Saw VIII

Saw VIII


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FADE INTO:


INT. ABANDONED OLD ROOM -– NIGHT


We open on Darkness, It is still.

We hear a ticking that leads to a click, activating a singular light
within the room revealing SARAH ANDERSON. She is 31 years old, with
long, dark hair and tattoos on her arms.

She lies unconscious on a large, metallic table within the middle of
the room. The table has several gears and motors underneath it
although it is unclear what there use is. Above her head is some
kind of steel plate.

She awakens with a sudden jolt. Panicked she begins to struggle from
her situation trying to get up although she cannot as her legs and
arms are restrained to the table. Whilst moving she almost hits her
head off of the plate. She looks around the room.



SARAH

Help! Help me! Shit!

A television set sitting on top of an old, hospital chest is sitting
near the table. It flickers on revealing the familiar image of the
Billy puppet. A voice crackles, it is JIGSAW.



JIGSAW

Hello Sarah. I want to play a game.

You are a prostitute. Selling your

Body and using your beauty on un-expecting

Men who you subsequently steal from and

Even hurt. With no sympathy to the lives

You destroy in the process. No sympathy to

Your five year old daughter who you neglect.

Today, you will prove what is more important –

Your beauty, or your life. The table you are

Attached to will, when the timer begins begin to

Fold which means you have one minute before the

Table begins to fold your body in half. All you

Have to do to release yourself is activate the

Switch on your restraints, which as you can see

Will be a burning decision. Live or die sarah,

Make your choice.

Sarah listens intently to the tape, as soon as it finishes the tv
flickers to white noise, then black.

The steel plate above her face is now red hot, causing her to sweat.

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To further prove that this is no joke, the timer on the wall begins
to count down from 1:00 as the mechanics on the table begin to power
up.

Sarah becomes extremely frightened as the clock continues to count
down, 0:51 – still trapped.

She looks at the hot plate cautiously whilst still trying to
manually release her restraints to no avail.



SARAH

Fuck!

She begins to sob, realising what she will have to do to be
released, to be free.

She moves her face to the plate, placing a little of her face
slightly close to it, she jolts back at the pain of the burning
heat.

The clock continues to countdown.

The table begins to fold.

Sarah tries once more to place her face onto the hot plate, this
time she achieves a degree of success, holding her face onto the
plate. The room is filled with the sound of screams and burning
flesh.

However, she cannot take the pain and pulls back before the switch
is activated. Her face is already horribly burned.

The clock enters the last few digits and still she is not free
although she is in a great deal of pain.

Once more, she tries to press the plate but cannot.

The timer hits zero.

The table with relative ease folds, subsequently folding Sarah
silencing her forever. Blood pours from the seams of the table onto
the concrete floor below.

Sarah is dead.


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INT. SUNNYSIDE INSTITUTION -- NIGHT




SWAT LEADER

We got a live one.

We are re-introduced to the swat team from SAW 3D as they continue
their sweep of the asylum.

They are extremely focused and efficient as they clear each room,
getting closer and closer to the commotion that they can hear –
screaming and loud metallic noises.

The Swat team come to a passageway – a small room with nothing but a
table and a television set. The room is filled with blood. Sitting
on the table amidst the pool of blood are two teeth, freshly ripped
from a mouth.


INT. FURNACE ROOM – NIGHT


The swat team enter the room to discover another grisly scene. They
discover BOBBY DAGEN lying in a pool of his own blood on the floor,
crying whilst JOYCE’S body lies inside the furnace, she is dead.
Horribly burned.



BOBBY DAGEN

Joyce.

Bobby is distraught as a swat member goes to his aid. The swat
surrounds the room, locking it down. The swat leader tries to get a
response from the station with no success.




SWAT LEADER

Get an ambulance here, now.

The radio he holds in his hands comes to life, responding to his
call.



SWAT LEADER

Hello? I got multiple fatalities and one alive,

Bobby Dagen, I need Mason.

INT. SUBURBAN BEDROOM -- NIGHT


In this suburban bedroom a man sleeps peacefully in bed.

Outside, sirens can be heard in the distance, wailing as they rush
towards some tragic incident.

A phone rings. The figure in bed stirs. He picks himself up reaches
for the phone. It is the police Chief from Saw 5, PHILIP MASON.
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MASON

Yes?... I’ll be right there.

He jumps from his bed and immediately begins to get changed.


EXT. POLICE STATION -- NIGHT


The police station.

Police cars and unmarked cars surround it with officers running in
and out of the building in a panic, some weapons drawn, searching
the grounds.

Ambulances also show up with their sirens almost drowning out the
sound of chatter between officers.


INT. POLICE STATION, JIGSAW EVIDENCE ROOM -- NIGHT


Jill Tuck’s corpse sits in a chair. A deadly contraption on her now
ripped open head. She is clearly dead.

Inside the hallways the carnage is dreadful. More than a handful of
police officers are dead. Mason stands to the door of the Evidence
room examining the scene whilst FISK examines the officers in the
corridors and the bodies being wheeled away.

He has a moment of dread, shame and fear.



FISK

This is unbelievable.



MASON

This isn’t the half of it. I’ve just got

Reports of Gibson and Swat being gunned

Down and more deaths at the Cleardawn Institution.



FISK

Hoffman.



MASON

What were they doing there?



FISK

All I know is Gibson found the new game

And headed back for the car trap location.

Hell of a night.

From the background, an FBI agent enters with immediate purpose



AGENT

I’m afraid it’s not over yet.
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I’m agent Jackson, FBI. Hoffman,

Where is he?




FISK

No-one knows. Not since he

Was here.




JACKSON

And we’re sure it was Hoffman? Not Agent Strahm?



FISK
We have the surveillance footage from tonight,
It was Hoffman.



JACKSON

(Angrily and commanding)

Alright. Get everyone who has ever been

Involved with Jigsaw in the same room. Now.

We’re going to find Hoffman.




FISK

Yes sir.

He walks off. Mason looks at Fisk.



MASON

We need help.


INT. MASON’S OFFICE -- NIGHT

Mason walks into his office. Sits at his desk and picks up his
phone. He dials.



MASON

Hello? I’m sorry to call you so late, but,

Well i never thought i would say this but

We need your help. Things are bad...




INT. HOSPITAL OFFICE – NIGHT


A light flickers on as Doctor Gordon Enters his office, he is still
wearing his large black coats and gloves.

He removes these items and looks out of his window. From behind, his
wife ALISON enters, looking nervous.



ALISON

Lawrence?
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Gordon turns around.



DOCTOR GORDON

Ali? What are you doing here at this time?

It’s not safe, haven’t you seen the news?


INT APARTMENT -- NIGHT


(Flashback)



ALISON

How can you just walk through

Life pretending your happy?



DOCTOR GORDON

I am happy.


INT. HOPSTIAL OFFICE -- NIGHT





ALISON

I came to deliver these. I need you to sign them.


She throws divorce papers onto the desk. Doctor Gordon moves towards
them, picks them up and reads briefly each page. He looks at her.




DOCTOR GORDON

Ali. Can’t we talk about this?




ALISON

Talk about what?




DOCTOR GORDON

This. Us.




ALISON

You gave up on this marriage

A long time ago Lawrence.




DOCTOR GORDON

What I did was inexcusable. What I did...




ALISON

What you did was sleep with your intern behind
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my back and...

She stops.






DOCTOR GORDON

And what?




ALISON

Nothing.






DOCTOR GORDON

No. Say it.


She sighs.






ALISON

Look Lawrence. I am sorry about

What happened to you...

She looks at his cane.


...(Cont’d) But what about us? What

About your daughter.






DOCTOR GORDON

Ali...






ALISON

You came back, but something

Never did. You changed.
The man I fell in love with died
Long before that night. Maybe he was
never really There at all.

She goes to leave.



DOCTOR GORDON

Ali!?






ALISON

What happened to you that night Lawrence?


She leaves. Doctor Gordon sighs, sits down at his desk, thinking.


INT. UNDERGROUND TUNNELS – NIGHT

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Doctor Gordon crawls down the corridor, each pull coming closer and
closer to death.

He reaches the hot pipe, revealing his bloody stump he forces it
onto the pipe, cauterising the wound.

John comes to his aid. Giving him fresh water.



JOHN

Congratulations Doctor Gordon,

You survived.

Doctor Gordon passes out. John begins to drag him again.


INT. SECRET ROOM -- NIGHT


John lays Doctor Gordon on a bed. The room is somewhere in the
underground tunnels and appears to just be John’s. It is his
personal items that scatter the room. Including images of Hoffman
and Amanda.

He lifts the trouser leg of Doctor Gordon and begins to sterilise
the wound.

During this time Doctor Gordon comes in and out of consciousness as
he screams in agony and mumbles about his wife, daughter, and Adam.

John finishes as Doctor Gordon once again loses consciousness. He
leaves, locking the door behind him.


INT. SECRET ROOM – NIGHT

We hear a heart rate monitor. It has a steady beep.

Doctor Gordon’s eyes open, they focus on the room and the figure
sitting by his bedside. He looks around. Confused.



JOHN

You’re awake.

He looks around to John. Recognises him.


INT. HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM – DAY


(Flashback)

John waits anxiously in the waiting room. He is called in by a
nurse. He sighs and walks into the office. The sign on the door
outside reads DOCTOR GORDON

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DOCTOR GORDON

Hi John


INT. SECRET ROOM -- NIGHT




DOCTOR GORDON

What?





JIGSAW

I believe I owe you an explanation. Firstly, your family

Is safe. Secondly, you may not be aware that

Zepp is not the one that did this to you, I am.



Doctor Gordon expression has changed from fear. He looks extremely
angry.



JIGSAW

But rest up. There will be

Time for this later.

He looks directly at Gordon with a sincere, sympathetic smile.



JIGSAW


(Continued)

You are going to be okay. You will live.


INT. HOPSITAL OFFICE -- NIGHT


Doctor Gordon comes out of his thoughts and grabs the remote from
his desk and switches it on; it is the news. The same newsreader
from SAW 6.




NEWSREADER

Tonight’s reign of terror continues

As police try to find Detective Hoffman

In relation to up to eight deaths including

Police Officers and Jill Tuck, wife of
notorious serial Killer John Kramer,
AKA Jigsaw...


He changes the channel. More news.



NEWSREADER 2

The question remains as to whether or not

These ghastly games are over, or if there

Is still more to come. Our respects go out

To all the victims of these games including

Our very own reporter Pamela Jenkins.
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