During Saw Timeline

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Oct 2005
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David Tapp, calling himself “Bob”, hires the photographer Adam Stanheight to observe Dr. Gordon in return for a payment of $200 per night.
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Adam agrees, observes and takes photos of Dr. Gordon.

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John Kramer abducts Zep Hindle and forces him to participate in his next test.

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Zep breaks into Dr. Gordon’s apartment and hides inside Diana Gordon’s closet.

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Carla contacts Dr. Gordon, asking him to meet her at a motel.

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After Gordon leaves the apartment, Zep captures Alison and Diana Gordon and ties them up in Alison and her husband’s bedroom. Unnoticed by him, David Tapp takes a photo of him when watching out of the window.

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Adam follows Dr. Gordon to the motel.

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Gordon refuses to sleep with Carla and puts an end to their affair.

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Zep anonymously calls Gordon in the motel, causing him to leave.

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Gordon is abducted in a car park and taken to an underground bathroom where he has to survive one of Jigsaw’s games.

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Adam returns to his apartment to develop the photos for Tapp.

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Amanda Young breaks into Adam’s apartment, abducts him and takes him to the same bathroom as Dr. Gordon.

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John and Amanda prepare Adam and Dr. Gordon’s Test.

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Amanda leaves the bathroom while John stays and poses as an allegedly dead body.

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Dr. Gordon and Adam awake and their game plays out, leading to Gordon failing his task to kill Adam until 6:00 o’clock.

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Zep forces Alison to call Gordon to tell him about his failure, but gets into a fight with her, resulting in a shoot-out.

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Tapp enters Dr. Gordon’s house, offering both Alison and Diana a chance to flee.

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Alison and Diana flee to their neighbors who call the police.

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While listening to the shoot-out, Gordon suffers a mental breakdown, leading to him sawing off his own foot and shooting Adam in an attempt to kill him.

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Tapp pursues Zep to an underground tunnel network connected to the bathroom, but is shot by the latter during a melee.

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Zep reaches the bathroom and tries to shoot Dr. Gordon in order to complete his own test but is overpowered by Adam who survived the gunshot and smashes the aggressors head with a toilet lid.

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A heavily injured Dr. Gordon promises Adam to come back with help before crawling out of the bathroom.

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While searching Zep’s corpse for a key for his shackle, Adam find’s Zep’s instruction tape, revealing that Zep himself was also just a victim of the real Jigsaw.

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John Kramer stands up, revealing to Adam that the key for his shackle lies inside the bathtub. Upon realizing the key went down the drain when he woke up, Adam starts to panic and tries to shoot John who subdues him and leaves him to die alone in the bathroom.