Maybe Logan’s service is the reason for his absence in the previous films. He was involved in the conflict with the Taliban, and his case file mentions brutal interrogations. The film makes it clear that, at some point, Logan served in the American military. If you’re struggling to remember the status of those three: Amanda got killed by one of their victims in Saw III, Hoffman was locked in the bathroom and left to die in The Final Chapter, after murdering John’s widow, and Doctor Gordon was the only apprentice – that we knew of at the time – who was still standing at the end of The Final Chapter.ĭid Logan know any of John’s other apprentices? Did he work on anything else besides the Reverse Bear-Trap? Was he lurking in the background during all the previous Saw films? At the moment, it’s impossible to answer any of those questions with certainty. Cary Elwes’ Doctor Gordon wound up being useful, as well, helping Jiggy with his surgical needs after chopping off his own foot in the Saw bathroom. The aforementioned Amanda assisted John in setting up various traps, as did Costas Mandylor’s Detective Hoffman. Over the course of those films, John recruited various other apprentices. (John was particularly fond of this mantra in Saw VI, where he posthumously targeted a health insurance baddie who let him die to save company money.)įunnily enough, John never mentioned Logan in Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI or Saw 3D: The Final Chapter. John mentioned at this point that the games he creates are intended to ‘speak for the dead’, punishing and testing people that committed crimes and got people killed. John, while building the Reverse Bear-Trap, taught Logan that Jigsaw tests cannot be used for vengeance. So, in a way, Jigsaw is both a sequel and a prequel to Saw.) Upon joining Team Jigsaw, she helped set up the bathroom game from Saw. (As Saw III’s flashbacks showed us, Amanda was recruited after her Reverse Bear-Trap test. This brief scene, of Logan and John building the Reverse Bear-Trap, confirms that the traps from the farmhouse in Jigsaw predate the main chain of events from the first Saw.
This item would ultimately be used on Amanda (Shawnee Smith) in the original Saw film, and on various people afterwards. She also blew her own face off.Īfter being stitched up, Logan helped John build the iconic Reverse Bear-Trap device. So when Anna shot Ryan, she inadvertently mangled up the keys and stopped either of them from being able to escape. This time, instead of leaving them in a bathtub, he secreted the keys in a bullet shell. Originating a cruel trick that he would later revisit in the first Saw’s iconic bathroom trap, John hid the keys to the contestants’ ankle chains within the final stage of the farmhouse games.