Nick and Sara walked into yet another one of the jigsaw crime scenes. A man laid face down with a contraption completely covering his face. He was surrounded by blood and a jigsaw piece was cut out of the skin on his right leg. Sara sighed and noticed the TV in the corner with a VCR below it. Nick saw it and told Sara.
"Check for a tape in the VCR."
Sara looked at him strangely but went over to the VCR. She pushed the eject button and a tape emerged. Sara smiled.
"We can watch this back at the lab. Do you know what this game was about?"
"The guy was likely an informant and was placed with this contraption around his neck. It was on a spring timer and if he didn't find the key in time the device would snap shut."
"Where was the key?" Sara asked.
Nick looked sick before he answered "Behind his eye."
Sara looked like she might vomit right there on the spot. They examined the crime scene but found no conclusive evidence. Big surprise Nick thought. Nick and Sara watched the video. The puppet was on there Nick became angry thinking about how that sick bastard had tried to kill Greg.
"Hello Josh, you have spent your entire life watching others." The eerie dry voice said. "People would call you an informant, a rat, a snitch. However, I call you unworthy of the life you've been given. Now we we'll see if you are willing to look inward rather than outward to give up the one thing you rely on in order to go on living. The device around your neck is a death mask, the mask is on a spring timer if you don't find the key in time the mask will close killing you, think of it like a Venus fly trap. You must locate the key within one minute I will give just one hint as to where the key is so listen closely the hint is this."
Suddenly an image of an x-ray appeared on screen with something that looked like a key in the left eye socket. Sara jumped back but Nick was expecting it. The tape continued.
"It's right before your eyes. You don't have much time Josh. Live or die make your choice." Flashbacks show the man waking up with his left eye bloody. He is a chair next to a mirror and stands up when the TV bursts to life. The puppet delivers his message and the TV shuts off. The man panics then accidently pulls the chord out of the wall and starts the timer. He finds a scalpel and goes to the mirror. He attempts to cut his eye but cannot. He screams for help while the device goes down to zero it slams shut on his face and he falls to the ground dead and bleeding. Nick and Sara both sigh knowing they can't do anything else. Nick runs into Greg in the hallway.
"Hey, I heard about the most recent victim."
"Yeah, nothing was found again. Shocking huh?"
"You know what's coming next right."
Nick thought about it then sighed "Damn it, the death house, that's going to be a lot of deaths."
"Not if we can help it." Greg replied.
"How can we stop it? That trap took place in an abandoned house. How many of those are in the city?" Nick told Greg.
"But remember we found Leigh and in the movie the house was above the sewer system. Just keep an eye out for a lot of missing people."
"All right hopefully this will work."
The two walked back the lab hoping to catch the sicko before he killed again.