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.
S1E4 · Stick to the Team
18 moments · 33 min of essential viewing in a 55-minute episode.
Moments, in order
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.
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.
The rations were cut on purpose: a guard tells the doctor to survive the night
Behind the scenes, the organ-harvesting guards explain the starvation is designed to make players fight, and advise sticking with the strongest.
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.
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.
Jun-ho asks a worker whether Hwang In-ho is here
Over the roll call of the dead, the undercover detective quietly asks about his brother and is told names are not used in this place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tug-of-War revealed and the first team falls
The game is announced, Teams One and Seven are drawn, and the losing side is dropped from the tower before the ten names are read out.
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.
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