Deok-su corners the pickpocket and Gi-hun wants his money back
A gangster recognises a runaway from his crew, a North Korean girl with a scarred neck; Gi-hun recognises the thief who emptied his pocket.
Jang Deok-su's Best Moments
Every Squid Game moment featuring Jang Deok-su, in story order. Played by Heo Sung-tae.
19 moments · 31 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Deok-su grabs the pickpocket as Gi-hun slips and is caught
A grudge resurfaces mid-game, a trembling player is told he will die if caught, and Gi-hun pleads for help as someone holds him up.
- 03
The piggy bank: 45.6 billion won is revealed
The prize money drops from the ceiling as the host explains the stakes: 100 million won per dead player, 45.6 billion if all six games are won.
- 04
Just as bad out there: players brawl over leaving
A woman argues the outside world is no better than the games, a fight breaks out, and the host demands respect for the democratic process.
- 05
Deok-su's heist plan ends with a leap off the bridge
Deok-su wants guns and his crew to rob the games; his underling reveals the casino debt and sells him out, and Deok-su jumps.
- 06
Sae-byeok refuses Deok-su's offer and names his crime
Deok-su tries to pull the pickpocket back onto his crew; she exposes how he robbed his own boss and he explodes at her.
- 07
Han Mi-nyeo pitches herself to Deok-su
A stranger interrupts the fight to flatter Deok-su and offer herself as a teammate, claiming she is good at everything except what she cannot do.
- 08
The giant playground and four shapes on the wall
Players enter an oversized playground and are told to pick circle, triangle, star or umbrella; Sae-byeok tells Deok-su the workers were heating sugar.
- 09
Deok-su steals a meal and beats Player 271 to death
Rations are a single egg; five meals go missing, Deok-su mocks the man whose food he ate, and the dorm's first killing happens over dinner.
- 10
The doctor buys his way into Deok-su's gang
Deok-su laughs off a doctor asking to join his crew, until the man says he knows what the next game is.
- 11
Gi-hun defends Sae-byeok and Il-nam's cry stops the riot
Gi-hun faces down Deok-su to protect his teammate, then Il-nam climbs up and screams that everyone will die, and the masked soldiers finally intervene.
- 12
Deok-su's gang counts the dead and Mi-nyeo guesses his age
The doctor stitches Deok-su while the gang tallies 27 kills, then Mi-nyeo flirts her way through a guessing game that ends on nineteen.
- 13
Mi-nyeo and Deok-su swear to stick together in the bathroom
Mi-nyeo corners Deok-su, makes him promise they will leave together, learns his name, and warns what happens if he betrays her.
- 14
Deok-su throws Mi-nyeo off his team
With his ten already picked, Deok-su shoves Mi-nyeo away and tells her to stop calling him babe; she swears on his name that he is a dead man.
- 15
Deok-su and Ji-yeong mock the praying pastor
Deok-su tells the pastor to thank the old man, not God; Ji-yeong offers a sarcastic prayer of her own; Sae-byeok tells everyone to shut up.
- 16
Gi-hun tells Deok-su he would come for him first
Deok-su sneers at the barricade; Gi-hun calmly says the strongest man is the first target, and a rattled Deok-su calls off the night's attack.
- 17
Han Mi-nyeo's sales pitch and the men who refuse to pair with women
Mi-nyeo sells herself as a con artist and dream girl while the men argue that teaming with a woman or an old man could get them killed.
- 18
The odd one out: Gi-hun takes Il-nam, Mi-nyeo is left alone
With an uneven number of players, Gi-hun pairs with the old man; Mi-nyeo screams her credentials, exposes Deok-su's doctor deal, and is dragged off partnerless.
- 19
Deok-su wins the hole game with one marble to spare
Deok-su's partner thinks he has won until a last marble appears; Deok-su sneers goodbye as the loser is taken away.