Young Assane learns what a gentleman is
Flashback: Assane's father, the Pellegrinis' new chauffeur, drills him on spelling, then fixes Mrs. Pellegrini's stalled car with quiet grace.
Young Assane Diop
Every Lupin moment featuring Young Assane Diop, in story order. Played by Mamadou Haïdara.
48 moments · 1h 15m
Juliette dares young Assane to swim for a kiss
Flashback: at the Pellegrini pool, Juliette teases the chauffeur's son with a loaded question and a challenge that starts their story.
The book that started it all: young Assane gets Lupin
Flashback: Hubert Pellegrini humiliates Babakar for reading, and Mrs. Pellegrini offers young Assane a book of his choosing. He picks Arsène Lupin.
Babakar accused and dragged away
Flashback: Hubert Pellegrini pins the necklace theft on his chauffeur, who is arrested while swearing his innocence and pleading for his son.
Young Assane hears the worst news at the prison gate
Flashback: a visit to his father ends with an alarm from cell block P3. Mrs. Pellegrini's condolences get the only answer a grieving boy has.
Young Assane escapes Inspector Dumont through the window
An inspector comes to send sixteen-year-old Assane to social services; the boy slips out while the cop waits, and gets a lesson on escape technique.
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 gets his father's last letter and a generous donor
At the group home, Assane is handed Babakar's farewell note and told a mystery benefactor has paid for an elite private school.
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.
Barbarians and knights: young Assane meets Claire
The new kid steps in when boys harass Claire in class. She thanks him with a lecture on barbarians, knights and why both drive her crazy.
Lupin is like Romeo: a fight and a bandage
Young Assane explains why he loves Lupin, loses his cool with the bullies, then gets patched up by Claire and told he is the man of her dreams, technically.
The third type of man: a gentleman
Reading Lupin again, young Assane tells Claire there is a third kind of guy beyond barbarian and knight, and they agree to always be there for each other.
Flashback: the violin shop turns Claire and Assane away
Young Claire's violin is smashed before her audition; the shopkeeper lets her try a beautiful one, then refuses to rent it once he sees who her friend is.
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.
Flashback: Assane gives Claire the violin
Young Assane waits for Claire with a gift and insists he only borrowed it; she will not play for him yet, but he can hear her at the audition.
Young Assane in the principal's office over the stolen violin
Flashback: the principal plays a voicemail from the violin shop owner and warns Assane not to go the way of his father.
Teen Assane's shell game is interrupted by Juliette
Young Assane and his partner fleece passers-by with a ball-and-cups hustle until Juliette walks up; a date is set for tomorrow and his friend wants answers.
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.
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.
Young Assane and Claire: a bracelet and a birthday
A flashback where young Assane forgets the key date, hunts for a hidden gift and gets teased about stealing from his ex.
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.
Young Assane finds his mother's note
Back at his old flat, Assane reads a message his mother left for him, then is swept into Bruno's World Cup celebration and asks for a place to stay.
Young Assane reads his mother's goodbye and finds a home at Keller's gym
A letter says his mother left him for good; a friend takes him to the boxing gym where the godfather Keller takes him in.
Keller claims young Assane as family while the coffin goes into the ground
Keller pushes the grieving boy through a punishing round and tells him he has a family now, intercut with the burial.
A voice calling him Sanni says it knows Assane is alive
A classified ad, calls to prisons in Senegal, and a prerecorded message summoning Assane to a church with the pearl.
In the church, his mother begs Assane to leave the pearl or they kill her
A phone voice orders the pearl into the donation box and tells Assane he now works for her captors, cut against the boy's last call.
Young Assane walks out of the gym: son of two crooks
Told his mother cannot help him, the boy quits Keller's gym and decides he is no better than his parents.
Young Assane and Bruno: the master's lessons
Bruno cannot afford Keller's entry fee, so young Assane proposes stealing wallets; Bruno appoints himself master and lectures on rich neighborhoods.
The wallet con: how young Assane got the name Delangle
Young Assane returns a stolen wallet to earn a rich man's trust, lifts a statuette, and explains the trick comes from The Infernal Trap.
Keller orders Assane and Bruno into the ring
In the past, Bruno accuses young Assane of stealing his girl; Keller calls it betrayal and decrees a fight until they respect each other.
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.
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.
Young Claire offers a bed, then shuts down young Assane
Bruised from a fight at Keller's, young Assane needs a place to stay. Claire has one bed, and a very clear idea of who is sleeping in it.
Young Claire calls Keller's gym a dogfight for kids
Claire walks into the fight club, says what she thinks of it, and leaves. Keller answers with a warning about real friends.
The enemy's real purpose: not the pearl, but hurting Assane
Young Assane is told to channel his rage at Keller's gym; in the present, his captor admits the painting and pearl were never the point.
1998: Assane and Claire make up over fries, ketchup and a Thuram goal
Young Claire turns up during the France match, Assane apologizes, and a joke about how she puts ketchup away becomes a shared memory as Thuram scores.
1998: Keller bullies Bruno after the social worker's visit, Assane pushes back
A surprise inspection nearly ends in a report. Once the social worker leaves, Keller turns on Bruno and young Assane asks whether they really need him.
A father tells young Assane what they call men like him: a gentleman
In a memory at the opera, Assane's father tells him the music belongs to everyone and gives him the word that will define him.
1998: Keller forces Bruno to shoot a cop
Flashback to the botched emerald job: Keller hands Bruno a gun and screams at him to shoot while young Assane begs him not to.
The pearl or freedom: Assane corners Keller at the Arc
Keller learns Manon betrayed him, the cops close in, old wounds from 1998 are reopened, and Assane offers one choice: hand over the pearl or go free.
Assane corners Adèle and asks about her necklace
Trapped, Adèle demands the diamond; Assane asks where her necklace comes from, and a memory of a gift given years ago tells him who her mother is.
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.
Charmerace gloats over a captive Assane
Assane wakes bound in the Guardian's hands; a schoolyard memory shows Charmerace's grudge, and a truth serum is promised.
Young Charmerace fires at a tied-up Diop
A flashback to the Charmerace family's 'tradition': the boy shoots at Assane and swears the next bullets will be real.
Young Assane and Juliette go down for the treasure
Flashback: two teenagers pry open a slab under the commissioner's office and crawl through the catacombs toward the fabled treasure.
The notebook was fake: Juliette's lie, then and now
Young Juliette tells Assane the treasure was a myth she invented; years later she admits the real reason was protecting him from her father.
Claire confesses she led Pellegrini to Assane
Claire tells Juliette it was her teenage note that tipped off Pellegrini; the flashback shows him smiling over young love before Assane absolves her.