The safety-catch trick
Cornered at gunpoint in the theater, Assane surrenders, then politely points out that the guard's safety is still on.
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14 moments.
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.
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 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.
The spliced recording: how Pellegrini's own words moved Raoul
Replay of the trick: the TV interview cut into fake orders for Dumont, the same sentence looping until the plan clicks.
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.
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.
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.
Prieto takes the bait and sends the army into Madrid
The Professor frames the heist as chess while Colonel Prieto, furious, raises the alert to Level 5 and demands soldiers and armored cars.
Raquel finds the Toledo farmhouse; the Professor's staged crime scene
Tokyo narrates how the Toledo evidence was planted to cost Raquel three days while the gang prints eight million an hour. It costs her fifty minutes
Sewer ambush countdown ends with Arturo Román
The basement is rigged with explosives, six figures crawl toward the sewer, the GEOs count down and seize them, and Arturo screams that they are hostages.
Outboard motors, carts and El Chapo: the police chase a ghost tunnel
The tent hears engines and carts, concludes the gold is leaving Chapo-style, and sends units underground while the Professor jams the mic.
The farm illusion: an angry farmer sends police after a red Volvo
The Professor explains his trick as police raid the helicopter landing site and a farmer demanding payment for his lamb steers them to a decoy car.
Plan Tom Thumb: breadcrumbs to the bottom of the ocean
The Professor narrates the misdirection: a fake crime scene, red trucks, a hijacked fishing boat and a buoy diagram that sends the Navy to sea.