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| Alexander Motel | |
| Category: | Business |
| Continent: | North America |
| Country: | United States of America |
| State: | New Jersey New York City, New York [1] |
| Residents: | Art Blank Ivan Landsness |
| Points of interest: | Room 261 |
| Notable apperances: | Saw film series |
| 1st appearance: | Saw IV |
The Alexander Motel is a fictional business featured in the Saw film series. It made a single appearance in the 2007 film Saw IV.
Description[]
The Alexander Motel was a run down motel located in an indeterminate city, presumably in the United States. Its proprietor was a man named Ivan Landsness. A lawyer named Art Blank was being blackmailed by John Kramer, aka "Jigsaw", into performing certain deeds on his behalf. One of these deeds involved renting Room 261, wherein he was instructed to set up a particular torture trap designed for Ivan Landsness. Ivan was targeted because of his history of being a serial rapist. Art Blank had actually defended him in the past and was able to get him acquittals on three different cases.
The plan had a two-pronged purpose. In addition to having a trap designed for Ivan, Jigsaw also manipulated events to bring police officer Daniel Rigg to the hotel. Jigsaw had been grooming Rigg to carry on his work, and he presented him with video evidence of Ivan's misdeeds. Rigg was presented with the option of either placing Ivan in the trap, thus giving him at least a chance for survival, or meting out justice on his own and killing Ivan immediately. Rigg elected to place him in the trap.
Ivan was strapped to the bed with devices that would sever his arms and legs. In order to survive, he would have to trigger two mechanisms that would cause a scythe to drop into each of his eyes. He managed to set off the one, but could not complete the task before the timer ran out. Ivan was torn limb from limb. Rigg's colleagues in the Metro Police Department later discovered the body.
Points of Interest[]
- Room 261
- Room 261 was a room on the second floor of the Alexander Motel. It contained a master bed, striped wallpaper on the walls, one door that led to the main hallway, and one that led to an adjacent room. In 2006, lawyer Art Blank, forced into working for the "Jigsaw" killer John Kramer, rented the room for a week and progressively brought in equipment that would be used to construct the Bedroom Trap. The trap itself was to be used on proprietor Ivan Landsness, but it was police officer Daniel Rigg who was provided with the key to the room, with the expectation that he would be the one to place Ivan into the trap. To further incentivize Rigg, Art Blank posted photographs of Ivan and his victim on the walls of Room 261. He also painted the words "Feel What I Feel" on the outside of the door leading into the room.
Characters associated with the Alexander Motel[]
- Art Blank - Guest
- Daniel Rigg - Visitor; Investigative officer
- Ivan Landsness - Proprietor
Notes[]
- As part of the method to manipulate Daniel Rigg into placing Ivan Landsness into the trap, Art Blank posted photographs of Ivan and his victim on the walls of Room 261. He also painted the words "Feel What I Feel" on the outside of the door leading into the room.
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References[]
- ↑ The setting for the series is left deliberately ambiguous, but a scene in Saw V shows a character typing out Agent Strahm's phone number, which has a 212 area code. This is the area code for Manhattan. However, another scene shows a New Jersey license plate on Strahm's car, so the actual location of the series remains inconclusive.