Meanwhile, in another part of town, a man in a black cape and hood stared solemnly down at a woman chained to a chair. The woman struggled as she heard an ominous voice say, "Hello Roxi, I want to play a game. All you have to do is follow my rules and stay alive. That task is simple. Bring back the child, the apprentice, that was stolen from me. Her name is Amanda, and you will probably find her alone in her darkness sitting on a park bench. You are familiar with her work, I imagine, being that you dealt her in drugs for years." The woman despirately shook her head. The man in black continued, "The only problem is that those ingrates that so wholsomely call themselves doctors have forced amnesia on her, erasing me from her life. Your job is to make her remember, but you must me subtle. Too much at one time will kill her. And if she dies, so do you. Take her, show her bits and pieces of her past. Her memory will come back soon enough. Then she will come back to me." "What if I refuse?" asked Roxi. "That would not be a wise choice," said the hooded man, "if you don't bring her back to me in three days, that device around your ankle will pump so much electricity into your body that you will be fried alive. Live or die, make your choice." "Who are you?" screamed the frantic Roxi. "My name is John," said the man, "but you probably know me best as Jigsaw."
Immediately after John said this, he released Roxi from her chains and set her off on her mission with the electric ankle bracelet intact. She then left the warehouse and directly went to the park where she saw a thin, pale, woman sitting alone on a bench just as John had told her. This woman was Amanda. She sat there staring blankly into the nothingness as if she was completely empty. Roxi cautiously walked up to Amanda. Amanda, with her intense observance, quickly looked up at her. "Hi," said Roxi quietly. Amanda answered with a out of touch response. "You're Amanda, right?" asked Roxi. "Yeah," whispered Amanda not really attentive. "Do I know you?" asked Amanda. "Well, of course you do," said Roxi, "you're my new roommate, remember? The doctors said that you need companionship, so I told them you could stay with me." Roxi relied only on what John had told her about Amanda's memory and hoped that her lie would settle well with Amanda. "Oh, OK," said Amanda still staring at nothing, "let's go then." Roxi knew that at these words, she had gotten her foot in the door enough that there was a chance that she could succeed in John's plan.