Raquel Murillo arrives and takes command of the siege
On her day off, Inspector Murillo gets the hostage count, the weapons report and news the wounded officers live, then locks down the perimeter.
Ángel Rubio
Raquel's deputy inspector, devoted to her and to catching the crew. Played by Fernando Soto.
53 moments · 1h 25m
First call: the robber in charge calls himself Professor
Raquel's first call: a metallic voice wants someone who can say yes or no, then throws her off by asking what she is wearing before giving his alias.
Raquel describes her outfit to the Professor
The Professor greets every officer on the line, asks for time, hears Raquel's demand to free the children, and still gets her to describe her outfit.
Colonel Prieto attacks Raquel with her ex-husband complaint
Prieto pushes for an immediate assault, then airs Raquel's ill-treatment complaint against her ex in front of the tent; she thanks him for his sensitivity.
Priority 1: why the police will storm the Mint tonight
Armoured vehicles roll in and Prieto names a priority-one hostage; in flashback The Professor explains why the ambassador's daughter brings them in before dawn.
Alison Parker calls live radio and the assault is aborted
A hostage call to live radio reveals everyone inside wears the same masks and carries guns; Raquel halts the assault and tells Prieto to finish it himself.
Monica reads the robbers' statement under sniper sights
Masked and dressed like the gang, Monica reads a statement at the door while snipers beg for the green light and Raquel orders them not to shoot.
Reporters leak Raquel's abuse complaint; Prieto's 'I'm a married man' apology
The press ambushes Raquel with her private family case, then Colonel Prieto offers a smoother relationship while warning her he is a married man.
Raquel pins Salva to the wall: 'Who do you work for?'
Over lunch the friendly stranger asks about the robbers; after a call naming a second robber, Raquel attacks him as a journalist and he shows his wallet.
Raquel deduces the gang is inside on purpose, printing money
While the colonel plans a gas assault, Raquel explains why the robbers stayed: the open bags and alarm were staged, and they are printing their own cash.
Raquel takes the blame for the shot
With the Ministry on the line, Raquel claims the order to fire as her own and tells them the wounded man is a hostage, not a robber.
Raquel's plan: a nurse with glasses and two men through the vent
The shot is the first thing off the robbers' script. Ángel enters as a nurse; Suárez and Lobo crawl through a vent in red overalls and Dalí masks.
Berlin's welcome: lie down like cockroaches, keep the glasses
Berlin strips the medical team of metal, watches and microphones, makes them lie on the floor, then hands back only the glasses: they are going to need them.
Ángel realises they have lost and pulls the surgeons out
Frequency inhibitors cut the duct team's radio. Ángel rushes the medical team out and Berlin waves them off with a message for the people outside.
Raquel sees the masks have changed and screams cancel
As the surgeons run out, Raquel realises the robbers are no longer wearing Dali masks and the duct team is walking into a slaughter.
Raquel flirts with the Professor: sapiophilia
Raquel sits down with the shy man from the bar, grills him on girlfriends and dancing, and says intelligence is what she finds sexy. He has a word for it.
Munch masks and the painter game with a bugged pair of glasses
The team guesses which painter follows Dali and Munch; Ángel surprises everyone with Andy Warhol, and Berlin hears it all through a microphone in his glasses.
Raquel calls it a game of chess and orders the footage reviewed
Outplayed again, Raquel tells the team to go back to the starting point and comb the museum CCTV for the robbers' earlier visits, while the other side gloats.
Ángel's late-night call: Andy Warhol, jealousy and Cercedilla
Ángel phones Raquel to ask if she would sleep with the man from the bar, then drags up their fling eight years ago and offers to leave his wife.
Raquel spots the car keys in the museum CCTV
Suárez's enhanced footage shows Rio and Tokyo's old Seat keys on the museum tray; Raquel orders a hunt for the 1992 Ibiza.
Handcuff fantasies and an ultimatum for eight hostages
Raquel and the Professor trade flirtations before she demands eight underage hostages in an hour, then guesses the Malaika is a decoy.
Alison Parker or eight students: the Professor's trap
The Professor offers Alison alone instead of eight minors; Prieto overrides Raquel and she chooses the ambassador's daughter.
How do you make a car disappear?
Raquel quizzes the tent on ways to erase a car and lands on the legal one: crush it in a wreck yard, even on a Sunday.
Raquel finds the red Ibiza at the wreck yard
A worker admits a foreigner from eastern Europe left the car twenty days ago; Raquel calls CSI and sends Ángel to the office.
A fingerprint on the Ibiza and a mole in the tent
Forensics find a print on the button from the car; Raquel clears the tent and tells Ángel and Prieto there is a traitor among them.
Berlin unmasked as Andrés de Fonollosa
The police read Berlin's file and psychiatric profile while, inside, he gathers the hostages and confirms that Mónica has been executed.
Raquel leaks Berlin's past as a pimp
To turn public opinion, Raquel orders Berlin's file leaked; Ángel begs her not to stoop that low, while Prieto admires her style.
Ángel offers to lie for Raquel in court
Raquel fears losing custody of Paula; Ángel vows to testify about bruises he never saw and still gets their mountain trip wrong.
Berlin's cellmate trades Retroxil for parole
Raquel interrogates Berlin's former cellmate, learns of a secret daily injection called Retroxil, then names her second condition.
The Professor threatens the Russian witness over police radio
A fake robbery call empties a patrol car; a voice on channel 8 warns the identikit witness Nikolai that his wife and daughter are being watched.
Retroxil: Raquel learns Berlin is a dying man
The rare medicine traces back to Helmers' Myopathy; without it Fonollosa has under two years to live, so the man inside has nothing to lose.
Plan Valencia: a staged massacre for the microphones
M-16 bursts and coached screaming inside the Mint make the police tent believe they are hearing a hundred and fifty bullets and a bloodbath.
Prieto turns Ángel against Raquel after the pharmacy leak
With the pharmacy records stolen, Colonel Prieto tells Ángel only two people knew, and asks whether he would still vouch for the inspector.
Raquel relieves Ángel; he points at the cider maker Salva
Raquel pulls Ángel off the case as the only possible leak; he fires back that she told her life story to a stranger whose workshop he has been tailing.
Handcuff me: Ángel and Raquel's friendship breaks
Ángel demands to be cuffed, Suárez refuses, and Raquel throws fifteen years of his advances back at him before ordering him out.
Ángel's voicemail: I am not the mole
Ángel leaves Raquel a desperate message insisting he may be an idiot but not the traitor, and that she is destroying his life.
Ángel's drunken voicemail: fifteen years of love
Cold open: Ángel rants into Raquel's full voicemail about standing beside her for fifteen years out of love, not friendship.
Ángel insults Raquel, then begs forgiveness on voicemail
A furious Ángel calls Raquel every name he can think of for nearly ditching his wife for her, then calls back sobbing that she will destroy his career.
'He's using you': Ángel names Salva the cider man
Ángel leaves the message that could end the heist: the man helping the robbers is Salva, whose prints were in the patrol car. Raquel never hears it.
Angel wakes up and calls Raquel
The Professor begs Raquel to take the call; Ángel, barely awake and high, asks her to come see him before he tells anyone.
Raquel visits Ángel in hospital and gets arrested
Raquel apologizes to a freshly awake Ángel, dodges whether she loves the Professor, and he refuses to give up the hangar. Then the police walk in.
Prieto grills Ángel from his hospital bed
The CNI colonel demands the Professor's address and threatens Ángel with a cell next to Raquel; Ángel claims coma amnesia and shows him the door.
Tamayo orders a total blackout in the tent
Realizing the gang has them bugged, Tamayo confiscates every phone, skips every protocol and demands a countdown to the bank's gates opening.
Are you in love? The Professor needles Tamayo
The Professor quotes the CNI negotiation handbook back at a furious Tamayo, who hits where it hurts by asking how Murillo is doing.
Raquel and Ángel speak again, then the Professor promises hell
Raquel greets her old colleague from the other side; Ángel asks why she threw her life away. The Professor closes with a warning before the assault.
The signal points south
The police triangulate the Professor's transmissions to the south of the peninsula and send Ángel to follow it in secret.
Ángel finds the Professor's abandoned van in Aracena
A Civil Guard tip leads Ángel to a warehouse full of screens and radios; the colonel calls the hunt open and claims a helicopter.
Tamayo frames Sierra and blackmails Ángel into negotiating
The colonel orders fake evidence against Sierra and a doctored autopsy, then uses Ángel's calls to Raquel to force him into the negotiator's chair.
Ángel talks Tamayo out of storming a white flag
Tamayo wants the three women dragged in; Ángel reminds him the white flag has been respected since the Punic Wars and coaches him on looking tough on camera.
Suárez demands a seat: the team that took down Berlin
Suárez catches Tamayo planning an army intervention behind his back and insists his unit earned its place; Tamayo sends Sagasta in anyway.
Tamayo plans to blow the roof; Ángel calls him out
The army will drop through an unshielded 18th-century ceiling; Ángel accuses Tamayo of ruining Sierra to save himself.
Sierra reasons her way to the land registry
While Ángel chases the pump lead, Alicia Sierra reasons that the gold must sit on a private plot near the stormwater tank, bought within days.
Plan Tom Thumb: breadcrumbs to the bottom of the ocean
The Professor narrates the misdirection: a fake crime scene, red trucks, a hijacked fishing boat and a buoy diagram that sends the Navy to sea.