Squid Game Season 2 – TV Series

Episodes 01

“Bread and Lottery”

Seong Gi-hun leaves the terminal determined to confront the Front Man behind the games. Realizing he is being monitored, he removes a tracking device implanted behind his ear. Hwang Jun-ho survives his fall from the cliff. Two years later, Gi-hun works with Kim, his former loan shark, and his lackeys to track down the games’ recruiter in Seoul. Kim and his associate, Choi Woo-seok, eventually locate the recruiter and watch him offer vagrants bread or a lottery ticket; most choose the ticket, and the recruiter destroys the rejected bread in front of them. The recruiter abducts Kim and Woo-seok and forces them to play a deadly game of rock paper scissors combined with Russian roulette, resulting in Kim’s death. Jun-ho investigates Gi-hun and locates his operational base. The recruiter confronts Gi-hun there, revealing he was once a soldier in the games who killed his own father, a player, and justifies the games’ cruelty by vilifying the participants as scum. He challenges Gi-hun into a round of Russian roulette, resulting in his own death.

Episodes 02

“Halloween Party”

Gi-hun, Jun-ho, and Woo-seok discover a lead from the recruiter’s jacket pointing to a Halloween party. Woo-seok recruits a team of mercenaries, Gi-hun implants a tracker in himself, and the three devise a plan to locate the Front Man. Meanwhile, Gi-hun continues to look after Sang-woo’s mother and Cheol. He works with a broker to reunite Cheol with his mother from the North, and places a silent call to his estranged daughter. The team infiltrates the Halloween party, where Gi-hun is escorted by one of the game’s pink-clad soldiers into a limousine, with his team in pursuit. He confronts the Front Man via speaker, demanding an end to the games. When the vehicles following him are shot down, Gi-hun requests to be returned to the games as a player. Kang No-eul, a North Korean defector who seeks to extract her daughter from the North, enters the game as a soldier.

Episodes 03

“001”

Gi-hun wakes in the game’s dormitory with 455 other players. A manager announces a new clause: after each game, the players will vote, and if the majority agrees to leave the games, the accumulated prize money will be divided among them. Jun-ho and his team lose track of the island as Gi-hun’s tracker has been removed. Gi-hun recognizes Player 390 as his friend Jung-bae and advises him to stay close. The first game is Red Light, Green Light; Gi-hun warns the players that elimination will result in death, though many dismiss him. Despite the chaos, Gi-hun’s cautions help reduce casualties. Player 230, known as the rapper “Thanos,” is under the influence of drugs and pushes others to eliminate them. Gi-hun and Player 120, named Hyun-ju, attempt to save an eliminated player who was only non-fatally shot, but No-eul shoots the player dead. After the game, Gi-hun urges the players to vote the game’s end and reveals he is the sole winner of a previous iteration. Players voting to continue are labeled “O”, while those voting to leave are labeled “X”. The Front Man, posing as Player 001, casts the deciding vote to continue.

Episodes 04

“Six Legs”

Player 001 feigns an alliance with Gi-hun and fabricates a story, based in truth, about his reason for joining the game. Player 333, named Myung-gi, is attacked by Thanos and Player 124, named Nam-gyu; Player 001 intervenes and stops the altercation easily. Player 222, named Kim Jun-hee and Myung-gi’s pregnant ex-girlfriend, reveals herself to him. Meanwhile, a group of soldiers, led by the Officer, begin harvesting organs to sell on the black market. The Officer orders No-eul to ignore the activities, but she refuses. Jun-ho attempts to enlist police assistance but is unsuccessful. To Gi-hun’s surprise, the second game requires players to form teams of five for a six-legged pentathlon consisting of five children’s games: ddakji, biseokchigi, gong-gi, jegi, and spinning top, to be completed under a five-minute time limit. No-eul continues her sabotage of the soldiers’ organ trade by shooting living eliminated players dead.

Episodes 05

“One More Game”

After Hyun-ju’s team manages to win through mutual support, many other teams are inspired and succeed. Gi-hun allies with Jung-bae, Jun-hee, and Players 001 and 388 (Kang Dae-ho); they succeed and exchange names after the game, though Player 001 falsely introduces himself as Oh Young-il. No-eul is attacked by two soldiers involved in the organ trade, who warn her to stop interfering. During the following vote, Player 001 encourages the players to vote against continuing the game, but a larger majority opts to proceed, believing the prize pool remains too small. Gi-hun confides in Jung-bae about his growing uncertainty in rescuing everyone. Meanwhile, Jun-ho and Woo-seok, now with an expanded mercenary team, continue their search for the island. The third game, titled “Mingle”, requires players to enter designated rooms after forming groups based on an announced number.

Episodes 06

“O X”

During “Mingle”, players struggle to fit their alliances into rooms, causing tension, betrayal, and deaths of allies. In the final round, Jung-bae witnesses Player 001 kill another player to secure a room for themselves. After the game, Gi-hun and Player 001 argue over whether to persuade other players to vote to end the games, and ultimately decide against it to avoid a physical fight. During the vote, several players, including Player 125, who has been subservient to Thanos and Nam-gyu, change their votes to “X”. The deciding vote again falls to Player 001, resulting in a tie; the players are given a day before re-voting. In the bathroom, Thanos and Nam-gyu pressure Player 125, named Min-su, into changing his vote to “O”, but Myung-gi and other players that voted “X” intervene to defend him. A fight ensues, with Thanos strangling Myung-gi, who fatally stabs him with a fork. Meanwhile, Jun-ho’s team locates a possible entrance on an island, only to discover it is a decoy rigged with explosives, killing one of the mercenaries.

Episodes 07

“Friend or Foe”

Captain Park of Jun-ho’s team is revealed to be a double agent, having sabotaged their drone. Following the bathroom brawl, players realize they can kill others to raise the prize pool and weaken the opposing voters. Gi-hun convinces a small group of “X” players to avoid attacking, arguing that the true enemies are the game’s creators. During a violent dorm massacre, Gi-hun’s group stays hidden as the rest of the “X” group receives heavy losses, and they emerge only when soldiers arrive. Gi-hun’s group baits the soldiers, killing all but one and taking their firearms. They start a rebellion and force the surviving soldier to lead them to the control room. However, more soldiers open fire en route, and the rebellion starts to falter when the group runs out of ammunition; Dae-ho, tasked with retrieving more ammo, suffers a panic attack and is unable to return. Player 001 betrays the group, killing two players and faking his death while other surrendering players are executed. Gi-hun and Jung-bae are taken captive; In-ho, now masked as the Front Man, kills Jung-bae in front of a horrified Gi-hun.