Peter Strahm

Saw character
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Peter Strahm
Gender:	Male
Relationships:	Lindsey Perez (partner) Dan Erickson (boss)
Enemies:	Mark Hoffman Jigsaw Jill Tuck
First appearance:	Saw IV
Status:	Deceased
Portrayed by:	Scott Patterson

Agent Peter Strahm is a fictional FBI agent in the Saw film series, portrayed by Scott Patterson. He is a central protagonist in Saw IV and Saw V, and appears in flashbacks in Saw VI as a potential Jigsaw suspect, though he was innocent.

Appearances

Saw IV

Agent Strahm was first seen in Saw IV, along with Agent Lindsey Perez, on the crime scene investigation of Allison Kerry's murder. He quickly figured out that there had to be a second apprentice of Jigsaw's, since Amanda Young was too light to lift Kerry into the trap and Jigsaw's cancer had left him too weak to do it. Strahm and Perez had received a message from Detective Kerry before she was killed, in which a key was supplied to them with the words, "Open the door and you'll find me." Perez and Strahm had also been told by a tape made for them by Jigsaw that two officers might be in danger, and that Strahm would "kill an innocent man" before the game was over.

Strahm and Perez followed Lieutenant Daniel Rigg's trail of games, believing that Jigsaw might be trying to recruit Rigg. He ripped a camera out of the wall at one scene after deducing that he and Perez were the two officers in danger. Strahm also questioned Jigsaw's ex-wife, Jill Tuck, about how and why her former husband became the Jigsaw Killer. Shortly after, Perez was critically injured by a trap she and Strahm were investigating. After re-interviewing Jill, he realized the location of Rigg's final test was the Gideon meat packing plant, and he raced over to the plant and called for back up before entering. By the time of the final test he was nearly behind Rigg as he continued to move through the building. Instead of following Rigg, however, Strahm stumbled into the ending of Jeff Reinhart's game, revealing that the events of Saw III and Saw IV took place concurrently.

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Peter locked in the room with John, Amanda, Lynn and Jeff corpses.

After opening a heavy steel door, he found Jeff, who had just killed Jigsaw and Amanda Young. Strahm demanded to see Jeff's hands, but Jeff attempted to attack Strahm, believing him to be in an alliance with Jigsaw and responsible for his daughter's disappearance; Strahm was forced to kill Jeff in self-defense, fulfilling the prediction of killing an innocent man. Before Strahm could do anything else, Jigsaw's actual apprentice, Lieutenant Mark Hoffman, shut and locked the steel door, sealing Strahm inside the medical room along with the corpses of Jigsaw, Amanda Young, Jeff and Lynn Denlon.

Saw V

Saw V begins immediately after Saw IV, with Strahm finding a secret door leading out of the operating room, revealed by glow-in-the-dark paint. A microcassette recording warned Strahm not to proceed, but he disregarded the message, only to be captured by an assailant wearing a pig mask. He was placed in the Head Box trap, which began to fill with water with the intent of drowning him, but was able to perform a tracheotomy on himself using his pen which had been left in his pocket. Strahm ultimately survived the trap, much to the surprise of Hoffman, who had expected all of the victims to die.

Recovering in the hospital, Strahm began to track down Hoffman after hearing that Perez's last word, before succumbing to the injuries she sustained in Saw IV, was "Hoffman". He became obsessed with the case, demanding that Dan Erickson allow him to interrogate Jill Tuck one more time and taking files on the victims from the FBI office. Hoffman realized that Strahm was zeroing in on him, and set Strahm up to appear to be the accomplice by strategically planting evidence. Strahm's investigation ultimately led him to a small underground room in Hoffman's house containing a glass box filled with broken pieces of glass. Inside was a microcassette from Hoffman, telling Strahm to trust him and get into the box if he wanted to survive. Strahm ignored the tape and attacked Hoffman when he entered the room, eventually shoving him into the box and closing it. After the door to the room locked shut, Hoffman told him to play the rest of the tape, which explained that Strahm would now simply vanish and that "my legacy will become yours", as Strahm would be framed as the accomplice. Soon after this, the box was revealed as a safe escape route, as it disappeared into the floor and the walls began to move together. Strahm was unable to escape through a ceiling vent by climbing the walls, and he was crushed to death.

Saw VI

In Saw VI, Strahm's death from Saw V is shown again followed by Hoffman emerging from the glass box, viewing Strahm's crushed corpse. As a new test is set in motion, Hoffman, Agent Erickson, and the previously thought dead Agent Perez begin to hunt for Strahm. Upon finding Strahm's fingerprints at a Jigsaw murder scene, Perez and Erickson find irregularities between Jigsaw's murder scenes and that of his apprentice's. Upon further examination of Strahm's fingerprints, the agents discover that Strahm was dead when the prints were made; this is because Hoffman had severed his hand and frozen it, planting the prints there to further incriminate him. While learning this, the agents are also able to unscramble the tape from the Seth Baxter case, revealing Hoffman's voice and clearing Strahm of all suspicion. However, Hoffman fatally stabs both Erickson and Perez, and sets fire to the building after planting more prints. Strahm is still believed alive by the public and is left as the only remaining suspect in the Jigsaw murders.