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William Easton is the main protagonist of Saw VI. He is the Health Insurance Executive of the fictional Umbrella Health company, who is subjected to a Jigsaw killer trap that was planned by John Kramer and executed by Mark Hoffman, as punishment for William's Darwinistic policy of refusing health insurance to gravely ill clients whom weren't likely to recover.
He was portrayed by Peter Outerbridge.
His Good ranking[]
What makes him admirable?[]
- He supported occasionally free clinics and donated money for beneficent work.
- It’s hinted that he was a very decent boss to his subordinate colleagues.
- Despite knowing he had to fight for his life in his first test against the janitor Hank, he told him how he had a chance to survive this trap by holding his breath.
- When he survived, he was shocked by witnessing Hank's brutal death.
- In the second test, he was instructed to choose which one of two workers to save - a healthy young man named Allen with no-one to miss him, or a middle-aged woman named Addy with a loving family but also a family history of diabetes - but would likely lose both his arms if he tried to save both for too long. He attempted for some time to save both despite the physical pain to himself, assuring them that he wouldn’t let either of them die while they panicked. He really tried to save both and only gave up when it was clear that it was impossible to save both colleagues, choosing Addy because of her family.
- Before he let go of his right handle he apologised to Allen, who was eventually dropped to his death.
- He told the saved Addy to be careful and she should find a way out while he carried on with the trial.
- He guided Debbie through the grid maze and helped to let her through some openings, which he could only open by pulling a lever and getting burned by hot steam.
- When Debbie attacked William in desperation to retrieve the key to her life-threatening trap that was sewed inside him, William never intended to kill her. He was horrified and visibly angered when he couldn’t save her.
- In the carousel trap, William saved two of the six subordinate associates, the maximum amount of people which he could save due to the rules of the trap, and he did so at the price of his hand being pierced by a metal spike each time when he alternatively could have let all six die to spare himself that pain. He chose to save Emily, because she had two children to go back to whom William had himself seen, and Shelby; neither of whom were shown to have negative qualities like the other four whom the test ultimately killed.
- When William had no option but to sacrifice Josh to spare Shelby, he mournfully witnesses his death, just like Josh demanded, even though Shelby had claimed Josh was a corporate backstabber who's been stealing from William's company for years.
- When William got to the cell of his sister Pamala, he immediately asked if she was okay, showing his selflessness to think more about her then about himself.
- Over the path of his trail, William redeemed himself from his business policies, saving most of the people that could be saved and putting people who had loved ones to go back to over healthy ones with less tasteful personality traits, and only making the latter sacrifice when any chance of him saving everyone in each test was exhausted.
- While he isn't as admirable as Daniel Rigg, William also had lower resources. Rigg was a long-dedicated SWAT officer on the Jigsaw case with much more experience, while William is a business man who only heard from the news about Jigsaw.
- He passes the admirable standards by being one of the few characters who actually cares for others, shows remarkable selflessness and managing to save the most people in his own trial among the Saw protagonists who endured a three-test series of trials each.
What makes him Inconsistent?[]
- The main reason William cannot qualify as Pure Good or even Near Pure Good is his business formula before his character development began and the consequences of it. When there was no fianancial gain for his company, he didn't consider requests by clients and rather let his subordinate associates search for minor mistakes in their contracts to avoid paying out to them. So he refused health insurance to seriously ill people and let them die. His work ruined and ended the lives of numerous seriously sick people whose treatment costs weren't endured by the company.
- Two of these victims were presented onscreen. One was John Kramer before he became Jigsaw as an indirect result of his brain tumor, which he went to William's company about, making William partly and indirectly responsible for all the Jigsaw killings throughout the series. Another was Harold Abbott, a beloved husband and father, who ultimately died from his cardiac disease, which indirectly led to William's own death by Harold's vengeance-consumed teenage son.
- In personal discussions, William lied to his clients that these denials from requests were their own faults, despite the sole reason being his formula.
- Pre-character development William was shown to be very arrogant in the way he talked to his clients and in his self-confidence about the process against the family of a deceased client.
- During his kidnapping by Pighead, William, when attempting to defend himself, shot a security guard whom he thought was Jigsaw. However, William's paranoia and anxiety were justified as he'd already seen Pighead inside the building, knew that the original Jigsaw killer would likely have a beef with him after his identity as John Kramer was revealed, and he immediately tried to help the wounded security guard upon realizing his mistake; so this is a small detriment.
Trivia[]
- William Easton is one of the two Saw characters to be inconsistently admirable. The other character is Daniel Rigg.
- Originally, Saw X had a removed scene where John consultated William about the treatment of Cecilia Pederson.
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