--- title: How Saw X Fits Into the Saw Universe description: The latest Saw installment brings Jigsaw Killer John Kramer back for a sequel set between the events of Saw I and II canonical: https://time.com/6318047/saw-x-timeline/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-09-28T20:25:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:53:00.098Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: How Saw X Fits Into the Saw Universe og:description: The latest Saw installment brings Jigsaw Killer John Kramer back for a sequel set between the events of Saw I and II og:url: https://time.com/6318047/saw-x-timeline/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce46d72c3baa52e0/698a40c716d884d63fc3c46f/Saw-X-Billy-the-Puppet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Saw X og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Saw X Fits Into the Saw Universe twitter:description: The latest Saw installment brings Jigsaw Killer John Kramer back for a sequel set between the events of Saw I and II twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce46d72c3baa52e0/698a40c716d884d63fc3c46f/Saw-X-Billy-the-Puppet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How _Saw X_ Fits Into the _Saw_ Universe > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 28, 2023 8:25 PM UTC  Billy the Puppet in Saw X Billy the Puppet in Saw XAlexandro Bolaños Escamilla—Lionsgate  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 28, 2023 8:25 PM UTC When the [_Saw_](https://time.com/6246026/low-budget-horror-movies-skinamarink/) series killed off Jigsaw Killer John Kramer at the end of its third installment, 2006's _Saw III_, it put the [horror franchise](https://time.com/6309850/best-horror-movies-fall-2023/) in a peculiar position. While Tobin Bell continued to appear as Jigsaw in flashback sequences of later films, _Saw_ no longer had its main baddie. Now, the series is jumping back in time for a new movie that centers on Jigsaw while he was still alive and eager to test his victims' wills to live in remarkably gruesome ways. "Listen, we're the idiots that killed off the lead after _Saw III_," franchise producer Oren Koules told [_Entertainment Weekly_](https://ew.com/movies/saw-x-tobin-bell-jigsaw-nicole-kidman/#:~:text=Actor%20Tobin%20Bell%27s%20terrifying,producer%20Oren%20Koules%20tells%20EW.). "\[But\] how long can we suspend disbelief when the guy has terminal cancer?"  Tobin Bell as John Kramer in Saw X. Lionsgate _Saw X_, in theaters September 29, picks up [after the events of _Saw_](https://time.com/6246026/low-budget-horror-movies-skinamarink/) but before _Saw II_, a period of time when Jigsaw had already established himself as a sadistic torture master but was still trying to find a cure for his terminal brain cancer. The movie sees Jigsaw travel to Mexico for an experimental medical procedure—only to realize the entire operation is a scam. "This film opens with that cancer diagnosis and John Kramer learning that there is some kind of experimental, semi-outlawed treatment that's available in Mexico City," director Kevin Greutert told _EW_. "He gets his operation and finds out, after thinking he's been cured, that maybe it's not all what it seems. And we go from there." When Kramer discovers he's been swindled by a team of con artists with a penchant for preying on desperate patients, he rounds them all up for a one-night-only _Saw_ trap extravaganza. And so the games begin. **Read more:** [_The 14 Most Anticipated Horror Movies of Fall 2023_](https://time.com/6309850/best-horror-movies-fall-2023/)  Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young in Saw X. Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla—Lionsgate With the story set after Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannell) wake up trapped in the bathroom from hell but before the nerve gas house of _Saw II_, Jigsaw has his right-hand woman Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) at his side to aid in his revenge plot. A former heroin addict, Amanda joined up as Jigsaw's apprentice after becoming the first person to survive one of his traps—the infamous "reverse bear trap" we see in _Saw_. Like her master, Amanda also died during the events of _Saw III_. This time around, the story will be told from Kramer's perspective rather than that of his targets, according to franchise veteran Greutert. "\[_Saw X_\] is an emotional journey that you go on with John Kramer, and less a slaughterhouse that you experience from the point of view of the victims," he told [_Empire_](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/saw-x-tobin-bell-jigsaw-exclusive/). 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