"Squid Game" season 3 will likely be set directly after the end of season 2Lee Jung-jae and Lee Seo-hwan as Gi-hun and Jung-bae in season two of "Squid Game." No Ju-han/Netflix Season two ended on a tragic cliffhanger, with the games' guards defeating Gi-hun's rebellion against the games.After finding himself competing in the deadly games again, Gi-hun persuades his fellow players to stage a rebellion against the guards, steal their weapons, and storm toward the command center.This plan is foiled by a saboteur in Gi-hun's ranks: Hwang In-ho, the game's leader, who entered the competition as Player 001 to spy on Gi-hun.In-ho splits the rebels, making them easier to defeat, and fakes his own death. After his guards crush the uprising, In-ho, hiding his identity behind a mask, kills Gi-hun's best friend right in front of Gi-hun.Outside the games, Gi-hun recruited a group of people to help find the game's island to shut down the competition. The season finale shows that they have a traitor among them, too Captain Park, a fisherman who owns the boat the team is using to find the island."Squid Game" creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told Entertainment Weekly in December that seasons two and three were written as one story, but split into two seasons to accommodate all the episodes.Since the games were not finished by the end of season two, season three will show the second half of the same competition. Gi-hun and his allies' will also likely have their last attempt to destroy the games.