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However, his conviction wavers when his mother refuses to stay in the hospital and get surgery to treat her diabetes because of the enormous costs. Gi-hun still has the lowest stakes of all the characters, and he’s the first player who voted against continuing the game. We also learn that other gangsters are hunting Deok-su, so he goes back.

Everything about Ali’s story is heartbreaking, but he keeps up his friendship with Sang-woo, so at least he’ll have a good ally back in the game. After he crushes his boss’s hand in a fight, he runs off with the money and buys his wife and child flights back home. She’s also a badass who will throw coffee in a man’s face and take a knife to his throat while robbing him.Īli came to South Korea from Pakistan to make money, bringing along his wife and baby, but his boss at the small factory he’s employed refuses to pay him. She has to leave him in a children’s home, and a broker has stolen the money she raised to bring her mother. He may be the neighborhood’s pride, the valedictorian who got into Seoul National University (think Korea’s Harvard), but his intellect can’t get him out of this mess.Īs for Sae-byeok, she’s a North Korean defector who made it to Seoul with her little brother. And the trouble doesn’t stop with him he’s mortgaged his mother’s home and her market stall on a failed bet, which is for 6 billion won ($5 million). It turns out that Sang-woo is in even more trouble than previously stated, with the police blowing up his phone and offering him the chance to surrender himself. This will also be the last pacing lag of the season, so if there is an optimal time to go to bed before you end up binging until 5 a.m., it’s after Sae-byeok leaves Gi-hun tied up in the road. We know that all our main characters will return (there are seven episodes left, after all), so this pause functions as an opportunity for some character building to show why they’d rather face death over debt-ridden poverty. Surprisingly, considering his grin throughout the first round, 001 votes against continuing, and with that, the game ends, though it can restart if most of the players agree to return. After 200 players cast their votes, there is a tie with one vote left - player 001, the elderly man. With this vote, the 201 players are left to decide whether to stick with the known hell of financial ruin or the unknown hell that awaits in the next round. The guards set up a vote, but not before revealing how much money is up for grabs: each fallen player is worth 100 million won ($84,000) and, if there is only one player left, the pot can go up to 45.6 billion ($38 million).

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According to the game’s rules, if a majority of players agree to stop the game, then they all can leave, free and clear. After the players learn the real nature of the games, several of them begin begging the guards to spare their lives, led by a woman, player 212, who admits she has a daughter back home that she hasn’t even named yet. One horrible revelation after another makes it abundantly clear that this game will not let up on us.īut surprisingly, that’s what this episode of Squid Game does. A guard calmly shoves the hand back in, nails the casket shut, and pushes the contestant into the incinerator to be burned alive.

As the guards wheel life-size, gift-wrapped boxes into an incinerator room, a hand and a groan escapes from one of the boxes. Its second episode, “Hell,” begins with a subtler surprise. The Squid Game premiere ended while we were still recovering from the shock of having witnessed hundreds of bodies left for dead in the aftermath of Red Light, Green Light.

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