Peter Strahm [To Det. Hoffman]
We're here to help find who your department couldn't, detective. The person helping Jigsaw and Amanda Young.
Played by Scott Patterson 
Saw IV (2007) · 97 quotes
Saw IV (2007) · 97 quotes
Most-quoted character in Saw IV (2007): in 30 of its 97 quotes
Most scenes with: Lindsey Perez (8), Jill Tuck (6), Detective Hoffman (4)
Okay, let's review. Girl loves boy, boy loves girl, boy gets girl pregnant, girl loses baby, boy turns into a serial killer. Jill, I'm not buying it.
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12 quotes Peter Strahm Peter Strahm [To Jill Tuck]
How do you feel about a husband who takes a motto from your drug clinic, designed to help people, and twists it into some kind of manic torture mantra?
Peter Strahm You know, there's a lot of people out there looking for answers, wanting to place the blame on someone. That person is you. But you know what the best part is? I don't have to convince everybody. Just 12 people.
Peter Strahm [After Perez is injured; Deleted Scene]
Hello, Mrs. Perez? Yeah, hi. This is Peter Strahm. I work with your daughter Lindsey. Yeah. I have some bad news. [Furiously hurls papers and other things into a wall]
Peter Strahm You see that, Jill? That's a federal **** indictiment. It's got your name on it. You want to put someone else's name on it? You start talking to me, okay? What's with the doll? What's with the tricycle? Who were John's business associates before he went insane?
Peter Strahm Where the hell is Art Blank?! Obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting, conspirator to murder. TALK TO ME! In 15 minutes, more people are gonna die, Jill. Police officers. [Refers to Art Blank] He's business partner. He's a friend. He is the accomplice we have been looking for and he is your **** LAWYER!
Peter Strahm [Referring to Perez' blood on his shirt]
You see this? This is my partner's blood. She's fighting for her life right now in a hospital because of your lunatic husband. What happened between Jigsaw and Art Blank?
Peter Strahm [Finding Jeff]
Let me see your **** hands!
Peter Strahm Look, Ms. Tuck. I just left a room with more blood on the walls than paint. Two officers are dead and there's a growing pile of bodies in their wake. And every detail we unearth about your Hall of Fame psychopath husband points to you as a possible accomplice. I am just curious as to why.
Peter Strahm Okay, people break up. Relationships end. It's called "life."
Peter Strahm We're the two Jigsaw targets.
Peter Strahm Jesus.
Scenes with Peter Strahm
17 scenes
How can I help the FBI?
We're here about Detective Kerry. She was our liason.
Peter Strahm "Open the door and you will find me."
What? [Strahm tosses him a key] What's this?
Peter Strahm The key that came from our last message from Detective Kerry. "Open the door and you will find me" mean anything to you?
No.
Peter Strahm [Rigg walks by and leaves]
Where's the body?
The crime scene photographer's flash picked up this bullet casing. It was lodged between the body and the device.
Run it for prints.
It was constructed for her exectution. Betrayed the rules.
Not a Jigsaw trap then.
No. Amanda Young, the accomplice--
Peter Strahm This wasn't done by Amanda Young.
Excuse me?
Peter Strahm Detective Kerry weighed aproximately 130 lbs. Amanda Young's arrest report has her at 107. She couldn't get her up there alone.
John Kramer was--
Peter Strahm A bedridden cancer patient? He's brains, not brawn.
He was also an engineer. He could have rigged pulleys--
Strahm Or someone else could have helped him.
Special agent, if you're here for any other reason than just to assist--
Peter Strahm We're here to help find who your department couldn't, detective: the one helping Jigsaw and Amanda Young.
I thought you were going home. You have vacation time, right? Take it. Finish the remodeling, spend some time with Tracy.
She understands.
Then don't take her for granted.
Eric is still out there, man.
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.
Finding his body is not going to vindicate us.
Finding him alive will.
It's time to let go. I want you to go home. I'll call you later to make sure everything is okay.
Lieutenant Rigg, our SWAT commander.
Peter Strahm What's his problem?
Everyone around him keeps dying.
Peter Strahm [Strahm, Perez and other police officers have discovered Brenda's corpse from earlier.]
It's started.
Strahm... [Peter comes over; holding a flashlight over some of the photos] Two detectives. You see this?
Strahm Hoffman-- you got a 20 on him?
SWAT Pete
Not yet. [To Fisk] Hoffman.
Calling.
How do you explain Detective Matthews?
Peter Strahm He's alive.
Six months. Jigsaw never kept anyone that long.
Peter Strahm No one but Amanda Young.
You think he's been fixed?
Peter Strahm Why these six?
Hoffman's a decorated lieutenant. He doesn't fit the profile.
Peter Strahm That's what you see... but what does he see? [Gestures to the SEE WHAT I SEE on the wall]
Rigg trying to save his two friends.
Peter Strahm Maybe. You got names and locations on any of these people?
SWAT Pete
Working it.
This is overkill. It's a setup to announce Rigg is the accomplice.
Peter Strahm Or a setup for his alibi. Everyone around him keeps dying. Where is he to tell us he's innocent or what the hell these photos are doing in his apartment? Look there. [Shines a light to show ultraviolet paint]
"Four walls build a home?"
Peter Strahm What does he want us to see on these walls?
The victims?
Peter Strahm [Takes two photos]
One of these photos doesn't belong. [Takes off more pictures] This is who we're looking for. [The photos are of Jill Tuck]
Peter Strahm [In Rigg's FEEL WHAT I FEEL test.]
He's been identified as Ivan Landsness. Aquitted of rape three times. Had to gouge out his own eyes in order to release himself.
How does something like this get into a motel room undetected?
Peter Strahm Piece by piece.
SWAT Pete
The room's been rented for the past six days to a lawyer named Art Blank. Get this: he went missing two weeks ago.
Peter Strahm Run his name, get his addresses. Two of the five people on Rigg's apartment walls are dead. Every partner he's ever worked with--dead.
Rigg didn't kill Ivan. Ivan made his own choice. Isn't that the whole Jigsaw mantra?
Peter Strahm This wasn't about Ivan. It wasn't his test. [Points to the FEEL WHAT I FEEL on the door] It was about Rigg. [Takes two photos] Look at these photos. Tell me how you feel. Look at these women and tell me how you feel.
Angry. Enraged.
Peter Strahm Exactly. The pimp, the rapist-- Jigsaw wanted Rigg to see what he sees. He wants him to feel what he feels. This wasn't about Rigg saving his friends. He's being recruited.
[At Rigg's SAVE AS I SAVE test]
"Save as I Save." So what did he do, free her and let him die?
Peter Strahm This guy didn't have a chance. He's got rods going through every major artery in his body. "Your life is in her hands." Rigg didn't kill this guy. His wife did.
She identified Officer Rigg, said he saved her.
Peter Strahm Saved?
Yeah.
Peter Strahm She passed Rigg's judgment, got fixed and got her freedom back. [Perez answers her cell phone] Second address? [Perez gives a no gesture.]
[To Peter]
I just found out something interesting about the three people in the traps. They were all represented by a lawyer named Art Blank.
Peter Strahm He got them all off?
Yeah. But wait. It gets better. He's also Jill Tuck's lawyer.
Peter Strahm [A forensics man accidentally sets off a harpoon gun] [Pulls Perez out of the way]
Look out!
Peter Strahm [The harpoon gun misfires and kills a forensic photographer]
The lair-- where's the lair?
Raided. It doesn't exist.
Peter Strahm Jigsaw wanted us to find that place. Where's the new game being played? We find that place, we find Rigg.
We got a second address. There's a co-owner.
Peter Strahm Who?
Jill Tuck.
Peter Strahm Jill Tuck? Where's the building?
Here. This building.
Peter Strahm [Strahm enters the operation room from the third film and finds Jeff there, holding a gun]
Let me see your **** hands.
Jeff: WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER, YOU MOTHER--[Aims his gun at Strahm, who shoots him twice in the chest]...****. [Falls dead]
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.
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.
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.
Peter Strahm [Brief scene of Hoffman pocketing evidence, seen in Saw III.]
This wasn't done by Amanda Young.
Excuse me?
Peter Strahm She couldn't get her up there alone.
John Kramer was--
Peter Strahm 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.
You go home. We chose this.
[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.
[Reading a newspaper]
John Kramer owned a company called The Urban Renewal Group. No irony in that, huh?
Peter Strahm What was Rigg watching?
Jill Tuck's interrogation. She was Jigsaw's ex. It's old.
Peter Strahm Why is a SWAT guy watching that?
Strahm, I really think we should tell Hoffman what Detective Kerry said in her last message.
Peter Strahm She said two officers might be in danger, but until we know who, we're not causing a panic.
If Detective Hoffman or anyone else in this precinct is in danger, I think they should know it.
Peter Strahm Not your call.
Peter Strahm Okay, "Four walls build a home." Care to shed any light on that?
Light on what?
Peter Strahm On what your photos are doing at the crime scene. "Four walls build a home" ring any bells? "Cherish your life?"
[Flashback]
Cherish your life is the concept that this whole clinic was built on. Cherish your life. Your life.
Peter Strahm No, it's your motto. Of the clinic you run.
Michael SHUT THE **** UP!
You shut up!
Gus Are you out of your ****in' mind?! [Punches Cecil]
The ****'s your problem?
You're my problem. And you're becoming everybody else's, too.
Peter Strahm How do you feel about husband who take a motto from your drug clinic, designed to help people, and twists it into some manic torture mantra?
That part of John has nothing to do with me.
Peter Strahm Look, Ms. Tuck. I just left a room with more blood on the walls than paint. Two officers are dead and there's a growing pile of bodies in their wake. And every detail we unearth about your Hall of Fame psychopath husband...
Ex.
Peter Strahm ... points to you as a possible accomplice. I am just curious as to why.
Peter Strahm That's, uh, sweet, Ms. Tuck, but if you love the guy so much, why leave him?
He left me long before I left him.
Peter Strahm Okay, people break up. Relationships end. It's called life. I mean, he started massacring people!
Gideon meant everything to him.
Peter Strahm Gideon? I'm sorry, who?
Do you know anything about the Chinese zodiac?
Peter Strahm Aw, Jill! No. No!
[Strahm and Perez discover folders addressed to them. Strahm realizes they are being filmed and rips the camera off a wall.]
What does this mean?
Peter Strahm We're the two Jigsaw targets.
Peter Strahm [Strahm slams a paper on the interrogation table]
You see that, Jill? That's a Federal **** Indictment. It's got your name on it. You wanna put someone else's name on it, you start talking to me. Okay? What's with the doll? What's with the tricycle? Who were John's business associates before he went insane?
He wasn't the associate type.
Peter Strahm Where the hell is Art Blank?! Obstruction of Justice. Aiding and Abetting. Conspirator to Murder. [Shouts] TALK TO ME! In fifteen minutes, more people are gonna die, Jill. Police Officers. He's a business partner. He's a friend. He is the accomplice we have been looking for, and he is your **** LAWYER! [Knocks the table over] You see this? [Points to the blood on his shirt] This is my partner's blood. She's fighting for her life right now, because of your lunatic husband. What happened between Jigsaw and Art Blank?
Peter Strahm Did you try to contact him again?
I tried. But a new person crawled out of the wreckage. Someone else survived.
[Flashback] [Jill enters the Gideon Factory, where she discovers photographs of Cecil, drawings, and something underneath a tarp]
I asked you not to come here.
I need to talk to you. John, John. [Shows him a newspaper] What is this? Why do you have Cecil's picture? What have you done to him?
I taught him not to take life for granted.
Peter Strahm [Present] [Strahm leaves the interrogation room] [Reads off a newspaper article]
"Four Walls Build A Home?"
Peter Strahm [Strahm heads back in]
Your son was named after John's first building, right?
Yes.
Peter Strahm Where is it? [Hits the wall next to her] WHERE IS IT?! [Calmly] Where is it?
