Visible crew/equipment: In the crushing room at the end of the film, Strahm is trying to open the box where Hoffman is. As it's descending into the ground, on the side of the box you can see the feet of a crew member with white sneakers moving around. It is not Strahm's feet: he's wearing black boots. No slow-mo is required.
Saw V (2008)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: David Hackl
Starring: Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Gordon-Patterson
Hoffman frames Strahm as Jigsaw. FBI agent Erickson believes Strahm is Jigsaw when he arrives at Jigsaw's headquarters and sees Strahm's phone and files of the 5 participants of the new game. The five participants of the game are linked because of a fire that devastated a building that was thought to be abandoned (but there were people still living inside): one was a reporter who covered up the story, one was a fire inspector, one was a city planner, another worked for a real estate group and another was the one who set fire to the building. Two participants (the kid who set fire to the building and the woman who works for the real estate group) make it to the final room. In the final trap, they have to insert an arm in a mechanism that requires blood in order to open the door. It's at this final mechanism that they realize that they should have trusted one another and worked together in all of the rooms with traps. If the five of them had worked together, then it would've taken only a small amount of blood from each one to open the door. The real estate woman is the only survivor (barely) and when Erickson sees her, he calls for back up and medical assistance. Hoffman looks for Strahm, and after a brief fight, Strahm pushes Hoffman into a "coffin" with glass inside (seen briefly in a flashback in the previous movie). The walls start to close in and Hoffman is safe inside the coffin and Strahm is crushed...
Racer X
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Jigsaw: Hello Seth, I want to play a game. Right now, you are feeling helpless. This is the same helplessness you bestowed onto others. But now, it's unto you. Some would call this karma, I call it justice. Now you served five years of what should have been a life sentence, for murder. A technicality gave you freedom, but it inhibited you from understanding the impact of taking a life. Today, I offer you true freedom. In thirty seconds, the pendulum will drop far enough to touch your body. Within sixty seconds, it will cut you in half. To avoid the pendulum, all you have to do is destroy the things that have killed... Your hands. You must insert your hands and push the buttons to start the devices before you. Your bones will be crushed to dust. Will you destroy the things that have taken life in order to save one, Seth? Make your choice.
Trivia: Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the writers of both "Saw IV" and "Saw V", have a cameo in the flashback of Hoffman being kidnapped and meeting Jigsaw for the first time. When Hoffman is about to get on the elevator right before getting kidnapped, Dunstan is the second man to exit the elevator (he is in black and has a beard), right after the snobbish woman. Melton is the tall man who exits the elevator last before Hoffman enters.
Question: The second trap, they had to break jars open that were on the ceiling and get into the safety chambers, but there were "only three" for four people... Those were some pretty long, tall chambers. Couldn't the two smallest people share a single chamber, and all four survive? Especially since they look tall enough for two people to lie down right on top of each other.
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Answer: That was the entire point of the trap. Each trap in the overall game was meant for them to all work together. The tape for this trap asks "Who will be the odd man out?" They took this to mean that one person had to remain outside the chambers, but what it really meant was two people would each share a chamber (assuming all five survived the first trap) and one person would occupy the third chamber all by themselves. Charles realised this and tried to tell everyone, but was unfortunately killed by the explosion before he could.
Phaneron ★
Nope actually he said who of you 4 has to die...how he knew was 4 survivors?
He does not say that at all. The exact wording is "With only three points of safety, which of you will be the odd man out?" At no point does the tape say that one of them has to die. That would be completely contradictory to the point that the five of them were supposed to work together to safely get through every trap.
Phaneron ★
Not what he meant. He knows human nature is survival at the expense of someone else. He set the trap so all could survive, but he knows the panic and self-preservation will lead the group to sacrifice someone.
The_Iceman