Father
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) é um assassino que possui uma marca registrada: ele deixa em suas vítimas uma cicatriz em forma de quebra-cabeças e faz com que elas cometam atos agonizantes para se salvarem. O detetive David Tapp (Danny Glover) é designado para investigar os assassinatos, bem como a capturar seu autor. Porém o esguio Jigsaw leva o detetive a desenvolver uma obsessão por capturá-lo.
Yehuda
No one's getting along at the Univers'l strip mall in So Central LA on April 29, 1992, the day the Rodney King verdicts come down. An African-American liquor store owner has a nervous crush on a Vietnamese manicurist. A rich Beverly Hills housewife who wants to help "you people" by building a womens' shelter has just had her Mercedes stolen. The Iranian dry cleaners have destroyed a dress, a group of Swedish equestrians is hopelessly lost, and Kong, the Korean landlord, is missing. With a relentless hyperkinetic visual energy and creeping sense of impending terror, UNIVERS'L captures one long day in a rundown mini-mall when the riots engulf the city.
Doctor
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.