In the latest episode of The Walking Dead Season 10C, “One More,” Aaron and Gabriel are on a mission to find much-needed supplies for Alexandria, which is still recovering from the Whisperer attack. While searching a warehouse, the duo crosses paths with Mays. After accusing them of stealing from him, the deranged stranger forces Aaron and Gabriel to play Russian roulette. Although Mays is only a one-episode villain, his chilling game comes straight out of the Saw franchise.

In “One More,” Mays sits Gabriel and Aaron across from each other and loads a gun with a single bullet. To leave his warehouse, he explains the friends will need to play a game. The catch — only one person leaves alive. Deviating from the typical rules of Russian roulette, Mays gives Gabriel and Aaron a choice. They can hold the revolver to their own heads and pull the trigger or aim it at each other, sparing themselves. When Gabriel asks Mays why he is doing this, he responds, “Enlightenment.”

The terror-inducing scene is reminiscent of the Saw horror franchise. Much like Mays, John Kramer, aka Jigsaw, sets up “games,” requiring the “players” to inflict pain upon themselves or others to escape. Throughout the films, John’s overall goal is to inspire an appreciation for life by making his victims fear death. For an extra punch, the games are usually devised to test certain flaws John observes in the person’s moral character.

In The Walking Dead, Mays believes Aaron and Gabriel are inherently selfish and most likely bad people based on his past experience in the apocalyptic world. When they insist they are neither of those things, he calls their bluff. Much like John, Mays gives them the option to kill the other person to save themselves to measure their selfishness. Aaron and Gabriel refuse to turn on each other, choosing to hold the gun to their own heads in a lethal game of chance. Once Mays is proved wrong, he lets them go and, unlike most of Saw‘s protagonists, The Walking Dead heroes make it out alive.

After killing Mays and discovering his captive brother’s deceased family, Aaron and Gabriel learn this isn’t the first time Mays orchestrated a forced game of Russian roulette. He may not have directly killed anybody, but neither did John Kramer. Instead, both men rely on lethal games as their means of murder while maintaining the belief that their victims need to be tested. Essentially, Mays and John share the philosophy that they can’t possibly be murders if their victim’s fate is decided by chance or their individual decisions.

The Walking Dead might use Mays to exemplify the evil that exists in the world. However, from May’s perspective, he believes his actions are justifiable. Aaron and Gabriel are strangers who broke into his warehouse and stole his boar and whiskey. As a result, he needs to test them for crimes he assumes have gone unpunished in a lawless apocalypse. It’s an extreme tactic that suggests The Walking Dead may have taken a page from the Saw franchise.

The Walking Dead stars Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton and Cooper Andrews.