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Season 2 picks up shortly after the Season 1 finale. Seong Gi-hun (Player 456) did not board the plane to see his daughter. Instead, he’s on a mission of revenge and dismantling the organization from the outside. The core tension shifts from surviving the games to stopping the games entirely .
However, the trailers suggest Gi-hun’s plan fails. He is re-captured and — but this time, he knows all the rules, the tricks, and the island’s layout. 2. New Games & Escalated Stakes Hwang Dong-hyuk has confirmed the new games will be just as brutal but psychologically different. Instead of childhood nostalgia, some games will punish knowledge. episodes squid game season 2