Brit, who is going to be our Voice of
Reason, tries to calm everyone down and get them to brainstorm a way
out of this. They pretty much ignore her and go back to bickering,
Mallick finally getting pissed off and making a run for the keys.
This activates the 60-second timer, everyone making a haphazard run
for their keys and freeing themselves. Everyone except Ashley, who
soon becomes the latest member of the Marie Antoinette Reenactment
Society. The door to the room pops open at the conclusion of this,
everyone leaving before the nail bombs go off. Brit has the bright
idea of taking all five keys with her, just in case.
Hoffman leaves his base, trying to call
Strahm but learning Erickson is now handling things. What? The
omniscient Hoffman doesn't know something?! What madness be this?
We find Strahm is currently busy researching Hoffman, pulling his
files on the Jigsaw case. We learn one of the Jigsaw victims was a
man named Seth Baxter, a name that should sound familiar to you. He
killed his girlfriend Angelina Acomb in a domestic dispute, Angelina
revealed to be Hoffman's sister. Putting two and two together,
Strahm heads to the building where Seth was killed. He finds the eye
hole, which smoothly transitions to a flashback of Hoffman watching
his sister's killer die. Apparently Strahm was WATCHING the
flashback, because at the end he concludes out loud that he now has
Hoffman.
