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.
Benjamin Férel
Every Lupin moment featuring Benjamin Férel, in story order. Played by Antoine Gouy.
86 moments · 2h 14m
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.
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.
Young Assane meets Benjamin on his first day at Andrésy
Rich kids mistake the new student for a janitor until one classmate tells them off and introduces himself as Benjamin.
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.
Flashback: what would Lupin do about the violin?
Young Assane tells Benjamin the shop will not rent to a Black kid's friend; asked what Lupin would do, Benjamin lays out the plan: steal a violin for Claire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where the nine million really went
Ben settles up with the accomplice and reveals the account that received the donations was never Pellegrini's.
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.
Young Assane: taunted on the court, abandoned by everyone
Teenagers mock his absent father until he snaps; Benjamin leaves for vacation, and a coach mentions letters from Senegal waiting at his old flat.
The SWAT commander tours the jeweler's defences
Forty-three cameras, six exits, one door code and a laser web around the pearl. The commander promises nobody will lay a finger on it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ben haggles Alberto from sixteen to twenty million for the pearl
Alberto offers condolences and a price; Ben uses one of Assane's rules about round numbers to push the fence up.
Plan's off: Assane tells Ben his mother has resurfaced
With the sale and the house all set, Assane pulls the plug: someone using his childhood name knows he is alive.
Assane tells Ben his mother is alive and kidnapped
Two days earlier: Assane explains to Ben why he is sure the caller is Mariama, and the ransom demand is a Manet stolen in Boston, held by Cisco.
Belkacem questions a grieving Ben
Captain Belkacem asks Ben where he was on December 3rd; he lashes out about losing his best friend and dares her to search for the pearl.
Ben's wall of everyone Assane ever robbed
Ben shows a board of wealthy enemies: a fake Rodin, a tax fraud, the Pellegrinis. One of them, Assane bets, has his mother. Two days left.
Cisco calls the niece lie; Assane finds the Manet
Cisco catches Delangle's story, forces another ace draw, but Assane has Ben tip off the police and recalls where the stolen Manet is hidden.
Follow the painting: Assane goes in alone
A tracker in the Manet leads to Place d'Italie; Assane is already there and heads in for his mother while Ben pleads with him to wait.
The Red Sea bracelet: Benjamin says no, then yes
Assane lays out the next forced job, a sapphire bracelet with a legendary clasp; Benjamin balks until Assane reminds him whose life is at stake.
The way in is a cloakroom attendant
Assane explains why trusted staff are the perfect cover, settles on the cloakroom, and Benjamin fails his first try at the Robin clasp.
Benjamin recites the labyrinth route from memory
The replica is finished; Assane drills Benjamin on the plan and he rattles off every turn of the garden maze without hesitation.
Cornélius and Alain take over the gala cloakroom
Two very passionate coatroom men explain Gérard's resignation, denounce plastic hangers and a scent of mold, and threaten the union.
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.
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 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.
Férel sends Guédira to Père Lachaise with a shovel
Under interrogation, Férel finally names where Diop is: a cemetery lot. If the lieutenant wants to question him, he will need a shovel.
Claire bluffs Ben into confirming Assane is alive
Visiting a battered Ben in prison, Claire pretends she already knows everything. His apology tells her what she came to find out.
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.
Raoul asks Claire if she knew
The news breaks that Paris was hacked by Lupin; Raoul storms out after asking his mother whether she knew his father was planning it.
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.
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.
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.
Ben's very old client and a note for Claire
Ben fumbles an excuse about an elderly client, Raoul bolts, and Claire is left with the dog until a note invites her to the Eiffel Tower.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Claire tells Ben she is done being lied to
With Raoul missing, Claire confronts Ben about following Assane and lying to her, and lays down the one condition for staying together.
Flashback: young Claire catches Ben whistling his lie
Years earlier, Claire reads Ben's nervous whistle as a tell and drags out why he really wants to crash Charmerace's party.
Assane tells Ben: the copycat is my daughter
Assane breaks the news to Ben, defends Juliette against the Pellegrini name, and decides to break Adèle out before England kills her, Raoul or not.
Ben's army of old ladies and Raoul's surprise ballet
Ben frets over his crowd of booked grannies while Assane picks up Raoul for a surprise that turns out to be ballet, not the UFC tickets he hoped for.
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.
An old lady in the van, and a very worried coach
The escort opens the van to find a dazed grandmother instead of Adèle; Ben rushes in as Coach Ulrich, fusses over 'Colette' and keeps the police away.
How it was done: lab serum, bait diamond, fake death
The plan unpacked: Assane and Ben steal an experimental neurotoxin, Adèle lures Guédira to the opera, the grannies stall the van, and Adèle ages out of custody.
Flashback: Juliette brings the tunnel work orders and joins the hunt
At the station, young Juliette hands Assane the Sartine construction orders pointing to secret tunnels, on one condition: she comes to Paris too.
Flashback: Juliette's van stunt gets them into the police station
The treasure entrance sits under the commissioner's office, so young Juliette gets herself arrested half-dressed while Assane digs through the floor.
Adèle meets Raoul without knowing he is her brother
Adèle walks into Ben's shop looking for help and gets served by Raoul, both awkwardly dancing around absent fathers.
The vest: how Assane and Adèle faked their deaths
Father and daughter surface alive, and a jump back a day reveals the plan: a bulletproof vest, a weakened guardrail, a staged fall.
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.
Ben confesses he is in love with Claire
Pressed by Assane, Ben admits he and Claire love each other; Assane calls it a betrayal of what the three of them had.
Assane brings his wounded daughter to Claire
A ricochet has hit Adèle; with hospitals off limits, Assane turns up at Claire's door and introduces the girl as his daughter.
Claire stalls the raid and Ben plays honey bunny
Korvin's men tear through the flat; Claire mocks them room by room until Ben and Juliette are found in bed demanding a warrant.
It's called family, and Raoul is gone
The honey bunny joke lands, Assane says this is family not friendship, then learns Raoul left for Dakar without a word.
Claire walks out as Assane decides to steal the treasure
Assane says the only way to save Raoul is to take the Guardians' treasure; Claire refuses to hear it, Juliette signs on.
The plan: raise the Seine to force the Varennes protocol
Assane explains Varennes, the vault's weak ventilation and how opening one dam and closing another will flood Paris underground and force a relocation.
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Ben's customs officer con locks the dam crew in the server room
Posing as a pompous customs controller hunting a stowaway, Ben traps the dam staff, then he and Assane open the dams on a count of three.
Assane's getaway motorcycle gets towed from under the bridge
Ben parked the bike somewhere discreet; Assane finds it being hauled away and has to sweet-talk the tow crew mid-heist.
Mission Varennes accomplished: the crew regroups with a truck and a horse
Claire teases Ben in biker leathers, Juliette rolls up driving the armored truck, and Assane trots in on the horse nobody can explain.
Pellegrini calls: bring the treasure or lose the kids
Hubert Pellegrini has Adèle and Raoul and names a Lupin riddle as the meeting spot; Assane drives off alone with everyone's keys in his pocket.
Claire recruits Guédira to decode the Arsène riddle
Stuck on where Arsène the First took his first flight, Claire turns to the other Lupin expert, who names The Teeth of the Tiger and Saint-Cloud Park.