![]() ![]() Zeke is protected, to an extent, by his father and his otherwise reasonable seeming, if complicit, captain (Marisol Nichols). Played by a cocky Jackson, we learn in flashbacks how systemic the coverup culture is on his watch. While we’re never told exactly what Article VIII is, the citywide law is apparently the PATRIOT Act on steroids, or just Giuliani Time redux, allowing police to deal with perceived criminals at their “own discretion.” One of the apparent architects of it was Zeke’s father, then-Police Chief Banks. That corruption in the police force stems from the system itself. But Zeke is the anomaly: the one good cop who will not tolerate the “code of silence” in cases of blatant corruption. The point is that as a child, Will only got nominal justice thanks to Zeke turning his partner in. Seriously, we have a whole scene about Zeke consoling the widow of a buddy on the force who died, but no one thinks to call Will’s supposed wife about the young detective’s death?īut you’re not supposed to think about that plot hole. So when Will then also dies, apparently off-screen, in a murder that wasn’t even apparently a game-it seemed like he was skinned alive in a butcher’s shop-it becomes pretty obvious that Will is actually the son of the man Pete murdered. ![]() ![]() When Zeke calls Will at home, we hear a baby crying off-screen but never see it. And at least for this viewer, I immediately began suspecting Will, who always talked about his wife and son but never introduced them to his new partner. Throughout Spiral, we are told that these Jigsaw murder games are “too personal” to be another Jigsaw disciple. When Zeke and Will go to a church to talk with Pete-who ended up serving nine years of hard time after Zeke turned him in-the former partner even admits what they did was wrong, saying “it was crazy back then” and that the guy he murdered “had a family.” The twist is actually pretty heavily hinted at throughout the movie. That child grows up to be Minghella’s character. Zeke of course knows it’s a lie, as does the child who watches from a bedroom doorway in the corner. So Pete pulls out a gun and shoots the witness in the heart.īy the time a younger Zeke gets on the scene, Pete has placed a gun in his victim’s hand and claims he shot him in self-defense. While investigating a crime in an apartment building that apparently involved a cop murdering someone, Pete is taking a witness statement from a man who says he’ll go on the record: yes, he saw a corrupt police officer commit a crime. ![]() Twelve years ago, Zeke Banks was a beat cop with a crooked partner named Pete. It’s interesting though that Will let Marcus’ son, Zeke, live, isn’t it? We’ll get to that later.įor those who want a refresher about how this Saw movie all played out, let’s go back to the moment which set this all in motion. … Well, as innocent as a man like former Police Chief Marcus Banks ( Samuel L. Which is why at the end of Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Will’s on an elevator that’ll apparently lead him to safety out of this warehouse, and the SWAT team just murdered an innocent Black man. However, Will learned the master’s trade, and he learned it well. “William Schenk” (Max Minghella), isn’t actually Jigsaw, nor even a true-blue disciple of John Kramer. Zeke Banks still hasn’t figured out that when you play a Jigsaw game, the unwritten rule is you have to lose. After all these years on the force, Chris Rock’s seasoned Det. ![]()
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