Squid Sport 3 Ending Defined: Gi-Hun Dies

SPOILER ALERT: This text incorporates main spoilers from the “Squid Sport” sequence finale, now streaming on Netflix.

Clocking in at beneath an hour in runtime, the “Squid Sport” third and closing season finale wallops the viewers with a number of stunning moments earlier than the smash-hit South Korean Netflix drama involves its conclusion. And the largest one occurs simply over 20 minutes in, when our protagonist Gi-hun/Participant 456 (Lee Jung-jae) dies.

Following the primary two rounds of Sky Squid Sport that have been performed in Episode 5, the finale opens with three gamers left within the recreation: Gi-hun, Myung-gi/Participant 333 (Yim Si-wan) and the newborn strapped to Gi-hun’s chest. The new child is the kid of Jun-hee/Participant 222 (Jo Yu-ri), who sacrificed herself earlier within the season and left her daughter in Gi-hun’s care, though Myung-gi is her father.

And whereas Gi-hun remains to be intent on defending the kid till the tip of the lethal recreation atop the three sky-high-pillar buildings, Myung-gi crosses to the ultimate of the three pillars and holds Gi-hun at pole size and threatens him handy over the newborn in order that Myung-gi can go away Gi-hun to his dying on the second pillar. Then Myung-gi can throw his personal daughter off the ultimate pillar to win the sport.

Gi-hun reluctantly units down the kid and lets Myung-gi choose her up and produce her over to the third pillar. However on the final second, as the trail between the 2 buildings is retracting, Gi-hun jumps over and begins to struggle Myung-gi to the dying with the knife he’s had in his possession, because the child lies off to the facet. Finally, Myung-gi picks the newborn again up and holds her over the sting, threatening to drop her if Gi-hun doesn’t hand over. Myung-gi finally places the newborn down, and he and Gi-hun proceed their struggle with the knife till they each go over the sting collectively. Gi-hun manages to seize onto an uncovered bar simply in time, and holds Myung-gi by his clothes so long as he can, till the material rips and Myung-gi falls to his dying.

Gi-hun climbs again up, seemingly victorious, till he realizes neither he or Myung-gi ever truly pressed the button to start out the ultimate spherical. Which means Myung-gi’s dying didn’t rely towards the sport, and now Gi-hun has to both kill himself or the newborn for it to finish. Gi-hun holds the kid as he walks to the sting and stands there for a very long time, staring into the two-way glass he is aware of In-ho/The Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) is watching with the rich spectators of the video games. Gi-hun finally makes his choice, and with tears in his eyes, he places down the newborn and chooses to fall backwards to his dying. His closing phrases earlier than the bounce have been, “We’re not horses. We’re people. And people are…” He doesn’t end the thought.

With Gi-hun’s sacrifice, the newborn is said the winner of the video games, and In-ho — clearly impressed by the selfless alternative that Gi-hun has made, and what he’s confirmed in regards to the good in humanity — goes to gather the newborn and produce her to security. As he’s doing so, the remainder of the members of the Squid Sport facility are hurriedly packing as much as go away as In-ho and the workforce have found the authorities are coming. When In-ho reaches the newborn, his brother Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) — who has been main the mission to search out the island, and has spent a number of years looking for his brother after discovering In-ho had been introduced into the video games — sees him from the management room. Jun-ho screams at In-ho, desirous to know why In-ho has turn into the Entrance Man, however In-ho simply turns and exits with the newborn.

There’s then a time bounce to 6 months later, and we see No-eul (Park Gyu-young) again on the amusement park the place she labored earlier than she was pulled in to turn into a guard within the video games. She’s having her caricature accomplished by Gyung-seok/Participant 246 (Lee Jin-uk), who has no concept that this girl was the masked guard who broke him out of the video games to reunite him together with his daughter, who was sick with most cancers. He thinks she seems acquainted, however she waves it off as having labored right here beforehand earlier than giving a a lollipop to his younger daughter, now recovered, and wishing them nicely as she goes.

No-eul is knowledgeable that her daughter, who she was satisfied was lifeless again in North Korea, has seemingly been noticed in China, and he or she strikes to go away rapidly in hopes of discovering her. Whereas No-eul is checking in on the airport, we see Kang Cheol — the little brother of Kang Sae-byeok (HoYeon Jung), Gi-hun’s good good friend and fellow participant in Season 1 — reunited together with his mom, who had been caught in North Korea.

Woo-seok (Jun Suk-ho) is bailed out of jail by Jun-ho, and the 2 marvel about what occurred to all of the prize cash that Gi-hun had hoarded after his first video games, because it had disappeared by the point Jun-ho went to search for it over the previous few months. When Jun-ho arrives dwelling later, he finds the newborn that In-ho had been holding has been left for him, together with a financial institution card loaded with Participant 222’s winnings: 45.6 billion in gained.

Within the closing scenes of the finale, In-ho goes to Los Angeles to ship a bundle to Gi-hun’s daughter, Seong Ga-yeong. He tells her that her father is lifeless, and he has left these belongings to her. Although she is livid along with her father for not having come to the U.S. to see her, she accepts the bundle. She opens the field to search out it incorporates his 456 uniform, together with a financial institution card that’s implied to be loaded with Gi-hun’s winnings from the primary recreation — that means, In-ho was the one who took them from Gi-hun’s room after his dying. In-ho leaves, and is driving in a automobile with a driver in downtown Los Angeles with the window down when he notices two folks enjoying a well-recognized recreation of ddakji with a slapping twist in an alley.

One is a homeless man, the opposite a lady wearing a effective swimsuit (performed by Cate Blanchett) who seems just like the Recruiter from In-ho’s Squid Video games. They make eye contact and acknowledge one another earlier than In-ho rolls up the window and the automobile continues on, as the girl goes for an additional spherical with the keen man.