
Deciding to track down the killer himself, Marcus travels to a warehouse, where he is abducted. Upon arriving, the team discovers a tape recorder and a skinned corpse, identified as Schenk. A small vial inside the box directs the police to a butcher shop, which was previously a hobby shop where Banks and his father, retired chief Marcus Banks, would go. A box then arrives at the station, containing a pig puppet and a piece of Schenk's tattooed skin inside. Some officers begin to suspect that Banks may be responsible, due to his history with Fitch.

Meanwhile, a homicide detective named Fitch – who several years prior had ignored a backup call from Banks, resulting in him nearly getting killed – is abducted and placed in a trap where he must rip his fingers off to avoid electrocution in a filling water basin he also fails to escape and dies. Banks and Schenk investigate Bozwick's death and Banks realizes this to be similar to the now deceased Jigsaw Killer. The next day, police Captain Angie Garza assigns Detective Zeke Banks a new partner, idealistic rookie William Schenk. Unable to escape the trap in time, Bozwick is hit by the train and killed. Attacked from behind by a figure wearing a pig mask, Bozwick awakens to find himself suspended by his tongue in an active subway tunnel and is given a choice via recorded message: tear out his tongue and live, or remain until the next train arrives, killing him. ĭuring a Fourth of July parade, off-duty Detective Marv Bozwick chases a thief down a sewer drainage pipe. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the franchise's new direction but were divided on whether it had fully succeeded in reinventing it. Originally scheduled to be released in May 2020, Spiral was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 14, 2021, by Lionsgate. The rest of the cast joined in July, with filming taking place in Toronto through that month and August. The project was officially announced in May 2019, with Rock polishing a script by Stolberg and Goldfinger.

The Spierig Brothers, who directed Jigsaw, were interested in returning for another film but eventually decided against it. Talks of another Saw installment began after the release of Jigsaw in 2017, with Chris Rock wanting to branch out into the horror genre. The original creators of the series, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, as well as Rock and series veteran Kevin Greutert, serve as executive producers. Jackson, and follows police efforts to stop a Jigsaw copycat killer.

The film stars Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. It is the ninth installment in the Saw film series. Spiral (also known as Spiral: From the Book of Saw) is a 2021 American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger.
