Saw V

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A man named Seth (Joris Jarsky) is in a trap which has a pendulum blade suspended above his body. Seth was a murderer released early from a life sentence due to a technicality. He is told to push buttons inside two devices. His hands will be crushed, but the pendulum will be stopped. Reluctantly, he does push the buttons but the pendulum descends upon him regardless and it cuts him in two, meaning the trap was inescapable, and therefor not one set up bby Jigsaw (Tobin Bell).

In a scene from the end of Saw IV Agent Strahm (Scott Paterson) enters the room where Jigsaw died and shoots Jeff Reinhart (Angus Macfadyen) dead in self-defence. Seconds later, someone locks Strahm in the room. He finds a secret door and exits through it, and finds a voice recorder. The recording tells him that he can find salvation or die in the room, and urges him to make the right choice. He disregards it and is attacked in a figure in a pig mask.

He wakes up in one a Jigsaw's trpas and finds his head in a sealed box, which quickly starts to fill with water. Before he runs out of oxygen, he performs a tracheotomy with the tube of a ballpoint pen.

The police make it to the Gidoen warehouse, and Hoffman (Costas Mayndylon) emerges carrying Corbett Reinhart (Niamh Wilson), claiming that he saved her. Strahm is carried out on a stretcher alive but badly injured. The Chief of Police announces that the Jigsaw murders are over. Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) is given a videotape and box from John's lawyer. The contents of the box, John says, are of grave importance to her. After peering in the box, Jill leaves without telling John's lawyer what's inside.

It's revealed that Agent Perez (Athena Karkanis) died from the wounds she sustained from a Jigsaw trap in Saw IV, and Strahm tells Hoffman that her last words were his name. Strahm returns to his office and begins to inverstigate all of the victims linked to Jigsaw, discovering that Seth murdered Hoffman's sister and thoerizes that the trap for Seth ws made by Hoffman.

Strahm estimates that Jigsaw used this fact to blackmail Hoffman into helping him, and in flashback we see Hoffman help Jigsaw set up Paul Stallberg (Mike Butters) in the razor wire trap in Saw, set up the gas house in Saw II, and talk with Jigsaw before leaving him with Lynn Denlon (Bahmar Soomekh) abd Amanda (Shawnee Smith) in Saw III.

Five people wake up in a sewer, in a trap connecting all five to guillotine blades, the keys to free them from the blades are in glass boxes at the other end of the room. Mallick (Greg Bryk) gets anxious and runs ahead, starting the timer. Charles (Carlo Rota) pulls the cord causing MAllick to fall to the ground. Mallick oulls the cable hard causing Ashley's (Laura Gordon) cable to pull her back. The timeer runs out and Ashely is beheaded.

Charles, Mallick, Luba (Meagan Good) and Brit (Julie Benz) go through to the next room, which bombs are in the corners and they need to smahs jars and find keys after assulting Mallick, he is about to enter his shelter when Luba hits him with a pole. The trio enter the shelters and Charles is blown up.

Luba, Mallick and Brit go through to the next room, they havw to find a way to complete a circuit to open the door to the next test, but the cords they need to connect to a bath full of water are not long enough. Brit stabs Luba, then Mallick and Brit connect the wires and use her body to complete the circut. The door opens to their final test.

For the final test they have to fill a beaker with ten pints of blood to open the final door. The traps have circular saws in and with no other options, Brit and Mallick begin sawing their hands in an attempt to fill the beaker with their blood. While this is happening Hoffman plants Strahm's cell phone at the house where the game is being held to frame him as Jigsaw's accomplice. As Brit and Mallick fill the beaker, Strahm's boss Erickson (Mark Rolston) makes it to the scene. Both pass out from severe blood loss as Erickson calls for backup.

FBI agent Erickson, having found the Jigsaw files Strahm took and his cell phone, issues an APB on Strahm, assuming him ti be the other Jigsaw accomplice. Strahm follows Hoffman to the location of the current game, and enters a room with a transport box filled with the broken glass and a recording. It urges Strahm to have trust and to get into the box. He'll be hurt, but still has a chance at life. Hoffman walks into the room and Strahm ambushes him and pushes him into the glass box.
The walls begin to close in on the room as the glass box lowers into the floor, safe from the enclosing walls. Strahm is slowly crushed by the walls while Hoffman watches from down below.