Assane confronts Juliette in the Luxembourg Gardens
Disguised as a delivery rider and surrounded by police, Assane demands the truth; Juliette admits the scattered-gems story was invented for the auction.
Sofia Belkacem
Every Lupin moment featuring Sofia Belkacem, in story order. Played by Shirine Boutella.
46 moments · 1h 05m
The delivery-rider chase: which one is he?
Police swarm the park after Assane, only to stop a crowd of identical orange delivery riders while the real one vanishes.
Guédira's Arsène Lupin anagram theory gets laughed off
Youssef shows Sofia that the thief's aliases are anagrams of Arsène Lupin; she mocks him while Laugier rages that the investigation is going nowhere.
The van was a decoy: Guédira says it is Lupin
The raid at Pantin finds a hired driver and a phone. Guédira guesses the kidnapper never left City Hall, because that is what Arsène Lupin does.
Guédira links the kidnapper to Paul Sernine
Belkacem doubts Dumont's story; Guédira tells the captain the orange-hat man, Paul Sernine and the 1995 necklace case are all connected.
Guédira pitches the Arsène Lupin theory to the commissioner
Guédira argues the Louvre thief and the kidnapper share one inspiration, Arsène Lupin, down to anagram aliases. The commissioner recalls a top hat and monocle.
Four sketches, four faces: Dumont pulls Guédira off the case
The composite sketches all look different, and the commissioner explodes when Guédira links them to the Louvre. One week left, and Guédira is told to drop it.
Guédira's coded call: he is standing next to Sernine
While Assane questions silent villagers, Guédira phones the station and, with his target in earshot, tells his partner he has found their man and needs backup.
Assane in cuffs demands to know where Raoul is
Cold open: the police have their man in the back of a car, but Assane only wants one answer and keeps asking it.
What was in the trunk? A soda can
Assane presses the officers about the car they found; Belkacem snaps and produces the only thing that was in the trunk.
The rest-stop escape: a toilet break, a receipt and a flat tire
Assane promises not to run before Paris, asks for the bathroom, and walks out past the officers with a ruse they only notice too late.
Pellegrini in custody names Assane Diop, then the Minister frees him
Charged with fraud and perjury, Pellegrini smirks through questioning, identifies Diop and stonewalls on Léonard until a call from his minister friend ends it.
An anonymous caller hands the police Assane's address
Over the tail of the Four Tops track, a tip reports a fight at Diop's flat, a text reads that it is done, and the squad room erupts with the address.
Guédira doubts his own theory because Lupin does not kill
Now that everyone agrees Diop is a real-life Lupin, Guédira is the one unconvinced: a gentleman burglar does not murder. Belkacem reminds him Diop is no book.
The raid finds an empty hideout while young Assane explains The Blonde Lady
A flashback of young Assane telling Claire how Lupin always gets away is cut against police storming the Châtelet hideout and finding it still warm.
Laugier and Belkacem follow Assane into the Catacombs
The police drop through the floor into the tunnels, a tourist confirms Assane Diop is inside, and the Catacombs are shut to the public.
Guédira connects Koné, Pellegrini and Dumont
Guédira lays out the prison file, the registered weapon and the blocked interrogation, and the team decides to arrest tonight, boss or no boss.
Guédira arrests Dumont instead of Diop
With Diop in his sights, Dumont is ordered to drop his gun by his own colleagues and arrested for corruption.
The letter: Assane announces the theft of the Black Pearl
Police read Diop's courteous warning naming the exact night and hour of the robbery, then watch him on the jeweler's own cameras.
Guédira decodes the letter: Lupin always warns his victims
Sofia brings Guédira the letter. He matches its wording to Arsène Lupin and recognises the alias Michel Beaumont from The Crystal Stopper.
Should Sofia read the Lupin books?
Sofia finally asks Guédira for a Lupin lesson. He suggests the pearl may already be gone, and Imbert recalls the 2017 attempt that failed.
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.
Cold open: the crowd chants as Assane falls from the Place Vendôme roof
Police lose their prisoner on the rooftops, a body hits the pavement, and the news asks whether Diop escaped or died.
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.
Guédira's Lupin ally poses as his girlfriend
Guédira recruits a fellow Lupin obsessive who agrees Diop may have faked his death; when a colleague walks in, she improvises a cover story.
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.
Sofia accuses Guédira of leaking to his journalist
Sofia confronts Guédira over an article citing a source close to the investigation; he denies it, then asks if she is jealous.
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.
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.
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.
Guédira shows Sofia the wrong video: his crush confession
The confession Guédira wants Sofia to see has been replaced with a cut of him calling her beautiful, intelligent and cultured.
Sofia grills Manon about the bracelet, the Manet and the pearl
Sofia lays out photos of a dead man and the fake buyer, pressing Manon on where every stolen piece came from. Manon refuses to say a word to police.
Sofia accuses Guédira of being Lupin's accomplice, not his Ganimard
Sofia confronts Youssef over the Manet and bracelet. He admits Diop sat in his office and tricked him; she warns this is his last chance to turn him in.
Sofia refuses Guédira a team for the Opéra Garnier
Youssef begs for officers to arrest Diop at the opera on the strength of a coded newspaper ad. Sofia says she no longer knows whose side he is on.
Guedira decodes the Grimaudan clue for Sofia
A photo of the Arc de Triomphe signed Grimaudan tells Guedira where Assane will be; he argues Sofia into going despite the tip pointing at Keller.
Every phone in Paris is hacked: Lupin announces two heists
At the station, Guédira and Belkacem watch a Lupin video promise a prison escape and two simultaneous museum robberies in exactly 60 minutes.
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.
Sofia chases the thief through the museum and falls
With the prison in uproar, Belkacem corners the masked thief at gunpoint and plunges from a height while Guédira screams for her.
Sofia wakes up: Diop didn't push me
Belkacem surfaces after a week in a coma, flashes back to the chase, and tells Guédira that neither Diop nor the copycat was the one who pushed her.
Sofia relives the museum chase and remembers her attacker
Back at the museum, Guédira walks Sofia through the night she lost her memory until she recalls where the shove came from.
Guédira and Belkacem squeeze the sneaker fence
The detectives pin down the stolen-sneaker dealer and comb his surveillance footage for the Air Jordan thief.
Raoul confesses he pushed Belkacem
Raoul never flew to Dakar; he tells his father the fall was his doing and Assane promises he is not alone.
Assane asks Guédira to drop Raoul's case at the flower market
Assane tells Guédira the treasure is real and Korvin is corrupt, begs him to leave Raoul alone, then fights his way out when backup arrives.
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.