Make sure you’re up to date with the third and final season of “Squid Game” before proceeding. You’ve been warned, as major spoilers are ahead!

In the second season of “Squid Game,” it was shocking for viewers to learn about Player 222, a young girl named Kim Jun-hee (Jo Yu-ri), who was pregnant. In its third and concluding season, the show intensifies the stakes dramatically; Jun-hee not only gives birth amid extremely perilous settings, but the baby’s life faces immediate jeopardy.

In the second episode of Season 3 of Hwang Dong-hyuk’s globally acclaimed series “Squid Game,” the featured game is a twisted version of hide and seek. Here, players are divided into two teams wearing different vests: a blue team and a red team. The blue team must continuously hide from the red team until they find an exit using the keys they receive in the intricate maze … while the red team must eliminate members of the blue team, as failure to kill at least one person results in their elimination from the game. With assistance from former soldier Cho Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon) and the tenacious elder Jang Geum-ja (Kang Ae-shim) — known as Players 120 and 149 respectively — Jun-hee navigates through the game, though she incurs a severe ankle injury along the way. She then goes into labor, introducing a daunting and frightening challenge.

Hyun-ju manages to guard a room while Geum-ja helps Jun-hee safely and successfully deliver her baby, against all odds; Hyun-ju is ultimately killed by the baby’s own father, Lee Myung-gi (Im Si-wan), Player 333 (who, incidentally, didn’t know Hyun-jee just protected both Jun-hee and their newborn child). So what happens to Jun-hee’s baby after that, and why is it so messed up?

As she bonds with her newborn baby and deals with her woefully injured ankle, Jun-hee still has to prepare for yet another horrible game alongside the rest of the players. This time, it’s a “simple” game of jump rope, so here’s the disgusting twist: players have to cross a narrow pathway in order to “pass” the game and clear a giant metal rope swung by two enormous dolls the entire time. Should a player fall off the pathway or miss the metal rope, they’ll plummet to their death underneath the field.

Jun-hee merely sits, despondently, without bothering to even try and cross the pathway. The show’s main character, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), is a parent himself — in fact, he gives Jun-hee a sweet speech before jump rope begins about how incredible it is to watch your child grow up, and how he’s ashamed that he took the experience for granted — so he immediately offers to transport the baby across the bridge to safety and then come back for her. With the baby wrapped in Jun-hee’s player jacket — which bears the number 222, and you will want to remember that fact — Gi-hun successfully crosses the bridge, but he’s blocked from getting back across because other players are gleefully shoving each other to their deaths on the pathway to winnow down the potential winners.

Even though Myung-gi, who’s still at the starting line, begs the woman he loves and the mother of his child to let him help her, but she refuses. Ultimately, Jun-hee simply jumps to her death, all too aware that she’ll never safely make it across the bridge. Gi-hun still has the baby … who, again, has the Player 222 jacket. That’s when everything changes in the most devastating way you can imagine.

Remember those absolutely awful VIP guests from Season 1 of “Squid Game,” who sit in a luxurious box above the playing field and bet on the desperate players while wearing gilded animal masks and chugging liquor? Well, they’re back in Season 3, and after Jun-hee’s death, they come up with a genuinely heinous idea. To preserve one player’s precious bet, they decide that the baby is now Player 222, and by the time the players reconvene after jump rope is over, the guards have gotten the message and inform the players that a newborn baby is now an active participant in this game.

It is genuinely and terrifyingly horrific to imagine a baby being killed in the bloodshed we see throughout “Squid Game,” but at least she’s protected by Gi-hun, a man who somehow survived his first go-around in the game (only to end up back in the arena anyway). The final game, which involves the hopscotch-esque titular “squid game” where players move between circles, squares, and triangles, forces the players to choose from amongst their own number and keep knocking people off of massive and literal pedestals as they cross the arena; even though a bunch of bloodthirsty players certainly want to kill the baby straight away, both Myung-gi and Gi-hun serve as the tiny infant’s protectors. It’s an absolutely harrowing twist, and it’s also the kind of twist that only a show like “Squid Game” would even dream about.

“Squid Game” is streaming on Netflix now.