However, when he catches and brutally beats them up, Tapp realizes that the figure is, in fact, Melissa Sing. Truth: If the player decides to go after Jigsaw, Tapp has to pursue a mysterious hooded figure he believes to be the killer. Tapp can either choose to let go of his obsession with Jigsaw in exchange for the freedom of all remaining victims still trapped at Whitehurst or decide to uncover the truth about Jigsaw and condemn all the other prisoners. Depending on the player's choice, there are two possible outcomes. He takes a key from his corpse and enters the asylum's library, where Jigsaw confronts him in person and presents him with a final ultimatum. Tapp subsequently engages in a fight with Pighead and eventually kills his opponent. Jigsaw warns him that Pighead tries to sabotage Tapp's game as he wishes to surpass his mentor. The detective proceeds through the asylum to reach the end of his game and encounters Pighead on his way. Tapp saves Jeff from a deadly trap but is abandoned again. Therefore, Jeff unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, causing Jigsaw to target him once more. As he became obsessed with Jigsaw, Tapp started harassing Jeff to get information about the killer. He learns that the prisoner is Jeff Ridenhour, whom Tapp had previously saved from Jigsaw's lair on the night of Sing's death. Tapp eventually reaches a theater where Jigsaw's next victim is held captive. Obi ultimately leaves him behind, accusing Tapp of having ruined his game. Tapp frees him from a furnace but is scolded by Obi because the latter wanted to survive without his assistance.
To his surprise, he learns that the next victim, Obi Tate, came to Whitehurst of his own free will as he desired to be tested by Jigsaw and put up a newspaper ad to contact the killer. However, Oswald dies when he enters a hallway and accidentally triggers a booby trap shortly afterward.įorced to go on alone again, Tapp eventually makes his way to the asylum's crematorium. Despite his smear campaign against Tapp, the former detective saves McGillicutty from a trap that would otherwise break his back and limbs by bending them backward. Jigsaw abducted the latter because McGillicutty deliberately destroyed Tapp's reputation after Sing's death.
Shortly afterward, he learns about the next hostage, a journalist named Oswald McGillicutty. Tapp continues his way and realizes that all the victims in the game are somehow connected to him and his obsession with apprehending Jigsaw. He saves her in time but is abandoned because Melissa holds him responsible for her husband's death. Tapp eventually finds her in another one of Jigsaw's deadly traps. Following Sing's death, she suffered from depression and neglected her son, Franklin. Tapp discovers that Jigsaw captured Melissa Sing, his late partner's widow. The detective traverses the asylum and finds the grave of his former partner, Steven Sing. However, the latter abandons him as he blames Tapp for his abduction. Tapp ultimately releases Jennings from his trap. When Tapp insisted on investigating the case, Jennings framed an innocent man, causing him to be sent to prison. Years earlier, he killed a homeless man in a hit-and-run accident. The victim, Jennings Foster, is a former colleague of Tapp. Upon continuing his way, Tapp finds another man held captive by Jigsaw. Eventually, he is subdued by Pighead, who puts an explosive collar around his neck. He saves Amanda, and she follows Tapp until a mysterious figure nicknamed Pighead captures her.
The latter quickly identifies her as Amanda Young, a former victim who survived one of Jigsaw's games before. Jigsaw informs Tapp that a woman is trapped in the medical wing and needs Tapp's help to survive. Tapp learns that he is hunted by other victims in the asylum who need a key sewn into his chest to escape. He is led to a medical wing by another victim of Jigsaw, only to be betrayed by the man. He quickly pulls it off and ventures into the rest of the asylum. Shortly afterward, Tapp wakes up in a bathroom with a reverse bear trap on his head. Tapp survived, albeit severely injured, and was eventually found by Jigsaw, who treated his wound and took him to the abandoned Whitehurst Insane Asylum. While doing so, he was shot in the chest by Zep Hindle, whom he believed to be the killer. Following his subsequent discharge from the Metropolitan Police Department, Tapp became obsessed with avenging his friend and continued the investigation independently. During the first Saw film, Tapp witnessed his longtime friend and partner, Detective Steven Sing, fall victim to one of Jigsaw's traps. The story revolves around David Tapp, a former homicide detective abducted by John Kramer, better known as the Jigsaw Killer.