Liar Game

Siwon resorts to threatening others with violence if he finds out that they’ve lied in their answers, while Miryo tries to get Sunhwa to figure out Joon’s strategy. She refuses, since she wants to win on her own merit.
She does start to freak out when the clock keeps winding down, since she remembers PD Dasom’s talk with her and how she’s going to be in a bad way if she loses.
Joon wanders over to ask what she’s doing, and Sunhwa reacts defensively: “I thought we were enemies. I’m going to treat you as my enemy.” She definitely hasn’t gotten better at lying, so Joon just tells her that sometimes, you have to use your enemy to win.
“Do you think this is a simple game of probability?” he asks her. “There is a way to win this game.” Sunhwa doesn’t believe him at first, but he convinces her that in order to affect the odds, he’ll need a team of eight people. It must be eight.
Sunhwa excitedly asks whether that means they’re enemies or not, and doesn’t take Joon’s roundabout answer as she asks again, “So, am I your enemy or not?”
“No, not for now,” Joon relents. Besides, since she’s naturally much more approachable and trustable than he is, she can be the one to round up potential team members. “Will they believe me?” Sunhwa asks. Joon: “Of course. Since you’re the dumbest.” Hah.
He tells Sunhwa to pick people she thinks would have the lowest probability of betrayal, since they’d have to agree to split the prize money if won. I know Joon isn’t this naive, so is he pulling one on Sunhwa again?
After he admits that he doesn’t know who this “Betrayer X” is either, Joon sets up shop near enough to Sunhwa so that he can give her silent cues when he reads any potential teammate she approaches.
One smooth-talking contestant actually approaches her, because he wants in on the group she’s forming. He offers to tell her who Betrayer X is if she lets him in, all while Joon reads every other contestant like a book to determine their weaknesses.
When Sunhwa gets cornered by an extra-aggressive Siwon, Miryo jumps to defend her and almost gets hurt herself. Whether this was all part of one of her scenarios or not is yet to be determined, but Joon’s arrival (along with a cameraman) gets Siwon to back down.
Once assembled, Team Joon introduces themselves to each other before Joon tells them that they have to cooperate if they hope to survive the game. Most of all, they have to avoid the handsome young man always wearing sunglasses, aka Betrayer X.
The reason why Joon needed eight people was because the math would work out in their favor—as long as they all split their votes evenly, one of them will make it to the final round and win. As Joon explains, isn’t it better to be sure to get a part of the prize money instead of hoping they’ll be that one person out of twenty-two people to win it all?
As far as insuring themselves against betrayal by their fellow teammates, Miryo suggests that they write an official, legally binding contract. They send the actual lawyer in their group to draft up the contract and bring it back.
Since Joon’s positioned them inside the CCTV room, he notices before the lawyer does that Siwon is following him and calls to warn him. No matter what, they can’t let Siwon see the contract.
They send the washed-up actor to distract Siwon while all except for Miryo hide. By the time Siwon gets inside all he sees is Miryo in a state of undress and leaves after assuming she and the actor were just getting busy.
Once the lawyer returns, the group shows the camera their contract as a way of making it binding. And it does, since the Liar Game Robot calls each of them to confirm that they’ll split the money if one of them wins.
After deciding which of them will vote yes and no, Joon has each team member log their thumbprints as their phone’s password so he can then collect and redistribute them at random.
It’s his way of ensuring the utmost secrecy around and within their group, since locked phones can only receive incoming calls and texts; no outgoing messages can be sent. They can’t let on that they’ve formed a group to the others, and agree to separate until their next meeting time.
But Betrayer X is clearly up to something. Not only does he approach Siwon, he’s also stealthily following Sunhwa.
When voting for the first round begins, everyone in Team Joon votes as they agreed while making it look like they aren’t. The results are as expected, since four of them are part of the larger group set to advance to the second round.
Joon notices the other contestants who aren’t within the group, and begins to suspect something is amiss. When the “winners” who voted yes are brought to the front, Sunhwa unhappily notices that that handsome boy, Betrayer X, is among them.
So is Joon, even though he later tells Sunhwa that there’s something else going on. She doesn’t understand, since half of them survived just like he predicted, at least until he tells her that the other contestants who lost didn’t move a muscle when the results came out—which means that theirs isn’t the only alliance.
“If Betrayer X is behind this, our plan to win is ruined,” Joon says. While Sunhwa frets over this latest development, Seunghyun introduces their next questioner—it’s Dongho, otherwise known as Betrayer X.
So the question/statement Dongho poses to them is: “I am the notorious Betrayer X.”
Everyone reels. Seunghyun just smirks.

Notes

New chapter...here for you;-P