Guédira smells Arsène Lupin; Sernine invites a search
Police question the 'victim' Sernine, Guédira tells his captain the robbery reads like a Lupin story, and Assane walks out with a souvenir.
Youssef Guédira
Every Lupin moment featuring Youssef Guédira, in story order. Played by Soufiane Guerrab.
86 moments · 1h 57m
The trash-bin exit and the fake necklace
The real plan revealed: the thugs were the decoy, the necklace left in a garbage bin, and the lab tells Guédira the recovered piece is a fake.
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 hunts for the link between the Lupin aliases
Pulled from the case, Guédira sits with his Leblanc books, muttering through Sernine, Perenna, 813 and the Needle, sure there is a pattern he is missing.
Claire turns on Assane: no more trust
Claire blames Assane for the kidnapping and threatens to call the police; he begs her not to and swears he will get Raoul back. Guédira insists on coming along.
Guédira plays the anxious husband in Assane's car
No reception, so Assane finds the kidnapper's route on a paper map while Guédira invents a worried wife as an excuse to stop in Bourneville.
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 makes the bar talk
Assane announces his kidnapped son to a silent room, loses patience with the barman, and gets the lead he needs. Guédira refuses to be left behind.
The Cagliostro slip exposes the fake text from Raoul
A text from the captor's phone invites Assane to a rendezvous; one wrong Lupin detail tells Assane and Guédira it is a trap, and they decide to walk into it.
Léonard dangles Raoul in front of Assane
At the old house Léonard lets Raoul see his father and scream for him; Assane promises to kill anyone who touches his son and is dared to come and get him.
Assane refuses the police: incompetent, corrupt, or both
Guédira suggests calling the police; Assane answers that the man who took his son owns them, then shuts down the Lupin game talk.
Assane unmasks Guédira as his Ganimard
Assane calmly asks how long before the police arrive, tells Guédira he has known his name for weeks, and leaves him tied up: he does not work with cops.
Guédira arrests Assane at the worst moment
Gun drawn, Guédira cuffs Assane while he pleads that his son is inside; Guédira admits he had believed they could be Lupin and will not fall for it again.
Guédira pulls Raoul out of the locked car
Raoul screams for help from inside a car; a stranger smashes his way in, gets him out and says he is a cop and a friend of his father's.
Ganimard or Lupin? Raoul explains why he picks Lupin
On the drive, Guédira and Raoul compare favourite Arsène Lupin characters, and Raoul's answer is really about his father.
Dumont takes Raoul away from Guédira at the Hyatt
Guédira gets a bravo and then an order he does not understand: hand the boy over because the case now goes all the way to the top.
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.
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.
Guédira cracks the Ganimard message: The Jewish Lamp
Benched at his desk, Guédira gets a new message from Ganimard and works out that the clue points to the Jewish Lamp story.
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.
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.
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 pitches Fleur Bélanger a Lupin theory over coffee
The detective corners the journalist, asks how a photographer beat the police to the morgue, and proposes a give-and-take.
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 finds the answer in Edith Swanneck: Lupin never dies
In the manuscript room Guédira rereads the novel's tunnel escape, then turns to a map of the Paris sewers.
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.
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.
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.
Assane climbs out of his grave and asks Ganimard to team up
Guédira finds Assane alive at the cemetery. Assane invokes The Red Silk Scarf, the one time Lupin and Ganimard worked together, and asks for help.
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.
Assane records his confession on Guédira's phone
To earn Guédira's help saving his mother, Assane records a dated video admitting he faked his death and promising to turn himself in.
Guédira admits he likes Sofia while being filmed
Introduced to a 'colleague' who looks a lot like Assane Diop, Guédira gets talked into gushing about Sofia, on camera.
Assane breaks a 'fifth-century' vase and exposes Lassaire's fakes
Posing as police with Guédira, Assane shatters a 25,000-euro vase and points out industrial oven bubbles on an antique that predates ovens.
Good cop, worse cop: Lassaire agrees to set up the Manet sale
Assane and Guédira stack up imaginary years of prison until the parolee gallery owner admits he was asked to broker the stolen Manet.
Assane shows Guédira the hollow needle and pitches Justin Avisto
Inside his hideout, Assane tells Guédira he will play a rich collector at the sale, or he can call Belkacem and arrest him right now.
Guédira plays Avisto and haggles for the stolen Manet
At the Hotel Derwatt, Guédira repeats Assane's lines in his ear, bluffs about his reputation, and gets the sellers down to 20 million.
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 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.
Guédira decodes where the Gentleman listens to his favorite music
A journalist tells Youssef that Diop is alive and his mother has set a meeting. Youssef races through Lupin novels and lands on the Opéra Garnier.
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.
Better than Ganimard: Assane lets Guedira arrest him
Assane surrenders to Guedira, telling him he is as good as Lupin, and says he himself is not Lupin anymore. In the van he denies knowing where the pearl is.
Assane's letter to Claire: it's time for the world to forget me
Claire reads Assane's farewell as he confesses to Guedira with three conditions, the first being Benjamin Férel's release. He turns himself in to set them free.
Assane denies knowing where Pellegrini went
Interrogated a week before release, Assane shrugs off the Pellegrini question while a flashback shows a private jet bound for Argentina.
Lupin is over: Assane tells Guédira he gets out Monday
A cheerful prison visit: Assane springs his early release on Guédira and swears his only plan now is to be a real father.
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.
Assane explains the LED-wall vanishing trick to Guédira
Guédira accuses Assane of nearly killing Sofia; Assane walks him through the one-way LED cage, the hacked power grid and the unlocked cell doors.
A copycat: the hydrosoluble canvas trick
Assane deduces the Avignon painting was a water-soluble fake dissolved by the fire alarms, his own Manhattan signature, and names a copycat.
Assane names Pellegrini and the Malaysia exile is revealed
A mask is found in Assane's cell; he names Pellegrini as the one who hates him enough, and a flashback shows how he stranded Hubert in Malaysia.
Guédira orders an all-out hunt for Diop
Told he cannot tap the Diop family's devices, Guédira explodes, invokes Belkacem's fall and vows to bring Assane in.
Guédira corners Assane on Avenue Montaigne
Adèle trips the alarm and vanishes; chased down by Guédira, Assane pleads that a dead woman framed him, then slips the cuffs with an apology.
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.
Assane interrogates a suspect on a spinning Ferris wheel
Cold open: a terrified man is strapped into a fairground ride and taunted from below, then greeted by the police when it finally stops.
The police ask Assane to help catch the new Lupin
Assane explains the deepfake framing him, is cleared, and laughs off an offer to work for the police until they refuse to let him leave.
Adèle's deepfake hijacks the police network to taunt Assane
Assane realizes the decryption key was left on purpose; the deepfake locks the police out and dares him to level up and join the final heist.
The copycat theory: Adèle must be using Assane's suppliers
Over a Lupin pastiche he read in prison, Assane argues that a copycat needs his tools, which points to the elusive gear maker Wagner.
Assane plants evidence to make Wagner's man talk
Guédira charges in and loses the suspect; Assane cuffs him, drops stolen evidence in his lap, and reminds everyone he is not a cop.
Assane storms the interrogation as Wagner's outraged lawyer
A bombastic lawyer barges in citing a chipped glass and a stifling room as violations, bullying Guédira out of the room to get Wagner alone.
The staged jailbreak that makes Wagner spill Adèle's plan
Assane gasses the station and drives Wagner to safety; in the panic Wagner names the vault and the transfer, then the whole escape is revealed as a con.
The jeweler admits he holds Francois the First's diamond
Assane presses Imbert into revealing a legendary diamond tied to the kings' treasure, then insists the gala unveiling go ahead as bait.
The Place Vendôme chase and the biker's true identity
Adèle blows through every checkpoint on a motorbike while Guédira cannot raise Assane; the police then learn who is really carrying the diamond.
Guédira interrogates Adèle: why run from London?
Guédira lists Adèle's charges and the Interpol transfer, then notices her smile vanish and demands to know what in England frightens a girl who faked her death.
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.
Adèle turns Guédira: Assane is robbing the Opéra-Comique
In the transfer van Adèle bargains against London, then plants the idea that Assane used her arrest as cover; Guédira jumps out of the convoy to stop him.
Guédira storms the stage: 'Who's Assane?'
Guédira pulls his gun on a masked dancer mid-performance and orders him to unmask, only to find a bewildered stranger and a booing audience.
Guédira sees the Leblanc trick: the old lady is Kapoor
Guédira admits he was played, then connects the empty van to The Arrest of Arsène Lupin: nobody was swapped, the old woman is Adèle herself.
Guédira corners Assane: the copycat is your daughter
In the crown gallery Guédira demands the truth. Assane admits Adèle is his daughter, names the Guardians, and asks his friend to let them go.
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.
Guédira's warning, a gunshot, and the helicopter lifts off
The police arrive as Raoul walks to Pellegrini's chopper; Guédira shouts at him to stop, a shot rings out, and Claire screams for Assane.