David Tapp
| David Tapp | |
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| Saw character | |
David Tapp in the first Saw film
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| First appearance | Saw |
| Last appearance | Saw V |
| Created by |
James Wan Leigh Whannell |
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Detective David Tapp is a fictional character from the Saw franchise, introduced in Saw and featured through archive footage in Saw III, Saw IV and Saw V. He also appears in the 2009 Saw: The Video Game as the lead character. He was portrayed by actor Danny Glover in the films and voiced by Earl Alexander in the game.
In Saw, Detective David Tapp investigates a series of crime scenes linked to the same murderer. The victims have been placed in to traps that attempt to teach them to appreciate their life, a quality they decidedly lack. The victims who fail these "tests" have a jigsaw piece cut out of their bodies. This has earned the killer the alias "The Jigsaw Killer" by newspaper writer Oswald Mcgullicuty.Saw II later reveals these missing pieces have been intended to show the missing survival instinct of Jigsaw's victims.
At one of the crime scenes, Tapp and his partner, Steven Sing, discover a penlight with fingerprints on it. Forensics indicate that the fingerprints belong to Dr. Lawrence Gordon, who is taken to the police station for questioning. Saw V later revealed that Jigsaw accomplice Mark Hoffman had planted this penlight to arise suspicion on Gordon. While a few victims have already been discovered, one victim named Amanda Young manages to survive her test. Lawrence watches while Tapp interrogates Amanda for her testimony. After hearing her testimony, Tapp gives Lawrence a ride home and becomes more suspicious that Lawrence is Jigsaw.
Tapp recovers and studies the video tape left at Amanda's trap location and deciphers the location of Jigsaw's lair. Tapp and Sing find Jigsaw in his lair, but fail to arrest him due to Jigsaw non-fatally slashing Tapp's neck and Sing falling victim to one of Jigsaw's traps. Following Sing's death, Tapp becomes unstable and begins to obsess over catching Jigsaw, causing him to be discharged from the police force and to be divorced from his wife.
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