The Fatal Five's Tests
From Saw Movies
Five victims (Brit, Luba, Charles, Mallick and Ashley) are trapped in a sewer trying to reach the exit. Jigsaw captured them as the five were involved in a fire that killed innocent people, and their actions or inactions were a result of avarice and self-serving needs. They were subjected to four tests, all involving teamwork. Each test, and the whole series, was subjected to a time limit. When the door to each test was closed, a fifteen-minute timer would count down, and a cluster of nail bombs (similar to the bomb in Troy's trap) would go off when it expired. The doors would also seal after a time limit, so the subjects were required to be prompt, lest they all die. The tests were designed in such a way that the participants could either work together and escape with only minor injury (something that was not realized until the end), or gradually kill them one-by-one if they would not co-operate. The notion of teamwork is exemplified by the final two traps, which were designed in such a way that if for whatever reason there was only one survivor when facing either of those traps, he or she would not be able to complete the trap and would be killed by the nail bombs.
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[edit] The Collar Trap
The five subjects awaken in a room with several keys in boxes. This trap involves pulling against a cable to get a key at the end of the room to release themselves, the consequence for not completing the trap is to be decapitated. Near the pulleys for the cords are mounted razors, which will decapitate them should one go too far, or the timer run out. Mallick gets anxious and runs ahead, starting the timer. In the end, the whole group, except for Ashley, get their keys. Ashley is eventually beheaded by the blade, when the timer counts down to 0 (from 60 seconds), and the cable was pulled tight.
If they used teamwork to free themselves, they would have all survived, as only one key was needed to release the locks. They could have simply passed the key from person to person, or one person could have released themselves and gotten the other's keys.
[edit] The Jar Trap/Three Point of Safety
Brit, Mallick, Luba, and Charles proceeded into a room with numerous jars suspended in the ceiling, all of which contain keys. There were three tubes throughout the room, locked by grating, each requiring one of three special keys out of the many within the jars. The room had nail bombs inside it, and the object was to get the keys and enter the tubes, which were safe from the blast radius. Initially, the group assumed that three would reach safety and one would be left to die when the nail bombs detonated.
Charles hits Mallick with a steel bar and proceeds to smash all the hanging jars. Brit and Luba begin frantically searching for keys that match the locks on the steel bars. Mallick attempts to pick up a key but Charles steps on his hand and takes it. Just as Charles is about to enter his shelter, Luba hits Charles with a steel bar and gives the key back to Mallick. The trio enter the shelter and leave Charles to die via the explosion.
If they worked as a team, they would have realized that the tubes were large enough to accomodate more than one person, and thus everyone would have been able to survive the blast.
[edit] The Bathtub Trap/Bridge The Gap
This trap had five electrical cords connected to a power source, with a bathtub in the center filled with water. In three minutes a surge of electricity would pass through the cables, and a circuit would need to be completed if the door was to open. The cables were not long enough to reach the bathtub, thus the body was meant to transmit the surge from the cord to the tub, in the process giving the person an electric shock. They had three minutes to complete the circuit, or the doors would be sealed forever, and the group would die by the nail bombs.
Luba, believing that someone's body would need to be the focal point for all five cords, began to attack Mallick with hopes to kill him. Brit fatally stabbed Luba in the neck with one of the cords, and with assistance from Mallick, hooked her up to each cord and the circuit was completed.
It is later discovered within the next trap that this bathtub test was indeed survivable for everyone, if the group used teamwork to complete the circuit. Had one person held each cord, they would only suffer a minor shock and would be able to press on.
[edit] The Blade Table
Brit and Mallick entered the final room of the series, and the final trap. There were five saws, one initially meant for each person. The subjects were meant to insert their hands into the saws and lose enough blood to fill a ten-pint beaker, which would in turn open the door and save them from the nail bombs. The two eventually realized that all five participants could have sacrificed two pints of blood with only minimal damage to their hands. Without any other option, Brit and Mallick inserted their hands into the saws, eventually losing half their bodies' amount of blood and each resulted in sawing their forearms in half. Both passed out from blood loss, with Brit only saying "we won" after Erickson arrived and discovered them. Mallick's fate is unknown.
Brit and Mallick lost five pints of blood apiece. Had the entire group worked as a team, each person would only need to lose two pints of blood, greatly increasing the chance of survival.
