Attentive fans of Squid Game’s second season have uncovered an intriguing detail that alters the way you view the first episode.

The inaugural season of the popular South Korean series captivated Netflix audiences during the 2021 Covid pandemic.

The eagerly awaited second season of Squid Game was released on December 26, 2024, maintaining its intense action-packed plot.

Be advised: Spoilers for Squid Game season two follow.

The new season opens with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), fresh from his season one victory, as he embarks on a quest to find the salesman who first lured him into the perilous games.

Using his substantial earnings, Gi-hun sets out to track the recruiter, intending to infiltrate the games and confront the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun).

The previous Squid Game victor eventually catches sight of the recruiter involved in a game of Ddakji at a subway station. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

However, when Gi-hun chooses to pursue him, things take a turn for the worse for him and his companion, Choi Woo-seok (Jeon Seok-ho), as they are detected and compelled to partake in Squid Game once more.

The first game they are coerced into playing is Rock, Paper, Scissors, with the added tension of Russian Roulette.

The threat of death seems to escalate when more bullets are introduced into the game, but one observant viewer has noticed an ‘intriguing’ detail suggesting the game might not have been as lethal as it appeared.

A Reddit post pointed out: “Why’d the recruiter use dummy bullets in the Russian roulette scene?

“In the recruiter’s first Russian roulette game between the loan sharks, if you look closely you can see that the recruiter actually loaded a dummy bullet (you can tell by the ‘hole’, it’s caused by the primer already being hit by the firing pin).

“So there was actually a 0% chance of the gun firing at first.”

The viewer speculated further about the implications of the first episode, stating: “Then in the second game when they play with 5 bullets, the recruiter adds 3 more dummies and 1 real bullet (you can tell as it’s flat, so the primer hasn’t already been hit). So there was actually only a 1/6 chance of dying.

“Maybe he just enjoyed their suffering and wanted to make them panic even more by adding more bullets, making them think death was pretty much imminent, even if it was only 1/6.”

You can now watch Squid Game season two streaming on Netflix.