Squid Game – S2 – Ep03 – 001
Gi-hun wakes in the games’ dormitory alongside 455 other players. A manager announces a new clause: after each game, the players may vote on whether to end the games; if the majority agrees, the accumulated prize money will be distributed among them. Jun-ho and his team lose track of the island after Gi-hun’s tracker is removed. Gi-hun recognizes Player 390 as his friend and former coworker Jung-bae. The first game is Red Light, Green Light. Gi-hun attempts to expose the game’s cruelty, but is initially dismissed by the others. Despite this, Gi-hun’s cautions eventually help reduce casualties. Player 230, a retired rapper known as “Thanos” and under the influence of drugs, deliberately pushes others to eliminate them. Gi-hun and Player 120, named Cho Hyun-ju (a transgender woman joining to earn money for gender-affirming surgery and to leave Korea), try to save an eliminated player with a non-lethal gunshot wound, but No-eul executes her anyway. After the game, Gi-hun desperately urges the players to vote to stop the games and reveals he is the sole winner of a previous iteration, but is once again ignored. Players voting to continue are labeled “O”, while those voting to leave are labeled “X”. In-ho, posing as Player 001, casts the deciding vote to continue the games. Moviephtv