Loan sharks chase Gi-hun and his winnings vanish
Mid-call with his daughter, Gi-hun spots the debt collectors, bolts through the crowd, and finds his pocket emptied by a girl he bumped into.
Seong Gi-hun & Kang Sae-byeok
The two who trust each other when nobody should. 20 scenes together, in story order.
20 moments · 29 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
Gi-hun and the pickpocket wake up tied together
Dumped in the street, Gi-hun begs the pickpocket to untie him, swears on his mother to forget the money, then chases her anyway.
- 05
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.
- 06
Sae-byeok says she trusts no one; Gi-hun tells her why she really doesn't
Gi-hun invites the pickpocket to shelter with his group tonight. She refuses on principle and he answers with a line about having nobody else.
- 07
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.
- 08
The team trades names and Il-nam cannot remember his
Gi-hun, Ali, Sang-woo and Sae-byeok introduce themselves properly; when the old man is asked, he stalls and Gi-hun covers for him.
- 09
Teams of ten: Sang-woo guesses the game and argues for strong men
The third game is announced as a team game and Gi-hun's group debates which playground game it could be and who to recruit in ten minutes.
- 10
Ji-yeong joins Sae-byeok and Mi-nyeo barges onto the weak team
Sae-byeok brings a girl instead of a man, the count stops at nine, and the rejected Mi-nyeo invites herself in as the tenth with a boast.
- 11
Il-nam teaches the team how to win Tug-of-War
Facing an all-male team, the old man lays out his childhood method: a strong leader, alternating sides, rope under the armpits, lean back ten seconds.
- 12
Three steps forward: Sang-woo's gamble on the rope
The team holds for ten seconds, starts losing anyway, and Sang-woo orders everyone to step towards the edge on a count of three.
- 13
Planning the night: attack first or build a barricade
With lights-out coming, the pastor argues for striking a weak team first, Sae-byeok says she trusts no one, and the team settles on a barricade.
- 14
Sae-byeok: it wasn't for free, pay me back tomorrow
Gi-hun settles the feverish Il-nam, then thanks Sae-byeok for helping; she refuses to make it a gift.
- 15
Gi-hun confronts Sang-woo over the push on the bridge
Back in the dorm, Gi-hun demands to know why Sang-woo shoved the glassmaker; Sang-woo says he will do whatever it takes to win.
- 16
Gi-hun offers Sae-byeok an alliance against Sang-woo
Knife in hand, Gi-hun wakes Sae-byeok to say he means no harm, notices she is hiding pain, and proposes they team up to beat Sang-woo.
- 17
What Gi-hun and Sae-byeok would do with the money
Gi-hun wants a store for his mother and to be a father to his ten-year-old; Sae-byeok wants her brother out of the orphanage and her mother out of the North.
- 18
Sae-byeok makes Gi-hun swear to look after her brother
Sae-byeok proposes a pact: whoever gets out cares for the other's loved ones. Gi-hun resists the implication but she insists he swear.
- 19
Sae-byeok stops Gi-hun's knife, then he finds her wound
As Gi-hun stands over sleeping Sang-woo, Sae-byeok tells him that is not who he is; he returns to find her bleeding and asking to go home.
- 20
Gi-hun screams for a doctor as Sae-byeok dies
Gi-hun pounds on the doors begging the guards for help; when he turns back, Sae-byeok is gone.