Saw VI (2009)

Peter Outerbridge: William

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• Jigsaw : [flashback scene when John questions William about being denied coverage for his cancer treatment]  I came to talk to you Will, because I've found a treatment for my cancer that I think holds a lot of promise, but my requests for coverage have all been turned down.

  William : Yeah...

  Jigsaw : So, I was hoping that if I came and explained it to you that you might be able to get that overturned for me.

  William : [smiles doubtfully]  Well, the buck stops here, John. Fire away.

  Jigsaw : Okay.

  [John hands William a brochure] 

  Jigsaw : This is a doctor in Norway. He's got a 30 to 40% success rate with gene therapy. He injects what he calls suicide genes into cancerous tumor cells; then an inactive form of a toxic drug is administered...

  William : Yes. I'm familiar with the therapy you're talking about.

  Jigsaw : Right. And a new trial's starting. He's looking for new patients and he seems to think that I'm the perfect candidate...

  William : John, if your primary physician, Dr. Gordon, thought you were a suitable candidate, he would have pursued it.

  Jigsaw : No. Dr. Gordon is a specialist. You know, he's making money on his specialty. He's not a thinker. I mean, the man has his hand on the doorknob half the time that I'm there.

  William : I'm gonna be straight with you. At your age and with the development of your cancer, it's simply not feasible for Umbrella Health...

  Jigsaw : Wait, wait, wait, wait. What's not feasible? By whose mathematical equation is this not feasible?

  William : It's policy, John. It's policy.

  [pause] 

  William : And if you go outside the system and seek out this treatment, which has been deemed ineffective, you will be in breach of policy and you will be dropped from coverage completely.

  [pause] 

  William : I'm sorry.

  Jigsaw : [gets up from his chair and paces around William's office]  Did you know that in the Far East, people pay their doctors when they're healthy? When they're sick, they don't have to pay them. So basically, they end up paying for what they want, not what they don't want.

  [pause] 

  Jigsaw : We got it all ass-backwards here. These politicians, they say the same thing over and over and over again; "Healthcare decisions should be made by doctors and their patients, not by the government." Well, now I know they're not made by doctors and their patients or by the government. They're made by the fucking insurance companies.

• William : It's not my game...

• Harold Abbott : [Places a rejected insurance claim on the desk]  I don't get it. I have been with this insurance company for over 10 years.

  William : I know, Harold. But, unfortunately, when we reviewed your claim, we found that you failed to mention a previous condition.

  Harold Abbott : What condition? There is no condition.

  William : It says here that you had oral surgery to remove a cyst from your jaw.

  Harold Abbott : This is absurd! I have heart disease. I has nothing to do with some oral surgery I had 30 years ago.

  William : Any type of oral surgery is going to leave scar tissue. Scar tissue can lead to gum disease and, as you well know, gum disease can cause heart disease.

  Harold Abbott : You know what? You're a criminal. You are a goddamn criminal. I have paid my monthly premium for 10 years without so much as a cold. And now that I'm actually sick you're going to deny my coverage? I have a family!

  William : Those are the rules, Harold! I'm sorry but your own actions have caused this.

  Harold Abbott : You've just given me a death sentence. Who is going to cover me now? You just killed me.

  [Leaves William's office] 

• William : [about rejecting Harold Abbot's request for life-saving treatment]  I have family, too, so I can empathize with his argument, but basically, the guy lied on his application...

  Debbie : [interjects]  Hey, whoa! Watch it, Will.

  William : What?

  Debbie : Do you think he did that on purpose?

  William : [sighs]  All right. It wasn't my job to assess what his intentions were. It was my job to check the accuracy of his claim. Look, everybody thinks we're the bad guys. Nobody mentions the millions of people we help every year without incident, or the millions of dollars we donate to charity every year or all the free clinics we support.

  Debbie : [smiles]  Short answers, Will. Short answers.

  [William rises out of his chair and briefly watches the news covering the latest Jigsaw case on his TV] 

  Debbie : One more question; who found the error on his application?

  William : [points out to his employees working in the other room]  The "Dog Pit."

  [pause] 

  William : They work as a team. If there's a discrepancy to be found in an application, the six of them will find it.

• William : [Referring to Pamela]  Let her go! I made it! I won!