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| Red Light, Green Light | Hell | The Man with the Umbrella | Stick to the Team | A Fair World | Gganbu | V.I.P.S | Front Man | One Lucky Day | ||||||||||
A Fair World (평등한 세상 Pyeongdeunghan sesang?) is the 5th episode of the Season 1 of the Netflix TV series Squid Game.
Official summary[]
Gi-hun and his team take turns keeping guard through the night. The masked men encounter trouble with their co-conspirators.
- —Official Netflix synopsis
Plot[]
Following Cho Sang-woo's advice to take three steps forward in the Tug of War game, Seong Gi-hun and the rest of Team 4 are able to make Team 5 fall over. Team 5 is unable to regain their footing and with their second wind, Gi-hun and his team are able to easily pull back their opponents and win the game as Team 5 fall to their deaths. In the elevator, Gi-hun looks at his hands, which have scratches, and feels sorry for Team 5. Upon returning to the Dormitory, Jang Deok-su's gang (especially Jang Deok-su) is shocked to see that Gi-hun's team managed to survive.
Of the 80 remaining players, 40 managed to survive, and the prize money has reached ₩41,600,000,000. The players receive their dinner (a corn cob and a bottle of water) and decide to take precautions in case another fight breaks out, each team decides to build a barricade to protect themselves from anyone trying to attack. Deok-su arrives with Gi-hun's team and tells Gi-hun that he thinks that his plan won't work, then Gi-hun asks Deok-su if he will be safe and if the scumbags who are with him are trustworthy people, Gi-hun and Deok-su watch the group of idiots fighting with rails like fools and Gi-hun tells Deok-su that if he were them, when the fight started, he would go after the gangster first because he's the strongest one there. Gi-hun's words stick in Deok-su's head and he tells his underlings to take the night off (for fear of what Gi-hun told him happening) and spends the rest of the night paranoid.
Sang-woo and Ali Abdul bond as they keep watch to protect the rest of the team as they sleep, and Ali starts talking about his family. Most of his family lives back in Pakistan, and he brought his wife and son with him to work in Korea before he sent them back to the country. Being a poor immigrant without much money made him want to participate in the games.
The staff offers Byeong-gi information about the upcoming games in exchange for him helping remove organs from the eliminated players. Byeong-gi is feeling increasingly on edge however, as the stress of performing complex surgical procedures while having to survive on minimal food rations and sleep deprivation on top of the games is catching up on him.
During all of this, Gi-hun and Oh Il-nam share some of their respective histories. Gi-hun used to have a factory job making car parts but was then laid off due to the higher-ups' financial mismanagement. He and his coworkers organized a protest to get their jobs back, only for it to degrade into a violent riot and Gi-hun witnessed one of his co-workers get shot and die in front of him. At the same time, his ex-wife began going into labor and she nearly died from complications, so Gi-hun also ended up missing Ga-yeong's birth. This event left him with PTSD and led to Gi-hun's downward spiral into becoming a slacker working poor-paying dead-end jobs and developing a gambling addiction. The old man gets a headache and fever, so Gi-hun takes care of him. The guards also start to become suspicious of Worker 029 (Hwang Jun-ho in disguise), who is acting oddly as he continuously asks questions about his job that he should know. This is interrupted by Byeong-gi becoming increasingly furious.
After Byeong-gi finishes removing all the organs out of the dead contestants he was given, the guards say that they don't know when the next game is. Byeong-gi then begins to violently freak out, thinking that the guards are hiding information from him, and kills one of the guards before fleeing, with another guard pursing him. The Front Man and his men find Byeong-gi and the corrupt guards and subsequently execute them for cheating.
At the same time, Jun-ho's opposite number becomes suspicious of him and forces him to remove his mask. Jun-ho gets the drop on him though and forces himself to remove his own mask. They talk about a "zombie", a man who has one kidney that they beat to death. Jun-ho assumes this was his brother, who also had one kidney due to donating it to Jun-ho to save his life from an illness, but the other guard clarifies the victim was female, telling him that he can prove it from the records in the Front Man's room. Jun-ho then kills him and goes looking for the Front Man's quarters.
All the remaining players are rounded up at gunpoint, including Il-nam, who had soiled himself that night. Jun-ho sneaks into the Front Man's office and finds a large room with records of the Squid Game dating back to 1988 and finds out his brother, Hwang In-ho, had won the game back in 2015.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun
- Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo
- O Yeong-su as Oh Il-nam
- Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho
- Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok
- Heo Sung-tae as Jang Deok-su
- Kim Joo-ryoung as Han Mi-nyeo
- Anupam Tripathi as Ali Abdul
- Yoo Sung-joo as Byeong-gi
- Lee Yoo-mi as Ji-yeong
Guest Starring[]
- Kwon Yoo-joon as Masked Front Man Stand-in
- Kim Shi Hyun as Player 244
- Son Won Kyung as Player 360
- Kwak Ja Hyung as Player 278
- Kim Dong Won as Player 303
- Yoon Young Kyun as Player 040
- Kim Yoon as Player 122
- Kim Dong Hyun as Player 196
- Christian Lagahit as Player 276
- Kim Ha Young as Player 032
- Jang Hyun Jin as Player 083
- Park Jong Beom as Player 357
- Woo Young Taek as Player 194
Co-Starring[]
- Jeon Young-soo voices Game Guide
- Park Jong-beom as Worker 028's Stand-in
- Heo Dong-won as Worker 028
- Yoon Young-gul as Surgery Room Guard #1
- Yoon Joo-man as Surgery Room Guard #2
- Kim Yoon as Hwang Jun-ho Stand-in
- Han Jae-hyuk as Gi-hun's Colleague
Deaths[]
- Player 194
- Player 063
- Player 019
- Player 314
- Player 315
- Player 184
- Player 447
- Player 156
- Player 396
- Player 410
- Player 055 (off-screen)
- Player 105 (off-screen)
- Player 132 (off-screen)
- Player 231 (off-screen)
- Player 110 (off-screen)
- Player 374 (off-screen)
- Player 365 (off-screen)
- Player 059 (off-screen)
- Player 204 (off-screen; corpse seen; error in previous episode)
- Player 364 (off-screen)
- Player 109 (off-screen)
- Player 060 (off-screen)
- Player 278 (off-screen)
- Player 088 (off-screen)
- Player 330 (off-screen)
- Player 404 (off-screen)
- Player 403 (off-screen)
- Player 422 (off-screen)
- Worker 028
- Organ trafficking soldier
- Organ trafficking soldier
- Byeong-gi
Trivia[]
- This episode features the continuation of the Tug of War game.