When John Kramer (Tobin Bell) gets up from the bathroom floor at the end of Saw (2004), the 2 men trapped there have spent their entire ordeal within feet of Jigsaw himself. The apparent gunshot victim lying between them has been alive the whole time.
An abandoned bathroom is where Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and photographer Adam (Leigh Whannell) find themselves when they wake, their ankles in chains. A bloodied body lies face-down between them, holding a tape recorder.
Lawrence’s instructions give him a deadline to kill Adam, with his wife and daughter’s lives at stake. Failure means both prisoners will die, too.
The hacksaw can’t cut the chain. Lawrence eventually cuts off his own foot and crawls out, promising Adam he’ll get help. Adam remains trapped, then finds a tape while searching the supposed dead man’s pockets for a key.
As Adam plays it, the man on the floor rises. John Kramer, whose deadly games are meant to make people value being alive, has been inside the room throughout their ordeal.
“Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore,” Kramer tells Adam. He switches off the lights and shuts Adam inside, still chained, with 2 final words: “Game over.”
