This article contains major spoilers for The Squid Game Season 2.

Towards the beginning of the "bigger and better" second season from The Squid Game, we meet a woman sleeping in her car in an amusement park parking lot. She works as a costumed mascot at the park, raising money to pay a broker to help her find her missing daughter. Her name is Kang No-Eul (Park Gyu-Young) and she is originally from North Korea. Given her desperation to find her daughter and the fact that she lives in her car, this makes her exactly the type of person one of Squid Game's recruiters would be looking for for their annual bloodbath. A mysterious figure offers her a job card one day, and she quits the job on the spot. As he leaves, he sees the young, sick daughter of an amusement park cartoonist being taken away in an ambulance.

The little girl is a big fan of No-eul's mascot, so she goes to visit her at the hospital where she overhears the girl's father talking to a doctor who tells him that the girl needs an expensive experimental procedure. From this point on, the audience is told that No-eul will be one of the players in the game, likely splitting her potential winnings between finding her daughter (even if the broker thinks her daughter is dead) and helping to save this little girl.

But there is a twist. It's No-eul no when she is recruited to play the games, she is recruited to be one of the pink guardians, given the number 011. Not that there is such a thing as "one of the good ones" when it comes to the squid game guardians, but 011 proves a lot quickly to be unlike her colleagues.

First of all, she is actively trying to end one of the the most disgusting returning stories from the first season that left us with many questions — organ harvesting.

Back in Season 1, a disgraced doctor who entered the games as player 111 was secretly working with a small group of guards to harvest the organs of dead players to sell on the black market. The guards would give him information about upcoming matches and better food rations if he helped retrieve the organs, but that meant he was yet he will have to compete for his life despite having this huge advantage. However, his participation would not be enough to save him. When the front man, one of the mysterious figures running the games, finds out about the organ harvesting ring, he kills Player 111 for violating the rule of equality of the game.

However, the organ harvesting ring is a pretty well-oiled machine by the time we see it. After the doctor collects the organs, they are sealed in protective backpacks that are taken by two guards with professional diving training to leave the island through a series of tunnels in the ocean. They rendezvous with a ship waiting for them at a certain time to take the organs off the island and make them available for purchase. With the amount of moving parts, people out of games, and the precision necessary to ensure the organs are still viable by the time they hit the market, there's no way this is a new side hustle. The Squid Game keepers have apparently been doing this for a while, and it wouldn't be surprising to think that one of the recruiters was involved as well, since they'll always need a medic on hand to help them pull it off.

The difficulty, however, is that organs are incredibly fragile. In professional medical settings, doctors usually take the organs within 2-5 minutes after the death of the patient. Hearts and lungs are only viable in the best conditions for about 4-6 hours, while liver, pancreas and intestines can survive for about 8 hours. Kidneys have a longer shelf life at 24-48 hours, but corneas (yes, they offer eye donation) can last up to 14 days. This means that harvesting from patients who die immediately on the field can prove difficult, as the time between death and removal from the playing field is too long to be sustainable.

Collecting from near-death players would be best for business.

Season 2 confirms that organ harvesting is still in full swing, although the Front Man seems unaware of its continuation. During a game of Red Light, Green Light in Season 2, a player is shot in the leg, a clear attempt by some of the guards to use him later for organ harvesting. However, No-Eul ends up taking a killing shot at the man, rendering him useless to their plans. The guards at the organ harvesting ring try to find out who's messing up their plans, and when they narrow it down to 011, they force her to meet with The Officer, another shady manager running the show (he seems to be one level down from the Man at the Front part).

He warns her to stop interfering, but No-eul refuses. She sees her mercy killings as part of her job description (she's right), but those involved in the organ ring don't. Unfortunately, this results in No-Eul being ambushed and attacked in her guard's quarters by the other guards. By the end of The Squid Game Season 2, No-Eul is still alive, but at this point, she no longer interferes, possibly out of fear after being attacked.

The races aren't over at the end of the season, so there's no telling where it will end in season 3. But as it stands, organ theft is still happening and players are being kept alive to suffer so they can be harvested. for profit.

Season 2 of The Squid Game is now available to stream on Netflix.