Strahm followed Hoffman to the location of the current game, and entered a room with a transparent box filled with broken glass and a recording. The tape urged Strahm to trust Hoffman and to get into the box for he would be hurt, but would have a chance at survival. Strahm switched the tape off when he heard Hoffman walking towards the room in the distance. Shortly after, Hoffman entered the room, Strahm snuck up on him from behind, and after a brief struggle, shoved Hoffman into the box and sealed him inside. The door to the room suddenly closed in response and locked itself, and Strahm demanded that Hoffman tell him how to get out. Hoffman pointed at the tape recorder that Strahm had dropped on the floor, indicating for him to play the rest of the tape. Strahm did so, and the tape revealed to him that he would never be heard from again and that he would simply "vanish", causing Strahm to realize that he would have lived if he had gotten into the box. As the box began to lower into the floor, the tape added that Jigsaw's legacy would become Strahms, since all of the evidence in the Jigsaw investigation now made him out to be Jigsaw's apprentice, and the walls of the room started to close in on him. Since his body would never be found, this would leave Hoffman free to continue to place people into tests as the new Jigsaw Killer while leading the police in circles. After attempting to shoot open the box (failing, because it was bulletproof), Strahm attempted to escape through the ceiling grate, but was crushed to death by the walls as Hoffman watched with a triumphant smile.
