Season 2 of Squid Game features the return of the series’ most disgusting story

This article contains Major spoilers For the second season of “Squid Game”.

Towards the beginning Season 2 “The Biggest and the Best”. In the movie Squid Game, we meet a woman sleeping in her car in the parking lot of an amusement park. She works as a costumed mascot at the park, raising money to pay an intermediary to help her locate her missing daughter. Her name is Kang No Eul (Park Gyu Young), and she is originally from North Korea. Given her desperate desire to find her daughter and the fact that she lives in her car, this makes her exactly the kind of person a Squid Game recruiter is looking for for their annual bloodbath. One day, a mysterious figure gives her an employment card, and she immediately quits her job. As she was leaving, she saw the sick young daughter of an amusement park cartoonist being taken away in an ambulance.

The little girl is a big fan of No-eul’s mascot, so she goes to visit her at the hospital where she overhears the girl’s father talking to a doctor telling him that the girl needs an expensive experimental procedure. From this moment on, it’s implied to the audience that No-eul will be one of the players in the game, likely splitting her potential winnings between finding her daughter (even if the middleman thinks her daughter is dead) and helping rescue this little girl. .

But there is a twist. No Iol is no She is recruited to play games, and is recruited to be one of the Pink Rangers, given the number 011. Not that there is such a thing as “one of the good” when it comes to the “Squid Game” rangers, but 011 proves to be the opposite of her teammates pretty quickly.

For one thing, she’s trying hard to put an end to one of these things The most disgusting storylines returning from the first season that left us with many questions – Organ harvesting.

Back in Season 1, the disgraced doctor who entered the games as player 111 was secretly working with a small group of vigilantes to harvest dead players’ organs to sell on the black market. The guards would give him information on upcoming matches and better rations if he helped retrieve the organs, but that meant he was. Still He will have to compete for his life despite having such a huge advantage. However, his participation will not be enough to save him. When the Front Man, one of the mysterious figures running the games, discovers the existence of an organ harvesting ring, he kills Player 111. For violating the rule of the game of equality.

However, the organ harvesting episode is a well-oiled machine by the time we see it. After the doctor collects the organs, they are stored in protective backpacks and taken by two guards trained as professional divers to leave the island through a series of tunnels into the ocean. They meet a boat waiting for them at a specific time to take the members off the island and make them available for purchase. With the amount of moving parts, people out of the games, and the precision needed to ensure that organs are still viable by the time they reach the market, there’s no way this will be a new side hustle. Apparently the Squid Game Guardians had been doing this for a while, and it wouldn’t be surprising to think that one of the recruiters was also involved in this, as they would always need a doctor on hand to help carry it out.

But the difficulty is that the organs are incredibly fragile. In specialized medical settings, doctors typically retrieve organs within 2-5 minutes of a patient’s death. Hearts and lungs are only viable under the best conditions for 4-6 hours, while the liver, pancreas and intestines can survive for about 8 hours. Kidneys have a longer shelf life of 24-48 hours, but corneas (yes, they offer eye donation) can last up to 14 days. This means that collecting patients who die immediately on the field may be difficult, because the time between death and their removal from the field is too long to be feasible.

Harvesting from near death players will be better for business.

Season 2 confirms that the organ harvesting operation is still afoot, although the front man appears to be unaware of its continuation. During a Red Light vs. Green Light match in Season 2, one of the players is shot in the leg, an apparent attempt by some of the guards to later use him for organ harvesting. However, No-eul eventually fires a fatal bullet at the man, rendering him unusable in their plans. The guards in the organ harvesting ring are trying to figure out who’s ruining their plans, and when they narrow it down to 011, they force her to meet the officer, another shady manager running the show (he appears to be one level below the front man).

He warns her to stop interfering, but No Eul refuses. She considers her euthanasias part of her job description (she’s right), but those involved in the organ ring aren’t having it. Unfortunately, this leads to No-eul being attacked and assaulted in her guard rooms by the other guards. As of the end of “Squid Game” Season 2, No-eul is still alive, but at this point, she no longer intervenes, likely out of fear after being attacked.

The games weren’t completed at the end of the season, so there’s no telling where they’ll end up in Season 3. But for now, organ theft still occurs and players are kept alive to suffer so they can be harvested for profit. .

Season 2 of “Squid Game” is now available to stream on Netflix.