Simone (Tanedra Howard) and Eddie (Marty Moreau), two predatory lenders, are placed in head harnesses with screws poised to drill into their skulls. The person who cuts off more flesh weight in 60 seconds will live, while the other will be killed by the screws. The overweight Eddie slices fat from his stomach, but Simone chops off her arm to tip the scale in her favor and save herself.







Dan Erickson (Mark Rolston) heads up the FBI’s investigation into Eddie’s death, with Peter Strahm's fingerprints being found at the scene. He informs Lieutenant Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) of this, also revealing that Lindsey Perez (Athena Karkanis), previously thought dead after being injured by shrapnel from Jigsaw's puppet, is alive and still on the case. Hoffman secretly meets with Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell), who hands him five envelopes from the box from John's will, and he takes control of a game the two have been planning. Hoffman also questions Simone in her hospital room; however, having lost her arm, she is too hysterical to understand what she's to have learned.







The game focuses on William Easton (Peter Outerbridge), an executive at a health insurance company. His company decides whom to cover based strictly on probabilities of health or illness; he turned down one of John’s claims for this very reason. William is captured, taken to an abandoned zoo, and suspended in a large vise clamped around his torso, with a breathing mask over his face. Hank (Gerry Mendicino), his janitor and a smoker, is in the same situation. William has 60 minutes to pass four tests in order to remove the bombs strapped to his limbs before they detonate. In the first test, whenever either man takes a breath, his vise will tighten; William holds his breath longer than Hank, whose ribcage is soon crushed. For the second test, William must grab the ends of two chains connected to platforms on which Addy and Allen, his old secretary and young file clerk, are standing with barbed wire nooses around their necks, and ultimately choose to save one and let the other die. The two are opposites: Addy is in poor health but is surrounded by family, while Allen is healthy but has nobody. He chooses to save Addy, reluctantly allowing Allen to strangle to death when his platform retracts.