A voice rings out and the people are ushered into lines and taken out. A display reads that there are 456 participants in the game. There are hundreds of other people in there too, each wearing a similar suit and number. Gi-hun wakes up in a giant room full of bunk beds and wearing a green tracksuit marked with the number "456" on the breast. Knockout gas is pumped into the van and he falls unconscious. He's ushered in next to some other people. He's told to wait at a street corner at night and give a passcode when a mysterious van pulls up. Desperate to keep his daughter, Gi-hun takes out the card and calls the number. Gi-hun's mother, who's worried Ga-yeong might lose her connection to her Korean roots if she moves to America, notes that if he had more money, he'd be able to prove he's able to financially support her better and be able to make a case for shared custody. The next day, Gi-hun finds out from his mother that his ex-wife Eun-ji's new husband (Ga-yeong's stepfather) has gotten a new job offer and will be moving to the USA in a few months, which means Gi-hun won't be able to see her. He gives Gi-hun a card with a phone number and bids him farewell as he leaves on the incoming train, never breaking his mysterious smile. The salesman makes him an offer - he can do this same sort of thing again for much bigger prizes. Determined to win, Gi-hun tries and is slapped multiple times until he finally wins. However, since Gi-hun doesn't have that money, the salesman instead slaps him in the face when he loses. Each round, whoever loses will give the other ₩100,000 (around $85). After dropping her off back home, Gi-hun encounters a man at a train station who challenges him to ddakji, a simple children's game where the aim is to throw and flip the other player's paper card over. Gi-hun feels disappointed that he can't give her as much as her stepfather despite her reassurance that she prefers the street food over the fancy steak dinner her stepfather treated her to. He treats Ga-yeong to a basic birthday dinner of street food and a useless gift from a claw machine (a toy gun). That night, Gi-hun takes his daughter out for food with what little money he has left.
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