One week earlier: the thief they want caught is Benjamin
Assane's mother relays the real order: the police must catch a thief, and it will not be him. A voice names the betrayal of a friend.
Assane Diop's Best Moments
Every Lupin moment featuring Assane Diop, in story order. Played by Omar Sy.
285 moments · 7h 29m · by Favseen
Moments 151–180 of 285
- 151
- 152
Assane escapes the maze while Benjamin takes the fall
Assane runs the labyrinth route alone as police arrest Benjamin; the test was how far Assane would go. Young Assane wins the ring fight.
- 153
The coach calls Claire: I lied, I have no idea how to be a dad
Shaken, the coach admits he pretended to know what is best for Raoul; Claire talks about motherhood and confesses she is reading Lupin.
- 154
Assane climbs out of his grave and asks Ganimard to team up
Guédira finds Assane alive at the cemetery. Assane invokes The Red Silk Scarf, the one time Lupin and Ganimard worked together, and asks for help.
- 155
Guédira hides Assane by claiming his girlfriend is over
Sofia knocks and Guédira stalls her with the worst excuse available. Assane then lays out what a partnership would get the police.
- 156
Assane records his confession on Guédira's phone
To earn Guédira's help saving his mother, Assane records a dated video admitting he faked his death and promising to turn himself in.
- 157
Guédira admits he likes Sofia while being filmed
Introduced to a 'colleague' who looks a lot like Assane Diop, Guédira gets talked into gushing about Sofia, on camera.
- 158
Assane breaks a 'fifth-century' vase and exposes Lassaire's fakes
Posing as police with Guédira, Assane shatters a 25,000-euro vase and points out industrial oven bubbles on an antique that predates ovens.
- 159
Good cop, worse cop: Lassaire agrees to set up the Manet sale
Assane and Guédira stack up imaginary years of prison until the parolee gallery owner admits he was asked to broker the stolen Manet.
- 160
Assane shows Guédira the hollow needle and pitches Justin Avisto
Inside his hideout, Assane tells Guédira he will play a rich collector at the sale, or he can call Belkacem and arrest him right now.
- 161
Guédira plays Avisto and haggles for the stolen Manet
At the Hotel Derwatt, Guédira repeats Assane's lines in his ear, bluffs about his reputation, and gets the sellers down to 20 million.
- 162
Police raid: Assane slips out and Sofia unmasks Avisto
Mid-toast the police storm in. Assane thanks Ganimard and leaves him the painting and the bracelet, just as Sofia pulls off the disguise.
- 163
Sofia reveals the anonymous tip came from Assane
Sofia recaps the mess she found Youssef in, then plays back the call that sent her to the hotel, with a sign-off only one man would use.
- 164
The enemy's real purpose: not the pearl, but hurting Assane
Young Assane is told to channel his rage at Keller's gym; in the present, his captor admits the painting and pearl were never the point.
- 165
Assane sneaks a steak into Ben's cell and learns Claire knows
Assane visits Ben in prison with a rare steak. Ben warns that Claire knows he is alive; Assane names the kidnapper from his past and promises to handle it.
- 166
Claire asks Alex if they could leave the friend zone
Claire tells the coach he is nothing like Assane except that he never worries, then asks if they could have been more than friends. He deflects.
- 167
Assane returns to his childhood home and finds his mother's old note
Assane talks his way into the flat he grew up in and uncovers the message his mother left for Sanni, while she searches the same streets for her son.
- 168
Alex guides Claire through the Galeries Lafayette by phone
Claire says Assane being alive will not stop her seeing someone else and asks the coach if she has a chance. He steers her to the gold elevator.
- 169
Assane plants a wallet on Claire's follower and gets him arrested
Still on the phone, Assane sends Claire back downstairs, slips stolen goods into her pursuer's pocket, and lets security grab the man.
- 170
Mariama tells Assane why she never came to France
Assane asks his mother the one question that matters; she explains the stolen wages, the arrest and the shame that kept her away for 25 years.
- 171
Assane talks a valet out of a stranger's car keys
Posing as a cop who has spotted fake plates, Assane bullies and flatters a parking attendant into handing over the keys, then has him sign a release.
- 172
Claire and Mariama overrule Assane: you're dead, you don't decide
Assane wants to blackmail the minister; Claire and his mother have already decided the family runs. He promises his mom no more robberies or disguises.
- 173
Colonel Ali Abdelkerim charms a bigoted old colonel
Assane in disguise claims to be the boy guide from Chad in 1969 and flatters his way into an invitation to the Legion of Honor ceremony at Beauvau.
- 174
Thousands of faces like mine: Assane faces the Minister
Introduced to the Minister of the Interior, Assane's colonel delivers a quiet speech about those who bled for a flag that was not theirs.
- 175
How mother and son robbed the minister's safe
Assane walks Mariama through the plan: a diversion, an open safe, a letter as the hint, and why nobody searches a Black woman of a certain age.
- 176
Escape through the tunnels under the Elysee
Spotted at Beauvau, Assane and his mother flee through the presidential evacuation tunnels and a boat he planned ahead, leaving the minister fuming.
- 177
Assane blackmails the Minister with his own phone
The minister's contact list of traffickers and arms dealers buys Assane a favor: he wants nothing but someone released from prison.
- 178
Assane asks Manon to betray Keller
In her cell, Assane asks Keller's partner to snitch; she throws loyalty at him, he reminds her he was 17 and asks what family makes kids fight and kill.
- 179
Manon turns: she calls Keller to set the trap
Assane names Keller for what he is and asks Manon if she wants to stay his scapegoat; she calls Keller and sets a meeting at the Arc de Triomphe.
- 180
The pearl or freedom: Assane corners Keller at the Arc
Keller learns Manon betrayed him, the cops close in, old wounds from 1998 are reopened, and Assane offers one choice: hand over the pearl or go free.