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.
S3E1 · Chapter 1
17 moments · 33 min of essential viewing in a 40-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Claire to Assane: you're not a hero, you're scared
Under an orange umbrella Assane begs Claire to flee France with him and Raoul. She tells him the only fix is to turn himself in.
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.
Flashback: Assane's one failure at Place Vendôme
A chase, a fake cop and a real badge: the 2017 pearl job that went wrong. Assane vows that if he disappears, it will be with a bang.
'Michel Beaumont' delivers a letter in plain sight
A barely disguised Assane walks into the Place Vendôme jeweler, jokes about being mistaken for Diop and asks the clerk what colour his eyes are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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