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Seong Gi-Hun is a divorced, impoverished dad who works as a chauffeur, struggles with a gambling addiction and still liveswith his elderly mother, who works to makes ends meet for the both of them. On his daughter Ga-Yeong's birthday, his mother gives him 20,000 won (roughly 17 USD) to spend for Ga-Yeong's birthday. However, with other plans for the money, Gi-Hun whines that [[BlatantLies 20,000 won't even be enough for a fried chicken dinner]], so his mother reluctantly coughs up more, as she scurries off to work. Gi-Hun also takes her hidden bank card with the intent on stealing funds for him and his buddy to bet on the horseraces. He wins big but is spotted by one of the [[LoanShark loan sharks he owes a debt to]]. He runs, but a pickpocket steals his winnings and he can't even pay them. Their leader makes him sign a contract signing away his physical rights, and makes him sign it with his blood.
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Seong Gi-Hun is a divorced, impoverished dad who works as a chauffeur, struggles with a gambling addiction addiction, and still liveswith lives with his elderly mother, who works to makes ends meet for the both of them. On his daughter Ga-Yeong's birthday, his mother gives him 20,000 won (roughly 17 USD) to spend for Ga-Yeong's birthday. However, with other plans for the money, Gi-Hun whines that [[BlatantLies 20,000 won't even be enough for a fried chicken dinner]], so his mother reluctantly coughs up more, as she scurries off to work. Gi-Hun also takes her hidden bank card with the intent on stealing funds for him and his buddy to bet on the horseraces. He wins big but is spotted by one of the [[LoanShark loan sharks he owes a debt to]]. He runs, but a pickpocket steals his winnings and he can't even pay them. Their leader makes him sign a contract signing away his physical rights, and makes him sign it with his blood.
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* BlatantLies:
** Gi-Hun complains to his mother that 20,000 won (around $17 in U.S) is not enough for even a fried chicken dinner.
** Ga-Yeong told Gi-Hun to not use the gun lighter for smoking. Gi-Hun acts shocked, and said he is now clean. She sees right past it, and smells Gi-Hun, giving him a look.
** Gi-Hun complains to his mother that 20,000 won (around $17 in U.S) is not enough for even a fried chicken dinner.
** Ga-Yeong told Gi-Hun to not use the gun lighter for smoking. Gi-Hun acts shocked, and said he is now clean. She sees right past it, and smells Gi-Hun, giving him a look.
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Seong Gi-Hun is a divorced, impoverished dad who works as a chauffeur and struggles with a gambling addiction, also living with his elderly mother, who works to makes ends meet for the both of them. On his daughter Ga-Yeong's birthday, his mother gives him 20,000 won (roughly 17 USD) to spend for Ga-Yeong's birthday. However, with other plans for the money, Gi-Hun whines that [[BlatantLies 20,000 won't even be enough for a fried chicken dinner]], so his mother reluctantly coughs up more, as she scurries off to work. Gi-Hun also takes her hidden bank card with the intent on stealing funds for him and his buddy to bet on the horseraces. He wins big but is spotted by one of the [[LoanShark loan sharks he owes a debt to]]. He runs, but a pickpocket steals his winnings and he can't even pay them. Their leader makes him sign a contract signing away his physical rights, and makes him sign it with his blood.
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Seong Gi-Hun is a divorced, impoverished dad who works as a chauffeur and chauffeur, struggles with a gambling addiction, also living with addiction and still liveswith his elderly mother, who works to makes ends meet for the both of them. On his daughter Ga-Yeong's birthday, his mother gives him 20,000 won (roughly 17 USD) to spend for Ga-Yeong's birthday. However, with other plans for the money, Gi-Hun whines that [[BlatantLies 20,000 won't even be enough for a fried chicken dinner]], so his mother reluctantly coughs up more, as she scurries off to work. Gi-Hun also takes her hidden bank card with the intent on stealing funds for him and his buddy to bet on the horseraces. He wins big but is spotted by one of the [[LoanShark loan sharks he owes a debt to]]. He runs, but a pickpocket steals his winnings and he can't even pay them. Their leader makes him sign a contract signing away his physical rights, and makes him sign it with his blood.
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* ButtMonkey: Let's just say that things aren't really going too well for Gi-hun: he's a slacker and gambler in severe debt and in danger of losing a kidney to loan sharks, and his ex-wife is leaving to the U.S. with their daughter, who probably lose her connection with her father and is starting to see her mother's new husband as her father
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* ButtMonkey: Let's just say that things aren't really going too well for Gi-hun: he's a slacker and gambler in severe debt and in danger of losing a kidney to loan sharks, and his ex-wife is leaving to the U.S. with their daughter, who will probably lose her connection with her father and is already starting to see her mother's new husband as her father
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gi-Hun has a gambling addiction, but it's visually played very much like a drug addiction. He acts twitchy, shifty, and irritable when he's trying to get his next "fix" (stealing money, more frantically betting on race after race or game after game following each loss), and becomes very euphoric during the "high" of a recent victory. Characters around him react accordingly, with his mother even urging him to clean up his act and get a real job, much like relatives of those with substance abuse issues asking them to get sober and find a steady income. The salesman, naturally, plays on his gambling addiction to get him interested in the Squid Game.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gi-Hun has a gambling addiction, but it's visually played very much like a drug addiction. He acts twitchy, shifty, and irritable when he's trying to get his next "fix" (stealing money, more frantically betting on race after race or game after game following each loss), and becomes very euphoric during the "high" of a recent victory. Characters around him react accordingly, with his mother even urging him to clean up his act and get a real job, much like relatives of those with substance abuse issues asking them to get sober and find a steady income. The salesman, naturally, plays on his gambling addiction to get him interested in the Squid Game.games.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Gi-Hun works as a chauffeur, which doesn't pay that well. The Squid Game salesman later reveals that he once worked for a car company for over a decade, but was fired a decade before.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Gi-Hun works as a chauffeur, which doesn't pay that well. The Squid Game game salesman later reveals that he once worked for a car company for over a decade, but was fired a decade before.
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* HopeSpot: After some setbacks in horserace betting, Gi-Hun manages to win enough money to provide a step-up to a fried chicken dinner for his daughter. Unfortunately, he is pickpocketed while chased by the loan sharks, putting him right back where he started.
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* HopeSpot: After some setbacks in horserace betting, Gi-Hun manages to win enough money to provide a step-up to a fried chicken dinner for his daughter. Unfortunately, he is pickpocketed while chased by the loan sharks, putting him right back where he started.started, if not further.
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* JustInTime: Gi-Hun and Ali both cross the finishing line at the last second.
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* JustInTime: Gi-Hun and Ali both cross the finishing line at the last second. The remaining players aren't so fortunate.
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* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Gi-Hun initially believes Sang-woo was this, since he was the only one in their small town to go to a big fancy business school and supposedly make it big as an international traveling businessman. Gi-Hun later finds out Sang-woo ended up in the Squid Game for similar reasons as him--debts sky high with banks and loan sharks alike, despite his great education and seemingly high class job.
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* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Gi-Hun initially believes Sang-woo was this, since he was the only one in their small town to go to a big fancy business school and supposedly make it big as an international traveling businessman. Gi-Hun later finds out Sang-woo ended up in the Squid Game games for similar reasons as him--debts sky high with banks and loan sharks alike, despite his great education and seemingly high class job.
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: A staff member shows a brief video to all of the participants gathered for the games, listing each name, home, and amount of money owed. They all played the same game with a salesperson as Gi-hun, with each and every one of them getting a slap in the face before eventually winning.
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* PetTheDog: In episode 1, Gi-Hun has a literal 'save the cat' moment when he feeds fish to a hungry stray.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Invoked and exploited. Gi-Hun and every other debtor invited to the games are met with a salesman-like person who offers to play ''ddakji'' with them for 100,000 won. If they lose, they have to pay the same amount. Since virtually none of them have that much with them, they are allowed to waiver the payment with a slap in the face, and they are allowed to keep playing until they win. Once they win the money, the salesman then gives them a card with a phone number, and invites them to take part in a series of games for an even bigger cash prize. They are skeptic at first, but because they all face varied yet near-serious consequences if they can't pay their personal debts (in Gi-Hun's case, losing his eyes and kidneys to a LoanShark), they all call and accept.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Invoked and exploited. Gi-Hun and every other debtor invited to the games are met with a salesman-like person who offers to play ''ddakji'' with them for 100,000 won. If they lose, they have to pay the same amount. Since virtually none of them have that much with on them, they are allowed to waiver waive the payment with a slap in the face, and they are allowed to can keep playing until they win. Once they win the money, the salesman then gives them a card with a phone number, and invites them to take part in a series of games for an even bigger cash prize. They are skeptic at first, but because they all face varied yet near-serious consequences if they can't pay their personal debts (in Gi-Hun's case, losing his eyes and kidneys to a LoanShark), they all call and accept.
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That evening, after a mediocre birthday dinner for Ga-Yeong, Gi-Hun encounters a man at a train station who challenges him to ''ddakji'', a simple children's game, where the prize for winning is 100,000 won (about $85), and the prize for losing is a good slap. Gi-Hun loses [[ButtMonkey about ten times]] before finally managing to win, barely remembering to take the money instead of slapping back. The man makes him an offer - he can do this same sort of thing again for much bigger prizes. He gives Gi-Hun a card and bids him farewell as he leaves on the incoming train, [[PerpetualSmiler never breaking his mysterious smile]].
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That evening, after a mediocre birthday dinner for Ga-Yeong, Gi-Hun encounters a man at a train station who challenges him to ''ddakji'', a simple children's game, where the prize for winning is 100,000 won (about $85), and $85) and, since he lacked the prize equal amount, the penalty for losing is a good slap.slap in the face. Gi-Hun loses [[ButtMonkey about ten times]] before finally managing to win, barely remembering to take the money instead of slapping back. The man makes him an offer - he can do this same sort of thing again for much bigger prizes. He gives Gi-Hun a card and bids him farewell as he leaves on the incoming train, [[PerpetualSmiler never breaking his mysterious smile]].
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Invoked and exploited. Gi-Hun and every other debtor invited to the games are met with a salesman-like person who offers to play ''ddakji'' with them for 100,000 won. If they lose, they have to pay the same amount. Since virtually none of them have that much with them, they are allowed to waiver the payment with a slap in the face, and they are allowed to keep playing until they win. Once they win the money, the salesman then gives them a card with a phone number, and invites them to take part in a series of games for an even bigger cash prize. They are skeptic at first, but because they all face varied yet near-serious consequences if they can't pay their personal debts (in Gi-Hun's case, losing his eyes and kidneys to a LoanShark), they all call and accept.
* HopeSpot: After some setbacks in horserace betting, Gi-Hun manages to win enough money to provide a step-up to a fried chicken dinner for his daughter. Unfortunately, he is pickpocketed while chased by the loan sharks, putting him right back where he started.
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* WhamShot: A literal one; Player 324 getting shot dead during the "Red Light Green Light" game. This lets the audience know that the players will get ''killed'' if they lose the games rather than them simply being sent home.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gi-Hun has a gambling addiction, but it's visually played very much like a drug addiction. He acts twitchy, shifty, and irritable when he's trying to get his next "fix" (stealing money, more frantically betting on race after race or game after game following each loss), and becomes very euphoric during the "high" of a recent victory. Characters around him react accordingly, with his mother even urging him to clean up his act and get a real job, much like relatives of those with substance abuse issues asking them to get sober and find a steady income. The salesman, naturally, plays on his gambling addiction to get him interested in the Squid Game.
* EntitledBastard: Gi-Hun's EstablishingCharacterMoment involves him needling his mom to lend him more money, ostensibly to buy his daughter something nice for her birthday but really just to go gambling. After stealing his mom's debit card, he's outraged to learn that she changed the PIN so it's no longer his birthday.
* EntitledBastard: Gi-Hun's EstablishingCharacterMoment involves him needling his mom to lend him more money, ostensibly to buy his daughter something nice for her birthday but really just to go gambling. After stealing his mom's debit card, he's outraged to learn that she changed the PIN so it's no longer his birthday.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Gi-Hun works as a chauffeur, which doesn't pay that well. The Squid Game salesman later reveals that he once worked for a car company for over a decade, but was fired a decade before.
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* {{Irony}}: Player 324 strikes the most confident and defiant pose for his photo, and is the first to be eliminated.
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* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Gi-Hun initially believes Sang-woo was this, since he was the only one in their small town to go to a big fancy business school and supposedly make it big as an international traveling businessman. Gi-Hun later finds out Sang-woo ended up in the Squid Game for similar reasons as him--debts sky high with banks and loan sharks alike, despite his great education and seemingly high class job.
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* MonochromePast: Gi-hun's memory in the opening scene of the childhood game he plays is presented in black and white.
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* PrisonRiot: Players 101 and 067 getting into a fight at the sleeping quarters.
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* PrisonRiot: Players 101 Deok-su and 067 Sae-byeok getting into a fight at the sleeping quarters.
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* JustInTime: Gi-Hun and Player 199 both cross the finishing line at the last second.
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* JustInTime: Gi-Hun and Player 199 Ali both cross the finishing line at the last second.
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* MassOhCrap: In the first game, the moment the players realize that being "eliminated" from a round involves being fatally shot by sniper bullets, chaos ensues. Most panic and attempt to flee en-masse, which results in the deaths of hundreds as the sensors identify a sea of moving targets.
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Gi-Hun is approaching, as the other characters have already made it. However, as he's about to trip when the doll turns around, he's held up at the last second by another player: a foreigner who runs with him across the finish line [[JustInTime at the very last second]].[[TimedMission Everyone who hasn't made it across the finish line is disqualified and shot to death.]] The realization occurs to Gi-Hun and the others: this isn't any ordinary game. This is life or death.
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Gi-Hun is approaching, as the other characters have already made it. However, as he's about to trip when the doll turns around, he's held up at the last second by another player: a foreigner who runs with him across the finish line [[JustInTime at the very last second]]. [[TimedMission Everyone who hasn't made it across the finish line is disqualified and shot to death.]] The realization occurs to Gi-Hun and the others: this isn't any ordinary game. This is life or death.
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* DisasterDominoes: Most of the deaths in the first game was a result of [[MassOhCrap everyone freaking out and trying to escape]] when they realized the true nature of the games, setting off the motion detectors further.
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* DisasterDominoes: Most of the deaths in the first game was a are the result of [[MassOhCrap everyone freaking out and trying to escape]] when they realized realize the true nature of the games, setting off the motion detectors further.
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* DaylightHorror: The "Red Light, Green Light" massacre occurs in broad daylight.
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* DisasterDominoes: Most of the deaths in the first game was a result of [[MassOhCrap everyone freaking out and trying to escape]] when they realized the true nature of the games, setting off the motion detectors further.
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* HumanShield: A trick some players use to win the first round. As the giant doll in the 'Red Light, Green Light' game has a motion camera that detects players' movements, a player hiding behind another has some leeway and a potential meat shield.
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* MotiveMisidentification: When the Salesman first approaches Gi-Hun, Gi-Hun thinks the Salesman is a Christian Evangelist and states that he’s not interested in Jesus’ teachings.
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* LoanShark: Gi-hun is in debt to some nasty customers, who demand their money or they'll take one of his kidneys. Gi-hun joins the Game in order to pay them off.
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* LoanShark: Gi-hun is in debt to some nasty customers, who demand their money or they'll take one of his kidneys.kidneys and eyes. Gi-hun joins the Game in order to pay them off.
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The next day, Gi-Hun finds out that his ex-wife is planning to move to America. Her new husband (Ga-Yeong's stepdad) has gotten a job opportunity and he's going to move the family there. [[AdultFear This will mean Gi-Hun won't be able to see her.]] Gi-Hun's mother notes that if he has money, he'll be able to prove financial independence and be able to take custody of her. Gi-Hun pulls out the card and calls the number. He's told to wait on a corner at night. He recites a passcode[[note]]"무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다", or "Red Light, Green Light" (literal translation: "The Rose of Sharon has bloomed.") [[/note]] he was told to recites when a mysterious van pulls up. He's ushered in next to some other people. [[OhCrap And then knockout gas is pumped into the van and he falls unconscious.]]
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The next day, Gi-Hun finds out that his ex-wife is planning to move to America. Her new husband (Ga-Yeong's stepdad) has gotten a job opportunity and he's going to move the family there. [[AdultFear This will mean Gi-Hun won't be able to see her.]] Gi-Hun's mother notes that if he has money, he'll be able to prove financial independence and be able to take custody of her. Gi-Hun pulls out the card and calls the number. He's told to wait on a corner at night. He recites a passcode[[note]]"무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다", or "Red Light, Green Light" (literal translation: "The Rose of Sharon has bloomed.") [[/note]] he was told to recites when a mysterious van pulls up. He's ushered in next to some other people. [[OhCrap And then knockout gas is pumped into the van and he falls unconscious.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Let's just say that things aren't really going too well for Gi-hun. See AdultFear above.Gi-hun: he's a slacker and gambler in severe debt and in danger of losing a kidney to loan sharks, and his ex-wife is leaving to the U.S. with their daughter, who probably lose her connection with her father and is starting to see her mother's new husband as her father
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** Gi-Hun is introduced stealing his mother's credit card so he can gamble, but finding out the passcode isn't his birthday anymore, because his mother doesn't like him as much. He's also shown being nice to a stray cat by feeding it and speaking fondly to it, so he's still established as good-hearted.
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* ShmuckBait: When the Game is introduced, the players (and by extension the audience) are led to believe that they will simply be playing a bunch of children's games, with being sent home being the outcome if they lose. It's not until the WhamShot happens, well after the Red Light Green Light game starts, that the true nature of the game is revealed.
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* ShmuckBait: SchmuckBait: When the Game is introduced, the players (and by extension the audience) are led to believe that they will simply be playing a bunch of children's games, with being sent home being the outcome if they lose. It's not until the WhamShot happens, well after the Red Light Green Light game starts, that the true nature of the game is revealed.revealed.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Upon realizing that players who are eliminated are killed, numerous people panic and try to flee and are killed.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Upon realizing that players who are eliminated are killed, numerous people panic and try to flee and are killed.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: After Gi-Hun finds out that his daughter is moving to USA with her mother and stepfather, we cut back to the scene where he promises to get her a better gift for her next birthday. Her reaction isn't just disappointment - it's sadness because she knows he wont be around for her next birthday.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: After Gi-Hun finds out that his daughter is moving to USA with her mother and stepfather, we cut back to the scene where he promises to get her a better gift for her next birthday. Her reaction isn't just disappointment - it's sadness because she knows he wont won't be around for her next birthday.
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->''[[SoundtrackDissonance ♫ Fly me to the moon\\
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[[Recap/SquidGame Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E2Hell 2]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E3TheManWithTheUmbrella 3]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E4StickToTheTeam 4]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E5AFairWorld 5]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E6Gganbu 6]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E7VIPS 7]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E8FrontMan 8]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E9OneLuckyDay 9]]]]-]]]
'''Episode 1:'''
!Red Light, Green Light
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->Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk
->''"There are other games like this where you can make even more. Come on, it must sound tempting."''
-->-- '''The Salesman'''
[[Recap/SquidGame Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E2Hell 2]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E3TheManWithTheUmbrella 3]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E4StickToTheTeam 4]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E5AFairWorld 5]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E6Gganbu 6]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E7VIPS 7]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E8FrontMan 8]] | [[Recap/SquidGameS1E9OneLuckyDay 9]]]]-]]]
'''Episode 1:'''
!Red Light, Green Light
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->Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk
->''"There are other games like this where you can make even more. Come on, it must sound tempting."''
-->-- '''The Salesman'''
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That evening, after a mediocre birthday dinner for Ga-Yeong, Gi-Hun encounters a man at a train station who challenges him to ''ddakji'', a simple children's game, where the prize for winning is 100,000 won (about $85), and the prize for losing is a good slap. Gi-Hun loses [[ButtMonkey about ten times]] and wins once, barely remembering to take the money instead of slapping back. The man makes him an offer - he can do this same sort of thing again for much bigger prizes. He gives Gi-Hun a card and bids him farewell as he leaves on the incoming train, [[PerpetualSmiler never breaking his mysterious smile]].
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That evening, after a mediocre birthday dinner for Ga-Yeong, Gi-Hun encounters a man at a train station who challenges him to ''ddakji'', a simple children's game, where the prize for winning is 100,000 won (about $85), and the prize for losing is a good slap. Gi-Hun loses [[ButtMonkey about ten times]] and wins once, before finally managing to win, barely remembering to take the money instead of slapping back. The man makes him an offer - he can do this same sort of thing again for much bigger prizes. He gives Gi-Hun a card and bids him farewell as he leaves on the incoming train, [[PerpetualSmiler never breaking his mysterious smile]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Not your usual game of Red Light, Green Light.]]
Seong Gi-Hun is a divorced, impoverished dad who works as a chauffeur and struggles with a gambling addiction, also living with his elderly mother, who works to makes ends meet for the both of them. On his daughter Ga-Yeong's birthday, his mother gives him 20,000 won (roughly 17 USD) to spend for Ga-Yeong's birthday. However, with other plans for the money, Gi-Hun whines that [[BlatantLies 20,000 won't even be enough for a fried chicken dinner]], so his mother reluctantly coughs up more, as she scurries off to work. Gi-Hun also takes her hidden bank card with the intent on stealing funds for him and his buddy to bet on the horseraces. He wins big but is spotted by one of the [[LoanShark loan sharks he owes a debt to]]. He runs, but a pickpocket steals his winnings and he can't even pay them. Their leader makes him sign a contract signing away his physical rights, and makes him sign it with his blood.
That evening, after a mediocre birthday dinner for Ga-Yeong, Gi-Hun encounters a man at a train station who challenges him to ''ddakji'', a simple children's game, where the prize for winning is 100,000 won (about $85), and the prize for losing is a good slap. Gi-Hun loses [[ButtMonkey about ten times]] and wins once, barely remembering to take the money instead of slapping back. The man makes him an offer - he can do this same sort of thing again for much bigger prizes. He gives Gi-Hun a card and bids him farewell as he leaves on the incoming train, [[PerpetualSmiler never breaking his mysterious smile]].
The next day, Gi-Hun finds out that his ex-wife is planning to move to America. Her new husband (Ga-Yeong's stepdad) has gotten a job opportunity and he's going to move the family there. [[AdultFear This will mean Gi-Hun won't be able to see her.]] Gi-Hun's mother notes that if he has money, he'll be able to prove financial independence and be able to take custody of her. Gi-Hun pulls out the card and calls the number. He's told to wait on a corner at night. He recites a passcode[[note]]"무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다", or "Red Light, Green Light" (literal translation: "The Rose of Sharon has bloomed.") [[/note]] he was told to recites when a mysterious van pulls up. He's ushered in next to some other people. [[OhCrap And then knockout gas is pumped into the van and he falls unconscious.]]
Gi-Hun wakes up in a giant room full of bunkbeds, wearing a green tracksuit. The number "456" is on the breast. There are hundreds of other people in there too, each wearing a similar suit and number. A display reads that there are 456 participants in the game. A voice rings out and the people are ushered into lines and taken out. Masked men in pink jumpsuits and masks with symbols, ranging from circles to triangles to squares, explain that this is the game, and that they can win cash prizes in the rounds to follow. One man complains, asking why they were drugged and brought here. The leader singles him out, revealing that the man is heavily in debt. He then reveals that everyone here is heavily in debt, some owing millions of won, some a billion. All of them also signed away their physical rights before coming here. They're then given a second contract - players can leave if the majority vote to leave, but they make no money. Everyone signs, and proceeds to the next room. During this, Gi-Hun meets four people - an old man suffering a brain tumor; Deok-Su, a gangster; [[ChekhovsGunman the female pickpocket who stole his winnings]] at the horseraces, who is introduced whilst in the middle of a beatdown being delivered by Deok-Su, who she had betrayed some time ago; and to Gi-Hun's amazement, Sangwoo, his childhood best friend who was the golden boy of the home town and was thought to be incredibly financially stable. An announcement rings out: All players assemble for the first game, which is revealed in the next room - [[TitleDrop Red Light, Green Light, or in Korean, ''무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다'']]
A giant doll stands at the end of an enclosure. It explains the rules: It sings the titular jingle and then turns around. If it sees a player moving while it's facing them, they are disqualified. They have five minutes to cross the finish line at the end of the room. [[ThoseTwoGuys Two slacker players make a bet]] on who gets to the finish line first, winner getting a million dollars. The players start running. The doll turns around for the first time. One of the two players who made the bet is seen moving. [[WhamShot And a bullet strikes him.]] The other one cheekily comments on his loss, [[OhCrap until he sees the other man vomit up blood and lay motionless]]. Then he realizes the man is dead and begins to run back in a panic. Unfortunately, the doll sees him moving as well and he's soon riddled with bullets, his blood splattered on the face of a woman in front of him. She then screams and everyone is set off in a panic as they realize what game they really are playing.
Other bullets strike as other people move. A series of holes are seen around the walls of the enclosure, each containing a small turret. A woman's voice announces the rules once more: "If you are caught moving, you will be disqualified." With this in mind, the other players attempt to continue—the old man gleefully unaware and playing with gusto; Gi-Hun, the pickpocket, Deok-Su, Sangwoo and the other players gathering their wits and continuing forward.
A deadly ballet ensues, as people try to play the game, but inevitably find themselves lacking. Bodies fall with every round. The turrets spit death perfectly. [[SoundtrackDissonance A masked man in black watches all the carnage unfold on a large screen in what looks like a control center and turns on a music player. "Fly Me to the Moon" plays as players are shot down mercilessly.]]
Gi-Hun is approaching, as the other characters have already made it. However, as he's about to trip when the doll turns around, he's held up at the last second by another player: a foreigner who runs with him across the finish line [[JustInTime at the very last second]].[[TimedMission Everyone who hasn't made it across the finish line is disqualified and shot to death.]] The realization occurs to Gi-Hun and the others: this isn't any ordinary game. This is life or death.
!!Tropes appearing in "Red Light, Green Light":
* AdultFear: Gi-hun is in severe debt to a group of loan sharks, and if he fails to pay them within a month, they'll steal one of his kidneys. His ex is disgusted with him and is moving to the US, with his daughter possibly losing her connection to her father and beginning to refer to her mother's new husband as her father.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Player 324 after getting shot.
* BloodOath: Gi-Hun signs a contract with the LoanShark with his bloody fingerprint.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: One of the female players gets sprayed with blood from another player. She has a FreakOut which results in her getting shot as well.
* ButtMonkey: Let's just say that things aren't really going too well for Gi-hun. See AdultFear above.
* CrowdPanic: Upon realizing what kind of game they're playing, numerous scared participants attempt to flee, resulting in them being mercilessly killed for moving.
* CutHimselfShaving: When asked by his daughter about the bruise on his face, Gi-Hun explains that it's a mosquito bite.
* DissonantSerenity: While everyone else is cowering in fear for their lives, the old man is the only one smiling widely as he cheerfully continues on with the game and even getting a decent head start from the others.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
** The introductory flashback to the children playing the squid game shows young Gi-Hun cheating by pulling a LookBehindYou on his opponent.
** Gi-Hun is introduced stealing his mother's credit card so he can gamble, but finding out the passcode isn't his birthday anymore, because his mother doesn't like him as much.
** The pickpocket who steals from Gi-Hun, in later episodes, shows prowess in stealing objects from others.
** Deok-su is introduced giving a violent beatdown to the pickpocket in front of everyone, foreshadowing his role as DiscOneFinalBoss and all-around scum of the earth.
*** [[spoiler: The masked guards also are introduced as not interfering in the fight between the pickpocket and Deok-su, foreshadowing how they will ultimately stay neutral as Deok-su later kills a player and starts a deadly riot to weed out extra players and people he generally doesn't like.]]
* FacelessGoons: The staff's faces are completely covered by a mask with a symbol representing their rank.
* FailureMontage: Gi-Hun repeatedly losing in the ddakji game to the man on the subway and getting slapped in the face each time.
* GiftGivingGaffe: The "gun" Gi-Hun uses to light his cigarette.
* JustInTime: Gi-Hun and Player 199 both cross the finishing line at the last second.
* KnockoutGas: Happens to everyone who accepts to join the Game—they're subjected to being knocked out after getting into a van so they can be transported to a secret location where the Game takes place.
* LivingMotionDetector: The giant doll has this installed on her eyes. Should she detect someone moving when she isn't singing, she sends a signal to the guns adobe her to eliminate the moving player.
* LoanShark: Gi-hun is in debt to some nasty customers, who demand their money or they'll take one of his kidneys. Gi-hun joins the Game in order to pay them off.
* MyCard: The stranger on the subway hands Gi-Hun his business card which only shows a telephone number.
* [[NiceToTheWaiter Nice to the Cat]]: Gi-Hun shows his good-heartedness by feeding a cat in the street.
* OnlyALighter: Gi-hun offers his young daughter a gun for her birthday, only to realizes it's a lighter. He decides to hold onto it and when the salesman initially attempts to make a deal with him, Gi-Hun points it at him, causing the salesman to raise both his hands. When Gi-hun pulls the trigger, the salesman is relieved to find that it was just a lighter.
* PrisonRiot: Players 101 and 067 getting into a fight at the sleeping quarters.
* ShmuckBait: When the Game is introduced, the players (and by extension the audience) are led to believe that they will simply be playing a bunch of children's games, with being sent home being the outcome if they lose. It's not until the WhamShot happens, well after the Red Light Green Light game starts, that the true nature of the game is revealed.
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Fly Me to the Moon", a jazz soundtrack, plays while the contestants are running for their lives in the [[TitleDrop Red Light Green Light]] game and getting slaughtered.
* TimedMission: The players must cross the finishing line before the time runs out, or they are executed.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Gi-Hun's troubles are about 50% this and 50% his chauffeur job that doesn't pay well at all.
* WhamShot: Player 324 getting shot dead during the "Red Light Green Light" game. This lets the audience know that the players will get ''killed'' if they lose the games rather than them simply being sent home.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Not your usual game of Red Light, Green Light.]]
Seong Gi-Hun is a divorced, impoverished dad who works as a chauffeur and struggles with a gambling addiction, also living with his elderly mother, who works to makes ends meet for the both of them. On his daughter Ga-Yeong's birthday, his mother gives him 20,000 won (roughly 17 USD) to spend for Ga-Yeong's birthday. However, with other plans for the money, Gi-Hun whines that [[BlatantLies 20,000 won't even be enough for a fried chicken dinner]], so his mother reluctantly coughs up more, as she scurries off to work. Gi-Hun also takes her hidden bank card with the intent on stealing funds for him and his buddy to bet on the horseraces. He wins big but is spotted by one of the [[LoanShark loan sharks he owes a debt to]]. He runs, but a pickpocket steals his winnings and he can't even pay them. Their leader makes him sign a contract signing away his physical rights, and makes him sign it with his blood.
That evening, after a mediocre birthday dinner for Ga-Yeong, Gi-Hun encounters a man at a train station who challenges him to ''ddakji'', a simple children's game, where the prize for winning is 100,000 won (about $85), and the prize for losing is a good slap. Gi-Hun loses [[ButtMonkey about ten times]] and wins once, barely remembering to take the money instead of slapping back. The man makes him an offer - he can do this same sort of thing again for much bigger prizes. He gives Gi-Hun a card and bids him farewell as he leaves on the incoming train, [[PerpetualSmiler never breaking his mysterious smile]].
The next day, Gi-Hun finds out that his ex-wife is planning to move to America. Her new husband (Ga-Yeong's stepdad) has gotten a job opportunity and he's going to move the family there. [[AdultFear This will mean Gi-Hun won't be able to see her.]] Gi-Hun's mother notes that if he has money, he'll be able to prove financial independence and be able to take custody of her. Gi-Hun pulls out the card and calls the number. He's told to wait on a corner at night. He recites a passcode[[note]]"무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다", or "Red Light, Green Light" (literal translation: "The Rose of Sharon has bloomed.") [[/note]] he was told to recites when a mysterious van pulls up. He's ushered in next to some other people. [[OhCrap And then knockout gas is pumped into the van and he falls unconscious.]]
Gi-Hun wakes up in a giant room full of bunkbeds, wearing a green tracksuit. The number "456" is on the breast. There are hundreds of other people in there too, each wearing a similar suit and number. A display reads that there are 456 participants in the game. A voice rings out and the people are ushered into lines and taken out. Masked men in pink jumpsuits and masks with symbols, ranging from circles to triangles to squares, explain that this is the game, and that they can win cash prizes in the rounds to follow. One man complains, asking why they were drugged and brought here. The leader singles him out, revealing that the man is heavily in debt. He then reveals that everyone here is heavily in debt, some owing millions of won, some a billion. All of them also signed away their physical rights before coming here. They're then given a second contract - players can leave if the majority vote to leave, but they make no money. Everyone signs, and proceeds to the next room. During this, Gi-Hun meets four people - an old man suffering a brain tumor; Deok-Su, a gangster; [[ChekhovsGunman the female pickpocket who stole his winnings]] at the horseraces, who is introduced whilst in the middle of a beatdown being delivered by Deok-Su, who she had betrayed some time ago; and to Gi-Hun's amazement, Sangwoo, his childhood best friend who was the golden boy of the home town and was thought to be incredibly financially stable. An announcement rings out: All players assemble for the first game, which is revealed in the next room - [[TitleDrop Red Light, Green Light, or in Korean, ''무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다'']]
A giant doll stands at the end of an enclosure. It explains the rules: It sings the titular jingle and then turns around. If it sees a player moving while it's facing them, they are disqualified. They have five minutes to cross the finish line at the end of the room. [[ThoseTwoGuys Two slacker players make a bet]] on who gets to the finish line first, winner getting a million dollars. The players start running. The doll turns around for the first time. One of the two players who made the bet is seen moving. [[WhamShot And a bullet strikes him.]] The other one cheekily comments on his loss, [[OhCrap until he sees the other man vomit up blood and lay motionless]]. Then he realizes the man is dead and begins to run back in a panic. Unfortunately, the doll sees him moving as well and he's soon riddled with bullets, his blood splattered on the face of a woman in front of him. She then screams and everyone is set off in a panic as they realize what game they really are playing.
Other bullets strike as other people move. A series of holes are seen around the walls of the enclosure, each containing a small turret. A woman's voice announces the rules once more: "If you are caught moving, you will be disqualified." With this in mind, the other players attempt to continue—the old man gleefully unaware and playing with gusto; Gi-Hun, the pickpocket, Deok-Su, Sangwoo and the other players gathering their wits and continuing forward.
A deadly ballet ensues, as people try to play the game, but inevitably find themselves lacking. Bodies fall with every round. The turrets spit death perfectly. [[SoundtrackDissonance A masked man in black watches all the carnage unfold on a large screen in what looks like a control center and turns on a music player. "Fly Me to the Moon" plays as players are shot down mercilessly.]]
Gi-Hun is approaching, as the other characters have already made it. However, as he's about to trip when the doll turns around, he's held up at the last second by another player: a foreigner who runs with him across the finish line [[JustInTime at the very last second]].[[TimedMission Everyone who hasn't made it across the finish line is disqualified and shot to death.]] The realization occurs to Gi-Hun and the others: this isn't any ordinary game. This is life or death.
!!Tropes appearing in "Red Light, Green Light":
* AdultFear: Gi-hun is in severe debt to a group of loan sharks, and if he fails to pay them within a month, they'll steal one of his kidneys. His ex is disgusted with him and is moving to the US, with his daughter possibly losing her connection to her father and beginning to refer to her mother's new husband as her father.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Player 324 after getting shot.
* BloodOath: Gi-Hun signs a contract with the LoanShark with his bloody fingerprint.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: One of the female players gets sprayed with blood from another player. She has a FreakOut which results in her getting shot as well.
* ButtMonkey: Let's just say that things aren't really going too well for Gi-hun. See AdultFear above.
* CrowdPanic: Upon realizing what kind of game they're playing, numerous scared participants attempt to flee, resulting in them being mercilessly killed for moving.
* CutHimselfShaving: When asked by his daughter about the bruise on his face, Gi-Hun explains that it's a mosquito bite.
* DissonantSerenity: While everyone else is cowering in fear for their lives, the old man is the only one smiling widely as he cheerfully continues on with the game and even getting a decent head start from the others.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
** The introductory flashback to the children playing the squid game shows young Gi-Hun cheating by pulling a LookBehindYou on his opponent.
** Gi-Hun is introduced stealing his mother's credit card so he can gamble, but finding out the passcode isn't his birthday anymore, because his mother doesn't like him as much.
** The pickpocket who steals from Gi-Hun, in later episodes, shows prowess in stealing objects from others.
** Deok-su is introduced giving a violent beatdown to the pickpocket in front of everyone, foreshadowing his role as DiscOneFinalBoss and all-around scum of the earth.
*** [[spoiler: The masked guards also are introduced as not interfering in the fight between the pickpocket and Deok-su, foreshadowing how they will ultimately stay neutral as Deok-su later kills a player and starts a deadly riot to weed out extra players and people he generally doesn't like.]]
* FacelessGoons: The staff's faces are completely covered by a mask with a symbol representing their rank.
* FailureMontage: Gi-Hun repeatedly losing in the ddakji game to the man on the subway and getting slapped in the face each time.
* GiftGivingGaffe: The "gun" Gi-Hun uses to light his cigarette.
* JustInTime: Gi-Hun and Player 199 both cross the finishing line at the last second.
* KnockoutGas: Happens to everyone who accepts to join the Game—they're subjected to being knocked out after getting into a van so they can be transported to a secret location where the Game takes place.
* LivingMotionDetector: The giant doll has this installed on her eyes. Should she detect someone moving when she isn't singing, she sends a signal to the guns adobe her to eliminate the moving player.
* LoanShark: Gi-hun is in debt to some nasty customers, who demand their money or they'll take one of his kidneys. Gi-hun joins the Game in order to pay them off.
* MyCard: The stranger on the subway hands Gi-Hun his business card which only shows a telephone number.
* [[NiceToTheWaiter Nice to the Cat]]: Gi-Hun shows his good-heartedness by feeding a cat in the street.
* OnlyALighter: Gi-hun offers his young daughter a gun for her birthday, only to realizes it's a lighter. He decides to hold onto it and when the salesman initially attempts to make a deal with him, Gi-Hun points it at him, causing the salesman to raise both his hands. When Gi-hun pulls the trigger, the salesman is relieved to find that it was just a lighter.
* PrisonRiot: Players 101 and 067 getting into a fight at the sleeping quarters.
* ShmuckBait: When the Game is introduced, the players (and by extension the audience) are led to believe that they will simply be playing a bunch of children's games, with being sent home being the outcome if they lose. It's not until the WhamShot happens, well after the Red Light Green Light game starts, that the true nature of the game is revealed.
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Fly Me to the Moon", a jazz soundtrack, plays while the contestants are running for their lives in the [[TitleDrop Red Light Green Light]] game and getting slaughtered.
* TimedMission: The players must cross the finishing line before the time runs out, or they are executed.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Gi-Hun's troubles are about 50% this and 50% his chauffeur job that doesn't pay well at all.
* WhamShot: Player 324 getting shot dead during the "Red Light Green Light" game. This lets the audience know that the players will get ''killed'' if they lose the games rather than them simply being sent home.
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