[Spoiler Alert] Seong Gi-hun’s sacrifice, in Squid Game 3’s ending, was a testament to the fact that, until his dying day, he didn’t lose his faith in humanity. Gi-hun’s last words echoed loud and clear in those very halls built upon the blood of the innocent who had been misguided by greed. Before jumping to his death, he told those capitalist leeches that humans are not horses. Humans are… humans are much more than mere flesh and blood. Every VIP watching Gi-hun from afar had speculated that he would throw the baby, Player 222, off the edge to save his life and win the prize money. But he surprised them all when he chose to kill himself instead of taking an innocent life. And that was something even the former winner of the game, In-ho, aka, Front Man, wasn’t capable of. When given a choice, In-ho had brutally murdered the players in their sleep to win the game, something he regretted till the end. The thing about greed is, it makes you self-centered. Whenever your own life is in danger, your animalistic instinct, also known as the survival instinct, kicks in, and you can’t seem to think about anyone else but yourself. This has happened with each and every participant of the game, but Gi-hun has always been different.
Gi-hun Sacrifices His Life For Player 222
Gi-hun had made a promise to the baby’s mother, Jun-hee, that he would protect her daughter to his last breath. The newborn had nothing to do with the game or the prize money. The baby didn’t choose to participate out of free will. Well, she didn’t have a will at all, which disqualifies her as a player, but the vicious VIPs felt her presence made the game much more exciting. Yes, rich people get pretty weird when they fail to put their wealth to good use. But if you think these VIPs and Front Man were as bad as it could get, then you should really consider what Myung-gi, the baby’s father, had planned to do. He wanted to throw the baby off the platform to win the prize money. Gi-hun knew he wasn’t a man to be trusted and therefore fought against him, trying to protect Jun-hee’s daughter. Player 333, aka Myung-gi, fell to his death, and Gi-hun climbed up the platform, only to realize they hadn’t pressed the button, which meant they still needed to eliminate one player to end the game. This was the moment Gi-hun recalled his promise and jumped to his death, just to tell those getting pleasure out of human misery and death that they are not animals. Gi-hun knew that the rich are not only blinded by their wealth but are also ignorant and arrogant, so his words are going to fall on deaf ears, and his sacrifice won’t make much of a difference.
Gi-hun entered the Squid Game for the second time because he wanted to put an end to it once and for all, but by the end, he realized that the games might not just continue forever, but maybe thrive in the near future, because there’s no end to human greed. Players in the game might have ended up stealing money from someone else to pay their debts or even killing an innocent on the streets. These games just gave them an opportunity to pull down their masks and show their true face to the world. The game didn’t create monsters. It just fed the monsters that were already in there. And unfortunate were those who became collateral in this sick game of life and death. Gi-hun wanted to protect the innocents who fell for the trap set by the game organizers, but eventually failed to move mountains to meet his goal.
Front Man Is A Glimmer Of Hope
I guess Front Man was the only person who was a little moved by Gi-hun’s death and his idealism. I am not saying he’s going to go rogue and try to stop the Squid Game, but he did at least try to do the right thing so that Gi-hun’s death doesn’t go in vain. The poor child had lost her parents in the game, and she had no relatives to look after her, which was why Front Man gave the baby to the person he trusted the most in the world, his stepbrother, Hwang Jun-ho. Squid Game 3’s ending suggested that Jun-ho would raise the baby as his own, just like his mother and father had adopted In-ho when he was young, giving him the family he truly deserved. Throughout the years, In-ho always believed that Jun-ho would just forget about him and abandon him because they weren’t bound by blood, but he didn’t. Jun-ho never gave up on searching for his missing brother and even tried to confront him in the end, but In-ho really had nothing to explain. He became a part of the game to save his beloved wife, and with his family already dead, he didn’t have any reason to look back. In-ho would continue donning the mask of Front Man and fulfill the promise he had made to his master, Oh Il-nam.
In Squid Game 3’s ending, Front Man even paid a visit to Gi-hun’s daughter, Seong Ga-yeong, in Los Angeles. He gave her the money Gi-hun had won in the first game and hadn’t spent, along with all the belongings he had, so that Ga-yeong would find some closure and stop waiting for her dad to call or even visit her in America. Back in season 1, Gi-hun was going to meet his daughter but suddenly changed his plans when he saw a Recruiter at the subway station, and from that point onwards Ga-yeong had been waiting for her dad to pay her a visit. Furthermore, it was Front Man who took out the money from the Pink Motel Gi-hun had bought and likely converted it into US dollars and put it in a bank so that Ga-yeong could use it to build a better future for herself, something her dad had wanted her to do.
I guess Front Man has always been a complex person, or maybe he was just a poorly written character. He wanted to remain neutral towards the players but broke a bunch of rules by participating in the game himself, so we are not completely sure what he wanted. In the end, he did what was expected of him as a “human being,” but his loyalty would always be to the game. I think one of the reasons why Front Man was the best person to organize the game was because he didn’t have any ties left in the world. After he became Front Man, he didn’t follow his self-interest, though he occasionally tried to save his brother’s life. Yes, that’s why I said he’s pretty gray. He tried to help Gi-hun because he wanted him to survive, but that’s cheating, right? Well, I guess we’ll never be able to fully understand Front Man as a person, but I am glad he still has an ounce of humanity left in him.
Jun-ho Will Give Up On His Hunt
Throughout seasons 2 and 3, Jun-ho had been trying to locate his brother, and in season 3’s finale, he finally found him, but their encounter was brief. Jun-ho wanted answers, and In-ho didn’t have any, which was why as soon as Jun-ho arrived at the facility, In-ho just left without a confrontation. However, in the end, he did give his younger brother a bit of closure by leaving him a baby to look after. He had resigned from the police force and the prize money In-ho left for him will be more than enough for Jun-ho to look after himself and the baby under his care.
Additionally, in season 3’s ending, In-ho had activated the self-destruction protocol to blow up the entire facility, as he didn’t want the Coast Guard to find any evidence of the Squid Games. So I think it’s safe to assume that In-ho won’t be organizing any new games, at least not until he has rebuilt the whole thing from the ground up, which is going to take a lot of time. Hence, his brother won’t be coming after him in the near future. The only evidence Jun-ho had to locate the games was the island, but with the facility blown to pieces, he doesn’t have any leads to follow, and he will have to start his investigation from scratch. The question here is: does he want to? The ending of Squid Game 3 also suggests that the next round of Squid Games is going to take place overseas, in America in particular, and I am not sure how that information’s going to find its way to Jun-ho. I think it’s safe to assume that this is the last we’ll be seeing of Jun-ho, though if the makers of the spin-off shows want to bring the investigator back, then Jun-ho won’t mind catching the criminals betting on humans for their sadistic pleasure.
Choi Woo-seok Takes Over Pink Motel
In season 3’s ending, Woo-seok, who was arrested for breaking into Captain Park’s house, finally stepped out of prison. Neither Woo-seok nor Jun-ho had any idea who had taken the prize money Gi-hun had stashed inside the Pink Motel. They believed that either someone had stolen it or Gi-hun had taken it out and left Korea for good. The thing is, none of these people, except for Front Man and Gi-hun’s daughter, are aware of the fact that Gi-hun was dead, but Woo-seok was certain that Gi-hun wasn’t coming back, which was why he decided to renovate the Pink Motel and turn it into a profitable business. I am pretty sure he won’t go back to his loan shark business, he’ll lead an honest life from here on. Also, if Jun-ho ever decided to reopen his investigation into the Squid Games, then it’s likely that Woo-seok will tag along to find the culprits running the illegal betting game.
Kang No-eul Travels To China
In the ending of Squid Game 3, Guard 011, aka No-eul, found some hard copy records of all the players and the guards in Front Man’s chamber. No-eul had defected from North Korea in 2017, and while trying to escape from the country, she’d had to leave her daughter, Han Song-i, behind. After coming to South Korea, she left no stone unturned to find the whereabouts of her lost daughter; however, according to Front Man’s records, Song-i was dead. The heart-breaking revelation crushed No-eul’s only hope to survive, and she tried taking her life, when she suddenly heard the cries of Jun-hee’s baby. It likely reminded No-eul of her own daughter, who saw this as a sign from God himself. Furthermore, Gi-hun’s sacrifice to protect the young child filled No-eul with hope not to give up on her daughter without trying. She felt determined to do everything in her power to find her, and that was what motivated her to leave the facility to look out for her daughter. In the end, Mr. Park from South Men, North Women, contacted her and told her that someone had seen her daughter in China. Well, as soon as No-eul heard the words, she immediately packed her bags and booked a flight to Yanji to find her daughter. Mr. Park had asked someone to receive No-eul in Yanji, and I hope she finally finds Song-i. It’s also possible that No-eul and her daughter’s story will continue in the spin-off of Squid Game.
Cate Blanchett Is The New Recruiter
In Squid Game 3’s ending, Front Man spotted a woman (Cate Blanchett) dressed in a suit playing a game of Ddakji with a vagabond. Well, it was obvious that in this scenario Blanchett was the Recruiter who had been fishing for new players for an American spin-off of the Squid Games. But the fact she was playing Ddakji with an American is quite weird. I mean, I do understand Netflix wants to cash in on nostalgia, but please, for heaven’s sake, don’t throw logic out of the window. Well, whatever the writers had in mind, this brief scene suggests that Squid Game will return. In a different place, with different players, playing a different set of games, their greed and their savagery are going to remain the same.
It’s possible that In-ho will reprise his role as Front Man in the spin-off series and help organize the Squid Games in America. I mean, his visit to LA couldn’t have been just to hand over Gi-hun’s last remains to his daughter, maybe he went there for a mission. His base in South Korea had already been destroyed, and the blast had attracted too much attention, so it would be the safest move to organize the game in another country. And the way In-ho exchanged looks with the Recruiter, it seemed like the two knew each other before. Remember how Woo-seok had found some photographs in Captain Park’s house that suggested that In-ho had been friends with the Recruiter and the senior guards of the game? Based on these assumptions, I think it’s pretty safe to say that Front Man is going to return to our screen pretty soon. But let’s just hope that the spin-off isn’t complete trash like the last two seasons of Netflix’s Squid Game, and at least brings something fresh narratively to the table, not just new games and new faces.
