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## Season One
### Episode 1 - Red Light, Green Light
Starts off with monochrome footage of the eponymous squid game
>[!Squid game]
>![[Pasted image 20250119122125.png]]

>[!Gi-hun's mother]
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>[!Gi-hun]


We're introduced to the character of Seong Gi-hun, a deadbeat father living with his mother. His daughter, who lives with his ex-wife, Ga-yeong, has her birthday the next day. Using the money he gets from his mother, he goes to gamble to horse races in an attempt to win money. Using his daughter's birthday date, June 8, he wins 4 million yen.
He prematurely proclaims to his daughter they're having a full-blown party that day, but is quickly intercepted by the loan sharks he owes money to. While running away, he bumps into a teenage-looking woman, who secretly pickpockets him of his 4 million yen. He is questioned in a toilet by the loan sharks and is forced to agree to get the money by the next month, or they are "going to take his kidneys and one of his eyes"
Using whatever money he had left, he scrambles to buy his daughter fried chicken and *tteokbokki* and gives her a present in a black box he won in an arcade with the help of local kids. It turns out to be a lighter that looks like a pistol, so he has to take it away. He promises to get her something big for real for her next birthday.
>[!Ga-yeong]
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After geting his daughter to his ex-wife, on the subway he meets a mysterious man who offers to play a game of *ddakji*. If he wins, Gi-hun pays him 100,000 yen. If Gi-hun wins, the man pays him 100,000 yen. After losing for the first time, the man proposes to slap Gi-hun instead for each loss. After a long streak of losses, Gi-hun eventually wins and wins many times more. 

>[!The Man]
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The man offers Gi-hun an opportunity to make easy money in a similar way. Although initally dismissive of the idea. Gi-hun is swayed by the man's almost threatening background check on him: he tells him his name, his past job as an engineer, the way he lost his job, and many more details. He gives Gi-hun his business card and tells him to call the number on it.

When he arrives home, Gi-hun's mother informs him of the fact that Ga-yeong and her mom and stepdad are moving to the US next year. She says that a lawyer upstairs told her that if a man has enough income, he can win the rights to his daughter back.
Swayed by this, Gi-hun calls the number on the card, and is semi-abducted in a van, where he is made unconscious with some sleep gas.

He wakes up a chamber with 455 other people in green uniforms with their assigned numbers on them (Gi-hun's number is 456)
![[Pasted image 20250119125450.png]]

There we are introduced to 001, an old man with a brain tumor
![[Pasted image 20250119125525.png]]

067, the pickpocket girl from before, who turns out to be a defector from the North
![[Pasted image 20250119125556.png]]

and 101, a gang leader who has beef with 067 because she backstabbed him
![[Pasted image 20250119125624.png]]

067 justifies her actions by saying "she went independent", 101 mockingly compares her to Yu Gwan-sun, a Korean independence activist, but says she can't fly the flag cuz she's from the North. Gi-hun enters the altercation trying to get his money back

We're also introduced to some enigmatic man who is seemingly in charge of this:
![[Pasted image 20250119125755.png]]
He is shown to speak fluent English

Everyone among the players is deeply in debt.

>[!Gi-hun]
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The players are moved to a field for the first game of green light, red light, where Gi-hun is surprised to meet his seemingly very successful childhood best friend Cho Sang-woo
![[Pasted image 20250119130103.png]]

This dumbass gets shot first:
![[Pasted image 20250119130234.png]]

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067 throws 101 behind her, but both survive

>[!Mask guy observing with Frank Sinatra's Fly me to the moon in the background]
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456 gets shocked and almost loses the game but in the very last moment gets saved by some random dude 199 (they both are almost the last to finish):
![[Pasted image 20250119130749.png]]

It's shown that the games take place on an island:
![[Pasted image 20250119130919.png]]

### Episode Two - Hell
