Gi-hun explains the rules of the Squid Game
Cold open: a grown man remembers the schoolyard squid game, its one-footed attackers, and the thrill of shouting victory.
Seong Gi-hun
Every Squid Game moment featuring Seong Gi-hun, in story order. Played by Lee Jung-jae.
162 moments · 4h 48m
Gi-hun guesses his mother's PIN at the ATM
Locked out of his mother's bank card, Gi-hun fumbles birthdays and lunar dates to drain her account for a day at the races.
Six and eight: Gi-hun wins big at the horse track
After a lost race Gi-hun bets on his daughter's birthday numbers and screams the longshots home for four and a half million won.
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.
Gi-hun signs away his body in blood
The loan shark lectures him on nosebleeds, then has him sign a waiver of physical rights with a bloody fingerprint: pay by next month or lose a kidney.
Ga-yeong's birthday dinner and the toy-gun lighter
Over tteokbokki Gi-hun hides his bruises, hears about the stepdad's steakhouse, hands over a claw-machine gun, and promises a better present next year.
A stranger on the platform offers Gi-hun a game of ddakji
A well-dressed man sits beside Gi-hun in the subway and proposes ddakji for 100,000 won a flip; Gi-hun warns him off a scam and picks a color.
The slap game: Gi-hun pays with his face until he wins
Broke after losing, Gi-hun agrees to be slapped per round, takes hit after hit, and finally flips the tile to claim his first 100,000 won.
The recruiter recites Gi-hun's whole life and leaves a card
The stranger knows the layoff, the failed shops, the divorce and every won of debt, then hands over a business card and says spots are running out.
Gi-hun learns Ga-yeong is moving to the US
His mother tells him the ex-wife's family is leaving next year, that custody needs proof of money, and that his daughter will become a stranger.
Gi-hun meets Player 001, the old man counting heads
In the dormitory an old man counts the 456 players to keep dementia away, and quietly tells Gi-hun about the tumor growing in his head.
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.
Gi-hun finds Sang-woo among the players
Gi-hun spots his neighbourhood's SNU prodigy in a tracksuit and demands to know why the business trip abroad ended in a debt dossier.
The Front Man starts the game: Red Light, Green Light
A giant doll looms over the field as the rules of a playground game are announced; Gi-hun laughs it off and bets a million won on the outcome.
Player 324 is eliminated and the game turns deadly
A bang follows the first elimination, panic breaks out, and the rules are calmly repeated before the game resumes.
Sang-woo coaches Gi-hun: hide behind someone and keep moving
Frozen on the field, Gi-hun is told not to look back; the doll senses movement, so he must advance in another player's shadow.
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.
Fly Me to the Moon over the end of the first game
A lounge standard plays as the survivors cross the finish line and the field is cleared.
Players beg to go home and Sang-woo cites consent form clause 3
Survivors plead to leave after the massacre; the masked host calls it a game, and one player finds the clause that forces a vote.
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.
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.
Gi-hun tells the police about Red Light, Green Light
Gi-hun reports hundreds killed in a children's game, cannot say where or by whom, and is offered a medical referral instead.
The cop calls the card number and gets called a pervert
An officer dials the number on Gi-hun's card at dawn and asks to play games; the stranger on the line is not amused.
Sang-woo admits he lost six billion won
On the bridge, Gi-hun learns the SNU genius owes six billion, bet on futures, and put his mother's house and shop up as collateral.
Gi-hun's mother walks out of the hospital
Told she may lose her feet to diabetes, Gi-hun's mother refuses treatment they cannot pay for; he promises to get all the money.
Gi-hun and the old man share ramyeon: out here, the torture is worse
Player 456 bumps into Player 1 at a convenience store; over soju the old man says he would rather go back and play than wait to die.
Gi-hun asks his ex-wife for two million won
Gi-hun begs his ex-wife for his mother's surgery; it turns into a fight over child support and the night Ga-yeong was born.
Do you think money solves everything?
Ga-yeong's stepfather hands Gi-hun an envelope and asks him to stop contacting the family before they move to the US; Gi-hun punches him.
Detective Hwang Jun-ho finds Gi-hun
A detective shows Gi-hun the same card his missing brother received and asks for help; Gi-hun asks why he would be useful to anyone.
Il-nam wakes Gi-hun: Player 456 came back
The old man shakes Gi-hun awake in the dorm, admits he came back because of him, and the two count how many desperate faces have returned.
Gi-hun's squad forms with army ranks
Sang-woo and Ali rejoin Gi-hun, Ali thanks him for the bus fare, and the group recruits Il-nam as the old major of their training-camp team.
Lunchbox memories and a list of childhood games
Over cold lunch boxes Gi-hun and Il-nam reminisce about briquette stoves, then rattle off every old kids' game Ali has never heard of.
Chocolate milk and Sang-woo's untouched breakfast
Il-nam asks for chocolate milk and guesses Gi-hun was spanked as a boy; across the table Sang-woo hands Ali his meal and Gi-hun follows suit.
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.
Sang-woo's advice: don't keep your eggs in one basket
With no idea what the game is, Sang-woo argues the team should split across the shapes; Ali and Gi-hun vouch for the SNU prodigy.
Gi-hun chooses the umbrella
Ali takes the circle he calls Dayira, Gi-hun picks the umbrella for a childhood memory, and Sang-woo stops short of saying what he wanted to.
The second game is revealed: sugar honeycombs
Tins are opened to show honeycomb candy; the rules give ten minutes to cut out the chosen shape without cracking it, and Gi-hun knows he is done for.
Gi-hun licks the umbrella free
Minutes from elimination, Gi-hun realises the thin outline will melt first and licks the honeycomb from the back until Player 456 passes.
Sang-woo thanks Gi-hun as the team regroups after Dalgona
Sang-woo admits Gi-hun got him through the honeycomb round, Ali and Il-nam rejoin, and the announcer tallies 79 dead and a 34.8 billion won pot.
Gi-hun begs the guards after a man is killed in the dorm
Gi-hun shouts at the silent masked guards that a player was just murdered, and the only reply is an elimination announcement.
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.
Lights-out countdown and the dormitory riot
The lights go out on a countdown and the dorm erupts in a brawl. Gi-hun and Sang-woo fight back to back, then realise Il-nam is missing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gi-hun's three-steps trick wins the tug of war
Cold open: losing badly, Gi-hun orders the team to step forward on his signal, the rope goes slack and the other side topples.
The team relives the win: Matrix moves and who said no
Giddy survivors replay the lean-back and the three-steps call, compare it to a bullet-dodging movie, and tease the one who cried about the edge.
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.
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.
Gi-hun tells Il-nam about the car-factory strike
Behind the barricade Gi-hun remembers being fired after a decade at the plant, the strike, keeping watch in pairs, and the man who died.
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.
Sang-woo picks Ali over Gi-hun; Gi-hun gives Il-nam his jacket
Sang-woo quietly chooses Ali as his partner, leaving Gi-hun to step aside and look after the old man instead.
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.
Il-nam teaches Gi-hun what gganbu means
Holding their bags of marbles, Il-nam explains that a gganbu is the friend you share everything with, and the two seal it with a handshake.
Gi-hun tries to get Il-nam declared out, then begs him to play
Gi-hun tells a guard the old man has dementia, then explodes that they will both be killed, until Il-nam quietly agrees as long as he stops yelling.
Which one did you say? Gi-hun exploits Il-nam's memory
After a losing guess, Gi-hun asks the old man to repeat what he said, and Il-nam uncertainly concedes the round.
Il-nam finds his old house, then asks if tricking a friend makes sense
Il-nam wanders into memories of his wife and son, agrees to bet everything on one last round, and then quietly tells Gi-hun he knows what he has been doing.
Gganbu share everything: Il-nam gives Gi-hun his last marble
Il-nam hands over the marble, reminds Gi-hun of their gganbu promise, thanks him for a good game, and remembers his own name as the round ends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The final game is Squid Game: coin flip and rules
Gi-hun and Sang-woo flip for offense and defense, then hear the rules of the last game, including what happens if a player cannot continue.
Sang-woo justifies killing Sae-byeok
Sang-woo claims he ended her suffering; Gi-hun sees through it and vows Sang-woo will not leave with the money.
Gi-hun and Sang-woo fight on the Red Light, Green Light field
A brutal, muddy brawl between two childhood friends on the ground where it all began, as Gi-hun realises who killed everyone.
Gi-hun gives up at the edge of victory
Standing over a beaten Sang-woo, Gi-hun refuses to finish him and invokes Clause Three to end the game, stunning the watchers.
Sang-woo's goodbye: let's go together
Gi-hun remembers their mothers calling them home for supper; Sang-woo apologises and asks him to look after his mother.
Front Man to the winner: you were our horses
The Front Man congratulates Gi-hun, compares the players to racehorses the rich bet on, and tells him to think of it as a dream.
Back in Seoul with 45.6 billion won in the bank
Dumped on the street, Gi-hun is preached at, then withdraws a single 10,000 won note and sees the balance on the slip.
Sang-woo's mother gives Gi-hun mackerel
At the fish stall, Sang-woo's mother worries about Gi-hun's mum and almost asks whether he has heard from her son.
Gi-hun comes home to his mother
Gi-hun calls out to his sleeping mother, tells her he has brought money, and realises he is too late.
One year later: the VIP banker and 10,000 won
Untouched billions earn a bank consultation; a haggard Gi-hun only wants to borrow a 10,000 won note.
A flower seller delivers a card from his gganbu
Gi-hun buys a girl's leftover flowers and finds an invitation to the Sky Building signed by his gganbu.
Il-nam is alive and proposes one last bet
Gi-hun finds Oh Il-nam living in a high tower; the old man wagers on whether anyone will help a drunk freezing in the street before midnight.
Il-nam confesses: the name, the tumor, the house were real
Il-nam reveals he made his fortune lending money, insists parts of his story were true, and tells Gi-hun the prize is his to spend.
Why the game exists: the rich were bored
Il-nam explains that too much money and none at all are equally joyless, and that his clients built the game for fun; nobody was forced to play.
Someone helps the drunk: Il-nam loses and dies
Il-nam says he joined to feel alive one last time; at midnight a passer-by finally stops for the drunk man, and Gi-hun turns to find the old man gone.
Gi-hun brings Cheol to Sang-woo's mother
A red-haired Gi-hun collects Sae-byeok's brother from the orphanage and leaves him, with a bag of money, in Sang-woo's mother's care.
At the airport, Gi-hun spots the recruiter
On the phone with his daughter, Gi-hun sees the ddakji man working a new mark and snatches the business card away.
I'm not a horse, I'm a person
Gi-hun calls the number, gives his name and birth date, and tells the voice on the line he cannot forgive what they do.
A voice warns Gi-hun he should have boarded the plane
Cold open: Gi-hun is threatened for walking away from his flight, then grabs a cab and heads for Seoul.
Gi-hun bankrolls a citywide hunt for the recruiter
Gi-hun orders the loan sharks to watch every subway line from first train to last; their boss bribes his doubtful crew with a huge bounty.
Two bored lookouts finally spot the ddakji man
Mid-complaint about two fruitless years underground, the loan shark and Woo-seok see the slap game happen and call Gi-hun.
Jun-ho's rookie tickets a speeding Gi-hun
Jun-ho has a nervous rookie pull over a speeding car while the lookouts chase the recruiter's cab; the driver's name rings a bell.
Jun-ho traces the rental car to Sunshine Capital
Remembering Gi-hun's name, Jun-ho runs the plate and learns the car is rented by the firm running the subway search.
The recruiter visits Gi-hun at his motel
Face to face at last, Gi-hun sarcastically thanks him for the invitation and demands to meet the people who sent him.
The recruiter tells how he shot his own father
He describes cleaning up bodies at the games and the day a losing player turned out to be his father; Gi-hun calls him a lapdog.
Russian roulette with Gi-hun, no spinning
The recruiter makes Gi-hun play a roulette where the cylinder is never reset, then taunts him as the odds climb to one in two.
Gi-hun turns the dog taunt back on the recruiter
Holding the gun, Gi-hun mirrors the recruiter's own words and tells him he is nothing but the game's obedient dog.
Jun-ho bursts in to arrest Gi-hun for murder
Police storm Room 410 and arrest Gi-hun, while a freed Woo-seok rages at him over his dead boss and the fatal hand game.
Jun-ho tells Gi-hun he was on the island too
Jun-ho reveals he infiltrated the games as a guard to find his brother; Gi-hun explains his plan to hunt the Front Man and the VIPs.
Gi-hun shows off his prize money and an arsenal
Woo-seok vents about cops until he sees the winnings; Gi-hun vows to turn the money against the game and unveils his black-market guns.
Gi-hun funds the rescue of Sae-byeok's mother
Gi-hun watches Sae-byeok's little brother at a fish store, then pushes a broker to bring her ailing mother out of North Korea.
Woo-seok introduces the mercenary squad
Woo-seok proudly presents ex-marines and special forces, ribs Jun-ho as an ex-traffic cop, and the team sets the plan for the club.
A silent call to Ga-yeong
Ga-yeong answers a call where nobody speaks and wonders aloud whether it is her dad.
Gi-hun and Woo-seok slip into the Halloween club
They realise the Front Man picked Halloween to hide among the masks, grab cheap disguises and enter while Jun-ho tracks them.
Pink guards in the crowd and Jun-ho forces his way in
Woo-seok spots pink jumpsuits leading Gi-hun away; Jun-ho flashes his badge and a gun to get past partygoers, then finds Woo-seok down.
In the limo, Gi-hun demands an end to the game
Back in the familiar limo, Gi-hun tells his masked host to stop the game; he is told players choose freely and the world makes the game.
Racehorse speech while Jun-ho's team is ambushed
Gi-hun compares the players to racehorses as the tailing cars lose a tire and are pinned down by a sniper.
Red pill: Gi-hun asks to be sent back into the game
Gi-hun dares his captor to return him to the games; after a Matrix jab about heroes, he is welcomed back as Player 456.
Gi-hun reveals Dalgona and the triangle trick
Players press Gi-hun for game two; he names Dalgona and the easiest shape, and the group argues over keeping it secret to protect the prize.
Gi-hun on blood money and the last 'O' vote
A player asks why a winner came back; Gi-hun calls his prize blood money, and the man defends being the last to vote to stay.
Dae-ho introduces himself and finds a fellow Marine
Dae-ho fanboys over Gi-hun's 'Freeze!' moment, and an older player discovers he is a Marine, launching into a shouted cohort salute.
A player confesses why he must win at any cost
The man who blamed Gi-hun apologises and tells of his dying pregnant wife, his firing, and why he will take the prize even over others' lives.
Dalgona nightmare: the triangle turns impossible
A dream of a monstrous triangle shape turns the players on Gi-hun, chanting that it is all his fault.
It's not Dalgona: Gi-hun's credibility collapses
The game is announced as a team game, and the players who trusted Gi-hun's triangle tip turn on him.
Six-Legged Pentathlon rules and Gi-hun's team picks roles
The rules lay out five tied-leg mini-games; the team splits Ddakji, Gong-gi, Flying Stone, Jegi and Spinning Top.
Gi-hun talks a frozen teammate through the top, then lands the jegi
A teammate loses his nerve with the top in hand; Gi-hun steadies him with deep breaths before kicking five himself as the time runs down.
Gi-hun's team trades real names: huge tiger, twice righteous, zero one
After praising each other's game, Dae-ho suggests sharing real names; Young-il laughs that his name is his number and Gi-hun gets a pun.
Gi-hun stops the vote to beg the hall to leave alive
Gi-hun breaks in mid-vote: they watched people die and still want more. A player counts the tripling prize; a tearful young woman just wants to go home.
'One more game' chant wins the vote 139 to 116
Someone shouts that these are kids' games and half the players survived; the hall chants for one more game and the majority carries it.
Jung-bae owns his vote and Gi-hun asks what if they must kill each other
Dragged back to the table, Jung-bae admits he voted to stay for his ex-wife and kid; Dae-ho says he gets it, and Gi-hun cuts the optimism short.
Jung-bae's guilt over Gi-hun's mother, and why Gi-hun came back
On night watch Jung-bae apologises for not lending money years ago; Gi-hun explains he returned to end the games and admits he is out of ideas.
The strike story: why Jung-bae stayed, and the cheapskate of Ssangmun-dong
Jung-bae recalls Gi-hun crying for his mother in his sleep during the factory strike; the two trade blame for every failure and plan soju afterwards.
Mingle is announced and the platform starts to spin
The third game is revealed; Gi-hun's team sets a plan for groups of four, two or more, swears to stay calm, and the carousel song begins.
Mingle round of ten: Gi-hun's group scrambles for room 44
The round of ten opens the episode as groups merge on the run; the stragglers beg for their lives and Seon-nyeo claims everyone owes her.
Reunion after the round: does the baby count as a player?
Young-il turns up alive, Dae-ho brags about being friendly, and the group realises Jun-hee's pregnancy changes the group maths, twins included.
Geum-ja defends her son to the men who saved her
Asked why Yong-sik never came back for her, Geum-ja insists he is a good person who never hurt anyone, and the questioner apologises.
Final round of two: 126 players, only 50 rooms
The last Mingle number is predicted from the room count, then players fight over doors as the countdown runs out.
Counting the O's: Gi-hun wants to force the vote
The X side tallies 56 O's and argues tactics: Gi-hun wants to drag them over, Young-il urges calm, Dae-ho admits he is too scared to go on.
Yong-sik changes his vote and Geum-ja cheers her son
Player 015 switches to tie it up, then Yong-sik presses X just as his mother promised he would, putting the X side one ahead.
Player 001 casts the last vote and the result is a tie
Jung-bae keeps trying to tell Gi-hun what he saw Young-il do in their room, and Young-il's final ballot leaves the vote split 50/50.
Gimbap dinner: Young-il says he only saved his own skin
Gi-hun thanks Young-il for the second chance; Young-il shrugs it off and predicts hunger will make everyone homesick by morning.
Hanwoo beef offer turns into a Marine versus Special Forces brawl
An X player offers to buy everyone beef if one O switches; the O side mocks them and a shouting match over military service ends in a scuffle.
O's and X's trade blame for the bathroom killings
Each camp accuses the other of starting the bloodshed to swing the vote, until someone calls for a full headcount.
Gi-hun redirects the X's toward the man in the black mask
As his side plans a pre-emptive strike, Gi-hun argues the real enemy runs the games from the control room above.
Plan to steal the guards' guns
Gi-hun proposes seizing guns from the guards; Young-il questions the odds before Gi-hun lays out the ambush.
Gi-hun chooses to sacrifice a few for the plan
Hiding under the beds, Gi-hun tells his group to stay out of the fight even if fellow X's die, and Young-il agrees to follow.
The ambush: rebels seize the guards' rifles
When guards storm in to stop the fight, the rebels strike, take their guns, and Gi-hun stops an enraged player from executing the O's.
Gi-hun's call to arms
Gi-hun admits he is scared too, but asks anyone who can shoot to march up the stairs and fight their way out together.
Young-il's MP5 lesson and an unmasked guard
Young-il teaches the rebels to load and fire, claiming Special Forces training, and an unmasked young guard is forced to lead the way.
Gi-hun and Jung-bae head for the control room
Gi-hun leaves Young-il to hold the line and takes his best friend into the management area, trading banter under fire.
Gi-hun scavenges magazines and hands Young-il a gun
Gi-hun dashes into fire for ammo, Jung-bae takes a graze, and Gi-hun trusts Young-il with a weapon to flank the guards.
Young-il's last radio call: 'They got us'
Gi-hun waits for the flanking attack, but Young-il apologises over the radio, says it is over, and goes silent.
Front Man punishes Gi-hun by executing his best friend
The Front Man mocks Gi-hun for playing the hero, then shoots Jung-bae in front of him to close the season.
Gi-hun wakes to the cost of his rebellion
Haunted by the failed uprising, Gi-hun asks after his friends and is shown exactly what his hero game cost.
Gi-hun screams at the guards to kill him
As the surviving players learn the new prize total, a broken Gi-hun begs the masked guards to shoot him.
Players jeer Gi-hun and the shaman curses him
The winners mock Gi-hun with applause for raising the pot, then the shaman taunts him about the screams of his dead friends.
Hyun-ju apologizes as Yong-sik blames Dae-ho
Jun-hee and Hyun-ju try to get Gi-hun to eat; Hyun-ju says sorry, and Yong-sik pins the failed magazine run on Dae-ho.
Dae-ho snaps and blames Gi-hun for the dead
Unable to bear Gi-hun's stare, Dae-ho explodes, insisting the rebellion was doomed and that Gi-hun killed their friends.
The hide-and-seek song plays as the hunt begins
The blue team scatters in the arena to a creepy children's chant while the red team pairs up before entering.
Dae-ho confesses he was never a Marine
A wounded Dae-ho admits the Marines, the service and even the tattoo were lies, and that fear stopped him bringing the magazines; Gi-hun turns on him.
Geum-ja confesses the story of her son to Gi-hun
Geum-ja tells Gi-hun about her gentle son's lifelong self-blame, the night she cursed him, and the guilt she now carries.
Geum-ja pleads with Gi-hun to save Jun-hee and the baby
Gi-hun insists he is no savior, but Geum-ja begs him to make sure the innocent newborn and her mother survive.
Gi-hun tells Jun-hee it is not her fault
Jun-hee blames herself for the people lost protecting her; Gi-hun speaks of his own daughter and vows to help her.
Jun-hee hands her baby to Gi-hun
Told her newborn counts as a player, and with no one willing to go first, Jun-hee asks Gi-hun to carry the baby across.
Gi-hun carries the baby across the jump-rope bridge
Promising to return for Jun-hee, Gi-hun takes the newborn over the swinging rope and the gap in the bridge.
Jun-hee stops Gi-hun from coming back for her
Gi-hun turns to rescue Jun-hee, but she reminds him of his promise to protect her baby above all, and makes her own choice.
Nine survivors, not eight: the newborn is Player 222
The results announce nine players left, and the survivors learn the baby has inherited its mother's number and her share of the prize.
The survivors demand the baby be eliminated
Furious at losing money to a newborn, the players turn into a mob and close in on Gi-hun until the guards ban all violence.
The banquet vote: the baby abstains and O wins
The baby is ruled unable to vote, the others rush the count between bites of food, and a 5-of-9 majority sends them to the final game.
Front Man hands Gi-hun a knife and a proposition
Summoned alone, Gi-hun accuses Front Man of wanting to watch the baby die; Front Man offers a knife to kill the sleeping players first.
Front Man apologizes for Jung-bae and asks Gi-hun about his faith in people
Front Man dares Gi-hun to kill him, lays out how killing the others ends the game, and closes with the question that haunts the series.
Myung-gi demands the baby on the final-round platform
Myung-gi orders Gi-hun to hand over the baby and accuses him of planning to sacrifice it and leave alone with the money.
Gi-hun offers to be eliminated and Myung-gi refuses to believe him
Gi-hun says he will be the one to go, explaining his promise to protect the baby; Myung-gi suspects a trick and jealous suspicions about Jun-hee.
Myung-gi threatens to drop the baby and Gi-hun gives up his knife
As the final game begins, Myung-gi dangles the baby to keep Gi-hun back and makes him throw over his knife, until his own number is called.
Gi-hun's last words: we are not horses, we are humans
Gi-hun makes his final statement to the watchers before his number is called, leaving the sentence unfinished.