Mark Wilson was a minor character in the 2004 horror movie Saw. An unassuming average man to most, he was targeted by the notorious Jigsaw, a serial killer who chose his victims based on their dissatisfaction with their lives. Already dead during the events of the film, his story is told through flashbacks of his torment by Jigsaw via the police investigation into his death.
History[]
Mark Wilson was an average, healthy young man, but apparently lied to people around him, often claiming that he was seriously ill. His claims may have been part of a scheme to get rich via health insurance fraud. Whatever his reasons were, they caught the attention of the serial killer Jigsaw who had his accomplice Mark Hoffman kidnap Wilson in March 2004.
Following his abduction, Wilson woke up to find himself trapped inside a dark room with a single candle being the only source of illumination. He was also completely naked and his body had been smeared with a gelatinous substance. A recording device with an audiotape was in the room with Wilson. He played the tape and a distorted voice informed him that the jelly smeared over his body was flammable and that a slow-acting poison had been injected into his bloodstream. According to the voice, the antidote for the poison was inside a safe within the room and that the combination for the safe was written on the walls. However, countless numbers had been scrawled over the walls and the floor was covered in shards of broken glass.
Death[]
Mark's only hope was to find the correct combination of numbers on the walls to open the safe, but with the floor being covered in glass shards, he couldn't get close enough to a wall to read the numbers without cutting himself. Ultimately, his game didn't last very long; while approaching a wall to read the scrawl on it, he faltered as he cut himself on the glass and the candle flame touched him, igniting the gel covering his body and setting him ablaze.
The next day, Mark's corpse was found by the Metropolitan Police Department. When the leading investigator on the Jigsaw case, Detective David Tapp, and his partners, Detective Steven Sing and Detective Allison Kerry, examined the crime scene, Kerry found a penlight, which had been placed there by Detective Hoffman to lay a false trail. Furthermore, she discovered a peephole in one of the walls, which had been used to witness Mark's game from the outside.