She arrived there shortly afterward. [4], For other people with this name or with similar spellings, see, "B-D Chats With the Cast and Crew of 'Saw VI', New Traps Revealed! Hoffman was also a very vengeful person, willing to go to great lengths in order to get his revenge, going as far as to build an elaborate mechanical trap for Seth Baxter and making it inescapable, framing Jigsaw for this. Therefore, Hoffman had ultimately reached his goal to throw everyone's suspicion on Strahm while protecting his own identity as the true secret apprentice and successor of Jigsaw. Due to the letter, he was excessively nervous and almost even shot the dog of one of his neighbors. He is portrayed by Australian actor Costas Mandylor. Mark Hoffman angrily yelled at him and demanded him to let them go. Due to the severe accusations, Art Blank went to the police station, where he talked to Rigg and Hoffman and tried to convince the latter to suspend Rigg from office. (Saw V), After the Gideon Plant had been secured, all the dead victims, as well as the corpses of John and Amanda, were taken to the morgue, where Dr. Adam Heffner performed the autopsy on every single one of them. Also Known As However, as Jill was angered by the letter, she refused to give Hoffman any chance to survive and therefore had no key for him to escape the trap. The two men engaged in a fight and eventually Strahm managed to lock Hoffman inside the coffin. He was then informed by one of his colleagues, that two FBI agents wanted to talk to him. However as she had no chance to escape, the timer eventually went off, which caused the trap to burst open and rip her jaws apart in front of Hoffman, who left the room and closed the door with the words "Game Over." As a different knife had been used, Perez and Erickson had ordered to further analyze the videotape found at Seth's crime scene, thinking that it might have been recorded by someone else as well. Hoffman rarely talked to people about matters that were not related to work. While the game was going on, Hoffman warned John about Detective David Tapp, another cop who was after him. However, he eventually got used to this kind of work and at some point even began to take pleasure in torturing and killing others. Gordon then picked up the saw and threw it out of the room, preventing Hoffman from escaping the way he did. He then asked her who else knew about him, to which she responded with her dying breath that everyone knew about him. However, Art ignored them and just kept his eye on the surveillance monitors. Erickson then ended the call and offered Hoffman to further discuss the situation the next day, which Hoffman accepted. Only minutes later, Erickson finally finished work and went to his car. Saw Traps. Saw 3D Club شاÙ
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ÛÚº New Post. MultifandomLuvr, Winchester1997 and 1 other like this. Besides the games, he set up another trap to prevent the police from stopping the game if they found out about the location. While the character was first shown as a police officer in Saw III, later films in the series have expanded his role and revealed him to be an apprentice, and subsequently the successor of the Jigsaw Killer. Moments later, Hoffman returned to his office and was surprised when he found an envelope with his name lying on his desk. (Saw III, VI), Moments later, Amanda entered the room along with John, who sat in a wheelchair. Unlike Amanda, Hoffman knew that Lynn and Jeff Denlon were husband and wife and therefore anticipated that Jeff would kill Amanda if she killed Lynn. That's my character's dilemma; does he go f**king crazy or follow the rules of the boss?" Upon entering the hangar, Hoffman immediately grabbed a crate with medical supplies. Saw 3D Images on Fanpop. It is revealed that Hoffman was the one who set up Seth Baxter's inescapable trap in retaliation for the murder of his sister and made it look like a Jigsaw trap. As she wanted to flee again, he violently kicked her in the stomach and dragged her away. Furthermore, he took out a button and told the detectives that it would free them once the time went off. saw 3d. One of the primary focuses of the Saw franchise are the traps set up by John Kramer, also known as "the Jigsaw Killer" or simply "Jigsaw", and his accomplices.Jigsaw places individuals into traps for having wasted or misused their lives; each trap serving the purpose of testing the victim's will to live. Additionally, he set up another deadly trap consisting of a sentry gun which would kill any invaders who entered the room. Jill stuns him, straps him into a chair, and puts him in an updated version of the reverse bear trap but does not leave a key for him to free himself. Besides this, he was also able to escape dangerous and potentially deadly situations by unconventional means. As his identity was endangered by this, Hoffman became excessively nervous. Then, he had to push the buttons on the other side of the vises, which would cause them to crush his hands. After writing the letter, Hoffman took one of the pig masks with him went to John's makeshift bedroom next door. Upon doing so, a young officer came to him and informed him that the hospital had called for him as Lindsey Perez had died after she had been heavily injured during her attempts to stop Rigg's game. (Saw IV, V, VI), Afterwards, he locked Corbett up in a room at the plant along with her cuddly toy and trapped Jeff inside a large wooden crate located in a storage area near the building's delivery entrance. On their way up, he looked at the elevator buttons and noticed that only his own floor was selected. (Saw 3D). Jill gives Hoffman five envelopes that Jigsaw had given her for the next game. Before Strahm could notice him, he closed and locked the door and turned off the lights inside the room. Not noticing his mistake, Hoffman left the room, expecting Strahm to die shortly afterwards. dr gordon. Role After escaping the updated reverse bear trap, Hoffman leaves, taking medical supplies, and returns to his hideout where he stitches his cheek and bandages his hand. However, as Amanda's mental state had worsened during her time with John and due to the fact that she started to doubt his methods, Amanda decided not to give Troy any chance to survive and welded the door to the room shut, thinking that Troy wouldn't change anyway even if he survived his test. Therefore, he quickly grabbed a gun from his drawer and went into hiding behind the desks in the outer office. When he arrived at the school along with his colleague, Officer Daniel Rigg, he decided that the latter should talk to Jane, the girl affected by the abuse, while he himself went to the principal's office where he talked to Morgan, Jane's mother, and Rex, her father who was the key suspect in the case. Like his mentor and partner, he designed death traps that, for survivors, give them reason to appreciate their lives. As his mental state worsened over time, he began to show relatively obvious signs of sociopathy to the point that he even used lethal violence against suspects and criminals. Believing that it was Strahm who had written this second letter, Hoffman went to the evidence room and stole the agent's mobile phone which had been seized by his colleagues at the Gideon Plant. Rigg showed that this bothered him. 3. During the game, Hoffman stated to be surprised to feel remorse, to which John responded that he had to abandon all emotions during their work. When he entered the room, he was surprised to see Agent Erickson. When they discovered a device connected to the door, Hoffman ordered them to send in a tactical robot before entering. The agent told him about the fingerprints and showed them to him with a black light. However, before the agents could react, Hoffman quickly pulled out a knife from his pocket, slashed Erickson's jugular vein and threw the hot coffee in Perez' face. Perez told him that they had found traces of Freon, more explicitly Dichlorodifluoromethane R-12, a chemical substance which wasn't produced anymore since 1994. Paul tried to fight them off but was ultimately sedated by John. After that, he left the catacombs again. However, upon doing so, he forgot to remove a single pen from his pockets. Hoffman becomes an incredible character, as he was shaky in both Saw 4 and in Saw 5. And we've learned that, every day, life should be cherished. After subduing him, Hoffman left the guard behind and took William with him. Saw III briefly showed Hoffman during the investigation of Troy's chain trap. Following the instructions Jigsaw provided for him sometime earlier, Art gave Eric a gun and a bullet and told him that he had the choice if he wanted to live or to die. Saved by Marcey SuperGirl. Unbeknownst to Strahm, Hoffman had already noticed him and had actually planned to lure him to the house. Furthermore, they instructed the public that the city was shut down and appealed to them to contact the police if they had any information leading to Mark Hoffman. (Saw IV, V). Detective Mark Hoffmanis a fictional character in the Saw franchise. Eric then attacked him and therefore fell off the ice block again. One of the men is revealed to be Lawrence, who survived his amputation. After the memorial, Hoffman returned to his office where he found an envelope with his name lying on his desk. Moments later, he passed out from the anesthetic. When he approached it, it fell down to the floor. If Gibson refused to take the offer, Hoffman threatened him that everyone would die. In the case of Jill Tuck, he even killed numerous of his former colleagues without any hesitation. The object of the traps is to survive. To escape, Hoffman slams his head down onto his left hand, breaking it so that he can slip it out of the strap. Shortly before her death, Kerry, who was their contact person in the police department, had supposedly sent them a key and a message which merely said: "Open the door and you will find me." When he lay on the ground, the man revealed himself to be Dr. Lawrence Gordon, John's oncologist who had secretly become John's third apprentice after surviving one of his games on his own. 6. In Saw VI, Hoffman traps an insurer, William, who denied a man's claim for medical help, leading to his death. Erickson called him back shortly afterward. (Saw IV), Despite this unnerving threat, Hoffman continued his work and set up the next big game as John had told him to do during their last conversation. Then, he took the original bear trap formerly used on Amanda Young from one of the shelves and put it on Jill's head. The other persons tested throughout the game were Jonas Singer, his manager Gus Colyard, the prostitute Addison Corday, the drug dealer Xavier Chavez, Laura Hunter, and Obi Tate. Despite this, Hoffman was capable of being confused and surprised. Amanda then subdued Daniel and took him to John's hideout at the Wilson Steel Plant, where the latter already waited for them and locked the unconscious Daniel up in a safe with a sufficient supply of oxygen. Saw III, IV, V, VI, 3D Only the person who sacrificed the most flesh would survive. This deception eventually led Strahm's superior, FBI Agent Dan Erickson, to put out an all-points bulletin for Strahm's immediate arrest for the Jigsaw murders. (Saw 3D), Hoffman prepares himself for Bobby's game, As he expected her to be taken into protective custody, Hoffman planned to put the police forces under pressure in order to get to her. However, when Hoffman asked her if she was able to learn anything from her game, Simone became angry and told him to look at her arm stump, furiously asking him how anyone could learn from a gruesome experience like hers. Despite the fact that the tape was in a bad state, they were able to authenticate that the voice on the tape wasn't John Kramer's voice. screencap. When he woke up shortly afterward, he was immediately frightened by the situation. As the timer was ticking down, Art, Hoffman, and Eric started to panic. The month after Seth's release from prison, Hoffman finally set up his trap in a big abandoned hall. dr gordon. Ultimately, they managed to break through a door by using a blowpipe. Believing that John had actually helped her by putting her in her game, Amanda agreed to become his second apprentice. Therefore he removed it by using pliers and took it with him in order to use it to place Strahm's fingerprints on his future crime scenes. They entered the area and found a chain-link door. (Saw VI). Hoffman immediately felt uncomfortable as he remembered how John Kramer had sent him exactly the same message after the murder of Seth Baxter. The Pain Train (Saw: The Final Chapter) Frankly, while a little bit more screwed up than the last two, The Pain Train is definitely the weakest of all the traps in the Saw franchise. Irritated by Strahm's accusations, Hoffman angrily left the hospital. Horrified by the discovery, Rigg broke through the door and ran to her, thinking he could still save her. Since then, Jeff was obsessed with his desire of taking revenge and therefore neglected his family. Fisk, who knew the story about the murder of Angelina, was surprised by this but stated that Seth had become what he deserved. Amanda and Hoffman then place Allison Kerry in a trap which kills her even though she did as she was instructed to, revealing that this was a trap meant to kill her. screencap. Close to death, he muttered that he did what he had been supposed to do, only seconds before the pendulum was lowered one last time and sliced him in half. Shortly afterward, Seth woke up and immediately started to panic. When the timer of the trap started to count down Jill eventually left the room with the words "Game Over". Shortly afterwards, Hoffman and the agents entered the room. When John and Hoffman followed him, they found him in his car, about to attempt suicide once more. Seconds later Amanda appeared. Hoffman agreed and accompanied Fisk to the crime scene. In order to fuel Erickson's suspicion of Strahm, Hoffman called Jill Tuck and sent her to Erickson's office. 6. After that, he led the agents to the corpse of Detective Kerry. Following Eric's imprisonment, Hoffman returned to the Nerve Gas House and disposed of the traps and corpses of the remaining prisoners. However, when he finally reached her, he realized that she had been killed by one of Jigsaw's traps. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Hoffman&oldid=999740134, Articles using Infobox character with multiple unlabeled fields, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Cleverly constructed traps, mimicking those of the, This page was last edited on 11 January 2021, at 18:45. This trap would slowly twist Timothy's limbs and finally his head unless Jeff woulds save him. Upon listening to the recording, Rigg finally realized that his test wasn't to save Eric but to let him save himself. Therefore the large ice blocks swung down and crushed his skull, causing his lifeless and mutilated body to fall off the ice. One of them was Amanda Young, who had persuaded her boyfriend, Cecil Adams, to a robbery which had caused the miscarriage of John and Jill's unborn child, Gideon. Despite previous warnings to not go through unsecured doors, Rigg enters the room of their trap before the timer expires, causing Eric's death and apparently killing Hoffman as well. saw 3d. However he wanted to go there with Eric alone. By deducing a message left by John at his latest crime scene, Eric and his colleagues were able to find his hideout, where he had already expected them and provided them with video recordings of the game in the Nerve Gas House, leading them to the conclusion that it was a live broadcast. Following his friend and partner's death, Rigg angrily yelled at Art whom he believed to be Jigsaw's accomplice. Erickson was then interrupted by a phone call from the FBI's technical lab. When John saw that Hoffman switched the trap's gear ratio, he told him that he'd have to change the gear grease to match the increased friction and berated him for making these changes without asking him first, stating that he would do so next time. Afterwards, he poured the gasoline all over the floor, the corpses and the technical instruments. Series H traps have a maximum operating pressure of 175 psi and a maximum capacity of 60,000 lb/hr. A Jigsaw is made of many pieces and by Saw 3D, Jigsaw has ceased to be a single individual or apprentice, and become a full fledged movement, shown when the doctor takes down Hoffman, helped by two other people in pig masks, who are strongly implied to be other survivors of Jigsaw traps. Hoffman asked Perez if there were any news about the Seth Baxter tape, which she confirmed. Eventually, Seth saw Hoffman's shadow behind the door window. After a short argument, Hoffman finally agreed to John's offer. During the game, John had set a chain of events in motion, which ultimately forced Eric to get involved in the Jigsaw Case. Image of Dr. Gordon traps Hoffman for Fans of Saw 3D 18896958 44. (Saw VI). added by twilighter4evr. Therefore, Hoffman set up a vicious trap, which was simply called "The Rack" by John, at the Gideon Plant. Jill meets with Gibson, an internal affairs detective at Hoffman's precinct, and tells him that Hoffman has been involved as an accomplice in nearly every Jigsaw murder. (Saw III, VI), After finishing his preparations at the Gideon Plant, Hoffman left the building to go after Jeff Denlon. You killed their child. This game focused on Bobby Dagen, a man who had earned much fame and wealth by publishing his story of surviving one of Jigsaw's traps, which in fact never happened. At the same time, Daniel Rigg was attacked and subdued in his apartment. (Saw V), A few weeks later, John and Hoffman prepared another game to test their next subject, Mark Wilson. Besides William and his colleagues, Hoffman also abducted Tara and Brent Abbott, widow and son of Harold Abbott, a cardiac patient who had succumbed to his disease when William denied the coverage of his treatment cost. Simone, whose wounds had been treated by the doctors, told Hoffman about her game and her and Eddie's actions which had got them targeted in the first place. dr gordon. Following his arrest, Hoffman organized Angelina's funeral. On his way, he came across an officer who wanted to enter the evidence room and killed him. Six months after the disappearance of Eric, Amanda set up another game in a classroom at the same elementary school where Hoffman and Officer Rigg had encountered the abusive teacher Rex years ago. Seconds later, the remaining SWAT officers entered the lower floor of the basement and called for the forensics, who arrived shortly afterwards. Additionally, Hoffman placed Dr. Gordon's penlight at the crime scene. While he tried to help him, the guard attempted to warn him of Hoffman who was approaching from behind. Unknown to him, he was observed by Hoffman who still sat in his own car on the other side of the parking lot. After John's death, when he did not need to continue for fear of being exposed for what he did to Seth Baxter, Hoffman decided to continue it simply because he enjoyed it. Hoffman, however, told her that it wasn't him. (Saw VI), After Strahm's death, Hoffman left the tunnels and the Nerve Gas House. trap. When he saw the right opportunity, Hoffman subdued Jeff and his daughter and abducted them. Hoffman was shocked when he saw Lindsey Perez standing before him. However, Hoffman realized that the now severed hand, which still clung to the grate, was almost unharmed. Afterward, she left and entered the elevator. Shortly afterward, Hoffman arrived at the morgue and ordered the pathologists to cut the tape from the wax. When he saw Palmer through the eye hole, thinking she was still alive, he opened the door. Detective Lieutenant Mark Hoffman is a fictional character from the Saw franchise. The files also mention Hoffman's work in the early states of the Jigsaw investigation and thereby also address the murder of Seth Baxter. Image of Dr. Gordon traps Hoffman for fan of Saw 3D 18896958 Additionally, the Internal Affairs Division started to investigate the case. The coffin was filled with broken glass shards as well as a tape recorder. Portrayed by He then tried to open the trap with a screwdriver. 13 Nastiest Jigsaw Traps That Cemented 'Saw' Franchise's Torture Porn Legacy. When he woke up again in a workshop, he found himself strapped to a chair with a shotgun aiming at his head and saw his abductor, John Kramer, standing before him. Unsatisfied with her visit, Pamela slid the letter under the door, telling her to call back if she changed her opinion. Eric initially agreed but ultimately attacked John and brutally beat him up until the latter finally agreed to take him to the Nerve Gas House. Moments later, he made acquaintance with Special Agent Peter Strahm and Special Agent Lindsey Perez. However, he was eventually crushed to death by the walls while Hoffman averted his gaze in disgust. (Saw V). ... and notably once more on Hoffman in SAW ⦠He placed a chair, the same to which she had strapped him at the zoo, in the middle of the room, when he saw that Jill was trying to stand up, he brutally smashed her head on a table and then strapped her arms to the chair. Saved by Marcey SuperGirl. Facebook gives people the power to share ⦠Hoffman's car is a 2006 Ford Crown Victoria. When he opened the door, Hoffman attacked and murdered him, before he left the morgue and went to the detention cells located in the basement. Moments later, John ultimately freed him from his restraints and offered him a choice: Hoffman could either become his apprentice and help him set up his future games or John would publish the evidence against him and send it to the police. (Saw V). Gibson tried to fight the man off but had to surrender when the man grabbed his weapon and held him at gunpoint. As was in Saw II, many prototype traps and designs were seen in Jigsaw's new lair in Saw III, which was based at the abandoned Gideon meat-packing warehouse. In order to free himself from his trap, he had to insert his hands in two vise-like contraptions next to him. This traps cover assembly can be replaced without disturbing piping. After that, she tried to flee in an attempt to get help. dr gordon. John Kramer (mentor)†Angelina Acomb (sister)†Seth Baxter (enemy and first victim)†Amanda Young (fellow apprentice and rival)†Jill Tuck (accomplice, enemy and victim)†Lawrence Gordon (enemy and potential killer)David Tapp (former partner)†Steven Sing (partner)†Allison Kerry (partner)†Daniel Rigg (partner)†Eric Matthews (partner)†Fisk (partner)Matt Gibson (enemy)†Peter Strahm (enemy)†Lindsey Perez (enemy)†Dan Erickson (enemy)† Hoffman leaves Rigg to die and walks out of the room. Afterward, he took the dead officer's gun. As he couldn't see Hoffman through the mirror, the latter aimed at him unnoticed and fatally shot him in the eye. Hoffman then took everything that Strahm had in his pockets and placed it on a barrel before him. Saw IV and V were really setting Strahm up as the lead of the Hoffman Jigsaw movies. After receiving the envelopes, John left the office, telling Jill that he wouldn't see her again once he was done. When Eric woke up again, the tape revealed to him that Amanda was going to be John's successor once he died and that Eric was her first test subject. After finishing the preparations for Bobby's game, he went to Pete's Auto Body, a junkyard at 58th Street. However, moments after crushing his hands, the blade was lowered once more and started to cut his stomach, tossing his entrails all over the room. Status [2], Prior, Hoffman knocks out Officer Daniel Rigg and makes it seem that Eric Matthews and he have been captured by Jigsaw, and that Rigg must save them both. When he learned about her death, he went to the Saint Eustace Hospital and entered her room where he found a depressed Strahm, who had been taken to the same hospital and sat at her bed. Eric yelled at him not to open the door. His next two victims were Simone and Eddie, two ruthless money lenders who had ruined the economic existence of numerous people by granting them high credits even though they knew that these people couldn't pay them back. However, as the game progressed, Eric begged Art to shoot him as he didn't want to play the game any longer. Hoffman then had to pull him back and angrily told him to leave immediately. However, by Saw III, she was disillusioned with his MO, and started to design traps to be inescapable, believing that her victims do not deserve the second chance in life. hoffman. Shortly afterward, Hoffman's life took another unexpected turn when Seth Baxter was acquitted on a technicality and had to be released from prison despite his life sentence. To fob her off, Hoffman told her that he'd see what he could do before he entered Simone's room and closed the door before Pamela. The only way to survive was to cut off their own flesh and put it on a scale in the middle of the room. Together, Hoffman and Amanda placed the detective in another trap in an unknown location. Costas also mentioned that, when compared to Jigsaw and his morals, the rough edges of Hoffman are really shown. The first Saw movie is a modern horror classic! Saved by Milica JokiÄ. screencap. From there, he observed William's progress, as well as Tara and Brent Abbott and Pamela Jenkins, who were trapped in two separated animal enclosures in front of the surveillance room and were watched by Hoffman through a one-way-window. Upon searching it, he eventually found the trapdoor which led him down to the underground tunnel network. When Perez saw a cuddly toy in his arm which he had taken from Corbett's room, she asked him if it was for a girl or a boy. His personality took another drastic turn when he was recruited by John Kramer to help him with his work. While searching the building, Eric entered the underground tunnels and eventually reached a dilapidated bathroom, where he found the corpse Xavier as well as the decomposed bodies of Adam Stanheight and Zep Hindle, two victims of an earlier game. Strahm found a hidden back door leading into a passage, where a microcassette warned not to proceed any further. While she watched him from her hiding spot, Hoffman used a bunch of paper towels as an improvised bandage for his broken hand and took another one to stop the bleed from his cheek. Following the events at the meatpacking plant and the death of Jigsaw at the hands of Jeff Denlon, Hoffman was labeled as a hero by the press for his rescue of Corbett. Traps. Additionally, he renovated the entire building and even refurnished it, giving it the appearance of an average residential house. Within the next days, he found out about the reason why the five people had been chosen. Seemingly annoyed by her obtrusive attitude, Hoffman acted unimpressed by her knowledge and asked her what she wanted. Despite the immense amount of pain, Hoffman forced himself to calm down and left the room, taking the bear trap with him. Erickson revealed that they had staged her death in order to guarantee her safety until they knew more about Jigsaw's unknown apprentice. After that, he gave Gibson, who was shocked by the events, a leg-up and advised him that next time, he should shoot first. Like his mentor and partner, he designs death traps that, for survivors, give them reason to appreciate their lives. The traps and tests for the third movie were as follows: During a baptism ceremony, John successfully converted her to his beliefs. In Saw 3D, Hoffman kills six police employees personally and several more indirectly in order to kill Jill Tuck. When she woke up, Hoffman started the timer, causing Jill to panic immediately. Amanda mocked him, telling him he should get used to her as he wouldn't get rid of her anymore to which he responded that she shouldn't be so sure about it. Pamela asked him to arrange an interview with Jill Tuck and in return promised to dial down her sensationalism. Afterwards, he picked up the Reverse Beartrap again and finally left the zoo once and for all to go to his new hideout located in an abandoned hangar. A tape left for him told him to stay in the room until the reinforcements arrived. Furthermore, he told them that all of them were somehow connected to each other. Strahm however ignored the warning and entered the hallway behind the door. MultifandomLuvr, Winchester1997 and 1 other like this. Hoffman destroys the hideout and prepares to flee the city, but is attacked by three people wearing pig masks. To correct this small mistake, Hoffman rearranged Ashley's figure only mere seconds before the victims woke up and the game began. However, he denied this and left the station to finally bring Jeff and Corbett to John's hideout. dr gordon. There he turned on Strahm's phone and put it on a table, thereby enabling Cowan to locate it. Relationships He abducted two patients of the Homeward Bound Clinic. When Hoffman arrived and entered the room, he found the tape lying on the floor. Amanda and ⦠However, instead of being punished for the murder, Hoffman was promoted while Gibson was sidelined.