Gi-hun—or rather, 456—returns to the Game after having failed every attempt to sabotage it. We find him in the box, but he’s not dead. He’s there to observe what he has created.
 "Now watch the consequences of your little rebellion," he is told.
His attempt to overturn the system has already been absorbed by it. The system has digested even disobedience. The experiment continues: 35 bodies hang from ropes while the VIPs applaud to the rhythm of Strauss’s waltz.