Rigg (Saw)

Rigg is a fictional character from the "Saw" film series, who first appeared as a minor character in "Saw II", and later became one of the Jigsaw Killer's primary targets in "Saw IV". He is portrayed by Lyriq Bent.

Appearances

aw II

Rigg first appeared as a SWAT sergeant in "Saw II", in which he assisted Detectives Allison Kerry and Eric Matthews to infiltrate Jigsaw's lair to arrest him. However, once Eric was put in a test, Rigg and Kerry stayed to help him through it. Rigg seemed to know both Kerry and Eric personally and encouraged Eric to beat the truth out of Jigsaw if necessary; when Eric finally did so, Rigg stopped Kerry from interfering. After Eric and Jigsaw suddenly escaped the lair to find Eric's son Daniel, who had been kidnapped for Eric's test, Rigg and his SWAT team attempted to find the location where Daniel and several other people were being tested. They raided a house where they believed these tests were taking place, but discovered it was a decoy wired with video recorders. The events unfolding on the monitors in Jigsaw's lair were being played back from these recorders and were not taking place at that exact moment.

aw III

Rigg appeared again in "Saw III" briefly with Kerry and Detective Hoffman while investigating the remains of Troy, who had died in an explosion.

aw IV

Now a lieutenant, Rigg returned for "Saw IV" as a main character, first seen with Hoffman as he and his team discovered Detective Kerry's corpse. After he was sent home to take a break from the case, his wife Tracy left the house to visit her mother, leaving Rigg home alone. He was attacked that night and knocked out; upon waking up, he was put into a series of tests, in which he was led to numerous locations and forced to reconsider Jigsaw's ideals by kidnapping, testing, helping, saving, and ultimately judging victims. This led to the deaths of Brenda, Ivan, Rex, a crime scene photographer, and Art, as well as Eric, who had been missing for six months following his escape at the beginning of "Saw III". Rex and his wife Morgan were in a test together; she survived and told the police that Rigg saved her. Rigg ultimately failed his final test and was left in its room at the Gideon meat-packing plant, with the corpses of Art and Eric, by Hoffman. Rigg was severely bleeding, having been shot by Eric to prevent him from opening a door that would kill Eric. Whether he survived or died of his wound is not known at this time. However, it is known that the factory was found and opened by the police, since the body of John Kramer was recovered from his makeshift sickroom (elsewhere in the building) and subjected to an autopsy.

Lyriq Bent

When asked what to expect of his character in the fourth movie, Lyriq Bent said, "Detective Rigg has really come into himself. In "Saw II", he was really the strong, silent type that really didn't know what was going on around him. You had a sense that there was something going on with him internally, and I think that sparked a lot of curiosity in the audience. They wanted to know, 'Who is this guy, and what's he all about?' In "Saw IV", you get to find out who he is, and what he's all about, and how he feels about the situation that he's in, and how he feels about the type of work that he's in and people and all that. And I think he's a character that people are gonna like, because they can relate to him on so many different levels. He's a real person. In "Saw IV", you get to go on a journey with him, and it's pretty much an emotional journey. At the end, I only hope that the audience will be as exhausted and worn out as he is, because he becomes this broken man." [http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/61822 411Mania interview with Lyriq Bent] ]

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