History Recap / SquidGameS1E8FrontMan

* AppetiteEqualsHealth: While Sang-woo and Gi-hun both clean their plates, with Gi-hun chugging his wine, Sae-byeok barely touches her steak dinner, claiming that it doesn't taste good, despite it being leagues above anything else they've had during the games (the previous meal was a raw potato). This turns out to be because her stomach was pierced by a shard of glass after the previous game. Her health quickly dwindles afterwards, leaving her defenseless when Sang-woo comes to kill her.

* MeleeATrois: Invoked by the staff, who tidies up after the dinner but leaving behind a single steak knife for each of the remaining contestants, with the implication that they're free to use them on each other. Sang-woo ends up using his to kill Sae-byeok while she's defenseless, and an enraged Gi-hun attempts to stab him in return but gets knocked out by the staff before he can do so.

** When Gi-hun and Sang-woo argue about whether Sang-woo pushing the glassmaker was necessary, Gi-hun asks if Sang-woo would have pushed ''him'' for hesitating that long. Sang-woo can't answer the question, but [[ArmorPiercingResponse fires back]] with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling Gi-hun out as an idiot who mooches off his sick mother and has no one to blame but himself for his troubles.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Gi-hun asks why Sang-woo pushed the glassmaker to his death, saying that he was almost certain to move with it being the very last tile, and Sang-woo didn't need to be so cold. Sang-woo claims the glassmaker watched numerous people die without saying a word, and could've been just as bad of a person as Deok-su.

* WhamShot: When Gi-hun bangs on the doors for a doctor to save Sae-byeok, they open, and staff enter... holding another coffin. He turns and sees an immobile Sae-byeok, with Sang-woo standing in front of her with a bloodied knife.

-->''"In-ho, why?"''

* AppetiteEqualsHealth: While Sang-woo and Gi-hun both clean their plates, with Gi-hun chugging her wine, Sae-byeok barely touches her steak dinner, claiming that it doesn't taste good, despite it being leagues above anything else they've had during the games (the previous meal was a raw potato). This turns out to be because her stomach was pierced by a shard of glass after the previous game. Her health quickly dwindles afterwards, leaving her defenseless when Sang-woo comes to kill her.

* AgonizingStomachWound: Sae-byeok takes a large glass shard to the torso when the glass panels from the previous game explode. She attempts to dress and bandage the wound, herself, but it does little to keep her from losing blood, ultimately leaving her dying and too weak to defend herself when Sang-woo murders her.
* AintTooProudToBeg: When he sees that Sae-byeok is dying, Gi-hun runs to the barrack doors and starts banging, calling for help. He says that she needs a doctor and medical treatment.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Gi-hun and Sang-woo argue about if pushing the glassmaker was necessary, and Gi-hun asks if Sang-woo would have pushed him for hesitating that long. Sang-woo can't respond. Combined as ArmorPiercingResponse; Sang-woo then tears into Gi-hun with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, calling him out as a nosy dimwit who mooches off his sick elderly mother and he has no one to blame but himself for his troubles. Gi-hun throws it back in Sang-woo's face, asking how Sang-woo, who had done everything necessary to become successful, ended up in the same situation as him.
-->'''Gi-hun''': Sure. It's all my fault I ended up like this. [[IAmWhatIAm I'm slow and incompetent. I'm a nosy dimwit who lives off the back of his old mother.]] But why is Ssangmun-dong's golden boy, the genius Cho Sang-woo of SNU, here? Rolling around this shithole with a dimwit like me. Is that also my fault?

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Gi-hun questions Sang-woo's decision to push the glassmaker, and if Sang-woo would've done the same to him:
-->'''Sang-woo''': Gi-hun! Do you know why your life is so pathetic? Because you ask such dumb questions even in this kind of situation. Because you're such a nosy-ass idiot who's freaking slow, and always have to get into trouble to know it's trouble.

--->'''Gi-hun''': Sure. It's all my fault I ended up like this. I'm slow and incompetent. I'm a nosy dimwit who lives off the back of his old mother. But why is the pride of Ssangmun-dong, the genius Cho Sang-woo of SNU, here? Rolling around this shithole with a dimwit like me? Is that also my fault?