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Frequently asked about Jigsaw

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• Is John Kramer actually alive in Jigsaw?▾

  No. John Kramer (the original Jigsaw) is still dead, having died in Saw III. The barn game shown throughout the film is revealed to be a flashback to a game John ran ten years earlier, before his death, intercut with a present-day game to create the illusion that Jigsaw had returned.

• Who is the real killer behind the new Jigsaw games?▾

  The new killer is Logan Nelson, a forensic pathologist working with the police. Logan was secretly a former test subject of John Kramer's whom John spared and mentored, and he stages the present-day game to punish Detective Halloran, who falsified evidence that led to the death of Logan's wife.

• What is the twist about the timeline in Jigsaw?▾

  The film uses parallel timelines as a misdirect. The barn game with five victims (Anna, Ryan, Mitch, Carly, and the eventual survivor) actually took place ten years in the past, while the bodies turning up in the city are from Logan's present-day copycat game. The audience is led to believe both timelines are happening simultaneously.

• Why does Logan target Detective Halloran specifically?▾

  Halloran is a corrupt detective who took bribes and falsified evidence in cases, including one that resulted in the murderer of Logan's wife going free. Logan engineers the final trap so Halloran must confess his crimes on tape or die, framing his vendetta within John Kramer's philosophy of forcing people to face the consequences of their actions.

• How did Logan survive his original Jigsaw test?▾

  Logan had been placed in the spike-headgear trap years earlier, but the device malfunctioned and John Kramer revived him after he flatlined. Recognizing that Logan was an innocent man caught up by mistake, John spared him and secretly took him on as an apprentice, which is why Logan continues the Jigsaw legacy after John's death.