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| “ | It's my wound. | „ |
| ~ Henry Kessler lying to John Kramer. |
Henry Kessler is the overarching antagonist of the 2023 horror film Saw X, the tenth installment of the Saw franchise.
He is the accomplice of Dr. Cecilia Pederson, an international scammer who uses her The Pederson Project company to trick the most vulnerable and sick people into paying her to "cure" them from their diseases. To help Pederson gain more clients, Kessler goes to the Cancer Support Group of an American city and feigns having been cured of pancreatic cancer, but chooses to deceive John Kramer, setting into motion the events of the film.
He was portrayed by Michael Beach, who also played Devil Ray in Justice League Unlimited, Charles Pike in The 100 and Jesse Kane in Aquaman.
History[]
Around 2004 or 2005, Henry Kessler works for The Pederson Project head Cecilia Pederson, daughter of the Scandinavian reclusive doctor Finn Pederson, assisting her in looking for possible patients at support groups for her experimental treatments, given how the authorities prevent her father from curing diseases in Norway out of a desire to keep having doctors be paid to help their patients. However, Cecilia's therapies are fake and she and her cohorts just trick vulnerable and sick people out of their money, so Henry just feigns suffering from Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and then say that he has been cured in Norway to get more clients for Cecilia at Mexico City, Mexico.
By the time of the events of the film, approximaly one week after the game played by Dr. Lawrence Gordon and Adam Stanheight, Kessler attends the Cancer Support Group from the American city terrorized by the Jigsaw Killer's games and claims to suffer pancreatic cancer during a session which John Kramer, who is none less than Jigsaw himself unknown to everyone, coincidentally attends. When Henry speaks about his "disease" to the others, John feels sympathy for him. Days later, however, John comes across Henry at a cafe, seeing him in good shape due to riding a bike. Henry tells John that despite the odds, he has been "cured", showing him a "scar" he has in the stomach before speaking to him about the "surgery" he was subjected to cure himself. This prompts John to desist from writing his will with renewed false hope and call Cecilia for her "help", which leads him to be asked to come to Mexico City for the treatment only to find out later on the scam it is, kicking off the film's events.
In the post-credits scene of the film, sometime after Pederson's presumed demise and the deaths of Mateo, Gabriela, Valentina and Parker Sears, it turns that John asked for Detective Mark Hoffman to look after all those involved in Cecilia's operations and found out about Henry's participation. Thus, John and Mark take Henry to the first film's Bathroom and decide to test him with the Disembowelment Trap. Hanging chained from the ceiling with the trap attached to his body, Henry is mocked by Hoffman for trying to trick his master before getting his gag removed and pleads John to not kill once John points out how he lied with his fake scar, but John instead tells him to not worry about it and play a game, activating his trap. It's unknown if Henry survives his trap or not.
Personality[]
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Trivia[]
- A foreshadowing of Henry Kessler not actually being sick is how active he is despite having suffered from Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Patients with this advanced disease suffer from cancer cachexia, which decreases muscle mass notably, yet Henry looks too fit and muscular to the point he even rides a bike with no difficulty when John Kramer meets him at his city's cafe.
- Although last seen at the Bathroom with high chances of failing the Disembowelment Trap, Henry Kessler is nowhere to be seen in subsequent Saw movies chronologically. Though this is because the story of Saw X had evidently not been planned yet when Saw II was made, the only corpses seen in the Bathroom are those of Adam Stanheight, Zep Hindle and Xavier Chavez (the latter's corpse wasn't there yet when Henry was tested) and are still there when Lawrence Gordon locks Mark Hoffman there at the end of Saw 3D.
- It could be possible that this is an indicator that either Henry miraculously survived his game and escaped with his life or he did fail and die but John either had his body disposed of out of the Bathroom or disposed of him in some part of the Bathroom where his corpse isn't visible.
- Henry Kessler is the third Saw villain whose fate is left unknown in a way that it's ambiguous whether they survived their traps or not, after Scott Tibbs and Cecilia Pederson.
External Links[]
- Henry Kessler on the Saw Wiki
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