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.
S1E9 · One Lucky Day
18 moments · 34 min of essential viewing in a 56-minute episode.
Moments, in order
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.
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