‘Squid Game’ Star Lee Jung-jae and Creator on Gi-hun’s Risky Season 2 Premiere Showdown With The Recruiter: He’s ‘Addicted to Winning’

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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from the “Squid Game” Season 2 premiere, now streaming on Netflix.

The second season of Netflix’s hit Korean drama “Squid Game” opens with a literal bang — quite a few of them, actually. But by far the most shocking is the one in the final few moments of the episode, titled “Bread and Lottery,” when Squid Game winner Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) unnecessarily risks his life in a game of Russian Roulette with The Recruiter (Gong Yoo) working for the games.

While Gi-hun could instead just shoot The Recruiter when he has the gun in hand, he decides to keep going with the odds quite clearly in no ones favor as they start to reload each time before they pull the trigger.

The decision is risky when Gi-hun’s goal is not to die, but to live and obtain the information The Recruiter has on who is behind the Squid Game and where to find them so that Gi-hun can finally try to take them down three years after winning the deadly battle royale.