People have worked out a wild Squid Game theory that the police are in on it

Squid Game is one of those shows where there seems to be a new theory every day, a plot hole in every scene and an editing error that people find months later. We’ve followed our heroic protagonist, Gi-hun as he survived one round of the games only to be entered in another. One huge problem for him is that the police won’t take him seriously. He was laughed at, shooed away and even pointed in the direction of a mental asylum. The South Korean police seem to have no interest at all in helping Gi-hun, which really makes you wonder why. Some eagle-eyed viewers have come up with a theory that the police are actually fully aware of Squid Game and are being paid off to look the other way. Here’s all the evidence we’ve found to back up the wild idea.

They ‘didn’t notice’ over 13,000 missing people in Korea

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One thing which doesn’t add up in Squid Game is the police’s lack of action. According to the Squid archives in season one, episode five, 32 games have been completed, each starting with 456 players. That means more than 13,000 citizens disappeared without a trace over three decades. Even if only half of them were reported as missing, how could the police such a pattern? The Squid Game recruiter was mostly finding players from the same poorer parts of the city, too.

Had nobody ever reported the games to the police before?

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Secondly, haven’t the police heard Gi-hun’s story before? Did people not rush to the police after watching 200 people get shot in Red Light, Green Light, and try to stop the games from repeating? Or at least one other person? You can’t tell me Gi-hun was the first person in 32 years to report the games to the police.

They ignore Jun-ho, a trusted detective

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We can’t forget Jun-ho either. He is literally found at sea with a bullet in his shoulder, trying to tell the police what happened, but they all just dismiss him because he lost his evidence. They even try to fire him, making me wonder if they just considered him a liability.

What’s the verdict?

The more you think about it, the more the police seem to be in on it. Could the authorities be turning a blind eye to this as a sort of unethical social cleansing? The idea that these games happen year after year for three decades and nobody is doing anything to stop it just doesn’t make sense.

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