![]() These cops clearly don’t want the chance to pass their tests to a better lived life, as evidenced by William revealing Pete’s test was actually Zeke’s test the “right way” to play that game would be not to try and save him at all. Jigsaw unnecessarily stopped at the individual, William believes, but the two of them can turn his moralistic vendettas into systemic change. He passed his way through the academy and training, became a junior detective, got himself assigned to Zeke’s precinct, and began killing Zeke’s corrupted, disrespectful colleagues one by one (even putting his own recognizable tattoo on one of the victims, to fool Zeke into thinking he was dead). William, bolstered by the philosophy of John Kramer, then began his long road to revenge, reform, and hopeful partnership with Zeke. With the help of some classic Saw “recontextualized flashbacks,” William explains that Pete actually shot and killed his father all those years ago - and Zeke even spoke to and comforted him as a child ( Leonidas Castrounis) post-murder. That’s right Zeke’s new, by-the-book, recently skinned and murdered partner William is not only alive, but this new Jigsaw copycat killing all these dirty cops. Then Zeke makes his way to another room in the warehouse, and we all find out who this new killer is: Detective William Schenk. ![]() Zeke snitches Pete and sends him to prison, making Zeke a pariah of his thin-blue-line-loving precinct in the process, as “being a cop” trumps “basic human morality” in the MCPD. ![]() This domino effect of misconduct seems to have begun with one original sin: The murder of an unarmed, corrupt cop-implicating witness ( Frank Licari) by Detective Zeke Banks’ ( Chris Rock) original partner Pete Dunleavy ( Patrick McManus). This go around, the killer is targeting a particular branch of the Metro City Police Department, trapping and punishing corrupt cops who behave as though they are above the law. So there’s a killer terrorizing Metro City, who is not the long-dead Jigsaw Killer John Kramer ( Tobin Bell not even blessing us in a credit stinger), but does seem to borrow a lot of his iconography, propensity for over-engineered traps, and moralistic justifications for who he targets, to the point of giving them a “chance” to escape. RELATED: How to Watch the 'Saw' Movies In Order (Chronologically and By Release Date) Jackson’s bullet-riddled, blood-drained body, what does this final scene mean beyond its very effective shock value? ![]() But after the warehouse dust settles on Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Even in a franchise marked by its gut-punching plot twists occurring mere moments before a film’s end, Spiral plays particularly, thrillingly ruthless with its blunt conclusions and formal knife wounds. While we didn’t get a gravel-throated “Game over,” instead enjoying Max Minghella’s smug-ass Nu-Jigsaw face as he hits us with the “Shh,” there’s no understating the visceral impact of Spiral: From the Book of Saw’s final moments. ![]()
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