Il-nam confirms that is his real name, and that he has a tumor, which has been growing. It's addressed "from your gganbu." Squid Game ending's big reveal: It was Il-nam all along A card containing a sparkling gold Squid Game invite card. He then goes to drink on the river bank, continuing the life he had before he became rich.īut when Gi-hun buys flowers from a woman selling them on the water, he notices that a special card was attached to his purchase.
The bank manager offers him one of many ways to earn more interest, as the bank has new products for "VIPs." Hearing that word, which references the men who watched the Squid Games, Gi-hun stands up and just asks for 10,000 Won from his savings. The manager of the bank summoned him to ask about why his money is just sitting there, unspent, and not earning much interest. Gi-hun, seen unkempt on a train with a lot of facial hair that grew in those months, goes to a bank. His daughter has also moved to the US with her mother and stepfather. He is living the same kind of life he was living before, drinking beers on the bank of the Han River, rather than spending his winnings. Gi-hun then spends the next year - which is passed in a flash-forward - in a depression. He finds her on the floor, thinking she's just asleep until she doesn't wake up. This is a bit of a bracing warning to the audience, as Gi-hun's return home confirms our fears: his mother is dead. But she also says that Gi-hun’s mother hasn't been at work in two days.
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On his way home, Gi-hun come across Sang-woo's mother who shows that she's one of the best people in this show: giving him free food and asking after her son. With 455 dead players in his shadow, Gi-hun walks to an ATM and takes 10,000 Won out. Left on the raining streets of Seoul, with a gold debit card (to be unlocked with his Squid Game uniform number '0456') in his mouth, Gi-hun has earned his 45.6 billion Won. He even says, "you people are the horses," to make sure it sounds as sickening an inhumane as possible. Before he throws him out of a car, he compares the fights that the Squid Game competitors have had to the horse races that Gi-hun bet on earlier in the season. With the game over, the Front Man takes Gi-hun back home. Sang-woo doesn't let this happen, and after he tells Gi-hun to help his mother, he stabs his own throat. He tries to end the game by simply walking to the "squid's head."īut then a guard aims their gun at the fallen Sang-woo, which forces Gi-hun to ask that the games be ended with a vote.
But, in the end, Gi-hun refuses to cross the line that Sang-woo did, showing mercy to him when he has him pinned on the ground. He also says he refuses to let Sang-woo leave with the money. Gi-hun tells Sang-woo that Sae-byeok had practically protected him, stopping him from killing Sang-woo.Īs the two fight, Sang-woo then stabs Gi-hun twice - once in the thigh, and the other (shockingly) in the hand - but Gi-hun refuses to stay down. Gi-hun says she could have been saved, but Sang-woo admits he feared an alliance between her and Gi-hun - and that he'd rather murder than risk leaving the games without the money. As rain begins to pour, the two argue and Sang-woo admits to killing Sae-byeok (though she had already been bleeding profusely).