What the gang would do with the money
In the countryside the crew dreams out loud: a Maserati and a gym, new lungs for Moscow, a winery in Provence, an island, a plane. Rob big, dream big.
Nairobi
The crew's expert in forgery and printing, who keeps the money presses running and the mood light. Played by Alba Flores.
88 moments · 2h 41m
The printing presses start: making their own money
Tokyo narrates the first victory, Berlin picks a shift of workers for round-the-clock printing, and the crew cheers as the first notes roll out.
Tokyo confronts Berlin over the execution; Moscow learns who shot
The gang argues over Berlin's order to kill a hostage, the Professor does not answer, and Moscow is told the shooter was his son.
Nairobi's perfect note and the question of robber or son
The Professor warns Berlin against improvisation; Nairobi shows a note made with care, and Berlin is asked whether he is a robber before a human being.
The Professor's anatomy lesson: no hospitals, nobody leaves
Flashback: arteries drawn in marker on a bare body. Denver protests that a bullet means a hospital; the Professor says anyone who wants out must quit now.
Nairobi on the table: a scar, a scuffle and a friendship
Nairobi volunteers as the anatomy model. Tokyo notices her C-section scar, the two trade insults and tussle, and that is where their friendship starts.
Nairobi tells Tokyo about her son Axel
Nairobi opens up: her boy is seven, named Axel, a survivor who floats like a cork. She took him from her mother's house and they were great on their own.
Nairobi's confession: five minutes that cost her Axel
She left him alone to fetch pills to sell; he climbed to the terrace shouting for her. Police, prison, and a son passed from foster family to foster family.
Nairobi's vow: nobody screws up this robbery
Nairobi knows where Axel is and swears she will take him to the other side of the world. Anyone who ruins the heist will pay. Then: do you like tequila?
The Professor in pyjamas breaks up the 4 am party
The Professor sends the night owls to bed before the explosives class. Nairobi confesses, loudly, that he really turns her on.
Arturo confesses he loves two women while Denver lifts a scalpel
Berlin needles Arturo about mixing up his wife's name; mid-surgery Arturo admits he cannot choose between Laura and Mónica. Nairobi spots the lost note.
Nairobi finds Mónica's wound and helps Moscow save her
Nairobi walks in on a bloodbath, learns Mónica was shot, and instead of reporting it rolls up her sleeves to keep the Professor's plan intact.
Nairobi begs to be sent with Helsinki instead of Rio
In Toledo, Nairobi protests the museum pairing and asks for a real man; Helsinki's taste in men is revealed to the class.
The Professor's 15-M lesson: why the police won't go in
In Toledo the Professor explains the Resistance strategy: Spain will stand with them like the Puerta del Sol campers, and minors inside stop any assault.
The Professor reveals the escape tunnel
The gang asks how they get out; the Professor unveils a decoy dig, a tunnel he built five years ago, and the arithmetic of 2,400 million euros.
Berlin is on TV and the Professor's face takes shape
Nairobi shows Berlin his own face on the news while the Russian guard builds a sketch, pushing the Professor toward an unthinkable move.
Nairobi reads Berlin his police record on live TV
Nairobi taunts Berlin with the lurid charges the news pins on Andrés de Fonollosa; Berlin denies it all and realises the jacket button was not his doing.
Berlin hunts Denver over his honour; ethics and aesthetics
Berlin stalks through the Mint to punish Denver for the jacket button while Nairobi begs him not to wreck the plan; Helsinki holds her back at gunpoint.
Sneaking out to the street party in Berlin's jacket
Nairobi does Tokyo's lipstick, the Professor's car keys get lifted, and Denver turns up wearing Berlin's jacket for the Toledo street party.
Guns drawn in the vault: this isn't a Tarantino film
Nairobi and Moscow pull guns on Berlin, Denver turns his on him too, and Berlin defuses it by declaring life a miracle as Tokyo discovers Mónica alive.
Moscow hits soil and the Mint celebrates 400 million
Moscow shouts that the tunnel has reached soil; the gang erupts around the printing presses, calling the money the heartbeat of the world.
Berlin's lecture on the rebelliousness of virgins
Berlin summons Alison's teacher Mercedes and, over Nairobi's objection, compares unruly girls to unbroken mares before grilling her about her own past.
Berlin prices a hit man for Alison's family
Alison claims she is untouchable as a safe-conduct; Berlin answers with her relatives' photos and the cost of hiring a killer, then scolds Nairobi.
Nairobi tries to seduce the Professor in Toledo
Flashback: feverish Nairobi invites herself onto the Professor's bed and asks for a quickie. He fumbles a refusal; she says he is the man who treated her best.
The Professor reveals whose plan it really was
The Professor tells Nairobi about his sick childhood and the father who described a master plan for the Money House, then died in a bank robbery.
Raquel finds the Toledo farmhouse; the Professor's staged crime scene
Tokyo narrates how the Toledo evidence was planted to cost Raquel three days while the gang prints eight million an hour. It costs her fifty minutes
Third unanswered call: 18 hours without the Professor
The control call goes unanswered again. A flashback explains the six-hour cycle and what 24 hours of silence means. Berlin says keep printing.
Berlin's hostage, Denver's confession and the Stockholm syndrome lecture
Tokyo tears into Berlin for sleeping with a hostage; Denver admits he is with Mónica; Nairobi explains Stockholm syndrome; Berlin names a Chernobyl plan.
The gang votes: stay with the Professor or leave with the loot
The TV goes dark after news from Toledo. Tokyo calls a vote on the Chernobyl plan; Helsinki, Rio, Moscow and Denver split it and Nairobi breaks the tie.
Tokyo plays Russian roulette with Berlin
Tokyo smashes Berlin's medicine, demands the Chernobyl plan and puts a revolver to his head, pulling the trigger five times while Nairobi pounds the door.
Nairobi and Tokyo tear into each other; Berlin calls the bluff
Nairobi says Tokyo is wrecking the plan; Tokyo says Nairobi lost her son. Berlin tells Tokyo he alone knows the way out and dares her to shoot.
Nairobi and Tokyo tear into each other over her son
Nairobi tries to stop the roulette; Tokyo fires back with the cruelest thing she can say about Nairobi's abandoned son.
Hold hands: Berlin's platelet speech and Rio's rage
Berlin asks the crew to join hands like platelets closing a wound; Rio calls him a psychopath for sending Tokyo to prison.
Anybody still sane? Rio polls the crew
Rio asks Moscow, Nairobi and Denver one by one whether handing over Tokyo was right, and finds them all on the Professor's side.
Rio's goodbye hug
Rio walks out on the heist; Berlin hands him a white flag, tells him never to stop believing in love and holds him as he goes limp.
Moscow is shot and the gang fights to keep him alive
Moscow jokes about blood sausage while Nairobi and Helsinki fight to stop the bleeding; Denver panics and Tokyo counts three bullets.
Nairobi runs the presses and Berlin vetoes the 500s
Nairobi drives the hostages to print to the max for a few more hours; Berlin dismisses 500 euro bills as being for Russians and tacky people.
Moscow's deathbed confession about the roundabout
Delirious and bleeding, Moscow confesses he abandoned Denver's mother and is told the boy he raised is strong and noble.
Moscow's village festival memory
Moscow recalls the happiest day of his life, a dance under colourful lights, and begs forgiveness over and over.
Burying Moscow: a botched Lord's Prayer and Tokyo's remote control
The crew argues over skipped lines in the prayer at Moscow's grave; Tokyo reflects on wishing life came with a pause button.
Stockholm gets her name and the count hits 984 million
Mónica is given her crew name, then the gang passes the final figure from mouth to mouth: nine hundred and eighty four million euros.
Nairobi tells Berlin what Ariadna really feels for him
Berlin pulls rank on Nairobi over the last billion; she fires back about his hostage wedding and what Ariadna does after every night with him.
Berlin stays behind: women and queers first
With the GEOs on the stairs Berlin orders Helsinki to drag Nairobi into the tunnel, turns her sexism jibe into a farewell, and locks Ariadna in with him.
Berlin and Ariadna hold the trench as Romeo and Juliet
Under heavy fire Berlin makes Ariadna load the machine gun while Nairobi begs to go back, and he crowns them Romeo and Juliet, Bonnie and Clyde.
The Professor learns Berlin stayed inside
The crew reaches the hangar end of the tunnel and the Professor is told his brother stayed to cover their escape; the GEOs then burst into the vault.
International waters: the gang is rich and gets its safe houses
Flashback to the escape ship: champagne as they cross 200 nautical miles, then the Professor hands out sealed safe houses and numbers to memorise.
The gang reunites: Mónica is married and Helsinki carries the Professor
Mónica announces a Balinese wedding with an elephant, Helsinki hoists the Professor into the air and Nairobi tackles Tokyo in a joyful pile-up.
A toast cut short: the Professor reveals Rio was arrested
Denver's terrible Argentinian accent gives way to the news that Rio has been held and tortured for seventeen days, and that a rescue is why they are all here.
The gang was there: the Professor's speech and Nairobi volunteers
The Professor lists every mistake the gang covered for each other, mourns Berlin, Oslo and Moscow, and owns his own; Nairobi is first to say she will go.
The target: the gold reserve of the Bank of Spain
At sunrise the Professor frames the rescue as a declaration of war and names the job: not just gold, the national reserve. And the plan is not his.
Nairobi and Tokyo pile on Denver's patriarchy
The women back Mónica and mock Denver's caveman views until the Professor shuffles everyone back to bed before thermic lance practice.
The Dalí mask as a worldwide symbol, and the crowd answers the call
Jeered by the public, Tokyo recalls the Professor showing how the mask spread across protests on every continent; masked supporters flood the street.
The Professor explains the heist as aikido
Using the enemy's strength: the Civil Guard, the army and bank security will clear the street, count the hostages and cover the gang's charges.
Tokyo and Nairobi disarm the bodyguards with a mine bluff
Disguised as sappers, Tokyo and Nairobi sell the bodyguards a story about seismic-fused mines, freeze them in place and walk the Governor out.
Gandía takes a hostage and the office standoff explodes
Guns on every side, Gandía grabs the secretary and the Governor orders him down; the crew blows the floor and drops out Tokyo style.
How Cincinnati got his name: the Sulawesi ultrasound
At the family dinner, Denver and Mónica recount the misread ultrasound in a garage clinic, Helsinki shows off a bullet scar and a new pet.
It's a boy! Denver's joy and the toast to Rio
Denver relives the delivery-room moment that turned Cynthia into Cincinnati; the gang toasts the baby, and Tokyo thanks them all for Rio.
Palermo's anatomy lesson for Gandía
With guns raised on both sides, Palermo volunteers his own chest as the target and talks Gandía down with chameleons, Marisa and little Juanito.
Nairobi picks volunteers and Matías overacts his part
Nairobi drafts hostages for the furnace, one of them loudly refuses; in the lift it turns out he is Bogotá's man, auditioning as Anthony Hopkins.
Berlin makes the Professor imagine the flooding vault
Berlin narrates the fantasy while the crew lives it: lances on the steel door, water pouring in, the ram and the tube pushed home against the clock.
Bogotá welds the antechamber as the water rises
The welder goes in without his oxygen as Berlin boasts that not even James Bond could weld it in time; one bad seam and he drowns in the vault.
Guantanamera: Berlin and the Professor dance to the gold
The brothers sing Guantanamera and dance in the old Tuscan house, Berlin dreaming of dying on a beach, while in the vault Nairobi holds up gold.
Nairobi runs the foundry and puts a worker in his place
Nairobi shows off gold earrings, then shuts down a crude remark from a worker: on this job she is the boss. The ovens must melt the whole national reserve.
Time travel: the Professor's 1941 shortwave radios
Flashback lesson on how the gang will talk: WWII-era BBC shortwave sets wrapped in 2,300 layers of encryption that grow with every call.
The governor warns Nairobi the chamber will flood
Led toward the vault, the governor tells Nairobi the security system dumps 100,000 liters of water on intruders, and that he will not help them.
Principles or oxygen: will the governor go in?
Berlin and the Professor bet on when a man of principle chooses his life, while Nairobi forces the mask on a governor who refuses to dive.
Denver grabs the bolt cutters and the governor collapses
Denver threatens to take the governor's fingers for the code; the man faints with his pulse racing and Nairobi scrambles to keep him alive.
Zero seconds: the assault begins as the C-4 is primed
Police get the green light to shoot, the governor is sedated, and Berlin muses on a blast at 40 atmospheres as the countdown hits zero.
Boom, boom, ciao: Palermo's theory of sex
At the monastery Palermo argues that men only need release, the women tear it apart, and the whole gang ends up chanting his refrain.
Palermo sends Helsinki away; Nairobi tells him to love himself
After their night together Palermo calls it brotherhood and shows Helsinki the door; Nairobi finds him and asks if he is in love.
The Governor wakes to a gold-melting tour
Back from near death, the Governor is marched through the smelting floor: extractors, ingots per hour, and Nairobi's grains of gold.
Palermo takes a bat to Gandía
Gandía insults Nairobi, then Palermo, who answers that he is from Berlin's school and beats the tied-up guard until Denver pulls him off.
Who holds the scepter of command
Nairobi calls Palermo a psycho for beating a bound man; he claims sole authority and orders Helsinki to tie her up for mutiny.
Palermo's law of love: the lover and the beloved
Palermo mocks Nairobi's feelings for Helsinki and explains why the beloved always wins and the lover always suffers.
Palermo takes command and reaches for the anti-tank missiles
With the Professor out of contact Palermo wants to fire on the first armoured car; Tokyo argues they came in throwing money, not bombs.
Nairobi to Tokyo: you're a free woman, we're adrenaline junkies
At the monastery Nairobi stops Tokyo's guilt trip over Rio's capture and turns the mood into a party.
Vegan birthday dinner: meat unites, artichokes divide
A grilled-vegetable birthday meal at the monastery sparks a rant that vegans are the new Taliban and only meat brings friends together.
Less than 50 percent, then a song for Maria
Asked the odds of leaving the bank alive, the Professor says under fifty percent; the gang answers with a sung ballad at the table.
The gang welcomes Rio home one hug at a time
Palermo says he read Rio's book, Helsinki squeezes him, Stockholm corrects her name and Nairobi says she could not be prouder if she had birthed him.
Tokyo stumbles into the foundry and wants to swim in gold
Drunk and newly single, Tokyo hugs Nairobi, announces a bath, mocks the foundry crew and asks to swim in gold like a cartoon miser.
A teddy bear at the gates: Palermo sends an intern out in a mask
Palermo picks a volunteer hostage to retrieve a bear left by a pregnant woman; Arturo calls it suicide while masked hostages shield the pickup.
No bomb, just a phone: Sierra's call makes Nairobi storm out
The X-ray shows a phone and something else inside the bear; Sierra rings with an offer and Nairobi hangs up and walks away shaken.
Nairobi's confession: the bear she used to carry drugs
Holding her son's bear, Nairobi tells Helsinki the secret she is most ashamed of: she hid pills inside it and took the boy to the park as a mule.
Sierra puts Axel at the window and a sniper shoots Nairobi
Sierra proves she has Nairobi's son by walking him outside; Nairobi steps to the window to see him and takes a bullet.
They've executed Lisbon: the Professor declares war
Palermo cannot raise the Professor; when he answers he reports Lisbon's execution, hears Nairobi is down, and tells Palermo this is no longer a robbery.
DEFCON 2: Nairobi's last wish and the tanks at the gate
Palermo calls DEFCON 2 while Nairobi makes Helsinki promise to tell her son who she was; the gang takes positions as the armored assault begins.
Tokyo and Nairobi on what remains after death
Flashback: in Nairobi's room the two friends talk about dying, being remembered, and living forever in your happiest final thought.
The night of the fish: the Professor resigns as the brains
Flashback to the monastery party: a fish in his bed, the Professor demands the patxaran and lectures the gang on staying alert, then decides to relax.