What Happened at the End of Squid Game Season 3?

Squid Game Season 3 expands the high-stakes survival thriller into a deeper exploration of power, rebellion, and psychological warfare. As Seong Gi-hun sets out to dismantle the organization behind the deadly games, a new group of desperate contestants enters a fresh cycle of increasingly brutal challenges. With returning characters, global conspiracies, and the emergence of a resistance movement, this season intensifies the moral questions that define the series—what are we willing to sacrifice for justice, and who really holds the power in a game where humanity is the ultimate cost?

In the Season 3 premiere of Squid Game, shaman Seon-nyeo (Chae Kuk-hee) foresees that none of the other players will live through the game. In Season 3, Episode 6 — the final episode of the show — it appears that Seon-nyeo has indeed foreseen the future. None of the original Squid Game players live through the soul-sucking, life-draining game — including the show’s heroic hero, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), who dies for the greater good. Instead, the Squid Game winner is Jun-hee’s (Jo Yuri) baby, who is born in Episode 2.

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk intended the twist to be a positive one. “In the end, the baby represents the new generation,” he tells Tudum.

I believe we also have an obligation and mandate to do everything that we can within our means to try to make the world a better world for the next generation,” he continues. “The baby as the victor was in keeping with the theme of Squid Game.”.

Though the result of the final challenge, Sky Squid Game, is one of abundance, the win is far from easy. Even during the final round of play itself, allegiances change like churning water as opponents battle for the grand prize of 4.56 billion won. So how did Squid Game Season 3 come to have its newborn winner? Why did Gi-hun pay the ultimate price? Where did the rest of the series’ heroes and villains end up? Well, remain in the game as Hwang and the cast respond to all your Squid Game burning questions — including what transpired on the Front Man’s (Lee Byung-hun) Los Angeles escapade. and that jaw-dropping final moment.

Who won Squid Game?

The Sky Squid Game’s intricate rules ultimately lead to victory for the baby. Along the way, Gi-hun protects the baby as several other players — including her father Myung-gi (Yim Si-wan) — attempt to kill her. “If I had to reveal Myung-gi’s real motive, it would be ‘take as much money as he can,'” Yim tells Tudum. “He’s demanding too much, and that is due to his greed.”.
Gi-hun is able to protect the baby from the savagery for the first half of the round. But the already chaotic situation gets worse on the third tower, when Gi-hun, Myung-gi, and the baby are the only individuals left alive. Gi-hun and Myung-gi immediately begin to fight each other, and the fight turns into a vicious knife fight. Myung-gi intends to kill the baby, and claim the prize for himself, but Gi-hun will do whatever it takes to save Myung-gi and rescue the baby. Both men fall off the third tower. Gi-hun is able to keep them alive by hanging on the edge of the tower with one hand and a jacket wrapped around Myung-gi with the other. The jacket tears, and Myung-gi dies.

But amidst all the theatrics, no one forgot to push the button to start the round, so myung-gi’s death will not be counted. It’s between Gi-hun and the baby
Gi-hun has three choices. He can push the button and kill the baby, becoming a two-time Squid Game champion with even greater extreme survivor’s remorse. He could do nothing, and damn both himself and the baby by doing nothing. Or he could push the button, ending his life, and sparing the baby — and allowing him to win. He selects the third option. In his dying breath, Gi-hun delivers a passionate speech to Front Man — and the watching VIPs. He reminds them that the players are not “horses,” they’re human.

To Lee Jung-jae, Gi-hun’s sacrifice was absolutely understandable. The hero of Squid Game is a father who plays the game away from his daughter, and “It is almost like Gi-hun’s looking at his own daughter,” the actor explains.

Director Hwang explains how the infant also represents Player 456’s re-discovery of his “humanity and conscience.” On the set, the creator started to see his own life differently and consider who he wanted to become as a human being — an optimist, or a pessimist. “I came to believe that, however dark and dismal the world may seem to be, perhaps we still have hope if we can see even the slightest glimmer of hope within ourselves,” he says.

“Instead of looking for something from or in other people, I hope that we would look at our own values and whether or not we believe in ourselves so that we can work from what is good about us,” he goes on. “That’s the message I hope that people get from watching Season 3.“

Yim Si-wan as Myung-gi in Squid Game Season 3.

What happens to Myung-gi (Player 333)?

For the creator, Myung-gi’s desperation to kill a baby — his baby — simply for his financial gain is the embodiment of all the ways people prioritize their comfort over the well-being of generations to come.

Are VIPs in Squid Game Season 3?

It’s nice having the VIPs return, because if not for their meddling, Jun-hee’s baby would not be the Squid Game champion. The high-roller audience members are back in Season 3, Episode 3, and one of them relates how having had a little too much to drink, he bet on Jun-hee, a.k.a. Player 222, to win. Jun-hee is still alive at this point in Season 3, but she’s vulnerable because she’s just given birth and has a badly sprained ankle. When Jun-hee actually does die, another VIP, hungry for more drama and even higher stakes, suggests that her baby be made to play on. The Front Man concurs, and Player 222 continues under the guise of a newly motherless baby.

How does Jun-hee (Player 222) die?

Jun-hee gives up everything for her baby. When she gives birth in Hide and Seek, she has fallen down a staircase and badly sprained her ankle. The new mother is in no shape to participate in the next game, Jump Rope.

Instead, Jun-hee instructs Gi-hun to save her baby by taking the baby on the treacherous walkway. “Jun-hee believes that Gi-hun would go on with the dignity of a human being,” Jo Yu-ri explains. Gi-hun is able to do so, but does not wish to leave it at that. After bringing the others across the walkway, Gi-hun goes back to the starting point to save Jun-hee. She realizes such acts of sacrifice are not possible within the remaining time, and that her baby will be killed if Gi-hun becomes trapped on the other side of Jump Rope.

If both Jun-hee and Gi-hun are eliminated, the others will use this as an opportunity to kill the newborn. To ensure that Gi-hun never makes it to her and this terrible fate never befalls her, Jun-hee jumps from the platform and perishes.

I hope that when they meet Jun-hee that they understand how powerful and strong and indestructible a mother’s love is,” the actor says to Tudum.

Hwang was inspired to recreate the story of Jun-hee and her baby from Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian movie Children of Men. “The baby in the movie symbolizes the future of humanity,” he says. “I wished to present the last hope of humanity through Jun-hee’s baby and Gi-hun, who does everything to rescue the baby.”.
As Jun-hee passes away in the Player 222 track suit, her baby continues her legacy — and claims the game in her mom’s number.

Why does Gi-hun (Player 456) choose to die?

The Squid Game creator had not initially intended that Gi-hun would die. But as Hwang began conceptualizing Seasons 2 and 3, he knew that he would require an ending that would give “both the game and Gi-hun’s journey” a satisfying and meaningful conclusion.

“The message that I was trying to put out was that if we just chase our own short-term selfish desires, and we won’t curb ourselves, make sacrifices, and incur any costs — and don’t think and work together — we have no future,” Hwang says. “The sacrifice of the baby by Gi-hun is the message we must listen to today. This character, who is forced into the game, endures it all, and then returns to tie it up, is the one who must convey this message.”

Gi-hun’s readiness to sacrifice his own life also indicates the determination to save Jun-hee’s baby at all costs. He does not know what awaits her in the future, but he knows that he had tried everything he could, to the limit.

Lee Byung-hun as Front Man in ‘Squid Game’ Season 3.

What does Front Man do to Jun-hee’s baby?

The instant Gi-hun is killed, a Pink Guard informs Front Man the coast guard is approaching the island. Front Man orders the guard to evacuate. En route out, however, Front Man makes a U-turn by Gi-hun’s body and chooses to rescue Jun-hee’s baby. In his escape, his brother, Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun), appears in the VIP viewing area and asks him why he got mixed up in all of it. Front Man refuses to respond. In his escape with the baby, however, it almost appears as if perhaps Front Man has turned over a new leaf — or, at least, remembered that he has one.

Lee Byung-hun does have some insight into the mind of his masked character. As much as Front Man’s saving the baby is his most human decision of the series, there were indications a long time ago that he was softening. Consider, for instance, his allowing Jun-hee’s baby into the game. “That really emphasized the fact that he does have that last piece of humanity somewhere inside of him. That’s the compromise that director Hwang and I had. That’s how I performed my character,” he explains to Tudum. “Front Man does have that last piece of kindness left inside of him.”

He reserves that kindness for at least six months. In a six-month time jump at the conclusion of Season 3, Episode 6, we learn Front Man has broken into his brother Jun-ho’s flat. The host of the Squid Game is not a thief, though. Instead, he leaves Jun-ho with a present: Jun-hee’s baby, and her 4.56 billion won prize as the newest winner of the Squid Game.

Lee Jung-jae as Gi-hun in Season 3 of ‘Squid Game

PHOTO BY NO JU-HAN Where did Gi-hun’s cash go? When released from prison life, kindly criminal Woo-seok (Jun Suk-ho) has but one question: What became of Gi-hun’s Season 1 cash? We left it in Season 2 on a bed in the Pink Motel. Now it has vanished

. The last part of Squid Game tells us what has become of it. Front Man deposits the money in a bank account. He then boards a flight to Los Angeles to see Gi-hun’s daughter Ga-yeong (Jo Ah-in) and bring the money to her. Front Man also informs her of Gi-hun’s death. Finally, Ga-yeong knows her father is not shirking her. But was this a courteous act from Front Man? Lee Jung-Jae thinks not. “When I watched the scene where the Front Man goes to Ga-yeong, I was thinking ‘Gi-hun’s going to be so angry he’s going to come back from the dead and just spring out of the coffin.

He was going to be that angry!’ the actor explains. What does the final scene of Squid Game mean? As Front Man leaves the house of Ga-yeong and heads south through Downtown Los Angeles, he is met with a familiar sound: the smack of ddakji tiles against the pavement. He looks over, and there is a stranger who is impeccably dressed playing the familiar game with a clearly upset man. Front Man and the stranger exchange a look across the distance. Do they share a particular game? I liked the finale because no one would have been able to anticipate it,” Lee Byung-hun says.

“Despite all the great work everyone did, the world keeps on as it always did.”. For further examination of Squid Game’s dramatic season finale — and its surprise guest star — continue reading below. Is Squid Game coming back in Season 4? At the conclusion of Season 3, Front Man shuts his window on Squid Game. So does the series. Director Hwang has confirmed Season 3, Episode 6 to be the official and planned series finale of Squid Game. The thriller will not return for Season 4.

So the boat captain is a bad guy, then?

Yes, he certainly was. Season 3 establishes that Captain Park (Oh Dal-su) is a colleague of Front Man and a game operative. Woo-seok even discovers a Pink Guard uniform at the sea captain’s apartment, coupled with a photograph of him and the avenging Recruiter (Gong Yoo). There are photos of Captain Park with Front Man, too, but these go unnoticed to Woo-seok.

Park reveals his true personality in Episode 4, when he sees Woo-seok and Jun-ho onto him. He fires at all on board his boat, slaughtering most of Jun-ho’s comrades and mercenaries. After Jun-ho finally gains the upper hand, he shoots the captain using a harpoon. Before Park dies, he informs Jun-ho that he was “just following orders,” affirming Front Man was running the mission right from the start.

Where to Watch Squid game

• Platform: Netflix