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.
Raquel Murillo
The police inspector leading the negotiation, matching wits with the Professor from the tent outside. Played by Itziar Ituño.
143 moments · 4h 10m
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.
A stranger at the bar lends Raquel his phone
After the longest night, Raquel orders a decaf, finds her phone dead, and a quiet man at the next table offers her his.
Raquel resigns by voicemail at dawn
Exhausted in a cafe, Raquel leaves her superintendent a message: she will not be a figurehead while Intelligence sends in the thugs, so she quits.
The Professor chats up Raquel in the cafe while Tokyo narrates the calm
A stranger asks the negotiator how she handles robbers; Tokyo explains eight million euros an hour, the Professor's cameras, and why love will wreck it all.
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.
Tokyo and Rio fight over 'gigolo' while Alison's phone films his face
Rio accuses Tokyo of using him for five months; she calls him her everything, then snaps. Meanwhile Alison logs in and the police capture six seconds of Rio.
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.
'Have you ever faked an orgasm?': the Professor's lesson on lies
The Professor opens the call by asking Raquel about faked orgasms, turning it into a warning that lying to him, like last night's raid, puts lives at risk.
Raquel's ultimatum: surrender in one hour or your faces go public
After listing the hostages' medication, Raquel reveals she has images from inside and a robber's identity, offering eight years instead of sixteen.
'There's always a hero': Berlin hunts the phone as police name Anibal Cortes
Berlin congratulates the hostage who filmed the inside and starts stripping suspects, while Raquel's team identifies the young robber from Getafe.
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.
The Professor's playground lesson: nobody surrenders before being caught
Asked whether the gang will surrender, the Professor answers with a story about schoolyard cops and robbers and votes for zero years in prison.
The Professor's demands: a lorry, propane tankers and the ship Malaika
The Professor dictates his escape list to Raquel and frames her choice as punishing the robbers or saving 67 lives.
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.
Salva walks into the command post with Raquel's mother on the line
The Professor, posing as Salva, brings Raquel a call: her ex-husband has taken Paula despite a restraining order, while the tent keeps recording.
Raquel draws her gun on her ex-husband at home
After Paula returns from the amusement park, Raquel orders Alberto against the wall for violating the restraining order.
Raquel tells Salva that nothing is fine
Over coffee, Raquel apologises for frisking Salva, then drops the act and admits her ex-husband took her daughter despite a restraining order.
Raquel explains how abuse starts: steps down to the basement
Raquel tells Salva that violence never begins with a slap, why she did not report her police-officer ex, and how her sister ended up with him.
Roof standoff: Arturo grabs a gun and the snipers fire
Arturo learns Mónica was shot, turns Denver's gun on him among the kneeling hostages, and a sniper's green light hits the wrong man.
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 admits her mistake to the Professor to get surgeons in
The Professor refuses to let the wounded man out. Raquel concedes the error and warns him of the fallout; he allows two surgeons and a nurse inside.
Raquel calls her mother after the shooting
Raquel confesses she ordered the fire that hit an innocent man. Her mother shrugs off the job, fixates on the stranger and tells her to go to bed with someone.
Raquel and Prieto trade blows in the ambulance
Raquel will send officers in with the medics. Prieto, now preaching zero victims, is mocked as a talk-show pacifist and jabs back about her hormones.
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.
Arturo's call to Laura ends on the wrong name
Arturo promises Laura a new life and a trip to Australia, swears she was always the one, then calls her Mónica. Berlin savours it: a legend.
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's mother on two suitors and chasing bad people
Her mother overhears the call, tells her to play the field, lets slip something odd about the ex and the sister, then gives the advice that counts: chase.
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.
Raquel asks Salva to dinner while he hangs in a car boot
Trapped in the Ibiza as the crane lifts it, the Professor takes Raquel's call and accepts a dinner date without missing a beat.
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.
The leaked call turns the robbers into heroes
Tokyo narrates how the Professor leaked Raquel's choice to the radio, as Raquel's hound-dog instinct closes in on the man himself.
The Professor plays a wretch, and Raquel lets him go
Reeking of ammonia, the Professor is caught at the scrapyard and acts like a thief; Raquel releases him, then realises it was him.
Tokyo's cold open: the one face Raquel must never get
Tokyo narrates how Raquel narrowly missed seeing the Professor, and why his face is the last card that would end the game.
Paula tells Raquel she wants to live with her dad
Under fire on TV, Raquel comes home to hear her daughter has chosen her father; her mother steps in and Raquel tries to win Paula back with burgers.
Raquel refuses to be Prieto's scapegoat
Raquel demands the CNI own the Alison decision; Prieto offers a football-team pep talk, and she answers by taking command of the tent.
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.
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.
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.
Berlin hangs up on a furious Raquel to start again
Raquel demands to know what the shooting was; Berlin says he no longer recognises the respectful inspector and ends the call to reset the tone.
Syrtaki in the shower: the Professor's call with Raquel
Raquel asks what music the Professor showers to, he says a Greek Syrtaki, and she sets a one-hour deadline for proof of life of every hostage.
Raquel tempts Aníbal while the Professor preaches divide and conquer
The inspector phones Rio and offers a two-year sentence for an ally inside; the Professor's lesson on the police going for the weakest link plays over it.
Rio counts 723 years, demands a pardon, then Berlin tears into him
Rio adds up the sentences, asks for a televised presidential pardon, mocks the inspector's name-and-number request, and faces Berlin's fury afterwards.
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.
Raquel calls Salva, 36 minutes early for their date
Alone in the café, Raquel admits her first dinner out in eight years and fears being stood up; Salva gently points out she is early.
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.
Look under the table: Raquel's date becomes an ultimatum
Flirting over drinks turns cold when Raquel tells Salva to look under the table and gives him a choice: show her the cider workshop or wait for a warrant.
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.
Raquel marches the Professor into the warehouse at gunpoint
Sunday night, 60 hours in: Raquel forces Salva into the plastic-draped warehouse she thinks hides a drug lab, while he plays innocent.
The cider alibi: Raquel apologises and drops the formalities
Salva explains the warehouse as a cider project; Tokyo's narration reveals the staged set. Raquel, mortified, vows never to draw her gun on him again.
Superman and Clark Kent: Raquel likes the glasses
In bed, Raquel says Salva looks like another man without his glasses; he puts them back on. She says she cannot stay the night because of her daughter.
'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.
Raquel smiles in the mirror while the hostages are rescued
Tokyo compares Raquel to a mosquito drawn to light as she orders coffee, oblivious. Outside the Mint, SWAT pulls out 16 hostages and prepares to go in.
Breaking news: Ángel's car rolls off the M-506
Raquel comes back to reality through a news bulletin: hostages escaped the Mint, and detective Ángel Rubio has crashed and is in critical condition.
Mari Carmen asks Raquel why her husband tried to die
At the hospital, Ángel's wife hands Raquel his things, shows the crash video and says she waited seven years for him to stop loving Raquel.
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
Raquel asks Salva whether she should quit the case
In the open field Raquel confesses she feels lost and that the Professor is stronger than her, not knowing she is saying it to him.
Raquel suspects Ángel's crash was no accident
Raquel learns the brake line was blocked and connects it to the man outside, the spoon and the microphone. She decides to set a trap.
Raquel suspects Ángel's crash was no accident
Raquel grills Suárez about Ángel's clogged brake hoses and the teaspoon, then decides to set a trap for the insider.
Tokyo thrown out of the Mint
The robbers hand Tokyo to the police on a stretcher; the tactical unit treats her as a bomb and strips her at gunpoint.
Tokyo flies the kite against Colonel Prieto
Interrogated in her underwear, Tokyo follows the Professor's kite lesson: release a little truth, then stall, until Raquel walks in.
The Professor stays put and Raquel promises 80 years
Handcuffed after the polygraph, the Professor says he could have escaped or killed Raquel but did not; she answers with a prison sentence.
Raquel holds the Professor at gunpoint and he walks away
Raquel orders him to his knees but the Professor keeps walking, telling her she will have to shoot him. Then he discovers his phone is gone.
Prieto lays out the case against Raquel
Prieto walks Raquel through everything she unknowingly did for Salva, the heist mastermind. She hits back with a restraining order and an offer.
Raquel at the edge of the abyss decides to chase the bad guys
Stripped of her badge and gone from inspector to suspect, Raquel takes her mother's advice and goes after the bad guys.
Raquel maps the Professor's hideout from a first-date walk
Using how long he took to reach the cafe, Raquel draws a 500-metre circle around Hanoi and vows to her mother she will find him.
Raquel holds the Professor at gunpoint
Raquel tells the Professor she will not kill him because she wants him to spend thirty years in prison asking inmates what they are wearing.
The Professor's liquidity injection speech
The Professor admits falling for Raquel broke his perfect plan, then argues the ECB prints billions from nothing and nobody calls it theft.
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.
Can I trust you? Raquel asks to go to Angel
Raquel insists only she can stop Ángel talking, calls the Professor Sergio, and he asks whether he can trust her.
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's ultimatum to Raquel: your daughter or the Professor
Prieto shows Raquel a custody lawsuit filed by her abusive ex and offers to drop all charges if she gives up the hangar before the robbers escape.
Raquel gives up the address: 33 Alcántara
Cornered by Prieto's threat to her daughter, Raquel finally says the hangar's address and every unit is sent there.
One year later: Raquel picks Palawan
A news report marks a year since the unsolved heist; Raquel, now out of the force, picks Palawan on a map, and at a beach bar a familiar voice offers his phone.
Tokyo slaps Raquel, who answers with a new name: Lisbon
Tokyo finds the inspector who hunted them living with the Professor, calls her a traitor and strikes her; Raquel hits back and christens herself Lisbon.
Lisbon tells Tokyo the truth: of course Rio is being tortured
Tokyo clings to the 21st century; Lisbon lays out the dirty backyard every democracy keeps. Tokyo demands a rescue and the Professor admits they know nothing.
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 Professor revives the Chernobyl Plan with zeppelins over Madrid
Tokyo recalls the old escape plan as the Professor lays out how airships will rain 140 million euros on the city to buy chaos.
Sixty-five hackers in Islamabad replace Rio
Radio check with Raquel, then the gang's new hacking crew in Pakistan takes over the police and CNI phones in under an hour.
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.
Raquel calls the Professor an egomaniac
Flashback: the Professor wants four more months; Raquel says he distrusts the plan only because it is Berlin's and that revenge on the police is driving him.
Marrying you wouldn't be an issue
On the road the Professor floats marriage as a throwaway remark and Raquel tells him to ask properly.
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.
Stuck in the mud: a farmer's kid recognises the Professor
The van bogs down on a dirt road, the antenna breaks, and a boy on a farm shouts that the Professor and the Inspector are right there.
The farmers tour the teacher's van and pull it out of the mud
Village neighbours admire the Professor's camper, promise the family a Portugal trip, and tow the van free with a hug for the teacher.
Raquel and the Professor fight over the gang and each other
Raquel calls him out for using Rio; he admits he feels he betrays the heist, cites Bobby Fischer, and says he beats her at this game.
The escape protocol, taught in bed
Between kisses the Professor walks Raquel through dispersion, the emergency bag, and the epicenter rule of hiding up a tree inside 500 metres.
Soldiers close in and Raquel improvises
Raquel cannot reach her tree in time, the police find the ambulance, and she heads for a farm the Professor says is the first place they will look.
The Professor's radio love letter to Raquel in the chicken coop
Hiding under a hen, the Professor apologises over the radio, admits Raquel is his first love and says he wants to spend his life with her.
Raquel caught in the coop: two shotguns and a hiker's excuse
Farmers find Raquel hiding with climbing spikes, recognise her from TV, and a tense standoff ends with her proposing a negotiation.
Raquel's offer: twenty million and nobody will ever know
Raquel argues the police never pay rewards, warns the farmers they would become the couple who sold out Lisbon, and buys their silence.
Raquel begs the farmers to hide her as the police close in
With dogs outside, Raquel pleads for the trapdoor and raises her price while the Professor vouches by radio; Reni refuses.
Suarez interrogates Raquel against a tree: wrong answer
Suarez sends the farmer away, demands the Professor's location as the Professor begs her to stall, then a shot rings out and prints are wiped.
Lisbon walks into the Bank of Spain as the gang chants for Nairobi
Five days in: the Professor's rescue lands Lisbon inside the bank, the gang erupts, and the fight is dedicated to Nairobi.
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.
Tokyo tells Lisbon about love in a heist and the man she lost
Tokyo describes robbing a bank with the man she loved, the ride to Portugal, and how he died on a job; he was the love of her life, not Rio.
There will be no extraction: Sierra answers the check-up call
Lisbon reports Plan Rome is on, but the Professor says the stormwater tank is found and Sierra takes the line to taunt the gang.
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.
Tokyo on freedom: barefoot, unarmed, a hundred guns pointed at you
Tokyo narrates what stepping outside feels like after a hundred hours trapped, and why showing Lisbon free in front of the cameras was a message of hope.
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.
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.
Denver's present for Arturo and a drugged Gandía stalls the army
Helsinki spots Special Forces moving in; Lisbon orders Gandía released, Denver lobs a grenade with a family announcement, and a sedated Gandía halts the raid.
Sierra delivers the breech baby as the roof explodes
The Professor guides Sierra through the delivery while the gang scrambles under the army's assault on the bank.
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.
The mic in the handcuffs: Professor has Tamayo by the balls
The Professor reveals why he released the governor, Lisbon flirts mid-crisis, and Marseille gets a shopping list for Alicia Sierra's baby.
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.
Mónica laughs on morphine while the Professor collapses
Denver finds Mónica drugged and giggling as the news of Tokyo's death spreads; Lisbon coaches the Professor through a panic attack.
Lisbon and Sagasta: no right sides in the inferno
Sharing a cigarette, the enemy commander and Lisbon argue over whether anyone is fighting for a better world.
Lisbon's livestream: we are no longer worthy of being followed
Lisbon announces seven deaths and asks the red tide to go home; the crowd refuses to leave and Tamayo's spin collapses.
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.
The last gold pellets leave the bank
The pipes run dry inside, the army hears the suction and realises the vault is being emptied, and the Professor jokes with Lisbon over the radio.
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.
Empty trucks: Lisbon names the woman who knew everything
At the quarry the trucks are empty. Lisbon argues that Berlin's ex-wife, a pianist, learned the plan in bed, just as the Professor once confided in Lisbon.
Lisbon blames the Professor: you surrendered
Rio finds no dump trucks on the cameras. Lisbon turns on the Professor for surrendering to fake police, falling for the same illusions he uses himself.
The Professor deduces the gold is buried
Taking Lisbon's cue, the Professor spots tampered camera footage, reasons the thieves are hiding rather than fleeing, and concludes the gold is being buried.
Tamayo gloats on the gang's radio; the Professor surrenders
Tamayo taunts the Professor over the captured gang's radio and Lisbon confirms the worst. The Professor replies that he will turn himself in with his partners.
Denver snaps: our lives depend on a bet
Denver refuses to trust an economic scheme, Tamayo vows to interrogate them one by one, and Stockholm pleads with him as he is dragged out first.
Tamayo beats the Professor, who offers him a way to win
Battered in front of Lisbon, the Professor asks which Tamayo wins more, the one who kills them or the one who stops a national collapse.
Sergio and Raquel after the beating
Bleeding but joking, Sergio tells Raquel she should see the other guy; she asks if they should quit, and he admits he planned this one within a day.
Clark Kent takes off the mask: the proposal
Raquel tells Sergio he robs for himself and the nerd act is a costume; he blurts out a marriage proposal again, and this time she says yes.
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.
The countdown: ten seconds to checkmate
Tamayo orders the gang shot and counts down from ten while the Professor argues that bullets buy only corpses and bankruptcy.
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.