Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Squid Game Season 2, Episode 1.
squid game Season 2 Episode 1 shows Lee Jung-jae's Seong Gi-hun using a box opener to cut open his ear and remove a device, raising the question of what exactly was inside his ear. Although most of Season 2 takes place two years later squid game The Season 1 finale, “Bread Or Lottery,” actually picks up right where Season 1 left off. After meeting the Seller at an airport, Gi-hun received a call from Front Man telling him to get on the plane and never look back.
Although Gi-hun was about to travel to the United States and reunite with his daughter, seeing Salesman recruiting someone to play the game made him realize that other people would have to go through the same horrors as him. Gi-hun told Front Man (played by Lee Byung-hun) that he would go after them and shut down their operation. As soon as he left the airport and returned to Seoul, Gi-hun bought a box opener and ran to the bathroom.
Gi-hun removed a tracking device from his ear in Squid Game Season 2 Episode 1
Gi-hun realized he was being watched
Gi-hun used the box opener to cut off his ear and remove a tracking device that was placed there somewhere during the events of squid game season 1. Gi-hun realized that it was no coincidence that Front Man called him at the moment he was reconsidering whether to get on that plane and move to the United States. Somehow, Front Man knew exactly where Gi-hun wasalthough it has been a year since Player 456 won the previous competition.
Happily, Gi-hun quickly realized that the only way Front Man would have known where he was that day was if they had put a tracker on him. Lee Jung-jae's character was probably already noticing something strange around his left ear, which is why he decided to cut there in search of a tracker. Gi-hun was right and after all, he had a tracking device with him.
Why Squid Games organizers put a tracker on Gi-hun at the end of the first season
The frontman probably predicted that Gi-hun could become a problem
There are two explanations for when and why the games organizers placed a tracker on Gi-hun. The first is that all players received a tracker as soon as they were brought to the island. It should be noted that all players were sedated before being taken to the island where the games would take placemeaning organizers had enough time to place a tracker inside each of them before the first round even took place.
Another explanation is that Front Man wanted to keep an eye on Gi-hun after he won the games and put a tracker on him while bringing him back to town at the end of season 1. Hwang In-ho might have suspected that Gi-hun would become a risk in the future due to his unpredictable nature and decided to watch his steps closely. Anyway, Gi-hun was being watched the entire time until he removed the tracker himself at the beginning of the squid game Season 2, Episode 1.