[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Squid Game, Season 2.]
Squid Recreation is again and retaining viewers on their toes as Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) re-entered the sport decided to actual revenge for himself and the gamers who’ve misplaced their lives to the lethal playground shenanigans.
After Gi-hun gained the titular video games, which noticed him pitted in opposition to tons of of others with the aim of successful unfathomable riches by surviving the longest, Season 2 picks up along with his plan to infiltrate the scheme after two years of coaching with weapons. Whereas he believes he has infiltrated the video games early on within the season, it turns into clear fairly shortly that he hasn’t as a tracker hidden in considered one of his tooth from the time he’s picked as much as play and the interval main as much as his entrance into the sport itself is eliminated.
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However much like Season 1, one other participant is working with an ulterior motive, they usually occur to put on the quantity 001. So, who’s Season 1’s Participant 001? It seems that it’s Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), a.okay.a. The Entrance Man. He’s amongst Season 7’s gamers, contributing to the failures and success of various sport rounds and gaining the belief of an unsuspecting Gi-hun alongside the best way.
As viewers will recall from Season 1, Hwang In-ho is the older brother of Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), and after he went lacking, Hwang Jun-ho went trying to find him, infiltrating the employees behind the scenes of the video games to attempt to discover him. Finally, Hwang Jun-ho found that Hwang In-ho had been put answerable for the brutal video games when The Entrance Man eliminated his masks in Season 1.
Hwang In-ho gained a previous iteration of the video games as Participant 132 and took over Oh Il-nam’s (O Yeong-su) place after the outdated man and creator (who was Season 1’s Participant 001) bowed out of the gig. Finally, Hwang In-ho interfered with the sport Gi-hun was attempting to play this time round, however his true motivations stay partly unclear. For now, he seems to be an adversary, however will he wish to actual revenge in an analogous strategy to Gi-hun earlier than the sequence is thru? Solely time will inform.
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