Detective Hoffman You know never to go through an unsecured door. Ever.
Played by Costas Mandylor 
Saw IV (2007) · 97 quotes
Saw IV (2007) · 97 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Saw IV (2007): in 19 of its 97 quotes
Most scenes with: Peter Strahm (4), Lindsey Perez (4), Rigg (4)
You **** hear me, you **** mother****er?
More lines from Detective Hoffman
9 quotes Detective Hoffman Detective Hoffman [To Rigg]
We chose this. Go home.
Detective Hoffman It's time to let go.
Detective Hoffman [About Rigg]
Everyone around him keeps dying.
Detective Hoffman Game over.
Detective Hoffman So why don't we just start at the end and work our way backwards?
Detective Hoffman [Deleted Scene]
Most of the evidence in this room was confiscated from Jigsaw's lair. [Picks up a box and sets it on a table] This evidence is specifically about his victims. Each victim was studied, abducted and tested. As of today, we have an additional 16 individuals classified as missing around the city. These people could've skipped town, fallen off a pier, passed off drunk in an alleyway, or these people could be tested like the rest. If you're looking for an additional accomplice, here's your first 16 possibilities.
Detective Hoffman [asked if he has any children]
Girl. It's a short story, believe me.
Detective Hoffman [To Art whilst strapped to a chair]
You ****in' hear me, you ****in' mother****er?!
Scenes with Detective Hoffman
9 scenes
Dr. Heffner [During the autopsy, wax-covered tape is found in Jigsaw's stomach]
What the hell? Get homicide here. Now.
Hoffman [Det. Hoffman arrives]
Where is it?
Dr. Heffner It was in his stomach.
Hoffman [A doctor shows him the tape in wax]
Cut it out.
[Flashback: John pours wax on a tape in Saw III, then swallows it] [Hoffman takes out the recording tape, the places the wax tape into a tape player]
Are you there, detective? If so, you are probably the last man standing. Now, perhaps you will succeed where the others have failed. You think you will walk away untested. I promise that my work will continue. You think it's over just because I'm dead? It's not over. The games have just begun.
Hoffman [Hoffman, Rigg and some other police officers have discoverd Detective Kerry's corpse] [After Rigg foolishly goes through a door]
Are you trying to get yourself killed? You know never to go through an unsecure door. Ever.
I thought she was still alive. I thought I could save her. Did you ever think that we would end up here when you first started?
Hoffman No. I didn't see it happening like this. Why the hell do we still do it?
It's in our nature to save them. It's what we do.
Hoffman Right. [Reading off the wall behind Rigg] "Cherish your life."
What?
Hoffman The **** motto. We're supposed to cherish our lives.
Well, how the hell are we supposed to do that when this is our lives?
Hoffman We chose this. Go home.
Man [Over radio]
Hoffman, there are two agents here to see you.
Hoffman Copy.
Detective Hoffman?
Hoffman Yes.
I'm special agent Lindsey Perez. This is special agent Peter Strahm.
Hoffman How can I help the FBI?
We're here about Detective Kerry. She was our liason.
"Open the door and you will find me."
Hoffman What? [Strahm tosses him a key] What's this?
The key that came from our last message from Detective Kerry. "Open the door and you will find me" mean anything to you?
Hoffman No.
The crime scene photographer's flash picked up this bullet casing. It was lodged between the body and the device.
Hoffman Run it for prints.
Hoffman It was constructed for her exectution. Betrayed the rules.
Not a Jigsaw trap then.
Hoffman No. Amanda Young, the accomplice--
This wasn't done by Amanda Young.
Detective Hoffman Excuse me?
Detective Kerry weighed aproximately 130 lbs. Amanda Young's arrest report has her at 107. She couldn't get her up there alone.
Detective Hoffman John Kramer was--
A bedridden cancer patient? He's brains, not brawn.
Hoffman He was also an engineer. He could have rigged pulleys--
Or someone else could have helped him.
Hoffman Special agent, if you're here for any other reason than just to assist--
We're here to help find who your department couldn't, detective: the one helping Jigsaw and Amanda Young.
Hoffman I thought you were going home. You have vacation time, right? Take it. Finish the remodeling, spend some time with Tracy.
She understands.
Hoffman Then don't take her for granted.
Eric is still out there, man.
Hoffman Eric's been missing for six months. Kerry was gone for four days. I can only be as optimistic as the facts allow.
Yeah, well I'm in it till I find him.
Hoffman Finding his body is not going to vindicate us.
Finding him alive will.
Hoffman It's time to let go. I want you to go home. I'll call you later to make sure everything is okay.
Detective Hoffman Lieutenant Rigg, our SWAT commander.
What's his problem?
Detective Hoffman Everyone around him keeps dying.
[In the JUDGE AS I JUDGE test]
I don't wanna... I wanna stop playing. Why don't you **** kill me?
No.
Hoffman Shut up!
I don't wanna play anymore.
Hello, officer Rigg. If you are hearing this, then you have reached detective Matthews and detective Hoffman in under nintey minutes, resulting in their deaths. The rules were clear. You were warned.
Hoffman Do not go through that door! [Rigg does exactly what Hoffman just told him not to do] You know never to go through an unsecure door, ever.
Tracy What you can't do is save everyone.
Eric is still out there, man.
Hoffman It's time to let go.
[Current time]
They had to save themselves. Their salvation was out of your hands. Time was on your side, but your obsession wouldn't let you wait. Instead of saving detective Matthews, you cost him his life. You failed your final test.
[Rigg crawls onto a table while Hoffman unstraps himself, then stands over Rigg] [Flashbacks] [About Troy's test]
What I don't understand is how the hell Jigsaw could have done all this. He was damn near on his deathbed last time we saw him.
Kerry I'm not so sure he did.
[Brief scene of Hoffman pocketing evidence, seen in Saw III.]
This wasn't done by Amanda Young.
Hoffman Excuse me?
She couldn't get her up there alone.
Hoffman John Kramer was--
He's brains, not brawn. We're here to help find the person helping Jigsaw and Amanda Young.
[Hoffman writes the letter Amanda read in Saw III.]
Looks like another doctor went missing from the hospital.
Hoffman You go home. We chose this.
Hoffman [Current time] [Hoffman unplugs Art's camera monitors, and walks around Rigg]
Game over. [Leaves]
[Hoffman enters the lair from the third film, and before Agent Strahm can react, locks him inside, and leaves]
You feel you now have control, don't you? You think you will walk away untested? I promise that my work will continue. That I have ensured. By hearing this tape, some will assume that this is over, but I am still among you. You think it's over just because I am dead? It's not over. The games have just begun.
I didn't know you were married.
Hoffman I'm not. It's a short story, believe me.
[Flashback] [In a school, to a young girl]
You're going to have to tell me how you got those bruises on your hand and your neck. Was this an accident or did someone do this to you on purpose? You can stop it from happening if you tell me the truth.
Hoffman [exits the principal's office, allowing Morgan out]
Take a seat, please.
Jane
I want to go home now.
Hoffman The child's story doesn't corroborate. What can I do? [To Jane] Jane, I can't let you go home right now, okay? Go back to class, honey.
Rex I told you, Officers, sometimes these kids, they just get out of control. [Pats Rigg on the shoulder]
Get your hands off me!
Rex Hey, take it easy.
Hoffman [Rigg proceeds to brutally attack him]
Rigg! Rigg! [Restrains him] No. Get out! Get out now!
Rex You just made the biggest mistake of your life! [To Hoffman] You hear me?! I will take him for everything he's got, that **** ****.
[Flashback ends]
