List of Saw characters

The following is a list of characters who have appeared throughout the Saw series, either as main characters, victims of games, detectives, or others. This list places the characters in alphabetical order based on surname, or first name if the former is not confirmed in any Saw media, and then into the five different categories depending on which film or media originated in.

Saw

Brett

• Brett was portrayed by Benito Martinez.

Brett was Lawrence Gordon's friend and lawyer. After Lawrence was brought in for interrogation, suspected of being the Jigsaw Killer, Brett advised Lawrence to "bite the bullet" and give his alibi, which involved Lawrence's mistress Carla, telling him that the detectives wouldn't believe him later.

Carla

• Carla was portrayed by Alexandra Bokyun Chun.

Carla appeared in the first movie as a medical student of Lawrence Gordon. She was seen learning from him while talking about a cancer patient, John Kramer. Later, it was revealed that Lawrence had been having an affair with Carla, but decided to break it off after he was annoyed with her for calling him at his house. Before he could leave the hotel room that she had rented, the phone rang, and Carla gave it to him, revealing that someone knew about the two of them. When Lawrence was suspected of being the Jigsaw Killer, he was advised to tell the detectives his alibi for the date in question, at which time he told them about being with "someone who wasn't a patient," indicating Carla.

Adam Faulkner

Main article: Adam Faulkner

• Adam Faulkner was portrayed by Leigh Whannell.

Adam was a photographer hired by the discharged Detective Tapp to follow Lawrence Gordon and take pictures of him for $200 a night. He was kidnapped and placed in a game of Jigsaw's, along with Lawrence. The two of them were chained by the ankle to opposite sides of a grimy bathroom. Adam was meant to cut off his foot if he wanted to leave, but was instead locked away by Jigsaw after Lawrence escaped. Before the events of Saw II, he was suffocated to death by Amanda Young, Jigsaw's apprentice, who felt guilty for leaving him there to die in the dark. His rotted corpse can be seen in Saw II, and again very briefly in Saw III, where it was slightly more decayed and repositioned to show his face.

Alison Gordon

Main article: Gordon family (Saw) § Alison Gordon

• Alison Gordon was portrayed by Monica Potter.

Alison appeared in Saw as Lawrence Gordon's wife. She was held captive with her daughter Diana as part of a test concerning their captor, Zep Hindle, and her husband, who was locked away in a bathroom with a man named Adam Faulkner.

Diana Gordon

Main article: Gordon family (Saw) § Diana Gordon

• Diana Gordon was portrayed by Makenzie Vega.

Diana appeared in Saw as Lawrence Gordon's daughter. She was held captive with her mother Alison as part of a test concerning their captor, Zep Hindle, and Diana's father, who was locked away in a bathroom with a man named Adam Faulkner.

Lawrence Gordon

Main article: Gordon family (Saw) § Lawrence Gordon

• Lawrence Gordon was portrayed by Cary Elwes.

A doctor, Lawrence was the one who diagnosed John Kramer with cancer. He, his wife and his daughter became involved with Jigsaw's games after Gordon was kidnapped while leaving a motel (he had just broken off an affair with his medical student). Waking up chained to a pipe in a bathroom with Adam Faulkner, he escaped after sawing his foot off as part of his game. It is unknown if he survived after leaving the bathroom as he was never seen again.

Zep Hindle

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Zep Hindle

• Zep Hindle was portrayed by Michael Emerson.

Zep was an orderly who worked in the hospital where John Kramer, the Jigsaw Killer, was treated for his cancer. He formed a sort of bond with John while he was being treated, but was considered to have "issues of his own" by him. Zep talked about the doctors behind their backs, saying that they were all having affairs and calling Dr. Lawrence Gordon a cold-hearted bastard. John seemed to see a lot of his own actions in Zep's goals, reminding him of himself before he was diagnosed with cancer. Zep would later be forced to watch Adam Faulkner and Dr. Gordon play out their game in a bathroom trap. If Lawrence failed to kill Adam by 6 o'clock, then Zep would be forced to kill Lawrence's wife and child, whom he had been holding hostage, in order to save himself from the slow-acting nerve agent in his bloodstream. He would then have to kill Lawrence himself and presumably retrieve an antidote from Jigsaw. Lawrence failed, but his wife and daughter managed to escape from Zep's grip before he could kill them, as Zep was attacked by David Tapp, a former detective who was watching the Gordons' home from across the street. Zep was forced to flee down to the sewers to kill Lawrence, but Tapp followed him, which resulted in a small fight. Zep managed to shoot Tapp in the stomach and continue to the bathroom, where he found Adam and Lawrence. Lawrence shot Adam, and tried to shoot Zep, but didn't have enough bullets. As Zep was about to kill Lawrence, Adam pulled his leg out from under him and attacked him with a toilet cover, bludgeoning him to death with it. Throughout most of the movie Zep is presented as a red herring, with the audience being encouraged to believe that he was Jigsaw, rather than a victim of one of Jigsaw's games. Zep's decomposed corpse was later seen in Saw II and Saw III.

Although he was forced to observe Adam and Lawrence, as well as hold Lawrence's wife and child hostage, he seemed to enjoy it. He waved at Adam and Lawrence through a monitor quite sinisterly in one scene, and frightened his captives in another, holding a gun to Diana's head and using a stethoscope to listen to her heart at the same time. On the commentary for Saw, Leigh Whannell and James Wan stated that they wrote this as to show that Zep enjoyed the sense of power he was given over others that he did not have before.

Jeff

• Jeff was portrayed by Ned Bellamy.

Jeff first appeared in Saw as a victim of one of Jigsaw's experimental traps. Jeff was bound to a chair with two drills facing his neck. Once activated, the drills moved towards his neck, and Detective Sing was told that the key to stop them was on a ring filled with dozens of keys. Instead of using a key, Sing shot the drills, successfully deactivating them. Jeff's fate is unknown to the viewers because from that point on, as he is never seen or heard of again, but it can be assumed that if the police found Detective Tapp, they found Jeff and freed him from the chair. He is not to be confused with Jeff Reinhart, the protagonist of Saw III.

Allison Kerry

Main article: Allison Kerry

• Allison Kerry was portrayed by Dina Meyer.

Kerry was a detective, first seen in Saw, who had worked with David Tapp, Steven Sing, Eric Matthews, Rigg, and Hoffman during the course of the first three movies. It was revealed in Saw IV that she was also an FBI contact passing information to Agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez.

Kerry had been involved with the case since its earliest stages, right up until she herself was tested in an inescapable trap constructed by Jigsaw's first known apprentice, Amanda Young. She became known as the Jigsaw expert in the wake of both Tapp's and Sing's deaths.

John Kramer (a.k.a: Jigsaw)

Main article: Jigsaw Killer

• John Kramer, alias the Jigsaw Killer, was portrayed by Tobin Bell.

John Kramer was a cancerous vigilante who built and created traps (which he referred to as games) for victims whom he believed took their lives for granted. After the death of his wife Jill's still developing baby and learning of his inoperable frontal lobe tumor, he tried to kill himself by driving off a cliff, but survived. From then on, using his knowledge of engineering, John went on to create devices to test a victim's will to live. He abducted people who didn't appreciate life and placed them through tests that in some way reflected their issues (such as drugs, lies, apathy, negligence, obsession, etc.), and if they passed, they were free to go. He marked the failures of his tests by removing a piece of skin in the shape of a jigsaw piece, from which police coined his alias, Jigsaw (although John dislikes referring to himself as Jigsaw). It is later learned that he gained an apprentice in Amanda Young, one of his only surviving players, and one other. John was killed by Jeff Reinhart with a circular saw at the end of the third movie. With Amanda being shot and killed by Jeff in Saw III, it is soon learned that he had another apprentice, who was revealed as Forensic Hoffman in Saw IV. During John's autopsy, a tape found in his stomach proved to contain a message for Hoffman: the games will continue despite Jigsaw's death and Hoffman himself will be tested.

Mark Rodriguez

• Mark Rodriguez was portrayed by Paul Gutrecht.

Mark was first featured in Saw and Saw: Rebirth as one of Jigsaw's first targets. John saw him at the hospital, where Mark claimed to be sick or have injuries of some sort as an excuse to skip work, when in fact he was perfectly healthy. This was enough for John to make him one of his first subjects as Jigsaw.

Mark was stripped of his clothes in a dark room, and had a slow acting poison in his bloodstream. From the message Jigsaw left for him, Mark learned that the antidote was inside a safe in front of him and the combination was written on the wall. However, the wall was filled with hundreds of numbers, and he had to choose the right set. The floor was covered in glass, and Mark's body was smeared with a flammable substance. The only source of light in the room was a wax candle. Slowly, Mark began to try each combination. However, he fumbled with the candle and ignited the substance covering him, burning him alive. His charred corpse was found by the police some time later.

Steven Sing

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Detective Sing

• Steven Sing was portrayed by Ken Leung.

Steven Sing was a detective who was called to the scene of one of Jigsaw's victims. He and his partner, David Tapp, were assigned the case, and Tapp found a clue in one of the tapes left over from the crime scene, leading Sing and Tapp right to Jigsaw's hideout. There, they found a man named Jeff stuck in an experimental trap with drills aimed at his neck. Jigsaw arrived and activated the trap, telling Sing that the key to stop the drills was on a ring, along with dozens of others. Sing shot the drills and deactivated them before pursuing Jigsaw through the warehouse after Jigsaw slashed Tapp's neck. While chasing down a hallway, Sing accidentally stepped across a tripwire, hidden among cobwebs, which triggered four shotguns hidden above to fire down at Sing, killing him as Jigsaw escaped. His death caused Tapp's obsession to hunt down and find Jigsaw.

Paul Stallberg

• Paul Stallberg was portrayed by Mike Butters.

Paul was one of John's first victims. According to Saw: Rebirth, Paul was a bore, but had a good life with a wife and kids. However, in what John would believe to be more of a cry for attention than a suicide attempt, Paul slashed his own wrists and was admitted to the Angel of Mercy hospital shortly after John had learned of his cancer. After John's transformation into the serial killer known as Jigsaw, Paul was targeted for his previous actions and was placed in a large cage lined with a maze of razor wire. He had to get to the exit by finding a path through the maze, but he only had 2 hours before the door to the room he was in would close, sealing him in. The irony in the situation was that if he wanted to live, he'd have to cut himself again. Paul didn't make it to the exit, and died hanging on the wires. According to Detective Kerry, Paul was 46 years old at the time of his death.

Paul was seen again later in a flashback in Saw IV, leaving Jill's drug clinic.

David Tapp

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Detective Tapp

• David Tapp was portrayed by Danny Glover.

David Tapp was a detective who was assigned to work on one of the Jigsaw-related crime scenes, along with his partner Steven Sing. After studying one of the tapes left by Jigsaw for one of his victims, he finds a clue as to the whereabouts of his hideout, and he and Sing rush over there during the middle of the night to arrest him. However, when they get there, they found a man in an experimental trap with two drill bits aimed to kill him. Jigsaw arrived and was confronted by Tapp, who was armed with a shotgun at the time. Jigsaw tested Tapp, asking him if he would rather save a man's life or arrest him. Tapp chose to arrest Jigsaw while Sing attempted to save the man, and as a result, Jigsaw slashed Tapp's throat (the closest Jigsaw has ever come to murdering someone himself). Sing managed to stop the drills from killing the man, and pursued Jigsaw throughout the warehouse before being killed by a barrage of shotguns aimed down on him.

Tapp survived the neck slash with only a scar on his neck (and a noticeable change in his vocal pattern), but was discharged from the force after becoming obsessed with the case after Sing died. He hired Adam Faulkner to take pictures of Dr. Lawrence Gordon, a past suspect that Tapp believed to be Jigsaw. Tapp eventually noticed Zep Hindle waiting in Dr. Gordon's house, and when he noticed gun shots, he rushed over and confronted Zep, saving Lawrence's wife and daughter before chasing Zep into the sewer system where Lawrence Gordon and Adam Faulkner were being held. While in a struggle, Zep ended up killing Tapp by shooting him in the stomach. Saw IV was scripted to have pictures of Tapp and Sing on the wall of the police station, with a banner saying "Your sacrifices will never be forgotten".

Amanda Young

Main article: Amanda Young

• Amanda Young was portrayed by Shawnee Smith.

Amanda was a heroin addict whom Kramer met at hospital, and subsequently became one of his first three victims. She survived her test, however, and proceeded to become Jigsaw's apprentice. Amanda started to create her own games and traps once Jigsaw became too ill to work. These games included: Detective Matthews' test, the Classroom trap, the Angel trap, and the Shotgun Collar. The last three resulted in the players dying, even if they did what was asked of them. This was because Amanda became unstable after becoming Jigsaw's apprentice, believing that nobody changed if they survived the traps and would simply go back to abusing their lives, quickly becoming a serial killer. She was later killed by Jeff Reinhart after she shot his wife, Lynn. Amanda's corpse was shown again in Saw IV.

Unnamed man

• The unnamed man was portrayed by Oren Koules.

The nameless man used in Amanda's Jaw Splitter scene was first seen in Saw. He was heavily tranquilized and left for dead as part of Amanda's test. A key had been placed in his stomach for the test, and to get to it, Amanda had to cut into the man. She was told that he was dead, while in fact he was only heavily sedated with opium, and unable to feel any pain. His character was seen again in Saw III in a flashback showing Jigsaw preparing the trap by painting a question-mark on the man's stomach. He appeared in a flashback in Saw IV exiting Jill's health clinic with Paul Stallberg. It was unspecified why Jigsaw thought he was "unworthy" of his life and also what he could have done to save himself.

Saw II

Addison

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Addison

• Addison was portrayed by Emmanuelle Vaugier.

Addison appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It was revealed in Saw IV that she was a prostitute, who offered her services to John outside the clinic where his wife Jill worked on the night she lost their baby before he became Jigsaw. She was later solicited by Detective Eric Matthews, who subsequently arrested her for prostitution. She was shown as an angry, thick skinned, and strong woman, possibly due to her work on the streets. Unafraid of getting in fights with Xavier and speaking her mind, it was easy for Jonas to spot that she "didn't get that way teaching grade school." For a while she was shown convincing the others not to waste time, possibly because she coughed up blood early and needed an antidote herself. Upon finding out that Daniel was Eric's son, she separated herself from the team, figuring that she couldn't trust anyone in the house. While under the influence of the toxic gas being pumped throughout the house, she stumbled into a rigged room, where she fell victim to the hand trap, which left her arms stuck inside a glass box, reaching for a spilled syringe, with razor blades lining the arm holes, preventing her from pulling out her arms. Unbeknownst to her, Addison had a number written on the back of her neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Addison's neck was a blue 9. As she screamed for help in the glass box, Xavier, another prisoner in the house, came to read the number that had been written on the back of her neck before leaving her to die. It's revealed in the commentary that there was a key already in the lock at the back of the box, and all she had to do in order to live was to turn it and grab the antidote by safer means. According to the Saw II website, Addison was written to be 29.

Gus

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Gus

• Gus was portrayed by Tony Nappo.

Gus, listed as being a rash and angry business man, appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House, along with seven others. Like most of the other prisoners, Gus was framed by Detective Eric Matthews, although what he was framed for was never spoken of. However, the Saw II commentary suggested that it was for embezzlement. Waking up in the small starting room with the others, he questioned how they just woke up in a room with no recollection of where they were. On the realization that he and the others have been kidnapped, he began to get paranoid. He remembered a movie he saw on TV about a reporter who spent 9 years locked in a cell with no light, wondering if something similar awaited him. He continued to sweat and panic before he sided with Xavier in a small argument with Amanda concerning a key, desperate to get out of the room and regain some control over the situation. Gus peered into the peephole of the locked door as Xavier turned the key in the keyhole, which triggered a gun to go off and shoot Gus in the eye through the peephole. Unbeknownst to him, Gus had a number written on the back of his neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Gus' neck was a red 2. Xavier stumbled upon the numbers when he accidentally pulled off the coat covering Gus' corpse while trying to get into the safe. Gus appears again briefly in Saw IV during a scuffle with Cecil inside the health clinic. According to the Saw II website, Gus was written to be 38.

Jonas

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Jonas

• Jonas was portrayed by Glenn Plummer.

Jonas appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It was revealed that he, like several of the others, was framed and sent to jail by Detective Eric Matthews, and it was implied that he had been or still was part of a gang. Jonas seemed to be one of the only ones in the house using logic, trying to think of a game plan or talk it out. Despite doing his best to gather information in order to survive, as well as keeping the key and tape recorder on his person, Jonas seemed to be one of the most pessimistic in the house. He voiced his skepticism on the existence of antidotes and seemed unwilling to stick himself in the arm to find out what was in the syringes. He tried to keep the team together, not wanting to make any more enemies than he already has. When trying to talk to Xavier about working together they ended up getting in a fight. Xavier soon killed Jonas by hitting him in the back of the head with a nail-studded bat. Unbeknownst to him, Jonas had a number written on the back of his neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Jonas' neck was a yellow 16. According to the Saw II website, Jonas was written to be 41.

Laura

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Laura

• Laura was portrayed by Beverley Mitchell.

Laura, listed as being emotionally fragile, first appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It was discovered that she was framed and put in jail by Detective Eric Matthews, although her crime was never mentioned. According to the Saw II commentary, she was a kleptomaniac. Once the door opened to the rest of the house, Laura helped Amanda look for clues before finding a door that led down to the furnace. After a tape was played explaining Obi's game, she remembered that it was he who had kidnapped her while she was starting her car. After Obi died in the oven, Laura became weaker, unable or unwilling to stand for very long, instead relying on Daniel for support when she wasn't sitting against the wall. She pointed out a picture with a cracked frame, which led to the discovery of Daniel's father's identity. Laura was then the first to succumb to the effects of the toxic nerve agent being pumped through the house, having a fatal seizure while resting in Amanda's arms. Unbeknownst to her, Laura had a number written on the back of her neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Laura's neck was a purple 8. According to the Saw II website, Laura was written to be 24.

Daniel Matthews

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Daniel Matthews

• Daniel Matthews was portrayed by Erik Knudsen.

Daniel appeared in Saw II as the son of Detective Eric Matthews. During a visitation with his father, Daniel gets caught shoplifting which sparks an argument with his father. After suggesting he go back to his mother's early, Daniel was told to just leave and went missing. As Eric Matthews uncovered Jigsaw's lair, he discovered that his son had been taken prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. The seven others were all arrested at one point or another by Eric, but only after having evidence planted against them by the detective. He assisted Laura in getting from room to room, and spoke with Amanda about how to survive as well as helping her from the needle pit. After heading off with the three women, Daniel realized that his dad set up the others in the house. Laura died, and Addison and Amanda turned their backs on Daniel, knowing he was the corrupt detective's son, despite his protests that he didn't know. At that point, Xavier started his rampage through the house looking for the numbers on the back of everyone's neck (Daniel's number was never revealed, however). Amanda, seeing that Jonas has been murdered, turned back and grabbed Daniel to help him. She led him into the foundation of the house, while Xavier followed close behind. As Daniel weakened, Amanda helped him to keep moving, eventually ending up in the bathroom trap from the first movie. Daniel appeared to pass out on the floor, leading Amanda to believe he had succumbed to the nerve gas. However, he sprung to life when Xavier reached for him, killing him by slicing his neck with a leftover hacksaw, in the process saving himself and Amanda. After surviving for so long in the Nerve Gas House, he was administered an antidote by Amanda. She brought him to Jigsaw's lair to be locked in a safe with oxygen, as part of Eric's test. The safe later opened up, revealing to Kerry and the rest of the SWAT team that he was alive. According to the Saw II website, Daniel was written to be 17.

Eric Matthews

Main article: Eric Matthews (Saw)

• Eric Matthews was portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg.

Eric Matthews was a detective who led a SWAT team to Jigsaw's latest lair in Saw II, along with his ex-partner Kerry. Eric soon found that his son had been kidnapped by Jigsaw. Eric was forced to play a game of his own, based on his aggression as a cop who planted evidence and framed many criminals. He failed, resulting in his lock-up in a bathroom trap by Amanda, one of the people he landed in jail by framing. However, in Saw III he managed to escape his shackle by breaking his foot before he confronted Amanda, and the two fought before Amanda kicked him in the ankle and left him for dead. As she walked away, Matthews screamed at her, stating that she was not Jigsaw. This prompted Amanda to turn around.

Matthews returned in Saw IV, placed in another trap as part of Rigg's interconnected tests. He was killed when Rigg crossed through a trapped door, triggering two blocks of ice to crush Matthews' head.

Michael

• Michael was portrayed by Noam Jenkins.

Michael appeared in the opening scene of Saw II. He found himself in one of Jigsaw's contraptions, set to drive nails into his head if he couldn't unlock his harness in time. Jigsaw took an interest in him because of his occupation as a police informant, working for Detective Eric Matthews. According to Jigsaw, Michael was unworthy of his life; he was a "rat" and used his eyes to snitch on other people. While heavily sedated, a key was surgically placed behind his right eye. Michael tried numerous times with a scalpel to retrieve the key, but gave up, not wanting to suffer the pain of removing his own eye. He died when the Venus Flytrap-like Death Mask closed on his head.

Michael was seen again later in a flashback in Saw IV, in the waiting room of Jill's clinic.

Obi

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Obi

• Obi was portrayed by Tim Burd.

Obi first appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. He was seen quietly lurking in the background while the others argued. It was only when the envelope with his name was found that he finally spoke up. It was revealed by his own individual test in the house that he was the one who kidnapped the others for Jigsaw, but didn't even know the way out himself. His test would have allowed him to get two antidotes for the poisonous gas being pumped into the house, breathed in by the prisoners. He had to crawl into a furnace and grab the two syringes from the chains inside, one of which was a gift to him and the other for him to donate. The second needle was rigged to close the door and ignite the furnace. This trap seemed to be appropriate for Obi as, according to the Saw II commentary, he was an arsonist. He ended up dying as he attempted to crawl through a broken window on the other side of the furnace. Unbeknownst to him, Obi had a number written on the back of his neck, as did the others. The numbers were color-coded, and when put in proper order, would give the combination to a safe that held an antidote. The number on Obi's neck was a green 11. Obi also had a brief cameo in Saw III, in which he can be seen in Jigsaw's flashback after his brain surgery. According to the Saw II website, Obi was written to be 39.

Pete

• Pete was portrayed by Kelly Jones.

Pete first appeared in Saw II, helping raid John Kramer's lair, as a member of Rigg's SWAT team. He appeared in Saw III, as he was once again working on the SWAT team led by Rigg, this time helping in the discovery of Troy's corpse. In Saw IV, he assisted in the discovery of Detective Kerry's murder. He then later led the SWAT team in their city-wide search for Rigg, following Rigg's disappearance. Pete has been seen at every crime scene to do with Jigsaw or his apprentices.

Rigg

Main article: Rigg (Saw)

• Rigg was portrayed by Lyriq Bent.

Rigg was a SWAT lieutenant who first appeared in Saw II, assisting detectives Eric Matthews and Allison Kerry in arresting Jigsaw, but ultimately failed to capture the felon after Eric helped Jigsaw escape to find Daniel Matthews, Eric's son, who had been held captive in a trap. Rigg appeared briefly in Saw III, and was eventually put into a series of tests in Saw IV, in which he had to rethink many of the Jigsaw Killer's ideals. He was shot in his final test and left to slowly bleed to death.

Xavier

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Xavier

• Xavier was portrayed by Franky G.

Xavier appeared in Saw II as a prisoner in the Nerve Gas House along with seven others. It was revealed by his own individual test in the house that he was a drug dealer who was framed by Detective Eric Matthews. Apart from a few logic moves, Xavier was mostly seen using his brawn over his brains. After waking up in the house, Xavier's anger and controlling nature caused him to snap at everyone to stop complaining and do something. He unknowingly caused Gus' death by turning the key in the Magnum Eyehole door. Once the door opened, Xavier made it clear he was looking out for himself, but despite being a self-confessed loner, he stuck with the group. He threatened Obi with a knife to make sure he went into a furnace to retrieve two antidotes, and later threw Amanda into a pit of needles that was part of his own trap because he didn't want to go in himself. Amanda found the key in the pit that was needed to open the door to get another antidote, but Xavier fumbled with the key and failed to open the door in time. Blaming everyone else, he finally ditched the group and stumbled back to a safe in the room he'd woken up in. Remembering the instructions given to the eight people in the house, he noticed a number on the back of Gus's neck and realized that the numbers that had been written on everyone's neck would give him the combination to the safe (the safe contained an antidote). Xavier formed a plan, and when trying to get Jonas' number, ended up killing him with a nail-studded bat. He then continued to read the numbers on everyone's neck, in the process finding out that Daniel was Detective Matthews son. He started hunting down Daniel and Amanda until he heard Addison's cries for help. He then read her number and left her to bleed to death in the Razor Box trap. He continued his chase, stumbling after Amanda and Daniel in an angry and desperate rage. After cornering the two of them in the bathroom, he realized he'd have nobody to read his own number, and used his knife to cut off the skin off the back of his neck. After doing so, a brief glimpse revealed the number to be an indigo 25. Once that was done, he reached forwards for Daniel, who jumped to life and sliced Xavier's throat with a leftover hacksaw, killing him. Xavier's corpse was also seen for a brief moment at the beginning of Saw III, still lying in the bathroom. According to the Saw II website, Xavier was written to be 40.

Saw III

Chris

• Chris was portrayed by Alan Van Sprang.

Chris appeared in Saw III. He had been having an affair with Lynn Denlon, a doctor who was already married. Before leaving, Lynn was told by Chris that he wanted Lynn to get a divorce. According to the final draft of the Saw III script, he was written to be in his 40s.

Corbett

Main article: Reinhart family § Corbett

• Corbett was portrayed by Niamh Wilson.

Corbett was the daughter of Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart in Saw III. She was kidnapped and hidden away in Jigsaw's lair, given a limited air supply. Her father learned of her presence in the warehouse upon killing Jigsaw, revealing that he would have to play another game to get Corbett back. Since her father was shot by Agent Strahm in Saw IV, Corbett's fate remains unknown. It should be noted that when Perez tells Detective Hoffman "I didn't know you were married", referring to the teddy bear in his arms, he replies "I'm not, but it's a short story." The bear Hoffman was holding is the same that Corbett is seen holding in her arms while she is in the room she was being held captive in.

Deborah

• Deborah was portrayed by Kim Roberts.

Deborah was a nurse at the Angel of Mercy hospital along with Lynn Denlon in Saw III. She entered the locker room to retrieve Lynn to stabilize a little boy who was in a car accident. After Lynn does so at the last second, Deborah pulls her aside and tells Lynn to leave her problems at home, seeing that they are affecting her work as a doctor. Lynn leaves Deborah in the middle of their discussion and goes upstairs to the locker room, where she is then kidnapped. Nurse Deborah made a brief cameo in Saw IV, playing the nurse who appeared and helped Jill with her miscarriage.

Lynn Denlon

Main article: Reinhart family § Lynn Denlon

• Lynn Denlon was portrayed by Bahar Soomekh.

Lynn was a doctor who was kidnapped in Saw III with the task of keeping John/Jigsaw alive under the threat of death. Along with Jeff Reinhart, she was Jigsaw's main subject in the film. She was forced to operate on John's brain to prevent her own death, and had to work under poor conditions while constantly fighting and bickering with Amanda, who was growing more unstable as the time went on. When Jeff finished his tasks, Lynn was promised that her explosive collar would be removed if John was still alive. However, when Jeff did complete his tests, Amanda refused, and ended up shooting Lynn in the stomach. Before Lynn could explain the situation to Jeff, who was revealed to be her husband, he killed Jigsaw, activating Lynn's collar. The collar exploded, killing Lynn as her head was blown away. Her corpse is seen again in Saw IV.

Dylan

Main article: Reinhart family § Dylan

• Dylan was portrayed by Stefan Georgiou.

Dylan only appeared in flashbacks and photographs in Saw III as the dead son of Jeff Reinhart and Lynn Denlon. He was killed in a car accident by Timothy Young.

Halden

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Judge Halden

• Halden was portrayed by Barry Flatman.

Halden was the judge that had presided over Jeff Reinhart's son's death case. Jeff was angry with him because he had only sentenced Timothy Young, the driver who hit Jeff's son, six months in prison. Jeff got his chance at revenge on the judge in Saw III, while walking through a warehouse filled with tests. Judge Halden was found by Jeff, bound at the neck to a silo. Above him, several circular saws were activated, and a rotating chain began to drop dead pigs into the saws, splashing the liquefied remains onto the judge. Jeff had to burn all of his son's possessions in an incinerator to retrieve the key needed to unlock the judge's neck brace. After trying to reason with Jeff, stating that he had a son of his own and that he could attempt to extend the sentence, Halden was saved from drowning in the ground up pig remains. The judge then followed Jeff to one of his last tests, still trying to comfort Jeff and trying to convince him to save Timothy. As Halden tries to find a way to save Timothy, Jeff accidentally sets off a shotgun that hits Halden's head resulting in his death. Halden watched as Jeff screamed his forgiveness for Timothy just before dying. According to the final draft of the Saw III script, Halden was written to be in his 50s.

Hoffman

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D. Hoffman

• Hoffman was portrayed by Costas Mandylor.

D. Hoffman first appeared in Saw III as a detective at the scene of Troy's demise, where he, Lieutenant Rigg, and Detective Kerry analyzed the scene. Hoffman later appeared in Saw IV in a trap that was part of a series of tests for Rigg, in which he revealed himself to be an accomplice of Jigsaw. He is revealed to be the person who wrote the letter to Amanda in the third film.

After Rigg failed his tests, Hoffman left him to bleed to death in one room and locked FBI Agent Peter Strahm in another room. Hoffman was later called to a morgue following the autopsy of Jigsaw, where a tape was handed to him from Jigsaw's stomach. The tape stated that although Jigsaw is dead, Hoffman will not go untested.

FBI Agent Lindsey Perez noted at one point that Hoffman held the rank of Lieutenant and had won a number of awards during his time as a police officer.

The synopsis for Saw V lists Hoffman as the last person to carry on Jigsaw's legacy. His role in the film involves "[eliminating] all the loose ends" that could expose his connection to Jigsaw.

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

Jeff Reinhart

Main article: Reinhart family § Jeff Reinhart

• Jeff was portrayed by Angus Macfadyen.

Jeff was Jigsaw's main subject in Saw III. He became obsessed with vengeance against those that were involved in the death of his son Dylan and the trial of the killer. Jeff was eventually kidnapped and forced to take part in one of Jigsaw's last games.Upon coming across three people he held accountable for the accident and hasty trial, Jeff had the choice to save them or let them die in their individual traps. After leaving his first three tests with no other survivors, he came to a final test that turned out to be a confrontation with Jigsaw himself, who asked for forgiveness. Jeff killed him with a power-saw, in turn killing his wife Lynn, and setting himself up for another game to save his daughter Corbett. However, before he gets the chance to do so, he is shot by Agent Strahm after he does not comply with his orders of putting his gun down.

Danica Scott

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Danica Scott

• Danica Scott was portrayed by Debra Lynne McCabe.

Danica Scott was the only witness to the death of Jeff Reinhart's son Dylan. Instead of staying to testify, Danica fled the scene, and was later kidnapped as part of Jeff's tests. She was stripped nude and was hung from her arms in a freezer room. The key to the lock binding her arms was hanging behind a set of frozen pipes. Once Jeff entered, cold water began spraying on Danica, and she was able to convince Jeff to help her. He managed to get the key, tearing part of his cheek off in the process, but it was too late, as the water had already frozen the lock and left her dead, covered from head to toe in a shell of ice. According to the final draft of the Saw III script, Danica was written to be in her 30s.

Troy

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Troy

• Troy was portrayed by J. Larose.

Troy first appeared in Saw III as a victim in one of Amanda's first traps. According to the tape played in his test, Troy had been sent to prison multiple times, although the charges were never mentioned. His multiple prison terms are what made him a target for Jigsaw. Waking up in an abandoned classroom, he found himself bound by eleven chains pierced through his flesh and bone in numerous places, including his hands, arms, shoulders, obliques, Achilles tendons, and jaw. He was forced to attempt to tear them all out and escape before a bomb went off in the room, but was unable to get the chain out of his jaw in time, instead getting blown to pieces. Detective Kerry, Detective Hoffman, and Lieutenant Rigg later investigated the gruesome scene, realizing that Jigsaw was not responsible for the trap, as it had no escape; the door to the room had been welded shut, and the final chain hooked into Troy's jaw was irremovable with bare hands.

Troy was seen again later in a flashback in Saw IV, in the waiting room of Jill's drug clinic.

Jill Tuck

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Jill Tuck

• Jill Tuck was portrayed by Betsy Russell.

Jill first appeared in the graphic novel Saw: Rebirth. It was revealed that she used to be John's girlfriend who broke up with him because of his fear of commitment. She was later seen in a flashback in Saw III (with blond hair, unlike the dark hair she had in the comics), when John was undergoing brain surgery. As the hallucinations proceeded, John confessed his love for her, not knowing that he was actually speaking to Lynn, the person operating on him. In Saw IV, it was revealed that Jill wasn't just an ex-girlfriend, but John's ex-wife. Jill was pregnant at one point (with a boy to be named Gideon) but lost her baby due to the actions of a man named Cecil, after which John became distraught and distanced himself from his wife. Multiple clues, including photos of Jill, led FBI agents Perez and Strahm to her. Holding her in the interrogation room, Strahm went back and forth between following Rigg's games and questioning Jill on the subject of her ex-husband, getting more and more aggressive with each session. Finally, after Perez was critically injured, Strahm began screaming at Jill for answers, eventually leading Strahm to Jigsaw's last lair, the Gideon meat-packing plant, where he was locked away.

Betsy Russell, the actress who portrayed Jill is to appear in Saw V.

Timothy Young

• Timothy Young was portrayed by Mpho Koaho.

Timothy Young was a drunk driver who had accidentally hit and killed Jeff Reinhart's son Dylan. Timothy only received 6 months in prison for his crimes due to an apparent lack of witnesses present at the trial (Danica Scott, the only witness, fled the scene at the time it happened), and it was later revealed that he was a medical student and was on his way to becoming a doctor after being released from prison. He was later kidnapped and placed in a mechanism Jigsaw called the Rack, which began twisting Tim's hands and feet around in a 180 degree angle, breaking his bones before beginning to twist his head around. Jeff would have to take a bullet for Tim if he wanted to retrieve the key. Jeff failed to get the key into the lock in time, and Jeff pleaded for the trap to stop before Tim's neck was broken. He has no known connections to Amanda Young, Jigsaw's apprentice. According to the final draft of the Saw III script, Timothy was written to be 27.

Saw IV

Cecil Adams

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Cecil Adams

• Cecil Adams was portrayed by Billy Otis.

Cecil appeared in Saw IV as a habitual addict, hustler, and thief. He was shown to play a factor in John Kramer's transformation into the serial killer Jigsaw. Threatening Jill Tuck, John's then-wife and an employee at a drug clinic, to get into the clinic at night to steal items, he caused her miscarriage during his escape by slamming a door open with her behind it, crushing her unborn child. He initially appeared remorseful as he had no intentions to harm Jill, but he quickly began to panic and thus, ran away. The loss of their child made the amoral Cecil a target for John's first trap victim.

John put Cecil in the Knife Chair and instructed him on how he could escape, stating that he wished to make Cecil as ugly on the outside as he was on the inside. Cecil pushed through the knives, severely cutting his face in the process. The trap appeared to collapse, and freed Cecil. He then lunged at John, but, after slipping on his own blood, fell into a set-up of razor wire.

Tobin Bell stated that Cecil's body may reappear in "Saw V".

Art Blank

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Art Blank

• Art Blank was portrayed by Justin Louis.

Art appeared in Saw IV. He was a lawyer and was originally involved in a business relationship with John Kramer before he took the mantle of Jigsaw. They were working on the development of houses together before John's unborn child was killed and John spiraled into depression. In his duties as a lawyer, Art successfully defended several people who were legitimately guilty of the crimes with which they were accused including Brenda (a pimp), Ivan Landsness (a rapist), and Rex (an abusive husband and father). These criminals that Art defended appeared as victims of traps during the events of Saw IV. He was also Jill Tuck's lawyer.

Art first appeared in a trap with Trevor. After killing Trevor, Art escaped, but went missing for a period of two weeks, during which he was forced to become an unwilling pawn in more of Jigsaw's traps; for example, a motel room was rented out to him, where a large amount of equipment was slipped in piece-by-piece to build a complex-trap for Ivan. Art later showed up to try to keep detectives Matthews and Hoffman alive until Rigg's final test was complete. After the timer for the test expired, Art would be able to free himself from the threat of an unexplained device holding a pair of pincers at the back of his neck, while also freeing Eric and Hoffman. However, Rigg's interference led to the failure of the test which killed Detective Matthews. Rigg, believing Art to be involved with Jigsaw, fatally shot Art in the head, but not before he activated a new tape, revealing the truth about Rigg's game.

Brenda

• Brenda was portrayed by Sarain Boylan.

Brenda appeared in Saw IV as the victim of a trap, with numerous pictures hung around the room revealing her to be a pimp. Rigg was instructed to simply walk away from the trap, while Brenda was informed that if he saved her, she would have to kill him to avoid arrest. After her scalp was torn back, Rigg managed to save her. As he ran to get a towel, she grabbed a knife and began swinging at him, but was thrown into a mirror. She was later found dead from blood loss.

Fisk

• Fisk was portrayed by Mike Realba.

Detective Fisk informed Perez and Strahm that Lynn Denlon was missing from the hospital. He was also an active member on the police force as Rigg completed his tests.

Hefner

• Hefner was portrayed by James van Patten.

Dr. Hefner appeared in Saw IV. He was the one performing Jigsaw's autopsy. He found the tape inside his stomach encased in wax and asked for the other staff member in the morgue to call the homicide department.

Jane

• Jane was portrayed by Alison Luther.

Jane appeared in Saw IV as the young daughter of Rex and Morgan. Rigg became concerned for her well-being when he discovered that she was being abused by her father. Rigg could not help her as she and her mother were too afraid to testify against their abuser.

Lamanna

• Lamanna was portrayed by Simon Reynolds.

Lamanna was an active member of the SWAT team in pursuit of Rigg during his series of tests.

Ivan Landsness

• Ivan Landsness was portrayed by Marty Adams.

Ivan appeared in Saw IV as the clerk of the Alexander Motel. Suspected of multiple, vicious rapes but freed repeatedly due to the efforts of his lawyer, Art Blank, Ivan was to be part of Rigg's second test. Following instructions, Rigg confronted and abducted Ivan, threatening him with a gun while forcing him into an adjoining motel room. There, they were both confronted with photographic evidence of Ivan's crimes, including a video recording of him raping a young girl. Enraged, Rigg instructed Ivan to place himself into the trap laid out across the bed, and supplied him with the tools to escape. As the sixty-second timer for the trap was activated, Ivan blinded his right eye, but he failed to activate the second switch in time. The device sprang to life, and Ivan was torn apart, his legs and arms removed from his torso.

Morgan

• Morgan was portrayed by Janet Land.

Morgan, a school teacher, appeared in Saw IV as the wife of a suspected physical abuser, Rex. Despite evidence, the police were unable to act upon her husband because both she and her daughter Jane refused to testify against him. Morgan was later put into a test with her husband involving numerous rods pierced through them. Jigsaw suggested that Morgan should free herself from her ties with her husband, as they had been harmful both to herself and her daughter. She did so by removing all but one rod, killing her husband in the process. She was found unconscious by Rigg, who then removed the last rod and supplied her with a key to free herself before pulling a fire alarm and leaving. When found by Strahm and Perez and their forensic team, Morgan stated that Rigg saved her.

Lindsey Perez

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Lindsey Perez

• Lindsey Perez was portrayed by Athena Karkanis.

Perez was an FBI agent, and was Agent Peter Strahm's partner. They had received information concerning the Jigsaw case from Detective Allison Kerry, who had been working on it since day one. Before Kerry was killed in a trap, she had told Perez and Strahm that two officers might be in danger. A last note from Kerry, delivered with a key, read, "Open the door and you'll find me". Perez, along with Strahm, took over the investigation following the discovery of Kerry's corpse, getting info from Detective Hoffman before he and Lieutenant Rigg went missing. Perez and Strahm then followed Rigg's trail of tests. At one point, Perez and Strahm found two folders that said, "OPEN THE DOOR AND YOU'LL FIND ME," and, "YOU'RE IN DANGER OF GETTING TOO CLOSE... STEP BACK," at which point Strahm realized that he and Perez were the two officers in danger, as Kerry had warned. At one of the later crime scenes, Perez was almost hit by a misfired harpoon. Strahm pulled her from the line-of-fire, and the harpoon instead hit and killed a crime scene photographer. At that point, while waiting for a call to deliver the address of the last building owned by a lawyer, Art Blank, Perez and Strahm learned that the abandoned school building they were in was in fact Art's last building. Heading to the office, the agents found a tape recorder tied around the neck of a Billy doll, as some sort of test for Perez. It told her that "her next move [was] critical" and told her that her partner would kill an innoncent man (later revealed to be Jeff Reinhart) before the puppet's face exploded, sending shards into her face and neck. Perez was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but it is unknown if she survived.

Rex

• Rex was portrayed by Ron Lea.

Rex, a school teacher, was the abusive husband of Morgan and was also suspected of hitting his daughter Jane. However, since neither Morgan nor Jane testified against him, he was never sentenced. Rigg ended up punching Rex after talking to his daughter about her bruises. Art, Rex's lawyer, threatened Rigg with a lawsuit but dropped the matter after Hoffman backed Rigg's claim of self-defense. Rex was later put into a test with his wife, in which he was doomed to die if Morgan tried to free herself. Rex bled to death as Morgan proceeded to try to escape.

Peter Strahm

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Agent Strahm

• Peter Strahm was portrayed by Scott Patterson.

Peter Strahm was first seen along with Agent Perez on the scene of Detective Kerry's trap. He was the more logical thinking of the two, figuring out right away that there had to be a second apprentice of Jigsaw's, since Amanda Young was too light to get Kerry up herself and Jigsaw was a cancer patient. Strahm and Perez had received a message from Detective Kerry before she was killed, in which a key was supplied to him with the message, "open the door and you'll find me". Perez and Strahm had also been told that two officers might be in danger. Along with Perez, Strahm followed Lieutenant Rigg's trail of games, unknown to him that he and Perez were also part of a Jigsaw game. He ripped a camera out of the wall at one scene after deducing that the warning concerning two officers in danger were in fact he and Perez. Strahm also questioned Jigsaw's ex-wife Jill on the side about how and why her former husband became Jigsaw. By the time of the final test he was nearly behind Rigg as he continued to move through a meat-packing plant. Instead of following Rigg, he stumbled into the ending path of Jeff Reinhart's game from Saw III (thus revealing that the events of the preceding movie were occurring at the same time of the current movie).

When Strahm got to the end of his path he found a heavy steel door. Opening it, he found Jeff Reinhart, who had just killed Jigsaw and Amanda Young. Strahm demanded to see Jeff's hands, but in blind rage of finding out his daughter was in danger of dying, Jeff attempted to attack Strahm, believing him to be in alliance with Jigsaw. Strahm quickly killed Jeff with two gun shots to the chest. Before Strahm could do anything else, Jigsaw's actual apprentice, Detective Hoffman, shut and locked the steel door, sealing Strahm inside the medical room along with the corpses of Jigsaw, Amanda Young, Jeff and Lynn Denlon.

Strahm's status is currently unknown. The scenes of Jigsaw's autopsy, however, indicate that the medical room has been subsequently discovered by authorities and they could have found him. Actor Scott Patterson is also set to appear in Saw V, reprising his role as Strahm.

In an interview discussing the trap of Saw V, David Hackl revealed that Scott Patterson's character, Agent Strahm, would be placed in a trap that Hackl called 'the most dangerous' and 'elegant in its simplicity'.

Tracy

• Tracy was portrayed by Ingrid Hart.

Tracy was a new character that appeared in Saw IV. She was Rigg's wife. She was shown leaving to go help her sick mother, but not before inviting Rigg to come along which he refused. She then told him that "you can't save everyone." Disappointed that Rigg stayed to work on the Jigsaw case, she left for the next few days.

Trevor

• Trevor was portrayed by Kevin Rushton.

Trevor was the other subject inside Art's first test. It was not made known who he was or why he was in the trap along with Art. He was heavy-set and bald. Art killed the man, removing the key on the back of the man's neck in order to save himself from the trap.

Unnamed woman

• The unnamed woman was portrayed by Joanne Boland.

The unnamed woman was working as a crime scene photographer in Saw IV, first appearing at the scene of Kerry's corpse's discovery. There, she noticed a bullet lodged between Kerry and the harness of the trap. This discovery raised suspicions concerning Rigg after his fingerprints were found on the bullet. At the crime scene investigation of Morgan and Rex's test, the photographer was accidentally impaled through the head and killed when police dusting the metal rod injection device inadvertently caused its discharge.

Saw V

It has been revealed that Samantha Lemole and Sheila Shah have joined the cast, although their characters have yet to be revealed. One African-American female, approximately 27 - 33 years old, is reported to be the last person to be casted in the movie. Also a photo of the "glass box trap " portrays another character (in the trap) but his name has not been revealed.

Ashley

• Ashley will be portrayed by Laura Gordon.

According to the casting list on IMDb, a new character by the name of Ashley is revealed

Brit

• Brit will be portrayed by Julie Benz.

Brit is a new character set to appear in Saw V. She is set to be the protagonist of the film. She is described as a real-estate developer who is very corporate ("like a thorough-bred race-horse").

Charles

• Charles will be portrayed by Carlo Rota.

Charles is a new character set to appear in Saw V.

Erickson

• Erickson will be portrayed by Mark Rolston.

Erickson is a new character set to appear in Saw V.

Logan

• Logan will be portrayed by Al Sapienza

According to the casting list on IMDb, a new character by the name of Logan is revealed. His character works as the Chief of the Police Department.

Luba

• Luba will be portrayed by Meagan Good.

Luba is a woman who works as a city planner. She comes from a wealthy family.

Mallick

• Mallick will be portrayed by Greg Bryk.

Mallick is a new character set to appear in Saw V.

Other characters

Billy the puppet

Main article: Billy (Saw)

While not a character , the puppet has nonetheless become iconic to the Saw movie franchise both within and without the film's fictional universe. It is revealed in Saw: Rebirth that before becoming Jigsaw, John Kramer worked in a toy factory, wherein Billy was most likely created as a new toy idea. With John shown building the puppet in Saw III, another theory suggests that Billy was constructed solely for Jigsaw's tests, with Amanda being the first to experience its bizarre ministrations. In Saw IV it is revealed that Billy was originally going to be a gift for John's first child, since the doll had a less threatening appearance than the future version, whose design has been used to intimidate and deliver information about traps to his test subjects.

David

• David was portrayed by Leigh Whannell.

Jigsaw's victim in the 2003 promotional short. This character played the part of Amanda in the short film, which was an early version of the Jaw Splitter scene. He was portrayed by Leigh Whannell, who played Adam in the first official film.