Locker-room brawl while Assane enters the bidding
The crew fights guards and fakes an all-clear over the radio as Assane, posing as a tech mogul, calmly joins the auction at 33 million.
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Assane ends the auction with a 60-million bid
With the cameras down and the clock running, Assane skips the bidding war and drops 60 million euros on the Queen's necklace. Sold.
The getaway in the least discreet car in Paris
The crew bolts through the staff exit with the necklace, only to find Rudy's idea of a quiet getaway car waiting outside.
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.
Cold open: the Black Pearl courier is talked off his route
A priceless pearl is in transit when a 'Central Precinct' call warns the courier his driver is dirty. He takes the metro, and the pearl vanishes.
Place Vendôme counts down to 10 p.m.
Shutters down, alarm on, and a crowd that would vote Diop for president chants his name through the final ten seconds.
The pearl is gone: masks off, codes changed, Diop arrested
Police flood the gallery to find an empty case. A uniformed man climbs the building, the changed code locks them out, and Diop is cuffed in the courtyard.
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.
Armored-car heist and the car-wash getaway
Cisco's crew hits the truck, police close in, and Assane drives the shabby getaway car into a car wash so it emerges unrecognizable in orange.
The bracelet swap goes wrong
Benjamin stumbles into Tara Xang to switch the bracelet while, in the past, young Assane is pushed into the ring; the swap is spotted.
The coward trick: Assane talks his way into The Objector archives
Fabienne sends Assane after a green VHS tape in her old paper's archives. A fake phone call turns the front desk into his escort, until the ruse unravels.
The fake-cop con: Assane talks a widow out of her jewels and a Fabergé egg
Posing as a policeman after a burglary, a younger Assane convinces a wealthy woman that her valuables are safer with him, down to the Fabergé egg.
Ben cracks the display case: forty-nine or ninety-four
Hidden behind the one-way mirror, Ben empties Charmerace's case with a half-known code and swaps in a hologram projector.
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.
Assane reroutes the convoy from a ballet bathroom
Ben's trek is hopelessly behind schedule, so Assane slips out of the ballet, hacks the dispatch chatter and sets a new rendezvous at Saint-Augustin.
Coach Ulrich's grannies block the police van
A fake protest alert reroutes the convoy to Saint-Augustin, where Ben marches his ladies into the crossing and scolds the cops for disrespecting their elders.
Raoul picks a lock with his father's Christmas gift
On a rooftop job with Esteban, Raoul keeps his nerve and cracks the lock with the picks his dad gave him as a kid.
Cannon fire, evacuation, and a camera loop
Explosions by the tomb force a full evacuation. Korvin cannot raise Georges in the crown gallery and realises the feed has been looped.
Vanishing from the thermal cameras
Adèle's movie-inspired trick blinds the cameras while Korvin is sent chasing a box marked Karadine across her own office.
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The Prague embassy job falls apart
Ethan works the party as a senator while the team lifts the NOC list, until the elevator plan turns deadly and a man goes down.
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Firemen ruse to get into CIA headquarters
A fake fire alarm gets the crew past the guards in firefighter gear while Kittridge, upstairs, profiles what Ethan is after.
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The wire drop into the Langley vault
Ethan is lowered from the vent on cables into a silent, heat- and pressure-alarmed room to copy the NOC list.
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Donloe returns early and the vault nearly blows
The analyst comes back as the download finishes; the crew scrambles out, and Kittridge later exiles Donloe to Alaska.
Ethan stalls his own prison break to free Bogdan
Benji runs a Moscow prison riot from a laptop while Ethan, timed to a Dean Martin song, detours to bring an informant out with him.
Benji babbles his way into the Kremlin
Disguised as a general, Ethan walks the checkpoints with a starstruck, nervous Benji at his side, then slips into the archive.
The archive is empty and the Kremlin blows
Ethan finds the file gone, hears someone else on their frequency and aborts, seconds before an explosion tears through the Kremlin.
No masks: the double-room swap at the Burj
Without disguises, Jane and Ethan play Moreau and Wistrom to each other, bluffing through a tense exchange while the codes are copied.
Pluto, Venus and the leap of faith in Mumbai
At Brij Nath's party Benji objects to his code name while Brandt is talked into jumping into the server shaft.
Jane gets the code as Hendricks seizes the satellite
Jane lets Brij Nath chase her upstairs, Ethan takes out Hendricks' men, and Brandt cooks in the relay room as the system is hijacked.
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The 747 hijack: 'Ethan' peels off his face and crashes the plane
Nekhorvich trusts the friend beside him with Chimera, until the cabin pressure drops, the mask comes off and Ambrose's crew bails out.