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** Gi-hun tries doing a sensible thing after the group vote allows everyone to go home. He goes to the police while still traumatized and tells them about the horrific events that he and Sang-woo suffered. The cops ''do'' take a report and his information down which they later relate to Jun-ho, while dialing the number on the business card, but they don't believe him. As one puts it, 456 people were knocked out, transported to a strange place, ordered to play a lethal version of Red Light Green Light, and then released after voting to go home? Gi-hun himself admits that the story is hard to believe.
** Something that the Front Man mentions when {{spoiler|he and the Square Guards corner Jun-ho on the deserted island. Jun-ho shouts that he is police and they're under arrest, saying he already called for backup, which he did}}. The Front Man acknowledges the call might have gone through, but emergency services in real life don't come the minute you call them. Police have little incentive to be efficient.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: With season two having received the greenlight, no pun intended, there are a lot of options, both in early episodes as well as the season one finale:
** {{spoiler|Gi-hun walks off the plane that would take him to see Ga-yeong and maybe a new life.}} He promises the Front Man over the phone that he will not forgive them for the people they killed, or the pain he suffered.
** With the Host {{spoiler|officially dead and gone,}} the Front Man has free reign to design the 2021 games as he sees fit, with no interference. He will likely have more safety measures against intruders this time.
** The Salesman is still on the street, recruiting players with rounds of ''ddjaki'' for the 2021 rounds of the game. Gi-hun runs to confront him but is too late, as the man smiles and waves to him from a departing train.
** We never actually saw {{spoiler|Jun-ho's dead body when he fell into the water from the deserted island. The Front Man also aimed for the shoulder when he had a clear shot to the head, and asked his brother to surrender}}. Not to mention he sent the images and videos that he took to his boss, and even if they didn't send, smartphones save images up to remote clouds and servers. Someone could still find that data and use it to further their investigation, and the chief was trying to locate his distress signal.
** Heck, the Front Man's backstory. Somehow he went from being {{spoiler|a winner of the game to the person running it five years later. His family also didn't notice that he went missing back in 2015, meaning that he was covering his tracks well}}.
** The VIPs mention offhand that countries have their own version of the games, but South Korea has the "best" one. Horror of the implications aside, that is a potential storyline that could be explored.
* [[So Long, Suckers!]]: Gi-hun sees the Salesman playing ''ddjaki'' again with another unlucky player. The Salesman sees him and quickly makes his exit after giving the business card. G-hun runs like hell, but he doesn't reach a departing train in time; the Salesman smiles and waves to him from the window.
* [[You Bastard]]: Episode 7 reveals that VIPs have been watching the games remotely from a screen. They've been placing bets on who's going to win and who will die, much as television viewers might when watching survival horror. Hey, wait a minute...
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