Jigsaw's Feats Analysis

Kidnapping Eric Strategy The film opens with Jigsaw killing an informant of Detective Matthews and goading him into the case via a taunt written on a wall of the crime scene, knowing the brash officer, who also has serious family issues, would be unable to resist. Jigsaw leaves a clue in the form of a logo for “Wilson Steel” found on the trap and he is tracked down to an abandoned steel mill. There, several SWAT officers are non-lethally incapacitated with a false stair and an electrically charged wall before Jigsaw is finally confronted. By allowing them to seemingly discover his location on their own and seemingly not going down easy, he lulls them into a false sense of security The police investigate the area and discover several monitors showing a group of people - many of them people Eric had arrested improperly.Eric’s son is also there.. Matthews asks where he is, and John responds, “He’s in a safe place.” Literally, his son was in a safe in that very room, but due to Jigsaw’s taunting and the seemingly high-stakes time limit at hand. Not one officer caught on. And what they don’t know is that the game had already taken place, the monitors show a recording and are not live. He had effectively put the police in position to cleanly arrest him, but he knew they wouldn’t call his bluff. Kramer begins his test of Eric by agreeing to reveal the location of the gap if the police oblige him. He asks to be left alone with Eric for a simple conversation. The test is for …