Get the latest gossip
Squid Game Recap: Still Pregaming
While this exposition-heavy episode still doesn’t get Gi-hun back to the game, it lays the final groundwork.
When Gi-hun demands that the game be stopped, the Front Man says participants are all there by choice, implying — in an echo of the Recruiter’s rhetoric from the previous episode — that they are responsible for the consequences. When the Front Man doesn’t immediately agree, Gi-hun goads him by suggesting that he’s scared to be proven wrong, the same way Oh Il-nam refused up until his dying breath to acknowledge that he had lost his bet that nobody would help someone passed out on the street. These guys were presented as the cream of the military crop, but this operation left room for someone to sneak in and plant an explosive without anyone noticing in real time or checking the vehicle afterward.
Or read this on VULTURE