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Your whole life happens then.
— Cecilia falsely reassuring John Kramer, inadvertently sealing her fate.[src]

Dr. Cecilia Pederson is a fictional character from the Saw franchise. She serves as the main antagonist of Saw X.

She is portrayed by Synnøve Macody Lund.

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At the end of Saw X, Cecilia Pederson is trapped and left behind in a gas chamber. Although she received severe burns from the gas, she is still alive by the end of the film. While her ultimate fate is not confirmed, producer Oren Koules stated that her story arc in Saw X was intentionally left open-ended so she could return as an antagonist in future Saw movies.
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Cecilia Pederson was portrayed by Norwegian actress Synnøve Macody Lund in Saw X.
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Cecilia Pederson is the primary antagonist of Saw X. She heads the Pederson Project, a deceptive scheme that misleads cancer patients with false promises of a cure. Although she maintains the public image of a diligent researcher, she is a ruthless con artist who has exploited the vulnerable for nearly a decade.
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At the end of Saw X, Cecilia Pederson is trapped and left behind in a gas chamber after killing her boyfriend and co-conspirator, Parker Sears. Although she received severe burns from the gas, she is still alive by the end of the film. While her ultimate fate is not confirmed, producer Oren Koules stated that her story arc in Saw X was intentionally left open-ended so she could return as an antagonist in future Saw movies.
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Cecilia Pederson is a ruthless con artist who heads the Pederson Project, a deceptive scheme that misleads cancer patients with false promises of a cure. In Saw X, John Kramer, aka Jigsaw, is scammed by her and her team in Mexico City. Therefore, John and his accomplice, Amanda Young, abduct them and force them to participate in a deadly series of games.
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Biography[]

Cecilia Pederson is the daughter of Finn Pederson who became the head of the Pederson Project, which scammed 34 vulnerable cancer patients. John Kramer was informed about the Pederson Project by Henry Kessler, a person who was in the same cancer support group as him. Without hesitation, John calls Cecilia. They discuss more about the project and operation which is now held in Mexico and decide to meet in the said destination. Upon arrival, John meets his assigned taxi driver Diego who is driving him throughout the city. En route; the two are confronted by a group of masked gunmen but upon recognizing John, they escorted him into their van and drive him to the clinic which was held at an abandoned chemical plant behind the hacienda. John gets to meet Cecilia and her team: anesthesiologist Mateo, nurse Valentina, and his assigned surgeon Dr. Ramón Cortez. Along the way, he meets Gabriela, a former patient who claims is very thankful that the Pederson project "saved her life", Parker Sears, supposedly another patient being treated with stage 4 Thyroid cancer, and a young boy named Carlos; who got in a closer relationship with him when John fixed his bike.

Cecilia Pederson Profile

Cecilia talking to John

John undergoes his surgery the next day from Cortez and Cecilia's team. After the operation, Cecilia informs him that he is now cancer-free. Discharged from his treatment as John drew a plan of a death trap, he decided to tear it apart, thinking that there are good people in this world and that he can retire as Jigsaw. Before leaving Mexico, John purchase a bottle of tequilla as a gift for Gabriela. But when he returns to the hacienda, John finds the house empty with Cecilia and the others' absence. John enters the plant where the operation took place, finding the clinic trashed after leaving. He found a home video of an actual brain surgery during Cortez's operation as seen from the monitor and as John takes off his head bandage, he is distraught to realize that the group never operated him at all while taking away his money; revealing that the surgery was a scam all along. Enraged by their deception, John smashes the bottle; plotting his revenge against them.

Diego, who is escorting a couple of tourists at a local park at night, is captured by John who had identified him as "Dr. Cortez" earlier from the operation. He is taken to the plant where both of his forearms are coiled with pipe bombs attached to steel cables and a pair of scalpels bounded in each of his hands. When Diego breaks his restraints, the explosives activate a three-minute timer. He is forced to cut through his flesh to pull out the bombs before it explodes. As Diego passed his test, John contacts his accomplice Mark Hoffman to locate the other scammers. Afterwards; John, with the aid of his other accomplice Amanda Young, manage to capture Cecilia, Gabriela, Mateo, and Valentina.

Cecilia in her trap

Cecilia imprisoned in the chemical plant

The four are taken back to the chemical plant, imprisoned in each of their individual traps. John appears to the group to confront them for lying to him at the operation; but also robbed 34 other dying victims with personal backgrounds in need of a second life along with the profits Cecilia stole from them which was held at the factory office. He starts the first game as Valentina, who is bound to one of the machines encircled with a Gigli saw around her neck, was given by John and Amanda to sever her leg with another wire saw and use an extractor to collect bone marrow from her femur in three minutes; otherwise, the wire saw would decapitate her. Even though Valentina manage to cut off her leg, the device couldn't suck out enough bone marrow in time as the saw beheads her in front of the others.

From the office, John and Amanda discuss who to test next as the former wants Gabriela but Amanda refuses; expressing her only mutual connection to her being a former drug addict. John urges her to carry on his work before his passing and must focus on the tests to Cecilia's group which Amanda expresses her disdain to them; knowing now that some people will never redeem themselves for their sins. Meanwhile, Cecilia and her remaining companions notice the former's phone ringing at the drawer. To reach it, Cecilia disembowels Valentina's corpse and uses her intestines to pull the drawer and retrieve her phone to call for help. But her plan backfires as Cecilia gets tasered by Amanda, who also confiscates her phone as she was confronted for their attempted escape. At 5pm, Parker breaks into the factory supposedly to reclaim his stolen money but gets captured by Amanda and was restrained to the office. After Parker woke up, he was horrified when he saw the games to the remaining subjects upon seeing Valentina's decapitated head. John urges Parker to cooperate without his gun that was stored inside a locker while being forced to watch their trial as Amanda chose to test Mateo next.

Mateo was strapped in a wheelchair, restrained with an electric collar around his neck that would shock him if he didn't follow the rules. Forcing to play his tape due to the collar, he was also given three minutes to retain a chunk of his brain matter provided with surgical tools to cut open his skull and drop it in the glass trough to soften the tissue with acid to release a key from a locked container. Once again, despite Mateo doing everything he had to do, the tissue doesn't dissolve in time. A mask with heated coils closes on his head, burning his face and electrocuting him to death. Meanwhile, Amanda is comforted by John as the former became emotional of losing hope to save him and that he will die sooner. As the clock reach six in the morning, John orders Amanda to free Parker to observe him before they start Gabriela's game.

Gabriela is suspended in the air by the shackles around her wrist and foot with a radiation heat lamp aiming at her. She had to use a mallet to break herself free from both of her shackles before the lamp sears her body which she succeeds but as John orders Amanda to take Gabriela to the hospital, Parker holds them at gunpoint and forces them to free Cecilia before ordering John to chain himself to her trap, revealing that she had called Parker to rescue her. Cecilia then kills Gabriela by breaking her neck while Parker also forces Amanda to chain herself to Mateo's chain. She gloats to John of her knowledge to him being the Jigsaw killer and his attempts to retaliate against her and her deceased conspirators which she's been using them on the recent scams to take away their efforts for herself. As Parker suggests chaining Amanda next to John, they heard Carlos outside as Cecilia escorts him inside the plant and locks him into the trap instead to challenge John's sympathy. John and Carlos are forced to take turns drowning themselves when the tank gradually pours blood onto them while Amanda helplessly watches as Cecilia and Parker began to leave the plant.

While John and Carlos struggle, Cecilia and Parker enter the office and found the former's duffel bag containing the stolen money on top of the closet. But when she retrieves it, a tripwire sets a timer in ten minutes while the blood tank from the trap stops, saving Carlos and John as the latter and Amanda release their shackles with it's hidden lock before freeing Carlos. Cecilia and Parker check the bag to find the money and as Cecilia panics, the office door automatically closes, trapping the two inside. The couple attempt to barge the door open and as Cecilia attempts to shoot down the knob, they realized John had rigged Parker's gun earlier after he is abducted to the office. Cecilia got suspicious of how they knew of Parker's true identity besides herself and the others; until it was revealed from John's earlier interrogation to Diego after his test that he is able to identify the scammers including Parker which Hoffman is unable to locate him. Therefore, John had tricked Cecilia while setting up the games into luring him to the plant.

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Cecilia and Parker in their trap

An audio-recorder plays to Cecilia and Parker; having worked out to play their roles for the scams which they now have to fight against each other, as a deadly gas from the chemical tanks fill in the room. As Parker attempts to break the room to get out, it unveils a narrow opening that they could only breathe through. Cecilia and Parker fight for their way in to save themselves as John, Amanda, and Carlos watch from outside. Cecilia ultimately gains the upper hand and stabs Parker to death with the box-cutter blade before sticking her head to the hole where she is forced to watch them walk away from the plant as Cecilia angrily calls out John while she was trapped inside the office until the timer expires. John retrieves his sketchbook and had taken Cecilia's stolen money which was now given to Carlos. (Saw X)

Personality[]

To the public, Cecilia Pederson looks like a good hard-working woman willing to experiment with any methods to cure any diseases as head of The Pederson Project. However, she is in truth an opportunistic and remorseless con artist. She cares not about the people she tricks into believing she can cure them, nor using her father's reputation to further her lies. Her only concern is her own profit.

Even when captured by Jigsaw's game and forced to watch her associates die, she only saw it is a gain for her in how much of her scam money she could keep, even killing one of them herself. Arrogant and delusional in her self-worth, she revels in the idea out outsmarting others and likewise is very vindictive, willing to even endanger children close to her enemies just to get revenge. She also has no kind of respect, to the point of desecrating the corpse of one of her associates.

She is a complete hypocrite, after she's abducted by John for scamming him, she told John that what he was doing is not right, conveniently ignoring that she's been scamming many people with terminal diseases and profiting with their hope of healing and having a long and better life.

Trivia[]

  • In the behind the scenes footage, Steven Brand explains that Cecilia Pederson is the daughter of an eminent scientist from Scandinavia.
  • Cecilia is considered to be the evilest Saw character in the franchise by not only fans, but also Josh Stolberg, one of the writers for Saw X, while other aforementioned subjects have shown some signs of change or introspection at the very least, Cecilia doubles down on her selfish, narcissistic behavior up until the very end. She even goes as far as endangering and torturing an innocent boy’s life just to revel in her supposed victory over John. The only other subject who proved to be so selfish, remorseless and evil is Anna.
  • In a deleted post credit scene, she was shown to survive her final trap. When the countdown hit 0 seconds, the door unlocked, which allowed her to escape the room.
  • According to the producer Oren Koules, the next film of the Saw franchise will end up being a sequel to Saw X as well as confirming that Cecilia had survived her trap (specifically the Gas Chamber Trap), it's very likely that Cecilia will return in the next film.

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