饱受癌症折磨，“竖锯”约翰·克莱默（Tobin Bell 饰）油尽灯灭。然而他所创造的“拼图杀人案”却并未就此停止，反而愈演愈烈。警官马克·霍夫曼（Costas Mandylor 饰）曾假借“竖锯”之名向残害他家人的凶手复仇，但他很快成为约翰的猎物。经过一波三折，霍夫曼成为“拼图杀人案”的接班人，只是约翰警世救人的初衷被彻底抛却，取而代之的无休止的血腥杀戮。一场毫无胜算的五人逃生游戏在霍夫曼德主持下展开。 　　另一方面，霍夫曼千方百计隐瞒身份，而警官皮特·斯特拉姆（Scott Patterson 饰）却对其产生怀疑。斯特拉姆千方百计寻找证据，却不曾想已走入霍夫曼布下的残酷迷局……Detective Mark Hoffman is deemed a hero after he saves a young girl and "escapes" one of Jigsaw's games, or so it seems. Special Agent Peter Strahm is suspicious of him after his assistant Agent Lindsay Perez says Hoffman's name. While Agent Strahm looks into Detective Hoffman's past, a group of five people who helped burn a building which was supposedly abandoned, face a series of tests set up by Jigsaw.