History Foreshadowing / Saw

** Furthermore, Hoffman points to Amanda as the suspect of being a Jigsaw accomplice and rigging Detective Allison Kerry's trap to be inescapable. In the previous three movies, the only cop who was shown to have known about her secret identity was Detective Eric Matthews, and he is still under Jigsaw captivity. This piece of foreshadowing, taken out of context of the SequencingDeception, shows that Hoffman has carefully influenced the police investigation to target her, supposedly due to his own skill as a detective but really only to screw her over and otherwise protect his own interests. And of course, as a RewatchBonus, indicating that he himself is an accomplice.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When the water melting from the ice block Eric is standing upon reaches the electric chair that Hoffman is strapped to, a voltage sound is heard, but Hoffman isn't explicitly seen being electrocuted. For ''Saw IV'' being one of the goriest films in the series, it's strange that a more mundane death like electrocution would happen offscreen, and this is shortly before the WhamShot with Hoffman standing out of the chair (or him untying the fake restraints in the case of the theatrical cut).

* Parker lays out to John that he's a detective who is so obsessed with his work that he has neglected his family, arrives to the factory obsessed with revenge against Cecilia, and thinks money will be an acceptable gift for the neglect he showed to his family. This perfectly fits trap victims from previous movies, such as the workaholic Lawrence Gordon, the allegedly Jigsaw-obsessed detective Allison Kerry, and the revenge-obsessed, neglectful father Jeff Denlon. While he turns out to have made the whole thing up and is actually an accomplice of Cecilia, it's one of the first things that might make the viewer suspect he'll be placed in a trap as well.

* Parker lays out to John that he's a detective who is so obsessed with his work that he has neglected his family, arrives to the factory obsessed with revenge against Cecilia, and thinks money will be an acceptable gift for the neglect he showed to his family. This perfectly fits trap victims from previous movies, such as the workaholic Lawrence Gordon, the allegedly Jigsaw-obsessed Allison Kerry, and the revenge-obsessed, neglectful father Jeff Denlon. While he turns out to have made the whole thing up and is actually an accomplice of Cecilia, it's one of the first things that might make the viewer suspect he'll be placed in a trap as well.

!!!'''''Full Disclosure Report:'''''

The ''Saw'' franchise does plenty of {{Foreshadowing}}, though how much of it was actually intended as foreshadowing and how much was simply small details that were later worked into the overarching storyline (mostly for cases between different installments) is debatable.

** When she's thrown in the Needle Pit with under a minute to search for a key, she's visibly agonized and traumatized, but ends up finding the exact spot where the key is fairly quickly, hinting that she may have assisted Jigsaw in the trap's creation.

* To foreshadow the fact that Bobby's a liar (which isn't shown for quite a few minutes until his trial begins), his trap is nowhere to be actually seen in the flashback to it. Given how the series almost always shows traps in action, this is a clue that Bobby's made-up game never happened in reality.[[note]]A brief part of the trap shown in a deleted extension of the scene, albeit for a few seconds.[[/note]]

* To foreshadow the fact that Bobby's a liar (which isn't shown for quite a few minutes until his trial begins), his trap is nowhere to be actually seen in the flashback to it. Given how the series almost always shows traps in action, this is a clue that Bobby's made-up game never happened in reality.[[note]]It is shown in a deleted extension of the scene, albeit for a few seconds.[[/note]]

* To foreshadow the fact that Bobby's a liar (which isn't shown for quite a few minutes until his trial begins), his trap is nowhere to be actually seen in the flashback to it. Given how the series almost always shows traps in action, this is a clue that Bobby's made-up game never happened in reality. [[note]]It is shown in a deleted extension of the scene, albeit for a few seconds. [[/note]]

** Hoffman is seen carrying the stuffed animal that Jeff's daughter Corbett was seen with in ''Saw III''. Aside from being a subtle hint towards him being a Jigsaw apprentice, this also hints that he was going to eventually free Corbett, which doesn't happen until ''Saw V''.

* To foreshadow the fact that Bobby's a liar (which isn't shown for quite a few minutes until his trial begins), his trap is nowhere to be actually seen in the flashback to it. Given how the series almost always shows traps in action, this is a clue that Bobby's made-up game never happened in reality.