
001 gets a crippling headache, though, and severe fever, so Gi-hun is forced to tend to him. Gi-hun especially recounts being laid off from his job making car parts, and the death of his co-worker. On their watch, Gi-hun and 001 share some backstory too. It’s not exactly a cozy arrangement, though, and one doesn’t imagine it’ll last long, despite it being mutually beneficial. The corrupt ones are feeding 111 information about the upcoming games in exchange for his help removing organs from the deceased players and shipping them to the mainland. But things are a bit more complicated when it comes to the staff. “Money” is everyone’s simple justification for being here. Ali has family back in Pakistan, and a wife and son in Korea, but no money, hence his choice to participate in the games. Sang-woo and Ali share the first watch, as well as some sweetcorn, a nice moment, and some backstory.

He decides to order everyone to take the night off, for his own sake, but Gi-hun and his team still decide to take turns keeping watch during the night. Deok-su is amused by this, but only until Gi-hun points out that he’d probably be the primary target of any violence, even amongst his own team.

Gi-hun proposes creating a barricade before lights out, to give them cover should there be another nighttime attack. The teams assembled for Tug-of-War persist into the night, even though nobody particularly trusts anyone else.
