#daniel riggs

A thought came over me while watching SAW III.

Eric Matthews Lives | Alternative SAW III Ending.

It's very out of character for Hoffman, but I imagined that Mark felt some pity for the man he works with in the same department. But he couldn't just let him go, so he filed down one of the chain links in hopes that at the very last second, it snaps, freeing Eric before his head gets obliterated. (If you look at one of the chains closely, you'll see a space.)

But also, the guilt that Eric now has to live with, since he was the one that fatally shot Daniel Riggs. And a small tinge of guilt Mark feels for the man that was suffering for 6 whole months with a fucked up leg. (Like damn, they kept Eric in that room for 6 months?? With only slob as his meal?? That's messed up even in SAW standards /HJ)

I think it would have been so interesting had he lost his game, but survived (the narrative opposite of Adam who WON his game but did not survive). Matthews would still die, and so would Art, but Hoffman could somehow act as if Riggs had saved his life and that yes, his obsession with saving others wasn't the flaw that Jigsaw made it out to be (steering Riggs away from suspecting Hoffman of being the new Jigsaw)

It would be interesting to see an odd bond form between them. Riggs convinced that Hoffman was a real victim of Jigsaw and Hoffman manipulating Riggs into thinking Strahm is the real Jigsaw. Strahm's attitude not helping disprove the crumbs that Hoffman would feed Riggs.

The crushing realization when Riggs finds out that Hoffman really is Jigsaw would be interesting as well. It would finally dawn on him that Jigsaw was in a way right, his obsession with saving everyone blinded him to the killer right in front of him. I imagine he'd died trying to fight Hoffman when he's trying to kill Jill Tuck.

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K so like the scene in 4, where Riggs and Hoffman are at the school and like everyone can tell the little girl is being abused and even Riggs tells Hoffman that this girl is obviously abused? I cannot tell y’all how heart breaking how Hoffman says something like “Kids story doesn’t match the fathers, what can I do?” It’s so fucking sad to me because no, Hoffman isn’t being a shitty cop or lazy, it’s that the system is fucked up and he really couldn’t do shit.

I had CPS called on my family three separate times, all about the same thing- my step father at the time was abusing us. And it was true, he really was, but we, me and my sister and his two kids. We all told matching stories that he was a good dad, and because our stories didn’t match the cps calls, CPS just fucking threw their hands up. That man was so fucking terrible and had cps actually done their job we wouldn’t all be so traumatized.

Hellooo! Short chapter for today but one that will heavily affect the rest of the storyline.

hope everyone enjoys :)