Laura Hunter was a supporting character in the horror film Saw II. She was among a group of people who had been kidnapped by the Jigsaw Killer and forced to participate in one of his sinister games. She was portrayed by Beverley Mitchell.
History[]
Laura Hunter was a young, insecure woman who got into conflict with the law at one point in her early life. On one occasion, she was framed and arrested by Detective Eric Matthews, after the latter had faked the evidence in one of his cases. Although Laura was eventually released from prison, she would find herself being targeted by John Kramer, the Jigsaw Killer.
One night, Laura had entered her car when she was suddenly ambushed by Obi Tate, who had been hiding in her back seat. Obi used chloroform to knock Laura out before taking her to a run-down house that Jigsaw had renovated for one of his sadistic tests. Obi himself would also end up taking part in the test when he was knocked out by Jigsaw's apprentice Mark Hoffman and locked inside the house along with the other subjects.
When Laura came to, she found herself locked in a room containing a safe, along with seven other people: Xavier Chavez, Gus Colyard, Jonas Singer, Addison Corday, Amanda Young, Daniel Matthews, and of course, Tate. Laura didn't recognise Tate at first as she was more concerned about where she was and why she was there. Amanda - who was secretly an apprentice of Jigsaw's - soon discovered a tape recorder hidden in the wall along with a key. The tape informed them that the house was filled with nerve gas which would kill them all within two hours, giving them that long to find a way out. It also warned that the key found with the recorder shouldn't be used on any of the doors in the room. Xavier, however, ignored this warning and used the key on the door leading out of the room. While the key did unlock the door, it also triggered the trap set up on the other side: a revolver that fired a round through the peephole and into the eye of Gus Colyard, killing him instantly.
After Daniel covered Gus' body with his jacket, the group left the safe room, wary of the instructions left on Jigsaw's tape, which mentioned that they each shared a connection and that the clue to that connection would be marked with an 'X'. Jigsaw had also mentioned that there were syringes filled with an antidote to the nerve gas that were hidden throughout the house. The next room the group entered contained a furnace where two syringes had been placed inside. An envelope in the room contained a message for Obi Tate, stating how he had helped Jigsaw with the group's kidnapping and that one of the antidotes in the furnace was for him if he could redeem himself by entering the furnace to retrieve them. It was at this point that Laura recognised Tate as the man who had attacked and abducted her, leading to an argument among the group. Xavier threatened to kill Obi, pressing a knife to his neck, but Obi wasn't intimidated.
Obi agreed to crawl into the furnace and retrieve the syringes, but when he removed them from the interior wall, he triggered the trap, sealing the doors and activating the furnace. Using the nailed baseball bat he had found in the hall, Xavier smashed the window of the door at the end of the furnace. Obi tried to crawl out, but got stuck and the lower half of his body was engulfed in flames. Obi died painfully and the syringes were both destroyed. Laura became extremely stressful and frightened as she witnessed Obi's death.
Shortly after Obi's death, the surviving subjects split up with Addison, Jonas and Xavier heading upstairs. Upon searching the upper level, Addison and the others found a door without a lock, but couldn't open it. Jonas went downstairs and returned with the rest of the group moments later. When they came back, Addison still tried to open the door but remarked that it was stuck. Xavier angrily shoved her away and attempted to open it by brute force, to which Amanda responded that the room was most likely a trap. Therefore, Jonas pressed himself against the wall to cover himself in case she was right. Xavier sarcastically told her that the whole house was a trap and went on until he finally managed to open the door. Thereby, a metal pin was pulled out of a timer connected to another door. An audiotape left for Xavier by Jigsaw informed him that there was another antidote behind the second door. However, it would be permanently locked if he didn't find the key in time. Moments later, Daniel discovered a large hole, filled with thousands of used syringes, hidden under a bed. According to Jigsaw, the key to the door was somewhere in the pit.
Unwilling to search the pit himself, Xavier demanded that one of the others look for the key among the thousands of syringes. When no one volunteered, Xavier angrily grabbed Amanda and shoved her into the pit. As the needles pierced her skin, Amanda sifted through the pit, enduring terrible pain until she managed to find the key. Xavier grabbed the key from Amanda and used it on the door, but he was too little too late as the timer had run out just before the door unlocked. An electronic deadbolt sealed the door shut, making it impossible for the group to open. Enraged, Xavier lashed out at the others before deciding to continue investigating the house by himself.
Death[]
Shortly after the failure of the needle pit puzzle, Laura began to succumb to the effects of the nerve gas, falling to the floor and coughing up blood. While Daniel knelt down to comfort her, Laura pointed out a picture on the wall which had large scratches on it which were shaped like an "X". Upon investigating the picture Addison found a photo attached to its backside which showed Daniel and his father, Eric. This caused the group to finally realize that Daniel's father was the cop who arrested all of them by faking the evidence. Seconds later, Laura suffered from a seizure and died in Amanda's arms.