Saw X ending spoilers follow.
A group of con artists find out that they’ve picked the worst target ever in Saw X when they dare to steal John Kramer’s money.
The new Saw movie brings Tobin Bell back as Kramer who, in an untold story set between Saw and Saw II, heads to Mexico for an experimental cancer treatment, only for it to all turn out to be a scam.
Unsurprisingly, this has consequences for those who tried to con him out of his money and also unsurprisingly as it’s a Saw movie, there is a chain of twists that are only revealed when the first beats of ‘Hello Zepp’ hit.
So if you were too busy hiding from all the gore soaking the screen, we’re here to untangle Saw X‘s ending to explain all. Major spoilers await if you haven’t seen the movie yet.
Saw X ending explained
With the help of Amanda and Detective Hoffman (although we don’t know that until the credit scene), Kramer locks up Valentina, Mateo, Gabriela and the ringleader Cecilia Pederson in the same room where they carried out their ruse.
Kramer found out their real identities from Diego, the cab driver who took Kramer to the retreat, before putting him in a trap which he actually managed to survive. Valentina and Mateo aren’t so lucky and both die during their traps, despite coming really close to completing them.
During the night, Parker Sears – a terminal cancer patient supposedly cured by Cecilia – shows up at the warehouse to demand his money back from Cecilia. Amanda is wary, but Kramer is happy to let Parker watch on as the next trap for Gabriela starts.
Gabriela manages to survive her game, but things soon go south. Parker is actually in on the ruse with Cecilia and he forces Kramer to free her, before locking up Kramer and Amanda in their own traps.
To prove just how hideous she is, Cecilia also breaks Gabriela’s neck. If you still needed persuading, Cecilia also locks Carlos – the child whose bike Kramer fixed earlier in the movie – up in the same trap as Kramer when he arrives at the warehouse just to play some football.
The two-person trap is ‘bloodboarding’ with levers where each person can tip the board to make the other person suffer. Kramer refuses to let Carlos get bloodboarded at all and while that trap is happening, Cecilia and Parker head upstairs to get the money Kramer withdrew from Cecilia’s bank accounts.
When they’re in the room with the money though, Parker has a thought: who was going to be the other person in the trap with Cecilia? He realises too late though as when Cecilia grabs the (empty) money bag, the room locks and a 10-minute countdown begins.
Kramer always knew that Parker was in on the scam with Cecilia as Diego had told him earlier. He had no way of finding him though, even with Hoffman’s help, so Kramer left Cecilia’s phone in the room, knowing that she’d find a way to contact Parker, bringing him to them.
Cecilia’s trap was never really meant for her. Kramer planned for him and Amanda to be trapped in it once Parker had arrived, but even he didn’t see the twist coming with Carlos. When the room locks, the bloodboard trap ends and Kramer frees himself and Carlos.
The office starts to fill with gas, but there’s only one hole in the wall for either Cecilia or Parker to stick their head through to survive. Amanda had earlier warned Parker that Cecilia would kill him eventually, and so it comes to pass when Cecilia kills Parker to save herself.
As Kramer, Amanda and Carlos walk away (Carlos now with a massive bag of money), Cecilia is still locked in the room but with her head outside, so she doesn’t die. Kramer doesn’t seem too worried that she’ll come after him though.
Will there be a Saw 11?
Right now, we don’t know what the future of the Saw series holds and Saw X is self-contained with no set-up for another movie. Even the credit scene with Hoffman only wraps up a loose end from Saw X, rather than teasing something more.
Despite the fact that Kramer dies in Saw III, there is still probably space in the Saw timeline to fit another movie if Saw X is a hit. Saw X takes place “weeks after” the first movie, but an indeterminate amount of time before Saw II, while Saw III takes place six months after Saw II.
That leaves gaps for another standalone Saw movie with Kramer and Amanda, and it’s something already on the minds of the producers although it’s too early for them to confirm it either way.
“We tend not to get too far ahead of ourselves. The movie’s going to be released in a few days. For us, we do have ideas for the next one, we haven’t put pen to paper,” Oren Koules told ComicBook.com.
So if Saw X proves a hit with the fans, then there’s every chance Jigsaw has more blood to spill before he dies.
Saw X is out now in cinemas.
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