fulfilling the promise made via the audio tape discovered in John's stomach during his autopsy in Saw IV that Hoffman would not go untested. Tobin Bell reprises his role as John in Saw 3D. He is seen in a flashback meeting Bobby Dagen, a man who acquired quick fame and fortune after falsifying a story about surviving a Jigsaw trap, at a book signing. When Bobby signs John's copy of the book, John claims to have a passion for history, and tells Bobby that in Ancient Egypt, any person found to have lied under oath would be subject to a period of enslavement, thus implying that he knows that Bobby is lying. Bobby does not deduce that John is the Jigsaw Killer, but John hints towards this by removing the book's dust jacket, declaring that he does not need the picture of Bobby on the cover, and sarcastically telling Bobby "We've met". Hoffman later makes Bobby go through a series of tests (including re-enacting the very test that he falsely claimed to have survived) in which he comes face-to-face with those who knew he lied (except his wife), but refused to expose his secret; all are killed in separate traps despite his efforts to save them. John appears at the end of the film, where it is revealed that after Lawrence escaped the bathroom, John found him unconscious, and nursed him back to health. John subsequently recruited Lawrence, considering him to be his greatest asset. He assisted John in many of his traps since then. The contents of the package Jill left at the hospital in Saw VI was shown to be a video tape intended for Lawrence, in which John instructs him to watch over Jill, and to act on John's behalf if anything was to happen to her. It is implied that John knew Hoffman would go rogue and stray from his ideals and wanted him to be punished. After Jill is killed by Hoffman, Lawrence fulfills his request by assaulting Hoffman and sealing him in the bathroom from the first film. In Jigsaw, recordings of John's voice are heard as descriptions of the tests that five victims must face in an abandoned barn. He appears in person during the final test, confronting its two participants with the truth of their past misdeeds. After loading a double-barreled shotgun with one shell that he describes as "your key to