The Man with the Umbrella

"**The Man with the Umbrella**" (우산을 쓴 남자 *Usan-eul sseun namja*?) is the third episode of the first season of the television series *Squid Game*.

This episode features dalgona Game.

## Official summary

*A few players enter the next round —which promises equal doses of sweet and deadly— with hidden advantages. Meanwhile, Jun-ho sneaks his way inside.*

**- Official Netflix Synopsis**
## Plot

As the vans carry the willing players back to the Game Venue, Hwang Jun-ho follows these vans with his car. The vans arrive to a port going on a ship. Jun-ho sneaks in by attaching himself to the bottom of the last van.

On the ship, the workers are now tasked to inspect the players. The worker begins to their job and Jun-ho manages to sneaks into the van pretending to be asleep. When a worker checks Jun-ho's body temperature to check if he's asleep, the device errors and the surprised guard checks again. After the second error, Jun-ho opens his eyes and the two begin fighting. Jun-ho wins by trapping the worker in a headlock, rendering him unconscious. He gets out of the van wearing the worker's clothes, takes his ID and throws the latter into the ocean. A manager notices Jun-ho, who then tells him that he was seasick. The manager lets him go and warns him about the rules.

The ship finally arrives at the island. As the workers now wheel the players and change their clothes, Sae-byeok, who was pretending to be unconscious, secretly steals a knife from one of the Workers. The players then wake up in the familiar facility. Player 001 gets woken up by Seong Gi-hun, saying about almost everyone came back. During their conversation, Cho Sang-woo and Ali join in and all together they form a team. They eat and guess what the other children's games might be.

During bedtime, Player 212 and Sae-byeok go to the bathroom. Sae-byeok goes to the vents to sneak in and finds workers cooking something while Mi-nyeo makes a deal with her to distract the soldier outside. The next day, Sae-byeok tells Mi-nyeo that the workers were melting sugar.

The players are taken to the next game, which will happen inside a room which resembles a playground. In the room, there are four doors with a shape each: a circle, a star, a triangle, and an umbrella. Each player must choose a shape and stand in a line in front of the corresponding door. Player 111, Byeong-gi, already knows what the next game is thanks to a paper which informed him and was delivered to him inside his breakfast bun. Gi-hun and his alliance decide that they should all pick a shape of their own. Once picking a shape, everyone lines up and collects their candies from the workers. Byeong-gi gets a triangle candy. Meanwhile, Player 001, Mi-nyeo and Deok-su get a candy in the shape of a star. Ali gets a circle candy. Sae-byeok follows Sang-woo's choice and they both get a triangle candy while Gi-hun unfortunately gets the umbrella candy. Then, the announcer says the next game is Sugar Honeycombs, much to Gi-hun's horror, as he picked the hardest shape of them all. Mi-nyeo is also annoyed that she chose the star shape.

The announcer goes over the game's regulations before it starts. All competitors focus under pressure as they attempt to cut out their desired form from the Dalgona Candy. However, after the game has just been going for a minute or two, Player 369, Park Ju-un, accidentally breaks his form (an umbrella) in front of a soldier and is eliminated by being shot in the head. Blood trails left on the slide by his corpse as it goes down it serve as a message to the other players about what occurs when your shape is broken. The players are much more anxious to pass since they are terrorised by this. Many other players mistakenly break their shapes at that point and are eliminated. Gi-hun watches in terror, as Mi-nyeo surreptitiously cheats by heating up her needle with a lighter she stole into the gaming area so that it will be simpler to cut through. She observes Deok-su frantically attempting to hack out his figure without shattering it.

Soon afterwards, Byeong-gi successfully cuts out his triangle Dalgona Candy without breaking it, automatically proceeding into the next round. Sae-byeok, Ali and players 210, 224, 246, 073 and 072 pass. One of the Managers tells Jun-ho, who is posing as a worker but isn't doing his guard duty of removing the eliminated players, to come see him after the round so he may talk to him. Byeong-gi splits off from one soldier and continues on with another as they travel back with the passing players. When he watches competitors advance to the next round or be eliminated with barely three minutes remaining, Gi-hun struggles to maintain his composure back in the game hall. His sweat drips over the Dalgona Candy as he carves. Then, after stopping, he takes it up and directs it towards the light. He licks the back of his candy after realising that some of it had melted by his sweat because he believes that if he melts the candy just so, he can easily take the form out without it splitting. Mi-nyeo, in the meantime, skilfully shapes the candy into the shape of a star without it breaking and even eats it whole to mock the guards. She sneakily gives the fumbling Deok-su her lighter as she exits the room, and she utilises her trick to go past.

The other players, including Player 001 and Player 278, see Gi- hun's strategy of licking his Dalgona Candy to get the form out and watch in disbelief as the other players mimic it to pass. One of the supervisors in the Control Room even puzzledly observes the copycats licking their sweets on security camera footage. This strategy allows Deok-su, the old man, and finally Gi-hun to go on to the next round and leave the zone.

One of the soldiers forces No Sang-hun, Player 119, to reveal his Dalgona Candy back on the playground. Sang-hun gently displays his damaged umbrella as his hands are trembling. Before the soldier can shoot and murder Sang-hun, he climbs upon the guard, stabs him in the eye with the needle, and steals the guard's gun while holding one of the managers hostage as a human shield. Then Sang-hun shouts loudly about how the winners received easy shapes while the losers received difficult shapes. The Front Man then makes his way to the game room while keeping an eye on things from the Control Room. The soldiers then use their firearms to kill the players who didn't complete in time; the victorious players can even hear the gunshots as they descend the stairs to the lobby. The Manager being kept hostage is then ordered to take off his mask by Sang-hun. Sang-hun is shocked to learn that the manager is a young man after he complies. Sang-hun is appalled and puzzled as to how a person so young could be a part of this operation. Sang-hun then shoots himself in the head to end his life.

The Manager who had taken off his mask was subsequently executed by the Front Man, who had just arrived on the scene. He then informs his other soldiers that they will be executed if a player or anyone else within the facility sees their faces. Jun-ho and the workmen arrive to clean up the corpses after the Front Man and the troops depart. When Jun-ho approaches the dead Manager, he finds his mask on the ground. He then takes his mask and puts it away so he may use it later.

## Deaths

* Number 29
* Park Ju-un
* Player 209
* No Sang-hun

## Trivia

* When a guard checks on Gi-hun his profile pops up and in his picture he wears a stoic expression instead of his signature smile.
	+ This also happens in "A Fair World" when Jun-ho checks the 2020 player list.