Two weeks earlier: how Assane built the con
The rewind: a borrowed name at the Louvre, a loan shark's cash, a crew of thugs and a perfect replica from Benjamin, all narrated by the Lupin book.
Assane Diop & Benjamin Férel
The best friend with the workshop: every plan starts here. 65 scenes together, in story order.
65 moments · 1h 44m · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 65
- 01
- 02
Benjamin proves the necklace was never taken apart
Assane learns the stolen necklace is intact, so the scattered-gems story was a lie and his father may have been framed 25 years ago.
- 03
Two spelling mistakes hide a message from Babakar
Rereading his father's farewell letter, Assane spots deliberate misspellings pointing to a fellow inmate named Comit and decides to get into prison himself.
- 04
Assane blames himself for Fabienne; Ben tells him not to let Pellegrini win
After the journalist's death, Assane wonders whether to quit the fight. Benjamin reminds him it is Raoul's birthday and that giving up means Pellegrini wins.
- 05
Twenty-four hours earlier: Assane asks Ben for help
Rewind to the night Raoul was taken: Assane tells Ben he suspects Pellegrini and needs him, while Claire is told he always finds a way.
- 06
Assane vows to pay Pellegrini back through his own blood
Frozen out by Claire, Assane rants to Benjamin, who refuses to just agree with him; Assane decides Pellegrini will suffer the way he did, through family.
- 07
A week earlier: the Velmont dinner was staged
Rewind to the plan: Assane targets Pellegrini's daughter, Benjamin books the table as Horace Velmont, and every spontaneous beat of the date was arranged.
- 08
The Pissarro was never stolen
Assane explains the trick: a doctored news clip, friends playing cops and a fake painting make Juliette believe in a theft, so she will trap her own father.
- 09
All this for a coffee: Anne Pellegrini walks in
Benjamin marvels that the whole scheme was built around one cafe meeting, then Juliette's mother sits down with the cop to tell the truth about her husband.
- 10
Assane goes back for Juliette anyway
With Pellegrini in custody, Benjamin tells Assane the job is done and over, but Assane insists on seeing Juliette one more time.
- 11
J'accuse barks at the name Pellegrini as Ben scolds Assane
Assane is reunited with his dog while Ben accuses him of guilt-tripping Juliette; a parting dig at Pellegrini sets J'accuse off again.
- 12
Assane talks Ben through shaking the killer at a bus stop
By phone, Assane keeps a panicking Ben calm, sits him next to the man following him, and uses the closing bus doors to lose the tail.
- 13
Assane refuses to flee Paris: running means guilty
Ben wants to leave the city; Assane, wanted for murder, says he was framed like his father and the Châtelet plan will clear him.
- 14
Assane and Ben escape through the hidden tunnels from their childhood map
With the police closing in, Assane and Ben find the secret passage they mapped as kids, and the flashback shows why they kept the map.
- 15
Assane and Ben promise one last show at the Châtelet
Safe again, Assane recalls the first Lupin stage play at the Châtelet and declares that tomorrow's performance will be their last and finish Pellegrini.
- 16
Three weeks out: Assane breaks in and finds Lucas Lacroix
Assane raids an office by night and comes out with a name; Ben explains the wealth manager whose briefcase holds Pellegrini's secrets.
- 17
Recruiting an accomplice at the Lupin bookshop
Assane tells Ben they need help and waits where Lupin fans gather; a stranger calls them out on their upside-down reading.
- 18
Inventing Philippe Courbet
The crew designs a financial-expert identity to dangle in front of Pellegrini and picks a name with a hidden Lupin link.
- 19
Calm and methodical: the last briefing before the show
As the news speculates whether Diop will appear, Ben walks through the donation setup and steadies Assane before they split up.
- 20
Assane pitches Ben the big job: a 12 out of 10
Ben lays out what the year of headlines has done to Claire. Assane answers with a plan so risky it breaks the scale, and it starts with the Black Pearl.
- 21
Three days earlier: Assane recruits Bruno and briefs Ben
Assane repays an old debt with a job offer, then dresses Benjamin as a transferred SWAT commander with one rule: the bigger the lie, the more they buy it.
- 22
Assane feeds Ben his lines through the earpiece
The security tour replayed from the pillar: Assane prompts every question, winces at Ben's fear of heights and hands him the honour of France.
- 23
The heist in three acts: invitations, escape, final bow
Assane narrates the whole con: a leaked letter to fill the square, the crowd to slip into SWAT, a changed code to escape, and a staged arrest as the exit.
- 24
Getaway, rooftops and a fall
The crew celebrates in the van and parts ways. Then police spot Assane on the rooftops near Place Vendôme, and the episode ends on a scream.
- 25
Dr. Vernes meets Dr. Martinez in the morgue
Two fake doctors bluff each other over a covered body, each trying to out-credential the other before dropping the act.
- 26
Guédira refuses to believe Diop is dead and checks the corpse himself
Guédira argues Lupin always fakes his death, then insists on examining the body in the morgue with his own ears.
- 27
Guédira halts the funeral and orders the casket opened
Mid-eulogy at Père Lachaise, Guédira barges in demanding proof of death; the mourners erupt and the lid comes up.
- 28
Two weeks earlier: Assane pitches Ben the finale, his own death
Assane walks Ben through the plan step by step until the punchline lands: the witnesses are there to see Assane Diop die.
- 29
How to die on cue: blood, airbag, rigged stethoscope and a headline
The mechanics of the fake death unfold alongside the night itself, until Ben asks how you get out of a nailed-shut coffin.
- 30
J'accuse joins the plan: a game of fetch through the tunnel
Assane brings out the dog, Ben despairs, and a treat run proves the cemetery tunnel works both ways.