abandoned Wilson Steel factory. While none were put to use, one of them was said to be a tribute to the Jaw Splitter from the first movie, while others represented the traps the victims inside the house would have to face. The traps of ''Saw II'' were as follows:

===Head trap===<!-- This is known as the Head Trap, as labeled on the Saw II disc. "Venus Fly Trap" is just a fan reference from the tape. -->
[[Image:Reversebeartrapsaw.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Michael in the Head Trap.]]
This trap was similar to an [[Iron maiden (torture device)|iron maiden]] device, but on a smaller scale. Consisting of a harness placed on the victim's chest, it was only removable if the key to the padlocks was obtained. Attached to the harness were two masks, opposite from each other and angled down from the victim's head. Each mask had several nails protruding inwards from the interior. A one-minute timer was connected to the device, and if the harness wasn't removed in time, the two masks would clamp together on the victim's head like a [[Venus Flytrap]], driving the nails through his skull. The victim in this trap was [[List of Saw characters#Michael|Michael]], a police informant. He woke up in an empty room, and found himself in the helmet. In order to remove the device, Michael had to find the key, which he soon learned, from a video tape and some X-rays of his own skull, was hidden behind his right eye. In order to reach the scalpel that was hidden in a box on the floor, Michael had to pull the cord tab attached to the timer, setting it off. Using a mirror, he raised the scalpel to his eye, but was ultimately unwilling to cut it out, instead throwing the scalpel away. The timer went off and the masks snapped shut on his head, killing him as the nails were implanted into his skull. It was later discovered that Michael was an informant for [[Detective Eric Matthews]], and that his test was a way to leave a message for Eric. While investigating the scene, Eric was shown the words "LOOK CLOSER DETECTIVE MATHEWS" scrawled on the ceiling of the room.

'''Original Idea:''' According to one of the features on the ''Saw II'' disc, Michael was originally going to be supplied with the key in one of his hands, but would be strapped to the chair at the wrists. Above the hand with the key was a razor, which would dig further into his flesh the more he reached the key up to the locks on his harness. Before filming the scene, a few crew members wanted Michael's eye to pop out as the masks snapped shut, but could not achieve the effect.
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===Electrified staircase===<!-- This section is linked from [[List of traps in the Saw film series]]. See [[WP:MOS#Section management]] -->
This guard mechanism acted as protection from intruders in Jigsaw's lair. It consisted of a staircase with a rigged step, surrounded by a chain-link cage. The rigged step would spring forward and break the shins of the victim if enough pressure was applied to the stair below. This would also cause the cage door to shut, trapping the victim(s) in the cage. The cage would then be charged with an electric current, giving anyone in contact with it a lethal shock. When used in the movie, three [[SWAT]] officers were the victims. One of them stepped on the pressure-sensitive step, sending the rigged step forward and breaking his shins. As he fell back, the other two SWAT officers caught him and crashed into the caging, electrocuting them. The SWAT officer whose shins were broken survived, as he did not make contact with the electrified cage.

'''Original Idea:''' According to the ''[[Saw II]]'' commentary, a blade had originally been intended to shoot forward and slice off the first SWAT officer's legs once the rigged step had been activated.

===Nerve gas house===
This large-scale trap involved multiple victims in an abandoned house riddled with traps, containing one for each person, though not all of the people were able to locate their personal trap.  The victims breathed in a [[Sarin|deadly nerve agent]] through the air ducts as they navigated the house, and had to find the antidotes.  The door to the house would eventually open on its own in three hours, but the players would only have two hours to live if they did not find an antidote.  Each trap contained a way to get an antidote. Also inside the house, several weapons were found, including a single-edged blade and a bat with several nails driven through it.  Aside from [[List of Saw characters#Laura|Laura]], who succumbed to the nerve agent, the only others to die without the traps were [[List of Saw characters#Jonas|Jonas]], who got a blow to the back of the head with the nail-studded bat by Xavier, and Xavier, whose throat was slit with the same hacksaw Dr. Gordon used in the first movie by [[List of Saw characters#Daniel Matthews|Daniel]].  

The majority of ''Saw II'' is played in the house.  The traps shown to be contained in the house are as follows:

====Antidote safe====
In the room that the eight players woke up in was a large safe. The welcoming tape that was played for them revealed that an antidote to the toxic nerve agent was locked away in the safe, and that to open it, they would have to find the numbers at the "back of [their] minds", hinting at the numbers that had been written on the back of their necks, unknown to them at the time. Each number was color-coded, and when placed in the order of the rainbow, they would open the safe. Xavier was the first to catch on to this concept after noticing the first number on Gus' neck. He then went on a rampage through the house, first looking at the numbers on the necks of the already dead players before trying to find the surviving ones. He got every number except for Daniel's, Amanda's (it was hinted on the commentary that Amanda didn't even have a number), and his own. In order to find his own number, a desperate Xavier sliced the flesh off of the back of his neck before analyzing it for the number. Before he could get Daniel's, Xavier was killed. When Eric later investigated the house, it was revealed that the safe had since been opened and the antidote used, more than likely on Daniel, as Amanda had actually been working for Jigsaw.

====Magnum eyehole====<!-- This section is linked from [[List of traps in the Saw film series]]. See [[WP:MOS#Section management]] -->
[[Image:Magnum Eyehole.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Gus looks into the Magnum Eyehole.]]
This trap wasn't meant as a test, but as a security device to keep Jigsaw's subjects inside the room for the required length of time. It consisted of a large, locked metal door with a [[Colt Python]] revolver attached on the other side of the peephole, connected by a pulley and chain which would have been activated when trying to open the door with the key. The barrel of the revolver was aimed directly at the peephole, and would fire when activated. A note given to the players told them not to use the supplied key on the door. Amanda listened and didn't want Xavier to use the key, but refusing to listen, Xavier chose to use it anyway. Turning the key in the lock, he unknowingly activated the trap, turning the chain and causing the ridges of the pulley to set off the trigger of the gun. [[List of Saw characters#Gus|Gus]] was looking through the peephole at the time and was shot through the eye. The door, on a timer, eventually opened on its own.
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====Furnace====
[[Image:EL JUEGO DEL MIEDO 2 DARREN LYNN BOUSMAN 02.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Obi tries to escape from the Furnace.]]
This trap, located in the basement of the Nerve Gas House, was built like a furnace for cremating bodies. The victim had to crawl inside to retrieve two antidotes that were placed inside. One would be placed with a chain attached to the top of the furnace that, when pulled down, would close the door and ignite the flames to slowly make their way to the other side.  The only way out was to twist a knob that turned off the gas, an act that would force the victim to crawl through the fire and burn themselves in order to escape. [[List of Saw characters#Obi|Obi]] fell victim to this and almost escaped through the window at the end of the furnace, but wasn't able to fit. He burned to death. The knob had a painting of a devil pointing to it which said "twist".  This clarified Jigsaw's line, "Once you are in Hell, only the devil can help you out."

'''Original Idea:''' Before settling on the final version of the Furnace, the creators and writers of ''Saw II'' had originally thought of having Obi's tape recorder attached to the collar of a pitbull in the basement. They decided against it, as it would have led to cruelty to animals, and instead attached it to a corpse-like mannequin. According to storyboards for this scene, the oven originally only contained one antidote, while also holding a key. The key's purpose is unknown.
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====Needle pit====
[[Image:20070501-212028.jpg|thumb|left|280px|Amanda in the Needle Pit.]]
This trap involved a pit in the middle of a room, filled with thousands of filthy, used syringes. A locked door in the room held an antidote, but was set on a four minute timer. If the timer expired, the door would remain locked forever. This trap was meant for [[List of Saw characters#Xavier|Xavier]], a drug dealer, who would have to jump into the pit of needles to find the key to the door. The key was attached to a glow stick, and was hidden among the syringes; however, instead of going in himself, he picked up Amanda and threw her in to find the key. Although she found the key in time, Xavier fumbled with it and was unable to unlock the door in time. This trap, unlike many of Jigsaw's other traps, would not kill the victim if they failed the task, but was more of a punishment (although the victim would still die from the effects of the nerve gas unless an antidote was found).  

'''Original Ideas:''' The creators and writers of ''Saw II'' had originally  thought of having Amanda be forced to dig through a bathtub full of the syringes, but decided it wouldn't be enough, instead wanting it on a grander scale. After thinking of the pit in the middle of the room, they intended for Amanda to land up to her neck in the needles as if it were a pool, but realized that it would be impossible for her to sink into such a pool, along with the fact that getting enough needles would have taken too long as it took the production team a long time to get as many needles as they had.

====Hand trap====
[[Image:RazorBoxTrapSaw2.JPG|thumb|210px|Addison trapped in the Razor Box, screaming for help.]]
This trap consisted of a glass container which was suspended from the ceiling by numerous chains. Inside the box was an antidote which was accessible by two holes underneath the box that were big enough to fit one's arms through. Two cylinders extending down from the box hid a series of blades that covered the entrance to the box. Once the victim put their arms through, however, they would realize that the corners of the holes were fitted with blades that would bend up if something was inserted. If they tried to take their hands out, the blades would dig into their arms, and the harder they pulled, the deeper the blades would go in. [[List of Saw characters#Addison|Addison]] fell victim to this trap. At first, she only inserted one hand, but the plunger to the needle was stuck to the bottom of the box. When she pulled the needle up, the antidote inside spilled out. Panicking, she reached her other hand inside to grab it, trapping herself. As she tried to pull out her arms the blades began to cut up her arms. While it is never shown on-screen, it is assumed Addison died, either from blood loss or from the nerve agent that had already killed [[List of Saw characters#Laura|Laura]]. It is revealed on a special feature on the construction of the trap for the set that if the victim were to walk to the other side of the box, they would see a lock with a key sticking out of it, which in turn would have unlocked the box and allowed them to access the antidote without harm. Although Addison fell victim to this trap, it was intended for Gus.

'''Original Idea:''' Before deciding to place Addison in the Razor Box Trap, the creators and writers discussed on a commentary for ''Saw II'' that they had originally intended for Addison to end up in a different trap, which was similar to a [[waffle iron]]. Addison would wake up shackled at the wrists to a chair. Razors would be planted against her wrists to dig into her flesh if she tried to remove her hands, and the only way to release her hands from the razor shackles would be to burn her face against a waffle iron-like grill that was in front of her. After struggling and cutting up her wrists, Addison would then finally slam her face against the grill, releasing her cuffs and letting her go free, but with a horrendously scarred face (an idea that would seem to be modified for Cecil's trap in ''Saw IV''). While thinking of Gus' trap, Darren suggested a trap in which someone would have to reach into a jar. If they weren't able to retrieve the antidote, they would be forced to lose their hand.<ref name=UGO>[http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=17413 Interview with the Makers of Saw] UGO retrieved 2007-06-10</ref> This finally developed into the Razor Box Trap, which was then used on Addison instead.
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===Detective Matthews' test===
[[Image:EricMatthews.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Matthews finds the hacksaw in the bathroom.]]
After having his son Daniel kidnapped and placed in the Nerve Gas house by Jigsaw, [[Detective Eric Matthews]] discovered Jigsaw's lair, and with the S.W.A.T. team, he tried to convince Jigsaw to give up the whereabouts of the house.  Jigsaw proposed a deal, stating that all Matthews has to do was listen, and he would get his son back.  Though Detective Matthews did listen for a while, he eventually got tired of Jigsaw's game and instead resorted to brutality.  After beating Jigsaw to within an inch of his life, Jigsaw ended the game, and took Matthews to the house. The detective entered the house, only to find that his son was not there.  After entering the bathroom hidden in the foundation of the house, Eric was attacked by Amanda, disguised in a pig mask, as she leaped out and jabbed a syringe into the detective, drugging him.  When he awoke, he was chained to a pipe.  Amanda showed up in the doorway, and shut it, leaving him in the dark with the dead bodies of Xavier, Zep, Adam, and Dr. Gordon's decaying sawed-off foot.  However, it was discovered in ''Saw III'' that Eric managed to escape into the hallway after breaking his foot, almost severing it off by using the toilet tank cover.  When he escaped, he confronted Amanda in the hallway. Despite his injuries, he managed to subdue her and repeatedly smashed her head against a wall, demanding the whereabouts of his son. Amanda managed to escape from Matthews by kicking him in his broken foot, and then decided to leave him to die in the hallway. However, while she was walking away from Matthews, he began to taunt and mock her. Amanda, in turn, turned back and walked back over to Matthews, later implying that she murdered him; however, Jigsaw instead believed that she left him for dead. In an alternate scene, Matthews's fate was revealed. After cursing and insulting her, Matthews was brutally murdered by Amanda, who sat down on him and slashed apart his body. This scene was removed and is not considered canon as ''Saw IV'' reveals that Eric is still alive and did not die in the corridor. It was then revealed that Daniel was actually in the area where Eric first found John Kramer, locked in a timed safe that was supplied with oxygen. The video feeds shown to the SWAT team and Eric were actually a recording from hours before, when the house test was taking place. Eric needed only to keep his patience and Daniel would have been released to him only a few feet away.

==''Saw III''==
As was in ''Saw II'', many prototype traps and designs were seen in Jigsaw's new lair in ''[[Saw III]]'', which was based at an abandoned meat-packing warehouse. Inside, along and atop many tables, shelves, and walls, sat many deadly looking devices. These included the Jaw Splitter from the first film, placed on a mannequin head, as well as obvious test devices for traps from the third film, like the Ribcage Harness, and conceptual art for the Rack. The traps and tests for the third movie were as follows:

===Classroom trap===
[[Image:TroycharacterSawIII-1-.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Troy in the Classroom Trap.]]
This trap featured [[List of Saw characters#Troy|Troy]], who found himself in an empty school classroom, with eleven chains hooked into his flesh in various places. A television screen turned on and Billy appeared on it. He revealed that Troy had been in and out of prisons for quite some time.  If he wished to live, he had to "break free" of the chains. They were hooked into his lower jaw, shoulders, arms, hands, obliques, legs, and Achilles tendons. When the television screen turned off, he turned his attention to a bomb sitting next to a jar of nails with a timer counting down from 90 seconds. He began to painfully rip the chain rings from his skin. Troy managed to pull off all of the chains except for the one attached to his jaw.  The chain ring was looped through his lower jaw and it did not seem possible for Troy to rip it out in time. He was not able to, and was instead blown apart by the bomb, his corpse riddled with nails. It was later revealed by Kerry, as she studied his nail-ridden corpse, that there was no escape route for Troy, as the door to the room had been welded shut (also as the final chain is attached to his mandible, it is unremovable with bare hands). This was the first of Amanda's inescapable traps.

'''Original Ideas:''' Before settling on the final version of the Classroom Trap, the creators and writers of ''[[Saw III]]'' went through a couple different versions of the game. One of them had Troy suspended above the floor of the classroom by large meat hooks. They decided against this, as they figured it would be basically impossible to escape, and that it would be more thrilling if he was standing and able to rip the chains out. A second version had the hooks going through his eyelids, his fingernails, and his teeth. This accounts for two of the promotional posters for the film, one showing a [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/f/f6/20070202043403%21Saw3_cape10.jpg mouth missing numerous teeth], and another showing [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/f/f6/20070201212124%21Saw3_cape10.jpg three teeth dangling from wires].
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===Angel trap===
[[Image:Kerryangeltrap.PNG|thumb|left|250px|Kerry, in the Angel trap, reaches for the key.]]
[[List of Saw characters#Detective Kerry|Kerry]] woke up suspended above the floor in a contraption which consisted of a leather harness, hung from the ceiling by numerous chains, with two sets of metal pins along each side of her torso. Upon further examination of her harness, she found that the two sets of pins on her torso were pierced into her ribcage, each one hooked into a rib. Each array of pins was attached to one of two metal arches behind her that, for the time being, remained folded. Hanging next to her was a jar suspended by chains and filled with acid, into which a key was dropped as she woke up. A television turned on in front of her and delivered Kerry her instructions. Billy informed Kerry that she was "dead on the inside" and that was why she seemed to enjoy working in situations with death. He also implied to Kerry that the device would rip her ribcage out, knowing that Kerry would understand what he meant. Billy told her that she had one minute to retrieve the key from the jar after the video ended before the key was dissolved by the acid and before the timer on the device ran out. Kerry tried unsuccessfully to tip the jar over. After hesitating, she finally plunged her hand into the jar and severely burned it, but failed to get the key. Screaming in pain, she plunged her hand in a second time and successfully grabbed the key. She pulled out her bloodied, severely corroded hand, and opened the padlock on her harness. Upon removing the lock, however, she found that she was still unable to remove the harness itself, as the pins were directly implanted into her ribs. As Kerry realized that the trap was impossible to escape from, Amanda sauntered into the room, revealing herself as the inventor. With that revelation, Kerry raised her arms and clenched the chains she was hanging from, bracing herself as the two arms attached to the harness arched upwards like a pair of wings (hence the name of the trap), and pulled each side of the harness with them, causing the pins embedded in her torso to rip both sides of her ribcage out in opposite directions. She collapsed and died in the leather straps, causing some of her organs to spill out. This was the second of Amanda's inescapable traps. The trap was revisited in ''Saw IV'', revealing more about it, revealing that Hoffman was the one who would have had to lift Kerry into the device, as Amanda wouldn't have been strong enough. It also revealed writing on the wall, which said, "CHERISH YOUR LIFE". This led the detectives to interrogate Jill Tuck, John's ex-wife.

'''Original Idea:''' According to a ''Saw III'' commentary with producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules, Kerry was originally going to be in a device that would pull her limbs in different directions. However, they eventually thought of the ribcage trap and decided to use it instead. The first idea appeared to be modified into Rigg's FEEL WHAT I FEEL test.

===Shotgun collar===
[[Image:LynnSawSurgery.JPG|thumb|right|150px|Lynn in the Shotgun Collar.]]
Amanda placed a collar equipped with five loaded shotgun shells onto [[Reinhart family#Lynn Denlon|Lynn]]. The hammers behind each shell were clicked back, and the collar responded with Jigsaw's heart rate. If he flatlined, or if Lynn moved out of range, or if the collar was removed incorrectly, the shells would explode, killing her. Lynn was forced to operate on Jigsaw to keep him alive long enough for Jeff to complete his series of tests in the warehouse. When he did, Jigsaw ordered Amanda to remove the collar from Lynn, as she had completed her task. However, Amanda refused, arming herself with a gun. After a showdown in the makeshift hospital room with Amanda and Jigsaw, Lynn was shot in the back by Amanda as Jeff arrived on the scene. Jeff was left with a final choice to kill Jigsaw or forgive him, not knowing that his death would lead to Lynn's due to the collar. Jeff ultimately chose to slash Jigsaw's neck with a circular power-saw, causing his heart rate monitor to activate the collar on Lynn, which began beeping. Lynn had desperately tried to warn Jeff about the collar, but was wheezing from the gunshot. As Jigsaw flatlined, the collar fired the shells, blowing apart Lynn's head. It's possible that this trap was inescapable, due to the fact that it was made by Amanda. This could also be backed up in a deleted scene in which Lynn managed to get the key from Amanda, only to find that it did not seem to fit in the lock.

'''Original Ideas:''' Originally, Lynn's collar was going to be more along the lines of a bomb, hence Jigsaw's line, "an explosion will go off in that collar". The collar would detonate following Jeff killing Jigsaw, shaking the room, knocking the dead Jigsaw from his bed, and knocking Jeff unconscious.<ref name=BombCollar>[http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/snipershot34/sc00140663.jpg Alternate ending in Saw III script]</ref> A different approach was taken for the surgery scene: Amanda has originally sent Lynn to look around the lair through all the random equipment they had to find something to operate on John's brain instead of having Amanda go retrieve the real equipment herself.<ref name=TobinTalk>[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33661 Quint talks SAW IV with Jigsaw himself, Mr. Tobin Bell!!]</ref>

===Jeff's tests===<!-- This section is linked from [[List of traps in the Saw film series]]. See [[WP:MOS#Section management]] -->
[[Image:JeffWakesInCrate.JPG|thumb|left|120px|Jeff wakes up in a crate.]]
[[Reinhart family#Jeff Reinhart|Jeff]] woke up in an empty shipping crate that was elevated on a pair of forklift prongs. Upon escaping, he had to walk through an abandoned meat-packaging plant that contained the victims of the Freezer Room, Pig Vat, and the Rack. Each person in each trap was directly or indirectly involved in his son's death. He had to go through each scenario and decide whether or not to forgive and assist the person or watch them die a horrible death, and had to do so within two hours' time, or he would be locked in the plant forever.

In more detail, his tests were:
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====Freezer room====
[[Image:DanicaScottInTheFreezerRoom.PNG|200px|thumb|right|Danica Scott in the Freezer Room.]]
Walking around the abandoned factory, Jeff came to a door that had the words "FACE YOUR FEARS" scrawled in red on it. Upon opening it, he found himself in a large walk-in freezer. The door slammed shut behind him, and he was left to face [[List of Saw characters#Danica Scott|Danica Scott]], who was suspended by her wrists in the middle of the walk-in freezer, where her naked body was systematically sprayed by freezing water from twelve hoses, linked along two vertical poles at her sides. Jeff was forced to decide whether or not to help her.  Danica was the one witness to the death of Jeff's son, and she fled the scene, giving Jeff the choice to save her or let her freeze to death. Jeff's task was to retrieve the key that would unlock Danica's bindings, as well as the door to the next room to escape the freezer room. The key was suspended behind a wall of icy cold pipes, just out of Jeff's reach. The only way he was able to get the key was by leaning just far enough that his face pressed against one of the pipes, causing the flesh of his cheek to stick to it. Grabbing the key, Jeff pulled back, tearing away part of the flesh on his cheek. Not only were the chains to free Danica frozen solid by the time Jeff attempted to save her, but Danica had frozen as well in an encasement of ice. Jeff left the room distressingly as more water sprayed, building up the ice on her further. After leaving the freezer room, Jeff found a bullet, and a scrap of a photo to go with the first one he found before the ice shower. This trap was similar to an act of torture reputedly given by the infamous [[Elizabeth Báthory]].

'''Original Ideas:''' Before settling on the final version of the Freezer Room, the creators and writers of ''Saw III'' went through a few different versions of the game, with only minor changes. Originally, the victim was going to be a male police officer, but they decided against it, instead going with the idea of a female witness. Instead of being completely naked, Danica was going to be in a T-shirt and panties, but they figured having her being sprayed would make the shirt stick to her body and become too sexual, so they decided to put her in the freezer naked instead.

====Pig vat====
[[Image:JudgeHaldenIntestinePool.JPG|thumb|200px|left|Jeff saves Judge Halden from drowning in the Pig Vat.]]
Upon finding a door with the words, "TIME TO LET GO" scrawled in red on it, Jeff entered a room, where he was greeted with the voice of a man screaming for help.  Climbing up a stairwell, Jeff found himself standing above a large [[silo]] in the middle of the room, in which [[List of Saw characters#Judge Halden|Judge Halden]], who presided over Jeff's son's murder trial, lay shackled to the bottom of the silo by a metal brace around his neck.  As he screamed for help, Jeff found a tape recorder and played it to learn the rules. In order to save the judge and leave the room, Jeff had to retrieve the key, which was hidden among his son's possessions (dolls, photos, etc.), locked in an incinerator on the lower level. He had to activate the incinerator, which would burn up the mementos, leaving only the key remaining (thus "cleansing" him of his obsession). As the tape ended, a series of large, interlocking saws in an adjoining chute began to spin to life.  Hanging from a conveyor-like bar came out a dead, maggot-ridden, rotten pig corpse.  The pig was dropped into the saw blades and ground up, leaving a large amount of thick grey liquefied remains to pour down the chute into the silo with the judge, hitting him in the face and gradually filling the silo.  More dead pigs were pulled in on the bar and dropped, one after the other, into the saws.  Soon, enough pigs had been liquefied to fill the silo nearly enough to drown the judge. Jeff tried unsuccessfully to break into the incinerator and save his son's things, but eventually gave in and ignited it, ending with the key dropping down onto a slide-out tray. The judge managed to escape thanks to Jeff's help, but was later accidentally shot in the head after following Jeff into the Rack Trap. After the two of them left, Jeff found a third scrap of the photo, and a gun magazine which would house the bullet he found earlier.

'''Original Ideas:''' Before settling on the final version of the Pig Vat, the creators and writers of ''Saw III'' went through a couple different versions of game. One of them had Judge Halden suspended above a meat grinder. As he was lowered down into it, Jeff would have to dive into a "soup" (probably referring to the ground up pigs that were instead poured onto the Judge) to retrieve the key. It was changed again until it resembled the final version, with the exception that Jeff wouldn't have to burn his son's possessions, but simply step down into the silo to free the judge. Leigh Whannell said on the commentary for ''Saw III'' that one of the reasons for the final change was that merely having Jeff dive into pig guts was more akin to something on ''[[Fear Factor]]'', and that by burning his son's possessions, it was more of an emotional conflict for Jeff than a physical one.
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====Rack trap====<!-- This section is linked from [[List of traps in the Saw film series]]. See [[WP:MOS#Section management]] -->
[[Image:TimYoungTheRack.JPG|thumb|270px|right|Timothy wakes up in the Rack.]]
Jeff stumbled upon this trap after saving the judge from the Pig Vat. Together, they found a door marked "HERE'S YOUR CHANCE" in red. Entering the room, Jeff and the judge found [[List of Saw characters#Timothy Young|Timothy]], the victim in the trap, who turned out to be the man responsible for the death of Jeff's son. His head was held in place by a rotating lock, while the arms and legs were held in place by spikes driven through the hands and feet. Each section began rotating around 180 degrees, one by one, taking his arms, legs, and head along with it and breaking the bones. The only way to free Tim would be to obtain a key that was attached to a shotgun's trigger by a cord; if the key was taken, the shotgun would go off and shoot Jeff. The key was also needed to leave the room and continue through to the next room. The shotgun and key were kept suspended in a glass box that Judge Halden attempted to break without success. Tim's arms and legs were rotated one by one, and the bones broke, some jabbing straight through his flesh in the process. As the judge watched Tim's bones slowly break one by one, Jeff managed to untie the key, holding onto the string long enough to move his own body out of the line of fire. As he let go, the gun fired. The judge had inadvertently backed up into the line of fire and was shot in the head. Jeff rushed over to Tim just as his head began to rotate. However, he failed to locate the key hole in time, and Tim's neck was fatally broken. The gears slowed down after Tim's head twisted around 180 degrees. After Jeff left, he found the last piece of the photograph, showing him and his family. He also found an empty Beretta pistol and loaded it using the magazine and bullet he found earlier. [[Jigsaw Killer|Jigsaw]] stated on Tim's tape that this trap was a personal favorite of his.

'''Original Ideas:''' Before settling on the final version of the Rack, the creators and writers of ''Saw III'' went through a couple different versions of game. One of them had Timothy strapped down to a table that would fold on its hinges, bending his body with it and breaking his back. A similar idea had been brought up once before when thinking about [[List of traps in the Saw film series#Quadruple shotgun trap|Detective Steven Sing's trap]]. It was remodeled into the shape of a cross, but would still bend along hinges that would break Timothy's body until they decided they wanted the individual limbs being twisted instead.

====Confrontation====
[[Image:JEFFSAW.jpg|left|thumb|140px|Jeff prepares to kill Jigsaw.]]
Upon completion of the tests, Jeff exited the abandoned plant and entered Jigsaw's lair. During the confrontation, Jigsaw gave him the choice of killing him and taking revenge, or making the ultimate choice of forgiveness. However, unknown to Jeff, the choice of killing Jigsaw would ultimately kill his wife Lynn as well, as his death would activate the shotgun collar placed on her. This choice was the true aim of Jeff's test. He ended up killing Jigsaw by slicing his neck with an electric circular saw, and the movie ended with Jigsaw playing a final tape before he died. The tape informed Jeff that Jigsaw was the one responsible for the loss of Jeff's child — his daughter [[Reinhart family#Corbett Reinhart|Corbett]], who was locked away with a limited air supply. The tape also left the possibility of a prearranged game that Jigsaw left for Jeff prior to his death with the tape's final line, "and if you want to get her back, you'll have to play a game." Before Jeff can figure out what his next game is, he is shot to death by Agent Strahm in ''Saw IV'', seconds after hearing Jigsaw's tape.

'''Original Ideas:''' Before settling on the final version of the Confrontation, the creators and writers of ''Saw III'' shot numerous different versions, all resulting in Jigsaw's death at the hands of Jeff. Among the differences were the weapons of choice, including the original circular saw blade that Jeff picked up before finding the high power saw. One alternate ending was used for the ''Saw III: Director's Cut'', in which John failed to play the tape before he died. Lynn's collar fired the shells and killed her, and Jeff went into a state of shock, sitting down next to her and talking to her about her beautiful hair, and how he's going to get them out of the room. He then proceeded to play the tape in the tape player that Jigsaw dropped, putting it on his lap and kissing Lynn's bloodied hand. When the tape got to the part about Corbett being locked away, Jeff stood up and screamed at John's corpse. Another alternate ending was also shot, using the concept of Lynn's "bomb" collar, which would detonate and shake the room following Jigsaw's death, knocking Jeff to the floor, unconscious, and knocking Jigsaw's corpse to the floor. Upon awakening, Jeff would then find the tape.<ref name=BombCollar/>
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===Amanda's test===
After becoming Jigsaw's apprentice, Amanda began to crack under the pressure. She soon became a killer, making traps that had no possibility of escape, such as the Classroom Trap and the Angel Trap. Jigsaw realized this, and decided to give her another test to prove that she was willing and able to carry on his legacy after his death, not wanting a "murderer" to continue his work. After having her kidnap Lynn and Jeff, Jigsaw began testing her patience and temper, gradually building up her stress as Lynn was forced to assist him while wearing another of Amanda's devices, the Shotgun Collar. When Jeff completed his test, and Lynn had given Jigsaw the brain surgery, Jigsaw told Amanda to take off Lynn's collar, but she refused. He asked again, telling her that her life rested in Lynn's hands. She instead snapped and shot Lynn, just as Jeff entered the room. It turned out that Jeff was Lynn's husband, and was now equipped with a loaded gun which he used to shoot Amanda in the neck. She died of blood loss while Jigsaw revealed to her that it was her test all along, and that he had given her the rules when she thought he was talking to Lynn.

==''Saw IV''==
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One trap, dubbed the best in [[Saw IV|the movie]] by director Darren Lynn Bousman, was said to have come during a slow point in filming, when Scott Patterson improvised a new scene.<ref>[http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/9099 Improvised trap] Bloody-disgusting retrieved 2007-06-12.</ref> 

Says David Hackl, a designer of the traps for the series, in an interview with [[MTV]], ''"The traps are going to be more elegant and much stronger. These will be more of a mental puzzle; they'll make you think."''<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1562410/20070613/story.jhtml# Interview with the producers] MTV retrieved 2007-06-13.</ref><ref>[http://www.officialsaw.com/subpage.php?PG=news Saw IV News]The Official SAW Website and Fan Club. Retrieved on 2007-06-13. </ref>

Stated by Darren Lynn Bousman about the traps in Saw IV: ''"They're more thought out in this film, They're certainly gory, but in ways that you don't expect. They're more situational. We've got some big ones, some little ones, and a great surprise at the end."'' He also stated in the same interview that: ''"They're very specific, you can't just do anything. It's not just, 'How do we kill the guy?', it's 'How do we kill them really well?'"''.<ref name=UGO/> 

Oren Koules stated that James Wan almost fainted when he imagined one of the traps.<ref>[http://www.officialsaw.com/subpage.php?PG=news Saw IV News]The Official SAW Website and Fan Club. Retrieved on 2007-06-13. </ref>
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===Knife chair===
[[Image:KnifeChair40%.JPG|thumb|right|140px|Cecil in the Knife Chair.]]A man named [[List of Saw characters#Cecil|Cecil]] was trapped in what was referred to first in an interview as the Knife Chair. Eight blades are positioned to enclose the front and sides of his head, with a small panel in front of him. His feet are bound to the floor, and his arms are bound to the armrests, with blades jutting upwards into his forearms. Jigsaw, who is present in the room, instructs Cecil in what to do, telling him that to release himself from the chair, he must force his face through the blades to push the panel, matching his "internal ugliness" by scarring his face up. Cecil, after sitting and screaming for help, begins pushing his face through while John watches. The chair eventually collapses, and Cecil stands up. Threatening to kill John, he lunges at him, but instead sends himself falling into a pile of hanging barbed wire where John leaves him to die. This was revealed to be Jigsaw's first created trap. It is not clear whether the chair collapsed because Cecil completed his test or whether the chair simply gave way.
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===Glass-lined box===
A man stripped down to his underwear and screaming while laying in a large clear box on a layer of broken glass.<ref name=ManOnGlass>[http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc36/MKV9/05.jpg Man on broken glass]</ref> The box was shown in John's workshop, lined with broken shards of glass, but the trap itself was never put to use as the released picture would show.
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===Mausoleum trap===
[[Image:01 300dpi.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Trevor in the Mausoleum trap.]]
A man, [[List of Saw characters#Trevor|Trevor]], wakes up on the floor of a [[mausoleum]] with a locked collar around his neck, attached to a chain. He starts to panic when he realizes that his eyes have been sewn shut and he cannot see. He starts pulling on the chain to try to release himself and the camera follows the chain to the other side of the room where a second man, [[List of Saw characters#Art Blanc|Art]], wakes up shackled at the neck by the same chain. Art quickly realizes that his mouth has been sewn shut and he cannot speak. Between the two of them is a winding drum, with a trigger-tab in place inside a large cylinder that the chain passes through. During the ensuing struggle, Trevor knocks over a chair with multiple instruments on it, including an ax and some hooks. As he begins pulling on the chain, yanking Art closer to the machine, the tab is pulled out, activating the device. The cylinder begins to rotate, slowly reeling in the chain and pulling the men closer together. They pull back and forth on the chain, each getting closer to the machine, though the lack of communication makes it impossible for them to work together on solving the puzzle. Art spots a key on the back of Trevor's collar and realizes that it might open the one around his own neck. As he starts making his way over, he arms himself with the ax to protect himself before the two men start fighting. Trevor swings a hook wildly, eventually stabbing Art in the leg, but Art is able to get the key. As he attempts to unlock his collar, Trevor attacks again, and Art is forced to kill him by smashing his head in with the ax. Finally, Art fumbles to try to open the lock on his collar. He manages to remove it, but blood spews from his mouth as he screams, tearing away the stitches.

During a flashback later in the movie, Art subsequently finds a file folder elsewhere in the mausoleum, with "THE KEY TO YOUR FREEDOM" written on its cover.
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===Rigg's tests===
Officer Rigg, after becoming obsessed with finding his friend Eric Matthews (who had been missing for 6 months), was thrust into a game of his own with 90 minutes to save Matthews and Hoffman. The point of the tests were to make Rigg see Jigsaw's ideals, and as such, he took on the different roles of Jigsaw during his tests, such as kidnapping, testing, saving, and eventually judging his victims, ultimately learning to him learning the value of why he can't & shouldn't try to save all of the people, all of the time, and overcome his obsession. In detail, his interconnected tests were:

====SEE WHAT I SEE====
[[Image:Saw4101007.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The second released image showing the scalping device.]]A woman named [[List of Saw characters#Brenda|Brenda]] wears a red cloak and a pig mask, chained to a device with numerous gears and a dial. A tape recorder is duct-taped to the palm of her left hand, and her long hair is twisted though a metal ring and wound up along a metal bar connected to the gears. She is stuck in a room with numerous pictures of herself posted and hung up around the room, with the words, "SEE WHAT I SEE" scribbled above a bookcase beside her. Rigg enters the room and finds her panicking, trying to escape her chains. A TV in front of her turns on, and Rigg is told that she is a criminal. Jigsaw reveals this to be Rigg's first test, and advises him to just walk away from the situation and let Brenda die. Rigg pulls the pig mask and cloak off of the woman, revealing her to be gagged. The machine is activated, and a one-minute timer begins counting down as the gears on the device begin turning, arching Brenda's head back as her hair is yanked. Once the gag is removed, she screams for help, telling Rigg to hurry, and that the combination for the dial is on the cogs. She continues to scream for help while Rigg scrambles around looking for something to stop the device. Upon opening a drawer, he finds a card that says "Time is wasting." Brenda's hairline rips and spurts blood. Rigg tries shooting the machine with his handgun, with no effect, as her scalp starts to tear from her head. He begins reading numbers on the cogs twisting her hair and programs them into the dial on the machine, releasing Brenda. 

When he turns his back, though, she gets a knife from underneath the TV set and attacks him. Throwing her into a mirror, he takes the knife and rips the tape recorder from her hand. The tape reveals that Jigsaw told her that Rigg was a cop who would arrest her if he saved her life; the only way to prevent this from happening would be to kill him. When the police and FBI arrive at Rigg's apartment, they find Brenda dead from her injuries.

The point of this test was to see Brenda as a criminal as Jigsaw would have, not as a victim as Rigg believed.

====FEEL WHAT I FEEL====
The next trap shows Rigg entering a hotel room, the hotel presumably owned by a man called [[List of Saw characters#Ivan|Ivan]]. In the room, Rigg finds the infamous pig mask used by Jigsaw and Amanda Young and is instructed to wear it. Ivan comes by and Rigg orders him at gunpoint to enter the room opposite the one they are in. In this room are several pictures of various murdered women and a bed with four shackles connected to straps and gears, with four saws above. It is revealed by a video tape in the corner of the room that Ivan is a serial rapist, responsible for raping and torturing unfortunate women in the very room that they stand in. The tape recorder instructs Rigg to strap Ivan into the bed, where his head is also placed in a vice. Rigg then hands Ivan two triggers. If Ivan activates them within one minute, scythe-like arms on either side of his head will come down and pierce his eyes, punishment for being a voyeur. Activating both of them would blind Ivan, but would deactivate the rest of the device. Rigg leaves Ivan, who only succeeds in blinding one of his eyes and fails his task. The gears holding the shackles twist, pulling his limbs taut, while saws drop and dismember him, punishment for using his body as a tool to cause harm. Agents Strahm and Perez find him later, dead.

====SAVE AS I SAVE====
[[Image:BackToBack2.JPG|thumb|200px|left|Rex and Morgan, impaled back-to-back.]]An abusive husband, [[List of Saw characters#Rex|Rex]], and his wife [[List of Saw characters#Morgan|Morgan]] are hanging from the ceiling of a classroom. Numerous rods hold them together, impaled through both of them. A sign scrawled on the wall, only viewable by the man, reads, "YOUR LIFE IS IN HER HANDS". To escape, Morgan has to pull the rods from her, but a tape chained to her wrist reveals that removing the rods will cause Rex to bleed to death, as the rods are pierced through major arteries in his body. The rods, however, will only leave minor wounds in Morgan's body if she removes them, as none of her arteries are harmed. However, if she fails to remove them, or remains inactive, she will eventually bleed to death. She begins pulling them out of her as her husband weakly attempts to stop them from exiting his wounds, but ultimately fails and bleeds to death through the multiple wounds. Rigg discovers the couple still hanging from the ceiling. One last rod remains impaled through the both of them, and Morgan begins going into shock as she wakes up. A tape reveals to Rigg that he has to decide whether or not to save her, and finds the key that will free her. He hands the key to her, leaving her to save herself after pulling the final rod out, and he then pulls a fire alarm to alert authorities to their location before leaving the room. Morgan survives and claims that Rigg saved her life.

Later, once Agents Strahm and Perez are brought to the scene, they discover a large harpoon gun-like device at the side of the room. While being examined, the apparatus fires a rod across the room and into the wall after impaling a crime scene photographer's neck.
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====JUDGE AS I JUDGE====
[[Image:Saw-iv-20070725052305279.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Matthews and Forensic Hoffman in the Final Test.]][[Detective Eric Matthews]], [[Forensic Hoffman]], and [[List of Saw characters#Art Blanc|Art]] are involved in this test. Eric is shackled at the hands, and has a chain-noose around his neck. He is standing on a slowly melting ice block that is being warmed by heat lamps. It is placed at the end of a seesaw-like scale which was in perfect balance, while Hoffman sits at the other end, strapped to a chair next to an electrode. If Eric loses his footing or enough of the ice melts, he will be hanged and the scale will tilt toward Hoffman, dumping the runoff water onto the electrode and electrocuting him. Art is forced to monitor Rigg's progress as he goes through his tests, with each of the previous victims being clients of Art.

Art, having escaped the Mausoleum Trap, is equipped with an unexplained contraption on his back that holds a circular saw against the back of his neck. He is also supplied with a button that he has been instructed to push once the 90 minutes are up. This will free the three of them. However, if the door to the room is opened before time runs out, two large ice blocks will swing down from the ceiling and crush Eric's head. As a precaution, Art gives him a revolver and one bullet with which to try and stop anyone from coming in.

As Rigg approaches the door, Eric shoots out through it but only wounds him. Rigg barges through, releasing the ice blocks and killing Eric; he then shoots and kills Art, believing he is going to trigger a new trap. After Rigg shoots Art drops a tape player that reveals why Rigg has failed. Art's spine is cut in two by the device attached to his neck. The water pours toward Hoffman, but nothing happens as it hits the electrode. Hoffman simply frees himself and calmly walks towards Rigg, revealing himself to be another accomplice of Jigsaw's. He then pulls the wires from the monitors and closes the door to the room, leaving Rigg bleeding on the floor.

===Perez's test===
After leaving the scene of the SAVE AS I SAVE test, Strahm and Perez check the school office, where a Billy puppet sits in a chair surrounded by candles with a tape recorder around its neck. Perez presses the play button and hears a message intended for her. It informs her that her partner is going to kill an innocent man (later revealed to be Jeff Reinhart), and that she should choose her next move wisely. The puppet's eyes begin to turn, and she leans forward to examine it. The puppet's face then explodes, sending [[shrapnel]] into her face and neck while letting off its mocking laugh. Perez's fate is not revealed, although she is rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

===Autopsy tape===
Following the events of Jeff and Rigg's tests, Jigsaw's corpse is found. While performing the autopsy, [[List of Saw characters#Dr. Heffner|Dr. Heffner]] pulls out John's stomach and cuts it open, revealing a tape cassette lined in wax. When cut out from the wax and played by Hoffman, Jigsaw reveals that Hoffman is "the last man standing," but also says that even though John is dead, Hoffman should not think he will go untested.

==External links==
*[http://saw.ugo.com/?cur=traps Official World of Saw] at [http://www.ugo.com UGO]

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