Better than Ganimard: Assane lets Guedira arrest him
Assane surrenders to Guedira, telling him he is as good as Lupin, and says he himself is not Lupin anymore. In the van he denies knowing where the pearl is.
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 181–210 of 285
- 181
- 182
The rose passes from a stranger to the right hands
A stood-up Assane gives a rose to a passerby; minutes later a woman asks for it back, claiming she was the late date. The pearl travels with it.
- 183
Assane's letter to Claire: it's time for the world to forget me
Claire reads Assane's farewell as he confesses to Guedira with three conditions, the first being Benjamin Férel's release. He turns himself in to set them free.
- 184
The third condition: a book and a message from the neighbor
Assane asks for something to read; in his cell a copy of Cagliostro's Revenge arrives from a neighbor, and a message is delivered. The trap may be on him.
- 185
Assane denies knowing where Pellegrini went
Interrogated a week before release, Assane shrugs off the Pellegrini question while a flashback shows a private jet bound for Argentina.
- 186
Lupin is over: Assane tells Guédira he gets out Monday
A cheerful prison visit: Assane springs his early release on Guédira and swears his only plan now is to be a real father.
- 187
The prison director shows Assane his new glass cage
The director walks Assane through a tempered-glass, soundproof cell watched by eighty inmates and ten guards, and Assane politely applauds.
- 188
Eight o'clock: the inmates count down and Assane vanishes
The whole block counts down to eight, the lights cut, and when they come back the cage is empty and the painting is gone in Avignon.
- 189
Still in the box: the inmates chant Lupin's name
The LED walls switch off to reveal Assane never left his cage, and the cell block erupts in a Lupin chant while he protests it was not him.
- 190
Assane explains the LED-wall vanishing trick to Guédira
Guédira accuses Assane of nearly killing Sofia; Assane walks him through the one-way LED cage, the hacked power grid and the unlocked cell doors.
- 191
A copycat: the hydrosoluble canvas trick
Assane deduces the Avignon painting was a water-soluble fake dissolved by the fire alarms, his own Manhattan signature, and names a copycat.
- 192
Assane names Pellegrini and the Malaysia exile is revealed
A mask is found in Assane's cell; he names Pellegrini as the one who hates him enough, and a flashback shows how he stranded Hubert in Malaysia.
- 193
Assane promises Raoul a trip to Senegal
In the visiting room, Assane tells Raoul he chose to serve his sentence, wants to be done with Lupin, and promises they will fly to his grandfather's homeland.
- 194
Diop took your car keys: the transfer escape
Two guards chat about the freezing supermax and a stuck car door before realising the prisoner they are moving has lifted the keys.
- 195
Juliette thanks Assane for exiling her father
Assane turns up in disguise to confront Juliette, hears Hubert begging over the phone, and learns she thinks his exile was the best gift ever.
- 196
Lupin against Lupin: the deepfake issues a challenge
A device speaks with Assane's own face and voice, invites him to play a game, and he vows to unmask whoever picked the wrong target.
- 197
Ben swears off heists, then Assane walks in asking for help
Claire teases Ben about being an Assane groupie; the moment she leaves, the escaped Assane appears and asks Ben if he can count on him.
- 198
Assane and Ben trace the copycat's earlier heists
Flattered by an imitator, Assane sifts headlines with Ben: a Queen Victoria necklace, a Harrods pearl, a getaway on delivery bikes.
- 199
Raoul refuses to believe his father, and the deepfake calls
Assane begs Raoul to trust that he was framed; Raoul calls him an addict. A ringing phone brings a threat in Assane's own voice, and he pushes his son away.
- 200
The copycat has a name: Adèle Kapoor, officially dead
Ben identifies the hacker who leaves Lupin books at crime scenes, then reveals the catch: she is supposedly dead. Assane decides to wake her.
- 201
Assane meets Adèle face to face
Assane traces the deepfake's earpiece and ambushes Adèle, who admits the framing and names her goal: the lost crown jewels of France.
- 202
Adèle's wager: steal the ruby and earn your innocence
Adèle lays out the legend of the four jewels and offers Assane the deepfake code if he can take the ruby before her. Thieves have honor, she says.
- 203
Guédira corners Assane on Avenue Montaigne
Adèle trips the alarm and vanishes; chased down by Guédira, Assane pleads that a dead woman framed him, then slips the cuffs with an apology.
- 204
Paul Sernine the influencer gets bounced at the door
Assane plays a livestreaming influencer to breeze past the doorman, but Adèle rewrites the guest list in real time and he is turned away.
- 205
Assane climbs the Eiffel Tower while Ben fights vertigo
Ben talks Assane through his own fear of heights from the lift while Assane scales the ironwork; the Angel's Heart reveal is announced for ten.
- 206
Adèle traps Claire and Ben in a runaway elevator
Assane claims victory, Adèle needles him about his ex and his best friend, then sends their elevator racing up the tower.
- 207
Assane rides the elevator cables to save Claire and Ben
Assane fights the plunging elevator by hand while Ben holds Claire, lands to cries of 'Lupin', and gets an earful from Claire.
- 208
Rooftop standoff: who was playing whom
Cornered with sirens closing in, Assane tells Adèle he never needed her proof; he had been running his own game all along.
- 209
Assane hands Guédira a photo of the dead girl
Guédira stops his men from shooting and Assane produces a flash photo of Adèle, with a flashback showing how he and Ben rigged the camera.
- 210
Assane interrogates a suspect on a spinning Ferris wheel
Cold open: a terrified man is strapped into a fairground ride and taunted from below, then greeted by the police when it finally stops.