SCENE: int. delapidated tiled bathroom
ADAM (not awake) and LAWRENCE are handcuffed/chained to opposite sides of the room. By each of ADAM and LAWRENCE there's a rusty hacksaw. In between them is a male corpse, facedown with an apparent gunshot exit wound on the back of it's head, holding a gun, and a TV.
ADAM starts to stir and regain consciousness.
ADAM
Hrghhh! What the-! Where am I?
LAWRENCE
You're awake and in hell.
The TV Screen springs to life and we see Jigsaw - a perverse doll - talking at the screen.
JIGSAW
(SINISTER) Rise and Shine, Adam. You'll be wondering where you are. I'll tell you where you might be - you might be in the room that you die in.
What do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? I see you as a strange mix of someone angry yet apathetic. But mostly just pathetic.
So are you going to watch yourself die today, Adam, or do something about it?
ADAM
I don't get it. What do you wan-
LAWRENCE
Shh - there's more.
JIGSAW
(SINISTER) And you, Dr Gordon, this is your wake up call.
Every day of your working life, you have given people the news that they are going to die soon. Now you will be the cause of death. Your aim in this game is to kill Adam. You have til 6 on the clock to do it.
If you do not kill Adam by six then your wife and daughter will die, Dr Gordon. And I'll leave you in this room to rot.
Let the game begin.
Jigsaw freezes on the screen - it appears that he was a videotaped performance.
LAWRENCE
Game? What game?
ADAM
The game of survival. Don't you get it, that's Jigsaw.
LAWRENCE
Jigsaw? The nutjob who's obviously missing a piece or two?
JIGSAW
(Still on TV, but moving again) Well I prefer: Jigsaw - the evil genius who kidnaps people and forces them through brilliantly sadistic puzzles to prove how much they want to live.
ADAM
Err - I thought you were a tape recording.
JIGSAW
I am - that's how clever I am. I've anticipated your every move, your ever question.
LAWRENCE
That is good.
JIGSAW
Thank you.
ADAM
And this is one of your puzzles now...
JIGSAW
Yes - by each of you there is a hacksaw. You'll never saw through the tempered steel of the handcuffs, but flesh and bone is not so tough.
LAWRENCE
You expect us to saw through our bodies to escape?
JIGSAW
Yes - if you want to live.
ADAM
These are new handcuffs aren't they?
JIGSAW
Brand new and almost impossible to get out of...
ADAM
Actually too many middle-aged couples were getting stuck trying to spice things up, so new handcuffs have this safety release catch... (fiddles with his handcuffs and we hear a click and they come undone) there!
LAWRENCE
(Undoing his cuffs) Oh yeah.
JIGSAW
But you're still stuck in a room with only one door that's locked with no hope of-
Both ADAM and LAWRENCE stand and go over to examine the door.
ADAM
Ah - night latch locks. You really shouldn't have used them.
LAWRENCE
Or if you did you should have put the keyhole on the inside of the room and the knob on the outside...
ADAM and LAWRENCE turn the knobs to open the Night Latches, and open the door.
LAWRENCE
You've not done this before have you?
Jigsaw
No. This is the first film.
ADAM
You'll get better for the sequel.
ADAM walks out of the room.
LAWRENCE
By the way - you can tell you're breathing.
LAWRENCE turns and kicks the dead man, who issues a muffled grunt and JIGSAW on the screen winces, then turns and exits the room slamming the door shut.
DEAD MAN
(TURNING OVER & SITTING UP) Bugger.
