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Hold your tongue!
Just because Jigsaw, his apprentices and accomplices have ended their work, doesn't mean the traps aren't just as scary in Spiral.
- Pretty much all of the traps, per the series' norm:
- The opening Subway Trap (pictured) involves a Dirty Cop who lied under oath having to either rip out his own tongue or be hit by an oncoming subway train. After much struggling, agony, and Blood from the Mouth, he finally succeeds, only to be hit by the train anyway, disappearing in a shower of gore.
- The Finger Trap requires its victim to activate a mechanism that slowly rips off each of their fingers while chained in a quickly filling bathtub whose waterline is approaching exposed wires. Adding to the tension, the victim has to bite down on a lever in order to activate the chains, meaning that they have to stay focused on not screaming in order to power through. The victim fails, of course, and we also get to witness him bleed from the eyes as he's electrocuted to death. For bonus points, the electrocution causes his mouth to clamp down, so he gets all of his remaining fingers torn off in the process.
- The Wax Bath is a simple, yet very terrifying game of death. Angie finds herself in a pretty horrible trap where she's strapped to a bench with a blade under her neck and a pipe ready to spew hot wax over her face if she doesn't sever her spinal column on it. By the time Zeke gets to Angie, she's already suffocated under the cooled wax.
- The Glass Grinder is one of the most simple traps, but Cruel and Unusual Death doesn't begin to describe it. The victim, Pete, is suspended by the arms and has to rely on Zeke finding a key to free him. Meanwhile glass bottles are fed to an industrial shredder, then launched at him by an industrial fan at high speed, with only seconds of reprieve before starting up again. Zeke doesn't free him in time, with Pete enduring a slow and agonizing Death of a Thousand Cuts.
- Pretty much anytime someone is captured by the copycat, mainly due to the suddenness and accompanying Scare Chord.
- The ending. Zeke's dad, Marcus, is being restrained in the air and slowly drained of blood, which will continue until Zeke uses his father's gun's last bullet to either hit a target that will save Marcus but allow Schenk to escape, or to kill Schenk and let his father bleed to death. Zeke decides to shoot the target to save Marcus, causing his restraints to loosen and lowering him to the ground, and then begins to fight Schenk. Shortly after, a SWAT team arrives and Marcus's restraints yank him upward again. A gun is revealed to be affixed to his arm, and when it swings upward, the SWAT team mistakes him for a shooter and opens fire on him. Zeke can do nothing but scream in anguish as his father meets a horrific end before his eyes, and Schenk escapes. All while the original "Hello Zepp" theme is playing. While not as particularly gory as most Saw traps, the scene's atmosphere is absolutely haunting, and will leave any enraptured viewer drenched in both shock and horror.
