Squid Game 2 2024
Squid Game Season 2 2024 English Sub
The second season of the South Korean dystopian survival thriller horror television series Squid Game, marketed as Squid Game 2, created for television by Korean writer and television producer Hwang Dong-hyuk, is set for release on December 26, 2024. The season is produced by Netflix.
The season stars Lee Jung-jae, Wi Ha-joon, Lee Byung-hun, Im Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Lee Jin-wook, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Jo Yu-ri, Kang Ae-shim and Lee Seo-hwan. It is set three years after Seong Gi-hun won Squid Game, giving up on going to the United States and returning with a new resolution in mind. He once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of ₩45.6 billion.
Episode 1 Bread and Lottery
Seong Gi-hun leaves the terminal[a] determined to confront the Front Man behind the games. Realizing he is being monitored, he removes a tracking device implanted behind his ear. Hwang Jun-ho survives his fall from the cliff.[b] Two years later, Gi-hun works with Kim, a loan shark, and his lackeys to track down the games’ recruiter in Seoul. Kim and his second-in-command, Choi Woo-seok, eventually find the recruiter and watch him offer vagrants a bun or a lottery ticket; most choose the ticket, and the recruiter destroys the rejected bun in front of them. The recruiter abducts Kim and Woo-seok and forces them to play a deadly game of rock paper scissors combined with Russian roulette, resulting in Kim’s death. Jun-ho investigates Gi-hun and locates his operational base. The recruiter confronts Gi-hun there, revealing he was once a soldier in the games and killed his own father, a player, and justifies the games’ cruelty by labeling the participants as scum. He challenges Gi-hun into a round of Russian roulette, resulting in his own death.
Episode 2 Halloween Party
Gi-hun and Jun-ho, recognizing each other, share their experiences with the game and its creators, though Jun-ho conceals his brother’s identity as the Front Man. Together with Woo-seok, they discover a lead from the recruiter’s jacket pointing to a Halloween party. Woo-seok recruits a team of mercenaries, Gi-hun implants a tracker in himself, and the three devise a plan to locate the Front Man. Meanwhile, Gi-hun continues to look after Sang-woo’s mother and Cheol, works with a broker to attempt to reunite Cheol with his mother from the North, and places a silent call to his estranged daughter. Kang No-eul, a North Korean defector, seeks to bring her own daughter out of the North. The team infiltrates the Halloween party, where Gi-hun is escorted by one of the game’s pink-clad soldiers into a limousine, with his team in pursuit. He confronts the Front Man via speaker, demanding an end to the games. When the vehicles following him are shot down, Gi-hun requests to be returned to the island, where the games are held, to participate. Meanwhile, No-eul also enters the game, but as a soldier.
Episode 3 001
Gi-hun wakes in the game’s dormitory with 455 other players. A manager announces a new rule: after each game, the players will vote, and if majority agrees to end the game, the accumulated prize money will be divided among them. Jun-ho and his team lose track of the island as Gi-hun’s tracker has been removed. Gi-hun recognizes Player 390 as his friend Jung-bae and advises him to stay close. The first game is Red Light, Green Light; Gi-hun warns the players that losing will result in death, though many dismiss him. Despite the chaos, Gi-hun’s precautions help reduce casualties. Player 230, a famous rapper known by Thanos, takes drugs and deliberately pushes others to eliminate them. With help from Player 120, Gi-hun attempts to save an eliminated player who was only non-fatally shot, but No-eul shoots the player dead. After the game, Gi-hun urges the players to vote the game’s end and reveals he is the sole winner of a previous iteration. Players voting to continue are labeled “O,” and those voting to leave are labeled “X.” The Front Man, disguised as Player 001, casts the deciding vote to continue.
Episode 4 Six Legs
Player 001 tells Gi-hun that he and other players voted to continue hoping to benefit from Gi-hun’s prior experience, and also claims his pregnant wife is hospitalized and that he lost his job after accepting a bribe to support her. Thanos and Player 124, Nam-gyu, beat Player 333, Myung-gi, a YouTuber who defrauded his subscribers through cryptocurrency schemes; Player 001 intervenes and stops the altercation easily. Meanwhile, a group of soldiers, led by a black-clad soldier, begin harvesting organs to sell on the black market. The black-clad soldier threatens No-eul to ignore the activities, though she refuses. Junho attempts to secure police assistance but is unsuccessful. Player 222, Myung-gi’s pregnant ex-girlfriend, reveals herself to him. To Gi-hun’s surprise, the second game requires players to form teams of five for a six-legged pentathlon consisting of five children’s games: ddakji, biseokchigi, gong-gi, jegi, and spinning top, to be completed under a five-minute time limit. No-eul continues her sabotage of the soldiers’ organ trade by shooting any living eliminated players dead.
Episode 5 One More Game
After Player 120 (Cho Hyun-ju), Player 007 (Park Yong-sik), his mother Player 149 (Jang Geum-ja), Player 044 (Seon-nyeo), and Player 095 (Kim Young-mi), successfully complete the pentathlon through mutual support, many other teams are inspired and succeed. Gi-hun allies with Jung-bae, Player 001, Player 222 (Kim Jun-hee), and Player 388 (Kang Dae-ho); they succeed and exchange names after the game, though Player 001 falsely claims his name is Oh Young-il. No-eul is attacked by two soldiers involved in the organ trade, who warn her to stop interfering. During the following vote, Player 001 seems to encourage the players to vote against continuing the game, but a larger majority opts to proceed, believing the prize pool remains too small. Gi-hun confides in Jung-bae about his growing uncertainty in rescuing everyone. Meanwhile, Jun-ho and Woo-seok, now with an expanded mercenary team, begin searching for the island. The third game, titled “Mingles,” requires players to enter designated rooms after forming groups based on the number announced at the beginning of each round.
Episode 6 "O X"
During “Mingles,” players struggle to fit their alliances into the designated rooms, causing tension among many. Gi-hun and Hyun-ju’s groups, as well as Player 246, form an alliance, but many players, including Young-mi, are killed. In the final round, Jung-bae witnesses Player 001 kill another player to secure a room for themselves. After the game, Gi-hun and Player 001 argue whether to persuade other players to vote to end the games, and ultimately decide against it to avoid a physical fight. During the vote, several players, including Player 125, Min-su—who has been subservient to Thanos and Nam-gyu—change their votes to leave. The deciding vote falls again to Player 001, resulting in a tie; the players are given a day before re-voting. In the bathroom, Thanos and Nam-gyu pressure Min-su into changing his vote to continue, but Myung-gi and other “X” players intervene to defend him. A fight ensues, with Thanos strangling Myung-gi, who fatally stabs him with a fork. Meanwhile, Jun-ho’s team locates a possible entrance on an island, only for it to be a decoy rigged with explosives, killing one of the mercenaries.
Episode 7 Friend or Foe
After the bathroom fight, the players realize they may freely kill others to increase the prize money. Gi-hun convinces a small group that the real enemy is not each other, but the people in charge of the game. When a fight breaks out in the dorm, Gi-hun’s group stay hidden, and emerge only when guards arrive to end the fight. Gi-hun’s group take the guns and kill the guards except the supervisor. Gi-hun starts a riot that a few other people join, and uses the supervisor to lead them to the control room. Soldiers open fire on them en route, and the uprising fails when the group run out of ammo; Dae-ho, who was supposed to collect more ammo from the dorm, doesn’t return due to a panic attack. Player 001 betrays and kills two players. Some of the players who surrender are killed. Gi-hun is captured and Player 001, masked as the Front Man again, asks him if it was worth “… playing his little game as the hero?” before killing Jung-bae. After the uprising, the game resumes normally.