Question: What happens to Bobby Dagen after he fails to save his wife from being incinerated?
Answer: We are never told or shown, but it could be speculated that he was trapped in the building or died from his injuries.
Question: Why did John put - or let his apprentices put - Bobby's wife in such a cruel and horrible death trap while she was 100% innocent and wasn't involved in the slightest in her husband's hoaxes (apart from being too naive and possibly blinded by love to see through his lies)? It's totally off-character to me. As far as I can remember, John never placed absolutely innocent people in the harmful end of his traps. So why?
Answer: John has consistently put innocent characters in his traps throughout all of the movies. In the original film, he put Gordon's wife and daughter in danger and told Zepp to kill them if Gordon failed his test. In "Saw II," Daniel - a minor - was placed in a trap (sure he broke a few laws, but he was a child). In "Saw III," Jeff's daughter was captured. In "Saw VI," many of William's innocent co-workers were killed, including a janitor. Etc. Jigsaw may have a certain flimsy moral code, but it's important to remember he's also a psychopath and a hypocrite and breaks his own rules constantly.
Question: In this film we see what happens to Dr Gordon after Saw. Were these shots filmed in 2003 when Saw was filmed, or were they filmed in 2010 with this film?
Chosen answer: They were filmed in 2010 for this film. When the original film was made, it was intended to be a one-and-done, direct-to-video movie. They didn't know that there would be more than a half-dozen sequels and that Dr. Gordon would be revealed as a mastermind all along, so they'd have no reason to film such scenes. A sequel wasn't even announced until the original film tested well during festival screenings, was given a theatrical release and became a big hit. You can also kind of tell because the first film and this film were shot on different mediums (film and digital) and have a different aesthetic, and the first film also didn't have the budget for some of the digital effects used in those scenes (such as digitally removing Gordon's food).
Question: Who are the three people who catch Hoffman at the end of the movie?
Answer: Dr. Gordon from the 1st movie, and Ryan and Brad from the trap in the beginning of this movie.
Answer: The one unmasking himself is obviously Dr. Gordon. The two others are said to be Brad and Ryan from the circular saw trap, but it's not officially confirmed by the creators yet.
Question: The news reporter on the TV of Hoffman's hideout said there were 7 survivors from William Easton's "test." I counted 6; the diabetic family woman, the 2 women from the carousel trap, the widow mother and her son, and William's sister. Was there another survivor that I did not account for, and if so, who is it?
Answer: He, his wife and his daughter were abducted before he decided to work with Jigsaw. He didn't put them in danger. As for why he decided to work with Jigsaw following his ordeal, like other characters in the franchise, he either developed a level of Stockholm syndrome or he concluded that Jigsaw's methods were right, or a combination of both.
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