The suicidal plan: 90 tonnes of gold and no way out alive
Berlin's friend unveils the Bank of Spain scheme; the Professor insists nobody leaves alive, Berlin calls that a detail and changes the subject to Tatiana.
Palermo
Every Money Heist moment featuring Palermo, in story order. Played by Rodrigo de la Serna.
73 moments · 2h 15m
Palermo blames the Professor for letting Berlin die
In Italy, Berlin's old friend tears into the Professor as a coward who stayed outside while his brother did the dirty work and died.
Palermo dances his grief away, then the Professor asks his permission
Whisky, pills and old Buenos Aires records keep Palermo afloat; the Professor pulls him into a dance and says he wants to steal the gold.
The gang suits up as the BRIPAC squad with seventeen minutes to go
Army units are assigned to Madrid's key buildings; the crew hears the Bank of Spain goes to BRIPAC and scrambles into uniform against the clock.
Six minutes before the real convoy arrives
The fake army squad takes the bank's perimeter while the genuine convoy closes in, and a Hail Mary joke lands in the chapel.
Berlin and Palermo pitch the vault that floods itself
The Professor calls the Bank of Spain impossible; Palermo describes a vault 48 meters down fed by two underground streams, and Berlin calls it beautiful.
Berlin's answer: let them welcome us in
With guards, bodyguards and the army minutes away, Berlin explains the way in is to be the ones everyone expects to save the day.
Lieutenant Alcázar refuses the convoy until Alert Level 5 overrides him
The disguised squad is stopped at the gate; a Civil Guard officer radios headquarters and is told the army now commands the bank.
Bank security evacuates 367 hostages for the gang
The evacuation protocol empties the Bank of Spain office by office while the Professor narrates how each step does the robbers' work.
Palermo greets the hostages: good news and bad news
Palermo introduces himself to the trapped bank workers with a grin: the bank is under attack, and the attackers are already in the room.
Denver appoints himself hostage coordinator
Collecting phones, Denver invents a parents-call-home rule on the spot and gets mocked for it before barking the hostages into line.
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.
Tokyo pulls the glass from Palermo's eyes
Blinded by glass, Palermo insults Tokyo's tweezers; she makes him apologise word by word before taking over, and Denver becomes his guide dog.
Sixteen minutes and 15 seconds: Palermo fires up the blacksmiths
Palermo sets the clock: touch the vault door and it floods. He drills the welders into a chant and tells them the 14-ton door is only butter.
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.
Fourteen minutes: the Professor tells Tokyo to use the dolphin
The Professor warns Tokyo the police know about the taps and will storm in once the doors unlock; the only option left is the bathyscaphe plan.
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.
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.
Tokyo learns Rio is back in Spain
Over the radio the Professor gives Tokyo the news she has been waiting for; she can only say thank you.
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.
The leak hits the news and the Professor realises they are going in
Breaking news of a massive secrets leak; the Professor understands the state has knocked down their shield and warns Palermo.
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.
Ten minutes before: RDX bars and a good night for the GEOs
How the gang beat the gas with oxygen, then Tokyo shows Suárez the explosive-laced bars sealing his men in and tells them to sleep.
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.
The Professor orders the Alcatraz Plan: a fake escape as bait
With Rio's chips isolated, the Professor calls for maximum urgency and explains to Palermo why faking the gang's escape is the biggest distraction possible.
Sound warfare: the Professor stages a flooded gallery that does not exist
Through Rio's mic the gang feeds the tent echoes, water and digging; the engineer insists there is no gallery while the Professor preps a new recruit, Sofia.
Outboard motors, carts and El Chapo: the police chase a ghost tunnel
The tent hears engines and carts, concludes the gold is leaving Chapo-style, and sends units underground while the Professor jams the mic.
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.
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.
Plan Rome: the Professor orders the gold out now as the army is called
The Professor explains why rescuing Lisbon forces a military assault, while the police chief calls in the army and the gang switches to extraction.
Palermo confronts Tokyo: improvising gets people killed
Tokyo orders extraction over melting; Palermo demands to know if she knew Lisbon's rescue would wreck the plan and warns about improvising.
The Professor's last words: an apology to each of the gang
Asked for his last words, the Professor says sorry to every member by name until Tokyo stops him; Sierra signs off with a mocking farewell.
No plan B: the army arrives and Tokyo calls it the end of the road
The gang argues over a plan B that does not exist, the military rolls up outside, and Tokyo narrates how everything in red was coming to a close.
Lisbon negotiates Gandía's release and spots Tamayo's missing checkmate
Out front, Lisbon offers Tamayo the wounded Gandía for a doctor and an hour, then realises he never played his best card: the police do not have the Professor.
Revenge or respect: Palermo lets Bogotá have Gandía
Bogotá wants to beat Gandía before handing him over; Palermo argues it is respect, not revenge, while Denver is called out for his own free pass on Arturo.
Bogotá names every slur as he beats Gandía; the hostages rise
Each punch gets a reason: fascist, racist, sexist, homophobe, and one for Nairobi. Intercut, the hostages storm the vault doors with guns.
Firefight in the bank: the hostages pin the gang down
Arturo's armed hostages trade fire with the robbers, who retreat and split up to chase them toward the loading dock while Helsinki is sent to watch the roof.
Palermo and Stockholm fight to revive Arturo
Arturo lies dying as Stockholm pumps his chest; Palermo wants to finish him off and spare the gang the blame, then decides to get him out.
Palermo's World Cup speech: ten against ten thousand
While the gang digs in, Palermo spots fear in their faces and announces that Sierra is no longer playing for the police.
We know how to lose slowly
Palermo tells the gang they are the biggest losers in history, which is exactly why they can lose this war at a slow pace.
The defense of Stalingrad, with a birth in between
Palermo lays out grenades, loud music and three volunteers from the rear, cut against Sierra insisting she will give birth alone.
Helsinki trapped in the rubble, Palermo keeps him awake
After the blast Helsinki lies pinned and bleeding; Palermo keeps him talking with promises of steak dinners and a trip to the movies.
The Professor calls for an attack on two fronts
With the roof blown open and snipers everywhere, the Professor stops the gang charging out and lays out a two-front plan to save Helsinki.
Helsinki begs Palermo to cut off his leg
Pinned under a two-ton statue, Helsinki asks Palermo to amputate; Palermo refuses and swears they will find a lever instead.
Smoke in five: the rooftop hostage charade begins
The Professor directs Tokyo's team to climb among unmasked hostages under smoke cover while Lisbon counts down and Matías fires to distract snipers.
Stampede: Helsinki freed and the museum crossfire
Helsinki is dragged clear, the Professor orders the stampede, and Tokyo's team catches the soldiers from behind once they leave cover.
Sagasta surrounded, abandoned by Tamayo, answers with grenades
The gang corners the soldiers and counts down; Tamayo refuses to send a second team, and Sagasta fakes a surrender before throwing grenades.
Berlin meets Bogotá on the oil platform
Five years before the heist, Berlin recruits an underwater welder with seven kids by seven women and calls him a fellow romantic.
Rio wants revenge; Palermo says good guys do not exist in war
Rio refuses to put down his weapon and Palermo argues that sparing Gandía is what got Nairobi and Tokyo killed.
Bogotá's seven children and the stolen pump
Flashback: Bogotá shows off photos of his far-flung kids while Berlin mistranslates for the foreman and bills him for his own robbery.
Palermo draws first: the gold is our hostage
Lisbon tells the crew the Professor has vanished; Palermo refuses a debate and Lisbon backs him, so the gold goes out anyway.
Berlin wakes Palermo at three in the morning
Flashback: Berlin drags Palermo out of bed to explain the plan to Sergio, debating what outfit exudes intellectualism; a note on maturity follows.
Palermo explains the two-hose gold pump
Palermo walks Sergio through ransacking the vault like Tutankhamun's tomb and pushing the gravel into the drains before the real pressure comes.
Palermo makes history: the Norwegian pump goes on
Palermo rallies the crew to connect the stolen pump while flashback Berlin promises manna raining down at the stormwater tank.
Five thousand kilopascals and the countdown to nothing
Bogotá calls the pressure, the tank counts down from ten, and nothing arrives; Palermo asks for a little faith and love.
Palermo begs the pump and the gold comes out
Palermo pleads with the machine over the nights he spent planning it, until gold floods the stormwater tank and the crew erupts.
'This one's for you, Andrés': the Professor sees the foundry
Back at the stormwater tank, the Professor finds Palermo's foundry running and the gold flowing, and dedicates it to his brother.
The Pamplona argument: Matías wants a city name
Toasting 90 tons of gold, the newest crew member demands a city name; the gang mocks his pick until he sells them on Sanfermines and Hemingway.
Lisbon tells the Professor the gold is gone
On the private line Lisbon reports that fake police tied them up and emptied the trucks; the Professor realises there is a mole and Palermo sees no way out.
Helsinki's quiet goodbye to Palermo
Helsinki, wounded, tells Palermo he doubts they will get out; Palermo insists Helsinki will be rescued because he promised, and wishes he had that confidence.
Phase two: Sagasta holds a gun to Palermo's head
The hostages spring their trap: Palermo is taken at gunpoint, Helsinki cannot bring himself to shoot during the countdown, and the army gets its green light.
Palawan: the Professor's real impossible problem
Two months after the Mint, a guilt-ridden Professor realises the hard part of the Bank of Spain is not the gold but walking out free.
Palermo mocks the positivity of idiots
Locked in the basement, Palermo tears into Rio's optimism, Helsinki says he wants peace and love, and Palermo hints that being alive is the sign.
Lisbon and Palermo both demand the last part of the plan
As trucks roll in, Lisbon realises there is a part of the plan she was never told; in flashback Palermo asks the same and walks out.
A country's gold is an illusion
The Professor tells Palermo that Spain never spends its reserve, that gold is purely psychological, and recalls Berlin's Viking treasure trick.
The gang is declared dead on live television
Tamayo announces the heist is over and reads out the gang members taken down one by one, with Denver named as a cooperating witness.