What [Spoiler]’s Final Line in Squid Game Season 3 Means

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk discussed a key aspect of the Season 3 finale during a new discussion about the show. The Korean survival drama series premiered on Netflix on September 17, 2021. It achieved massive success, prompting the streaming giant to continue the show. Seasons 2 and 3 subsequently debuted on the platform on December 26, 2024, and June 27, 2025, respectively.

Why Seong Gi-hun’s final line was incomplete in Squid Game Season 3’s ending

In Squid Game Season 3 Episode 6, Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun delivers a brief final monologue about the game, underscoring the fact that the VIPs have no right to use desperate humans as tools to satiate their sadistic pleasures. “We are not horses,” he says, likely referring to his gambling days. Gi-hun adds, “We are humans. And humans are…” He leaps off the edge of the final tower and sacrifices himself before completing his thoughts.

Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed in the Netflix special Squid Game in Conversation that they decided to end Gi-hun’s speech abruptly in the series finale to demonstrate human complexity and not to limit the scope of the message he sought to impart through that scene.

“… As I wrote that all out, it became clear I couldn’t sum this up in a single line,” the writer-director explained. “People are far too complex to be defined categorically like that. And if I sent the viewers a message that was so explicit, so normative, and didactic, it would actually only serve to limit the message itself. So, I decided the rest of what I wanted to say would instead be expressed physically by Gi-hun, through his actions, through his deeds, and the sacrifice he makes to save that child.”

According to Lee Jung-jae, if the message in that scene was complete with nothing remaining for the viewers’ interpretation, the audience would have just left it at that. The actor stated that he believed if they had chosen to finish Gi-hun’s speech, it would have given the story “one single conclusion.” He noted that because they left the last part of the message open-ended, it felt like they were in a continuous back-and-forth communication with the audience. He added, “So the end’s a conversation. We throw you a question.”

Squid Game in Conversation and all episodes of Squid Game are available on Netflix.