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Money Heist
Spanish	La casa de papel
Genre
Created by	Álex Pina
Starring	Hovik Keuchkerian
Theme music composer	Manel Santisteban
Opening theme	'My Life Is Going On' by Cecilia Krull
Composer(s)
Country of origin	Spain
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of seasons	2 (3 parts)[a]
No. of episodes	23 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Álex Pina Sonia Martínez Jesús Colmenar Esther Martínez Lobato Nacho Manubens
Production location(s)	Madrid
Cinematography	Migue Amoedo
Editor(s)	David Pelegrín Luis Miguel González Bedmar Verónica Callón Raúl Mora Regino Hernández Raquel Marraco Patricia Rubio
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	67–77 minutes (Antena 3) 41–57 minutes (Netflix)
Production company(s)
Distributor	Netflix
Release
Original network	Antena 3 (2017) Netflix (2019)
Picture format
Audio format	5.1 surround sound
Original release	2 May 2017 – present
External links
Website

Money Heist (Spanish: La casa de papel, transl. The House of Paper) is a Spanish television heistcrime drama series. Created by Álex Pina, the series was initially intended as a limited series to be told in two parts. It had its original run of 15 episodes on Spanish network Antena 3 from 2 May 2017 through 23 November 2017. Netflix acquired the global streaming rights in late 2017. It re-cut the series into 22 shorter episodes and released them worldwide, beginning with the first part on 20 December 2017, followed by the second part on 6 April 2018. In April 2018, Netflix renewed the series with a significantly increased budget for 16 new episodes total. Part 3, with 8 episodes, was released on 19 July 2019. Filming of part 4 ended in August 2019.^[5]

The first two parts revolve around a long-prepared, multi-day assault on the Royal Mint of Spain in Madrid, in which a group of robbers take hostages as part of their plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion. It involves eight robbers, code-named after cities and led by the Professor (Álvaro Morte) from an external location. The story is primarily focused on one of the robbers, Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó), as they battle with hostages on the inside and the police on the outside. In the third part, the surviving robbers are forced out of hiding, and with the help of new members, they plan and perform an assault on the Bank of Spain.

The series was filmed in Madrid, Spain. Significant portions of part 3 were also filmed in Panama, Thailand and Florence, Italy. The narrative is told in a real-time-like fashion and relies on flashbacks, time-jumps, hidden character motivations and an unreliable narrator for complexity. The series subverts the heist genre by being told from the perspective of a woman (Tokyo) and having a strong Spaniard identity, where emotional dynamics offset the perfect strategic crime.

The series received critical acclaim for its sophisticated plot, interpersonal dramas, direction and for trying to innovate Spanish television. The Italian anti-fascist song 'Bella ciao', which plays multiple times throughout the series, became a summer hit across Europe in 2018. By 2018, the series was the most-watched non-English language series and one of the most-watched series overall on Netflix,^[4] with a particular resonance coming from viewers from Mediterranean Europe and the Latin world.

• 1Series overview
• 2Cast and characters
• 3Production
• 5Release
• 6Reception

Series overview[edit]

Season[a]		Part[a]	Episodes		Originally aired
					First aired	Last aired	Network
1	1	15	9[b]	2 May 2017	27 June 2017	Antena 3
	2		6[c]	16 October 2017	23 November 2017
2	3	16	8	19 July 2019		Netflix
	4[8]		8	TBA

Season 1: Parts 1 and 2 (2017)[edit]

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Part 1 begins with the aftermath of a failed bank robbery by a woman named 'Tokyo', as a man named the 'Professor' saves her from being caught by the police and proposes her a heist of drastic proportions. After a brief outline of the planned heist, the story jumps to the beginning of a multi-day assault on the Royal Mint of Spain in Madrid. The eight robbers are code-named after cities: Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Nairobi, Rio, Denver, Helsinki and Oslo. Dressed in red jumpsuits with a mask of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, the group of robbers take 67 hostages as part of their plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion through a self-built escape tunnel. The Professor heads the heist from an external location. Flashbacks throughout the series show the five months of preparation in an abandoned hunting estate in the Toledo countryside; the robbers are not to share personal information nor engage in personal relationships, and the assault shall be without bloodshed.

Throughout parts 1 and 2, the robbers inside the Mint have difficulties sticking to the pre-defined rules, and face suspicious hostages, violence, isolation, and mutiny. Tokyo commentates the events through voice-overs. While Denver pursues a love affair with the hostage Mónica Gaztambide, inspector Raquel Murillo of the National Police Corps negotiates with the Professor on the outside and begins an intimate relationship with his alter ego 'Salva'. The Professor's identity is repeatedly close to being uncovered, until Raquel realises his true identity, but is emotionally unable and unwilling to hand him over to the police. At the end of part 2, after 128 hours, the robbers escape successfully from the Mint with €984 million printed, but at the cost of the lives of Oslo, Moscow and Berlin. One year after the heist, Raquel decodes postcards left by the Professor for a location in Palawan in the Philippines, where she reunites with him.

Season 2: Part 3 (2019)[edit]

Part 3 begins two to three years after the heist on the Royal Mint of Spain, showing the robbers enjoying their lives paired-up in diverse locations. However, when Europol captures Rio with an intercepted phone, the Professor picks up Berlin's old plans to assault the Bank of Spain to force Europol to hand over Rio. He and Raquel (going by 'Lisbon') get the gang, including Mónica (going by 'Stockholm'), back together and enlist three new members: Bógota, Palermo and Marseille. Flashbacks to the Professor and Berlin outline the planned new heist and their different approaches to love. The disguised robbers sneak into the heavily guarded bank, take hostages and eventually gain access to the gold and state secrets, while the Professor and Lisbon are in a moving van to communicate with the robbers and the police. A breach in the bank is thwarted, forcing the police, led by Colonel Luis Tamayo and pregnant inspector Alicia Sierra, to release Rio to the robbers. Nairobi gets gravely injured by a police-inflicted sniper shot in the chest, and Lisbon is caught by the police. With another police assault on the bank incoming, and believing Lisbon to have been executed by the police, the Professor radios Palermo and declares DEFCON 2 on the police. Part 3 concludes by showing Lisbon alive and in custody, and Tokyo narrating that the Professor had fallen for his own trap and that 'the war had begun.'

Cast and characters[edit]

Main[edit]

• Úrsula Corberó as Silene Oliveira (Tokyo): the narrator; she was a runaway robber until scouted by the Professor to participate in his plan.
• Itziar Ituño as Raquel Murillo (Lisbon): an inspector of the National Police Corps who is put in charge of the case until she joins the group in part 3.
• Álvaro Morte as Sergio Marquina (The Professor / Salvador 'Salva' Martín): the mastermind of the heist who assembled the group, and Berlin's brother.
• Paco Tous as Agustín Ramos dos Hermanas (Moscow) (part 1–2; featured part 3): a former miner turned criminal and Denver's father.
• Pedro Alonso as Andrés de Fonollosa (Berlin): a terminally ill jewel thief and the Professor's second-in-command and brother.
• Alba Flores as Ágata Jiménez (Nairobi): an expert in forgery in charge of printing the money for the group.
• Miguel Herrán as Aníbal Cortés (Rio): a young hacker and Tokyo's boyfriend.
• Jaime Lorente as Daniel/Ricardo^[d] Ramos (Denver): Moscow's son who joins him in the heist.
• Esther Acebo as Mónica Gaztambide (Stockholm): one of the hostages who is Arturo Román's secretary and mistress, carrying his child out of wedlock. During the robbery, she falls in love with Denver and becomes an accomplice to the group.
• Enrique Arce as Arturo Román: a hostage and the Director of the Royal Mint of Spain.
• María Pedraza as Alison Parker (part 1–2): a hostage and daughter of the British ambassador to Spain.
• Darko Peric as Yashin Dasáyev (Helsinki): a veteran Serbian soldier and Oslo's cousin.
• Kiti Mánver as Mariví Fuentes (part 1–2; featured part 3): Raquel's mother.
• Hovik Keuchkerian as Bogotá (part 3): an expert in metallurgy who joins the robbery of the Bank of Spain.
• Rodrigo de la Serna as Martín (Palermo / The Engineer) (part 3): an old friend of Berlin's who planned the robbery of the Bank of Spain with him and assumes his place as commanding officer.
• Najwa Nimri as Alicia Sierra (part 3): a pregnant inspector of the National Police Corps put in charge of the case after Raquel's departure from the force.

Recurring[edit]

• Roberto Garcia Ruiz as Dimitri Mostovói / Radko Dragic^[e] (Oslo) (part 1–2; featured part 3): a veteran Serbian soldier and Helsinki's cousin.
• Fernando Soto as Ángel Rubio: a deputy inspector and Raquel's second-in-command.
• Juan Fernández as Colonel Prieto: a member of the Spanish Intelligence who oversees Raquel's work on the case.
• Anna Gras as Mercedes Colmenar (part 1–2): Alison's teacher and one of the hostages.
• Fran Morcillo as Pablo Ruiz (part 1): Alison's schoolmate and one of the hostages.
• Clara Alvarado as Ariadna Cascales (part 1–2): one of the hostages who works in the Mint.
• Mario de la Rosa as Suárez: the chief of the Grupo Especial de Operaciones.
• Miquel García Borda as Alberto Vicuña (part 1–2): Raquel's ex-husband and a forensic examiner.
• Naia Guz as Paula Vicuña Murillo: Raquel and Alberto's daughter.
• Luka Peros as Marseille (part 3): a member of the gang who joins the robbery of the Bank of Spain.
• Fernando Cayo as Colonel Luis Tamayo (part 3): a member of the Spanish Intelligence who oversees Alicia's work on the case.

Production[edit]

Conception and writing[edit]

—Writer Esther Martinez Lobato, October 2018^[13]

The series was conceived by screenwriter Álex Pina and director Jesús Colmenar during their years of collaboration since 2008.^[14] After finishing their work on the Spanish prison drama Vis a vis (Locked Up), they left Globomedia to set up their own production company, named Vancouver Media, in 2016.^[14][15] For their first project, they considered either filming a comedy or developing a heist story for television,^[14] with the latter having never been attempted before on Spanish television.^[16] Along with former Locked Up colleagues,^[f] they developed Money Heist as a passion project to try new things without outside interference.^[13] Pina was firm about making it a limited series, feeling that dilution had become a problem for his previous productions.^[17]

Initially entitled Los Desahuciados (The Evicted) in the conception phase,^[17] the series was developed to subvert heist conventions and combine elements of the action genre, thrillers and surrealism, while still being credible.^[14] Pina saw an advantage over typical heist films in that character development could span a considerably longer narrative arc.^[18] Characters were to be shown from multiple sides to break the viewers' preconceptions of villainy and retain their interest throughout the show.^[18] Key aspects of the planned storyline were written down at the beginning,^[19] while the finer story beats were developed incrementally to not overwhelm the writers.^[20] Writer Javier Gómez Santander compared the writing process to the Professor's way of thinking, 'going around, writing down options, consulting engineers whom you cannot tell why you ask them that', but noted that fiction allowed the police to be written dumber when necessary.^[20]

The beginning of filming was set for January 2017,^[16] allowing for five months of pre-production.^[7] The narrative was split into two parts for financial considerations.^[7] The robbers' city-based code names, which Spanish newspaper ABC compared to the colour-based code names in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 heist film Reservoir Dogs,^[21] were chosen at random in the first part,^[22] although places with high viewership resonance were also taken into account for the new robbers' code names in part 3.^[23] The first five lines of the pilot script took a month to write,^[7] as the writers were unable to make the Professor or Moscow work as narrator.^[17] Tokyo as an unreliable narrator, flashbacks and time-jumps increased the narrative complexity,^[18] but also made the story more fluid for the audience.^[7] The pilot episode required over 50 script versions until the producers were satisfied.^[24][25] Later scripts would be finished once per week to keep up with filming.^[7]

Casting[edit]

Casting took place late in 2016, spanning more than two months.^[26]Álvaro Morte was approached by casting directors Eva Leira and Yolanda Serrano to play the Professor, but had to go through the full casting process; this allowed them to shape the character, who did not follow archetypal conventions.^[26] The Professor was designed as a charismatic yet shy villain who could convince the robbers to follow him and make the audience sympathetic to the robbers' resistance against the powerful banks.^[27] Approaching the role through a lot of external analysis rather than personal experience, Morte described the professor as 'a tremendous box of surprises' that 'end up shaping this character because he never ceases to generate uncertainty', making it unclear for the audience if the character is good or bad.^[26]

Pedro Alonso was cast to play Berlin, whom La Voz de Galicia would later describe as a 'cold, hypnotic, sophisticated and disturbing character, an inveterate macho with serious empathy problems, a white-collar thief who despises his colleagues and considers them inferior.'^[28] Alonso noted that Berlin has high observation skills and an unusual understanding of his surroundings, resulting in unconventional and unpredictable character behaviour.^[28] Alonso remarked that similarities between Berlin and Najwa Nimri's character Zulema in Pina's TV series Locked Up were unintentional.^[29] The kindred of the Professor and Berlin was not in the original script, but was built into the characters' backstory at the end of part 1 after Morte and Alonso had repeatedly proposed to do so.^[30]

Úrsula Corberó was cast to play the protagonist and narrator Tokyo, whom the producers found the hardest to develop because Tokyo is 'a loser at the beginning' and 'had nothing to lose' before meeting the Professor.^[7]Itziar Ituño took inspiration for her role as Inspector Raquel Murillo from The Silence of the Lambs character Clarice Starling, an FBI student with a messy family life who develops sympathies for a criminal.^[31]Paco Tous (Moscow) had previously starred in Pina's 2010 TV series Los hombres de Paco.^[29]Alba Flores, who had starred in Locked Up, was asked to play Nairobi without audition when Pina realized late in the conception phase that the show needed another female gang member.^[17]

Antena 3 announced the ensemble cast in March 2017, assigning the star credits to Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte and Alba Flores.^[3] The actors learned of the show's renewal by Netflix before the producers contacted them to return.^[32] In October 2018, Netflix announced the returning main cast members; this included Pedro Alonso,^[33] raising speculation about his role in part 3.^[34] New cast members announced at the same time included Juan Fernández, Mario de la Rosa, Hovik Keuchkerian, Fernando Cayo, Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna, and Locked Up star Najwa Nimri.^[33] Cameo scenes of Brazilian football star, and fan of the series, Neymar, as a monk were filmed for part 3, but were excluded from the stream until judicial charges against him had been dropped in late August 2019.^[35] A small appearance by Spanish actress Belén Cuesta in two episodes of part 3 raised fan and media speculation about her role in part 4.^[36]

Production design[edit]

The show's look and atmosphere were developed by creator Álex Pina, director Jesús Colmenar, and director of photography Migue Amoedo, according to La Vanguardia 'the most prolific television trio in recent years'.^[37] Abdón Alcañiz served as art director.^[38] Their collaboration projects usually take a primary colour as a basis:^[38]Locked Up used yellow,^[39]El embarcadero would focus on blue as a primary colour,^[38] and Money Heist had red as 'one of the distinguishing features of the series'^[39] that stood over the gray sets.^[40] Blue, green and yellow were marked as a forbidden colour in production design.^[40] To achieve 'absolute film quality', red tones were tested with different types of fabrics, textures and lighting.^[41] The iconography of the robbers' red jumpsuits mirrored the yellow prison dress code in Locked Up.^[39] For part 3, the Italian retail clothing company Diesel modified the red jumpsuits to better fit the body and launched a clothing line inspired by the series.^[40]Salvador Dalí was chosen as the robbers' mask design because of Dalí's recognisable visage that also serves as an iconic cultural reference to Spain; Don Quixote as an alternative mask design was discarded.^[42]

To make the plot more realistic, the producers requested and received advice from the national police, the Spanish Ministry of Interior and the Royal Mint of Spain, which had not printed banknotes for two years at this point.^[43][44] The robbers' banknotes were printed with permission of the Bank of Spain and had an increased size as an anti-counterfeit measure.^[43] The greater financial backing of Netflix for part 3 allowed for the build of over 50 sets across five basic filming locations world-wide.^[45] Preparing a remote and uninhabited island in Panama to represent a robber hide-out proved difficult, as it needed to be cleaned, secured and built on, and involved hours-long travelling with material transportation.^[41] The real Bank of Spain was unavailable for visiting and filming for security reasons, so the producers recreated it on a two-level stage by their own imagining, taking inspiration from Spanish architecture of the Francisco Franco era.^[41] Publicly available information was used to make the Bank's main hall set similar to the real location. Other sets for the Bank include a library, a bathroom and an office, which were inspired by different periods and artificially aged to accentuate the building's history.^[45]Bronze and granite sculptures and motifs from the Valle de los Caídos were recreated for the interior,^[41] and over 50 paintings were painted for the Bank to emulate the Ateneo de Madrid.^[45]

Filming[edit]

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Parts 1 and 2 were filmed back-to-back in the greater Madrid region from January until August 2017.^[26][46][24] The pilot episode was recorded in 26 days,^[43] while all other episodes had around 14 filming days.^[18] Production was split into two units to save time, with one unit shooting scenes involving the Professor and the police, and the other filming scenes with the robbers.^[7] The main storyline is set in the Royal Mint of Spain in Madrid, but the exterior scenes were filmed at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) headquarters for its passing resemblance to the Mint,^[43] and on the roof of the Higher Technical School of Aeronautical Engineers, part of the Technical University of Madrid.^[46] The hunting estate where the robbers plan their coup was filmed at the Finca El Gasco farm estate in Torrelodones.^[46] Interior filming took place at the former Locked Up sets in Colmenar Viejo^[15] and at the Spanish national daily newspaper ABC in Torrejón de Ardoz for printing press scenes.^[24] As the show was designed as a limited series, all sets were destroyed once production of part 2 had finished.^[7]

Parts 3 and 4 were also filmed back-to-back,^[8] with 21 to 23 filming days per episode.^[18] Netflix announced the start of filming on 25 October 2018,^[27] and filming of part 4 ended in August 2019.^[5] In 2018, Netflix had opened their first European production hub in Tres Cantos near Madrid for new and existing Netflix productions;^[47] main filming moved there onto a set three times the size of the set used for parts 1 and 2.^[48] The main storyline is set in the Bank of Spain in Madrid, but the exterior was filmed at the Ministry of Development complex Nuevos Ministerios.^[48] A scene where money is dropped from the sky was filmed at Callao Square.^[46] Ermita de San Frutos (es) in Carrascal del Río served as the exterior of the Italian monastery where the robbers plan the heist.^[40] The beginning of part 3 was also filmed in Thailand, on the Guna Yala islands in Panama, and in Florence, Italy,^[41] which helped to counter the claustrophobic feeling of the first two parts,^[18] but was also an expression of the plot's global repercussions.^[49]

Music[edit]

The series' theme song, 'My Life Is Going On', was composed by Manel Santisteban, who also served as composer on Locked Up. Santisteban approached Spanish singer Cecilia Krull to write and perform the lyrics, which are about having confidence in one's abilities and the future.^[50] The theme song is played behind a title sequence featuring paper models of major settings from the series.^[50] Krull's main source of inspiration was the character Tokyo in the first episode of the series, when the Professor offers her a way out of a desperate moment.^[51] The lyrics are in English as the language that came naturally to Krull at the time of writing.^[51]

The Italian anti-fascist song 'Bella ciao' plays multiple times throughout the series and accompanies two emblematic key scenes: At the end of the first part the Professor and Berlin sing it in preparation for the heist, embracing themselves as resistance against the establishment,^[52] and in the second part it plays during the thieves' escape from the Mint, as a metaphor for freedom.^[53] Regarding the use of the song, Tokyo recounts in one of her narrations, 'The life of the Professor revolved around a single idea: Resistance. His grandfather, who had fought against the fascists in Italy, taught him the song and he taught us.'^[53] The song was brought to the show by writer Javier Gómez Santander. He had listened to 'Bella ciao' at home to cheer him up, as he had grown frustrated for not finding a suitable song for the middle of part 1.^[20] He was aware of the song's meaning and history and felt it represented positive values.^[20] 'Bella ciao' became a summer hit in Europe in 2018, mostly due to the popularity of the series and not the song's grave themes.^[52]

Themes and analysis[edit]

The series was noted for its subversions of the heist genre. While heist films are usually told with a rational male Anglo-centric focus, the series reframes the heist story by giving it a strong Spaniard identity and telling it from a female perspective through Tokyo.^[54] The producers regarded the cultural identity as an important part of the personality of the series, as it made the story more relatable for viewers.^[23] They also avoided adapting the series to international tastes,^[23] which helped to set it apart from the usual American TV series^[55] and raised international awareness of Spanish sensibilities.^[23] Emotional dynamics like the passion and impulsivity of friendship and love offset the perfect strategic crime for increased tension.^[54][8] Nearly all main characters, including the relationship-opposing Professor, eventually succumb to love,^[49] for which the series received comparisons to telenovelas.^[4][56] Comedic elements, which were compared to Back to the Future^[26] and black comedy,^[57] also offset the heist tension.^[58] The heist film formula is subverted by the heist starting straight after the opening credits instead of lingering on how the gang is brought together.^[2]

With the series being set after the financial crisis of 2007–2008, which resulted in severe austerity measures in Spain,^[56] critics argued that the series was an explicit allegory of rebellion against capitalism,^[4][59] including The Globe and Mail, who saw the series as 'subversive in that it's about a heist for the people. It's revenge against a government.'^[56] According to Le Monde, the Professor's teaching scenes in the Toledo hunting estate in particular highlighted how people should seek to develop their own solutions for the fallible capitalist system.^[59] The show's Robin Hood analogy of robbing the rich and giving to the poor received various interpretations. El Español argued that the analogy made it easier for viewers to connect with the show, as modern society tended to be tired of banks and politics already,^[55] and The New Statesman said the rich were no longer stolen from but undermined at their roots.^[4] On the other hand, Esquire's Mireia Mullor saw the Robin Hood analogy as a mere distraction strategy for the robbers, as they initially did not plan to use the money from their first heist to improve the quality of life of regular people; for this reason, Mullor also argues that the large following for the robbers in part 3 was not comprehensible even though they represented a channel for the discontent of those bearing economic and political injustices.^[60]

The characters were designed as multi-dimensional and complementary antagonists and anti-heroes whose moralities are ever-changing.^[7] Examples include Berlin, who shifts from a robber mistreating hostages, to one of the series' most beloved characters.^[7] There is also the hostage Mónica Gaztambide, as well as inspector Raquel Murillo, who eventually join the cause of the robbers.^[7] Gonzálvez of The Huffington Post finds that an audience may think of the robbers as evil at first for committing a crime, but as the series progresses it marks the financial system as the true evil and suggests the robbers have ethical and empathetic justification for stealing from an overpowered thief.^[61] Najwa Nimri, playing inspector Sierra in part 3, said that 'the complex thing about a villain is giving him humanity. That's where everyone gets alarmed, when you have to prove that a villain also has a heart'. She added that the amount of information and technology that surrounds us is allowing us to verify that 'everyone has a dark side.'^[61] The series leaves it to the audience to decide who is good or bad, as characters are 'relatable and immoral' at various points in the story.^[7] Pina argued that it was this ability to change view that made the series addictive and marked its success.^[7]

With the relative number of female main characters in TV shows generally on the rise,^[7] the series gives female characters the same attention as men, which the BBC regarded as an innovation for Spanish television.^[62] While many plot lines in the heist series still relate to males,^[7] the female characters become increasingly aware of gender-related issues, such as Mónica arguing in part 3 that women, just like men, could be robbers and a good parent.^[63] Critics further examined feminist themes and a rejection of machismo^[63] in the series through Nairobi and her phrase 'The matriarchy begins' in part 2,^[64] and a comparative scene in part 3, where Palermo claims a patriarchy in a moment that, according to CNET, is played for laughs.^[65]La Vanguardia challenged any female-empowering claims in the series, as Úrsula Corberó (Tokyo) was often shown scantily clad,^[66] and Esquire criticized how characters' relationship problems in part 3 were often portrayed to be the women's fault.^[60] Alba Flores (Nairobi) saw no inherent feminist plot in the series, as women only take control when it suits the story,^[64] whilst Esther Acebo (Mónica) described any feminist subtext in the show as not being vindictive.^[67]

Release[edit]

Original broadcast[edit]

Part 1 aired on free-to-air Spanish TV channel Antena 3 in the Wednesday prime-time slot from 2 May 2017 till 27 June 2017. Part 2 was broadcast Thursdays from 16 October 2017 till 23 November 2017,^[70] with the originally planned 18-21 episodes cut down to 15.^[20][71] As the series was developed with Spanish prime-time television in mind,^[14] the episodes had a length of around 70 minutes, as is typical for Spanish television.^[72] However, the producers also aspired to reach an international audience.^[14] Cuts for commercial breaks were factored in during writing, which in Pina's eyes disrupted the narrative flow of the series that otherwise played almost in real time.^[72]

The show had the best premiere of a Spanish series since April 2015,^[73] with more than four million viewers and the majority share of viewers in its timeslot, almost double the number of the next highest-viewed station/show.^[62] Despite good reviews and the series remaining a leader in the commercial target group for the first half of part 1,^[73] the viewership eventually slipped to lower figures than expected by the Antena 3 executives.^[74] Argentine newspaper La Nación attributed the decrease in viewer numbers to the change in time slots, the late broadcast times and the summer break between the parts.^[25]La Vanguardia saw the interest only waning among the conventional viewers, as the plot unfolded too slowly at the rate of one episode per week.^[37] Writer Javier Gómez Santander would later regard the series' run on Antena 3 as a 'failure', as the ratings declined to 'nothing special', but commended Antena 3 for making a series that did not rely on typical stand-alone episodes.^[20]

Netflix acquisition[edit]

Part 1 was made available on Netflix Spain on 1 July 2017, like other series belonging to Antena 3's parent media group Atresmedia.^[70] In December 2017,^[62] when Álex Pina and his group of creatives had already moved on to their next project, El Embarcadero,^[20] Netflix acquired the exclusive global streaming rights for the series.^[70] Netflix re-cut the series into 22 episodes of around 50 minutes length.^[72] Cliffhangers and scenes had to be divided and moved to other episodes, but this proved less drastic than expected because of the series' perpetual plot twists.^[72] Netflix dubbed the series and renamed it from La casa de papel to Money Heist for distribution in the English-speaking world,^[62] releasing the first part on 20 December 2017 without any promotion.^[20][24] The second part was made available for streaming on 6 April 2018.^[24] Pina assessed the viewer experience on Antena 3 versus Netflix as 'very different', although the essence of the series remained the same.^[72]

'[Money Heist had] no promotion or anything. Netflix put it in that pile of series that it has, which is like the sock drawer that you never watch and where the algorithm can only rescue you, and we didn't give it any importance.'

—Writer Javier Gómez Santander, September 2019^[20]

Without a dedicated Netflix marketing campaign,^[42] the series became the most-watched non-English language series on Netflix in early 2018, within four months of being added to the platform, to the creators' surprise.^[75][4] This prompted Netflix to sign a global exclusive overall deal with Pina shortly afterwards.^[76] Diego Ávalos, director of original content for Netflix in Europe, noted that the series was atypical in being watched across many different profile groups.^[77] Common explanations for the drastic differences in viewership between Antena 3 and Netflix were changed consumption habits of series viewers,^[72][20] and the binge-watching potential of streaming.^[37][72] Pina and Sonia Martínez of Antena 3 would later say that the series, with its high demand of viewer attention, unknowingly followed the video-on-demand format from the beginning.^[72] Meanwhile, people in Spain would discover the series on Netflix, unaware of its original Antena 3 broadcast.^[72]

Renewal[edit]

Following the show's success on the streaming platform, Netflix approached Álex Pina and Atresmedia to produce new chapters of the series. Reluctant to return to the originally self-contained story,^[78] the writers withdrew themselves for more than two months to decide on a direction,^[41] creating a bible with central ideas for new episodes in the process.^[27] The crucial factors in accepting Netflix' deal were the creators recognising that characters still had things to say, and having the opportunity to deviate from the perfectly orchestrated heist of the first two parts.^[8] Adamant that the story should be set in Spain again,^[48] the producers wanted to make it a sequel rather than a direct continuation, and expand on the familiarity and affection between the characters instead of the former group of strangers.^[14] Rio's capture was chosen as the catalyst to get the gang back together, because he as the narrator's boyfriend represented the necessary emotional factor for the renewal not to be 'suicide'.^[79]

Netflix officially renewed the series for a third part with a considerably increased budget on 18 April 2018,^[22] which might make part 3 the most expensive series per episode in Spanish television history, according to Variety.^[18] As writing was in progress, Pina stated in July 2018 that he appreciated Netflix' decision to make the episodes 45 to 50 minutes of length, as the narrative could be more compressed and international viewers would have more freedom to consume the story in smaller parts.^[42] With Netflix' new push to improve the quality and appeal of its English-language versions of foreign shows, and over 70 percent of viewers in the United States choosing dubs over subtitles for the series, Netflix hired a new dubbing crew for part 3 and re-dubbed the first two parts accordingly.^[1] Part 3, consisting of eight episodes, was released on 19 July 2019;^[8] the first two episodes of part 3 also had a limited theatrical release in Spain one day before.^[18] Filming of an initially unannounced fourth part, consisting of eight episodes,^[8] ended in August 2019.^[5]

In August 2019, Netflix announced that part 3 was streamed by 34 million household accounts within its first week of release, of which 24 million finished the series within this period,^[58] thereby making it one of the most-watched productions on Netflix of all time, regardless of language.^[80] Netflix had an estimated 148 million subscribers world-wide in mid-2019.^[81]

Reception[edit]

Money Heist Season 2 Episode 10

Audience response[edit]

After the move to Netflix, the series remained the most-followed series on Netflix for six consecutive weeks and became one of the most popular series on IMDb.^[72] It regularly trended on Twitter world-wide, largely because celebrities such as football players Neymar and Marc Bartra, American singer Romeo Santos,^[24] and Stephen King commented on it.^[65] The response was especially high in Mediterranean Europe and the Latin world, in particular Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.^[8] While users flooded social networks with media of themselves wearing the robbers' outfit,^[24] the robbers' costumes were worn at the Rio Carnival, and Dalí icons were shown on huge banners in Saudi Arabia football stadiums.^[72] Real footage of these events would later be shown in part 3 as a tribute to the show's international success.^[82]Tlaxcala F.C. opened their presentation of their new 2019-2020 season jerseys dressed like the characters,^[83] and the Musée Grévin in Paris added statues of the robbers to its wax museum in summer 2018.^[4]

There have also been negative responses to the influence of the show, however, including incidents in Nantes and Argentina where real heist men wore the show's red costumes and Dalì masks in their attacks.^[4][24] The series was used in a attack on YouTube, when hackers removed the most-played song in the platform's history, 'Despacito' by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee, and left an image of the show instead.^[24] In unrelated reports, a journalist from the Turkish state channel AkitTV and an Ankaran politician have both warned against the show for supposedly encouraging terrorism and being 'a dangerous symbol of rebellion'.^[4]

'Knowing why a series is successful is impossible. Sometimes they even influence geopolitical factors. Money Heist has touched the nerve of the public in countries marked by a climate of scepticism and criticism of power, ranging from 15-M to the protests in the Mediterranean Basin and southern Latin America. Interestingly, it is in those areas where the series has had more viewers. But there are also other factors: the casting, the script, the characters...

—Show creator Álex Pina, July 2019^[14]

Colombian TV critic Omar Rincón named the lack of good Spanish television content as a significant reason for the show's international success, and that 'local contents that belong to the language are being sought'.^[24] However, the show's success in Turkey, Italy, and Brazil make this theory less likely to be universally true.^[20] Writer Javier Gómez Santander and actor Pedro Alonso (Berlin) rather argued that the Latin world used to feel at the periphery of global importance, but a new sentiment was coming that Spain could compete with the global players in terms of media production levels and give the rest of the world a voice.^[58][20] Spanish newspaper El Mundo saw the success as a reflection of the 'climate of global disenchantment' where the robbers represent the 'perfect antiheroes',^[19] and The New Statesman explained the show's resonance with international audiences as coming from the 'social and economic tensions it depicts, and because of the utopian escape it offers'.^[4]

Critical reception[edit]

Natalia Marcos of Spanish newspaper El País lauded the first part for its outstanding direction, musical selection and for trying to innovate Spanish television, but criticized the length and ebbing tension.^[74] Adrian Hennigan of the Israeli Haaretz said the series is 'more twisty thriller than soapy telenovela, driven by its ingenious plot, engaging characters, tense flash points, pulsating score and occasional moments of humor', but taunted the English title 'Money Heist' as bland, although 'it could have been worse – 'Money Shot', for example'.^[2] In a scathing review, Pauline Bock of the British magazine New Statesman questioned the global hype of the series, saying that it is 'full of plot holes, clichéd slow-motions, corny love stories and gratuitous sex scenes', before continuing to add that 'the music is pompous, the voice-over irritating, and it's terribly edited'; she did note that it likely saw international resonance because of the 'social and economic tensions it depicts, and because of the utopian escape it offers'.^[4]

John Doyle of The Globe and Mail praised parts 1 and 2 for the heist genre subversions; he also said that the series could be 'deliciously melodramatic at times' with 'outrageous twists and much passion' like a telenovela.^[56] Jennifer Keishin Armstrong of the BBC wrote that she saw the series' true appeal being in the interpersonal dramas emerging through the heist between 'the beautiful robbers, their beautiful hostages and the beautiful authorities trying to negotiate with them.'^[62] David Hugendick of Die Zeit likewise noted and praised the strong scenes between Álvaro Morte and Itziar Ituño in particular. He found the series 'sometimes a bit sentimental, a little cartoonesque', and the drama sometimes too telenovela-like, but 'all with a good sense for timing and spectacle.'^[84]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2017	Premios Feroz	Best drama series	Money Heist	Nominated	[85]
		Best leading actor in a series	Álvaro Morte	Nominated
		Best leading actress of a series	Úrsula Corberó	Nominated
		Best supporting actor in a series	Paco Tous	Nominated
		Best leading actress in a series	Alba Flores	Nominated
2017	Premios IRIS (es)	Best screenplay	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, David Barrocal, Pablo Roa, Esther Morales, Fernando Sancristóbal, Javier Gómez Santander	Won	[86]
2017	FesTVal de Televisión y Radios de Vitoria	Best direction in fiction	Jesús Colmenar, Alejandro Bazzano, Miguel Ángel Vivas, Álex Rodrigo	Nominated	[87]
		Best fiction (by critics)	Money Heist	Nominated
2018	46th International Emmy Awards	Best drama series	Money Heist	Won	[88]
2018	Premios IRIS (es)	Best actress	Úrsula Corberó	Won	[89]
2018	Premios MiM Series	Best direction	Jesús Colmenar, Alejandro Bazzano, Miguel Ángel Vivas, Álex Rodrigo	Won	[90]
2018	Premios de la Unión de Actores (es)	Best supporting television actor	Pedro Alonso	Won	[91]
		Best supporting television actress	Alba Flores	Nominated
		Best television actor	Álvaro Morte	Nominated
		Best TV cast actor	Jaime Lorente	Nominated
		Best stand-out actress	Esther Acebo	Nominated
2018	Premios Fénix (es)	Best series	Money Heist	Nominated	[92]
2018	Golden Nymph	Best drama TV series	Money Heist	Won	[7]

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^abcSome publications refer to 'part' as 'season'.^[6][7]
2. ^Part 1 was released as 13 episodes on 20 December 2017 on Netflix.
3. ^Part 2 was released as 9 episodes on 6 April 2018 on Netflix.
4. ^The official website lists Denver's name as Daniel,^[9] but in the show he has called himself Ricardo.^[10]
5. ^The final closing credits reveal Oslo's mug shot with the name Dimitri Mostovói,^[11] while his coffin shows the name Radko Dragic.^[12]
6. ^Locked Up and Money Heist share Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Pablo Roa, and Esther Morales as writers; and Jesús Colmenar and Alex Rodrigo as directors.

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External links[edit]

Money Heist Season 2 Episodes English

• Money Heist on IMDb

Money Heist (Spanish: La casa de papel, transl. The House of Paper) is a Spanish television series created by Álex Pina. The first season, consisting of two parts, premiered on 2 May 2017, on Spanish network Antena 3. The TV show portrays heists on the Royal Mint of Spain and the Bank of Spain by a group of code-named robbers, as they battle with hostages on the inside, and the police on the outside.

In late 2017, Netflix acquired the global streaming rights for the series,^[1] and re-cut the original 15 episodes into 22.^[2] Netflix officially renewed the series for a third part in 2018,^[3] which premiered on 19 July 2019. A fourth part is in production.^[4]

• 2Episodes

Series overview[edit]

Season[a]		Part[a]	Episodes		Originally aired
					First aired	Last aired	Network
1	1	15	9[b]	2 May 2017	27 June 2017	Antena 3
	2		6[c]	16 October 2017	23 November 2017
2	3	16	8	19 July 2019		Netflix
	4[4]		8	TBA

Episodes[edit]

Season 1: Parts 1 and 2 (2017)[edit]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	English title translation	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Spain viewers (millions)
Part 1
1	1	'Efectuar lo acordado'	'Do as Planned'	Jesús Colmenar	Álex Pina & Esther Martínez Lobato	2 May 2017	4.09[7]
Artfully guided by a mysterious man called 'The Professor', a group of robbers: Tokyo, Rio, Berlin, Nairobi, Denver, Moscow, Oslo, and Helsinki invade the Royal Mint of Spain in red jumpsuits and Salvador Dalí masks and take hold of 67 hostages as part of their plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion. The police investigator Raquel Murillo is put in charge of the case, but she remains completely unaware that the mastermind behind the heist is sidling towards her and getting closer than she could ever have imagined.
2	2	'Imprudencias letales'	'Lethal Negligence'	Miguel Ángel Vivas	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal & David Barrocal	9 May 2017	3.04[7]
The robbers begin to print the money while Arturo Román, one of the hostages, starts making plans for escaping, assisted by his secretary and mistress Mónica Gaztambide, who is pregnant with his child. She is caught with a concealed cell phone and Berlin orders Denver to kill her. Meanwhile, Rio makes a mistake that leads to his and Tokyo's identities being discovered by the police.
3	3	'Errar al disparar'	'Misfire'	Álex Rodrigo	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato & David Barrocal	16 May 2017	2.64[7]
Believing that Denver executed Mónica under Berlin's orders, Moscow, Denver's father, is devastated and attempts to turn himself in but is dissuaded by his own son. In the meantime, Raquel's relationship with her new friend Salva becomes more intimate, totally oblivious to the fact that it is a pseudonym assumed by the Professor.
4	4	'Caballo de Troya'	'Trojan Horse'	Alejandro Bazzano	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal & David Barrocal	23 May 2017	2.65[7]
Raquel sends her police partner Ángel Rubio undercover with a medical team that is allowed inside the Mint to treat Arturo, who was mistakenly shot for one of the robbers by the police. However, the Professor sees through her move and comes up with his own plan to gain an advantage on her by inserting a bug in Ángel's glasses.
5	5	'El día de la marmota'	'Groundhog Day'	Jesús Colmenar	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal & David Barrocal	30 May 2017	2.36[7]
The Professor runs ahead of the police to get rid of an important piece of evidence that can endanger his plans, their finger prints in a car at a scrap yard that Helsinki neglected to destroy. Meanwhile, Denver treats Mónica in a secret location after he shot her leg to forge her execution, and they end up becoming closer.
6	6	'La cálida Guerra Fría'	'The Hot Cold War'	Miguel Ángel Vivas	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander & Fernando Sancristóbal	6 June 2017	2.47[7]
As the Professor rushes out of the scrap yard, a man sees him. The Professor threatens to kill the man's family if the facial composite of his description looks like him. Berlin discovers that Denver did not kill Mónica as ordered and believing that his identity was exposed because of him, comes close to executing him for his disobedience.
7	7	'Refrigerada inestabilidad'	'Cool Instability'	Álex Rodrigo	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Pablo Roa & Esther Morales	13 June 2017	2.42[7]
The robbers initiate a plan to use the hostages to stall the police and gain more time, but Raquel takes the chance to reveal a secret that Berlin has kept from the others—he only has a few months left to live due to a terminal illness—increasing the mistrust among them and makes an attempt to convince Rio to surrender.
8	8	'Tú lo has buscado'	'You Asked for It'	Alejandro Bazzano	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa & Fernando Sancristóbal	20 June 2017	2.07[7]
Raquel loses her trust in Ángel, who is unaware of the bug the robbers planted in his glasses, while Arturo prepares another plan to escape, but becomes devastated upon discovering Mónica and Denver's affair. Ángel, who is taken off the case, is in a coma after a car accident while drunk, discovered the Professor's identity through fingerprints taken from his cider factory—a front for his hideout.
9	9	'El que la sigue la consigue'	'Whoever Keeps Trying It, Gets It'	Jesús Colmenar	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal & Esther Morales	27 June 2017	2.19[7]
Thanks to Arturo's plan, 16 hostages manage to escape and Oslo is on the brink of death after he is beaten by some of the hostages. Before his car accident, Ángel had left several voice mails on Raquel's mobile phone, as well as one on her landline, exclaiming that Salva was the one behind the heist. Raquel's mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, listens to Ángel's message, writes it down, and tries calling Raquel's phone. When Raquel does not answer, she calls Salva for him to pass along the message. The Professor realises that he must kill Raquel's mother. He goes to her home and poisons her coffee, but cannot go through with it and slaps the cup out of her hand. When she thinks it was her fault, he realises that she has Alzheimer's disease and simply deletes the messages and her note. Later, Raquel brings Salva along to Toledo and finds the robbers' villa, where they planned the heist.
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10	10	'Se acabaron las máscaras'	'Masked No Longer'	Álex Rodrigo	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal & Esther Morales	16 October 2017	1.99[7]
A team of police are brought to the discovered villa and search through 'evidence' planted by the Professor earlier. Raquel's ex-husband Alberto is called in to lead the forensics examination, and finds burned evidence on the Professor in the chimney. Salva gets a ride back to Madrid with Alberto, and purposely causes a fight with Alberto, leaving him unconscious for a short period of time, enough time to erase that piece of evidence that can compromise him. When Alberto awakes, he arrests the Professor and brings him to jail. The Professor uses the bathroom at the prison and beats himself up to make it look like it was done by Alberto. He calls Raquel who helps release him. Meanwhile, the robbers start losing hope after many hours without news from the Professor, and Tokyo begins a mutiny after becoming restless. Berlin ties Tokyo to a table and rolls her out of the Mint, where she is captured by the police.
11	11	'La cabeza del plan'	'The Head of the Plan'	Alejandro Bazzano	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal, Esther Morales & David Barrocal	23 October 2017	1.73[7]
After Berlin turns Tokyo to the police for threatening him, Rio wants revenge. Now as one of the hostages, Rio joins forces with Arturo in another escape plan with Mónica's help. Berlin comes close to killing Rio.
12	12	'Cuestión de eficacia'	'A Matter of Efficiency'	Javier Quintas	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal, Esther Morales & David Barrocal	2 November 2017	1.57[7]
By the Professor's promise that he will free Tokyo from the police, Rio rejoins the robbers and helps them stop Arturo's latest escape plan. Meanwhile, Raquel sets a trap for the Professor by creating a hoax that Ángel has awakened from his coma, in hopes it would lure him to the hospital to finish him off before he can identify the Professor. The Professor, skeptical of the announcement, casts dozens of clowns at the hospital and dresses up like one, blending in with the crowd while confirming the hoax. Later, while Salva meets with Raquel at a cafe, an orange hair from his clown wig was left on his jacket, which catches the eye of Raquel, finally realising that Salva is the Professor.
13	13	'¿Qué hemos hecho?'	'What Have We Done?'	Jesús Colmenar & Alex Rodrigo	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal & David Barrocal	9 November 2017	1.53[7]
Realising that Salva is the Professor, Raquel takes him into custody and interrogates him at the villa. The Professor admits that he has fallen in love with her, and she performs a polygraph test on him. Meanwhile, Arturo is punished for his multiple attempts to escape and Moscow reveals a secret to Denver that he left his mother when he was young because she was a drug addict, which creates a divide between father and son. While Tokyo is transported to prison, she is freed by men sent by the Professor. She rides a motorcycle directly into the Mint, avoiding being shot by police as Moscow opens the door.
14	14	'A contrarreloj'	'Against the Clock'	Alejandro Bazzano	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal & David Barrocal	16 November 2017	1.48[7]
Moscow is gravely injured by a police gunshot after helping Tokyo return to the Mint and the police refuse to send aid. The robbers then rush to finish their escape tunnel. The Professor walks out of the villa at gunpoint by Raquel, but she is emotionally unable and unwilling to stop him from escaping. Colonel Prieto, Suárez, and Alberto confront Raquel and remove her from the case after they identify the Professor as Salva (Sergio), who they believe Raquel is co-operating with due to signals made from local cell towers by calls from the Professor to Raquel. With her gun and badge taken away, she takes Ángel's badge and starts to conduct her own investigation by looking through surveillance footage of restaurants to determine the route the Professor had taken from his hideout. As she leaves, Ángel awakens.
15	15	'Bella ciao'	'Bye Beautiful'	Jesús Colmenar & Alex Rodrigo	Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, Javier Gómez Santander, Pablo Roa, Fernando Sancristóbal, Esther Morales & David Barrocal	23 November 2017	1.80[8]
The police, led by Suárez, launch an attack on the Mint to liberate the hostages and capture the robbers. The robbers rush to escape with the money they printed since the 128 hours inside the Mint, about half of their planned time in the Mint of 11 days. As a result, the total money printed was also less than the planned €2.4 billion, having printed €984 million. Raquel finds the Professor's hideout and she is tied up. While she is there, Ángel calls her phone, asking to speak with her in person. Raquel and the Professor kiss passionately and he lets her go. The police arrest her at the hospital moments after she tells Ángel that she knows where the Professor's hideout is, but will not tell them because she 'does not know who the good guys are'. Ángel is asked by Colonel Prieto where the Professor's hideout is, but he withholds the information. When Colonel Prieto threatens Raquel with several charges that would ensure her daughter taken away from her, she finally gives him the address of the hideout. The police race to the hideout. With the police inside the Mint, Berlin fights them off so the rest of the robbers can escape in time, although the Professor urges him to come. Berlin insistently continues and is finally shot multiple times. The remaining robbers, with the addition of Mónica, escape successfully from the Mint, through the tunnel, leading to the Professor's hideout minutes before the police show up. One year after the heist, it is reported that Raquel had left the force, the robbers got away with about €1 billion and their whereabouts are still unknown. Raquel looks at some postcards given to her previously by the Professor, which she notices has coordinates on them, and when pieced together give a location in Palawan, Philippines. She travels there and finds the Professor and smiles.

Season 2: Part 3 (2019)[edit]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	English title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
Part 3
16	1	'Hemos vuelto'	'We're Back'	Jesús Colmenar	Álex Pina, Javier Gómez Santander	19 July 2019
Over two years after the heist, Arturo gives a talk to a large crowd condemning the fugitive members of the gang who held him and others hostage at the Mint as 'terrorists'. Meanwhile, Tokyo and Rio have relocated to Guna Yala, Panama, Nairobi and Helsinki to La Pampa, Argentina, and Denver, Mónica and her baby to Java, Indonesia. Wanting a change of scenery, Tokyo leaves Rio in Guna Yala for the city. As she leaves, Rio gives her one of two phones so they can still communicate, phones which he bought on the black market in Casablanca from a Libyan claiming to be unregistered. Three days later, the two use the phones, and their signal is immediately detected by Europol. The Panamanian police trap and arrest Rio, but Tokyo escapes. She calls the Professor using a secure line, and is transported to Thailand where they meet. Meanwhile, Rio is tortured. The Professor, alongside Raquel, gets the gang back together to rescue Rio. The professor enlists three new members, Bógota, Palermo and Marseille, into the gang and begins planning an assault on the Bank of Spain.
17	2	'Aikido'	'Aikido'	Jesús Colmenar	Álex Pina, Javier Gómez Santander, Juan Salvador López, Luis Moya, Alberto Úcar, David Barrocal	19 July 2019
The Professor initiates the plan to rob the Bank of Spain using airships to release money across Madrid. The government responds by mobilizing the army, which the robbers use to provide cover and entry into the Bank. In flashbacks, the Professor recruits Martín, an experienced thief and former associate to replace Berlin (Andrés). The Professor and Martín (now code named 'Palermo') explain that their strategy for this robbery is based on Aikido, a martial art that uses an enemy's force to create an advantage. As the robbers enter the Bank, public sentiment rallies to their side in the form of mass government protests and riots over the illegal imprisonment of Rio, demanding that he receive a public trial.
18	3	'48 metros bajo el suelo'	'48 Meters Underground'	Jesús Colmenar	Álex Pina, Javier Gómez Santander, Juan Salvador López, Luis Moya	19 July 2019
While commandeering the Bank, the robbers engage in a series of intense conflicts with guards and government officials. Palermo is temporarily blinded in the struggle, but retains command after Nairobi removes glass shrapnel from his eyes, and the guards restrained. The robbers locate accomplices among the hostages who were previously planted in the Bank and go to work on opening the vault, which is rigged to flood with water once tampered with. Bógota, uses his expertise in diving and welding to overcome the lock down, granting access to the gold. In flashbacks, Andrés and Martín explain the plan for breaking into the vault, explaining that every step of the plan requires 100 percent commitment and perfection to work, leaving no room for error.
19	4	'Bum, bum, ciao'	'Boom, Boom, Ciao'	Koldo Serra	Javier Gómez Santander, Álex Pina, Juan Salvador López, Luis Moya, Esther Martínez Lobato	19 July 2019
The crew begins the next phase of the robbery while the Professor addresses the new government officials from the intelligence directorate. Colonel Tamayo and Alicia Sierra prove to be formidable adversaries, as they quickly realize that they must change their strategies drastically from the first robbery. Sierra tortures Rio for more information and Tamayo plans a full assault on the Mint with Suárez. The robbers reveal that they know about a second, secret vault behind the gold and attempt to persuade the governor of the bank to open it for them. When he refuses, Denver hits him, triggering a seizure; they resuscitate him and use explosives instead.
20	5	'Las cajas rojas'	'The Red Boxes'	Koldo Serra	Javier Gómez Santander, Álex Pina, Juan Salvador López, Luis Moya	19 July 2019
A love interest between Palermo and Helsinki is revealed. Given no other option, the robbers detonate the inner vault door inside the flooded main chamber. It works and grants them access to 'the red boxes'—cases filled with government secrets that were too dangerous to lock anywhere else. Tamayo's assault begins, taking the robbers and the Professor by surprise. To stall for time and prevent bloodshed, Denver runs into the line of fire with a truce flag carrying two of the red cases, which forces Tamayo to stop. He reveals to Sierra the contents of the cases and that the Professor has the advantage—an attack might force the robbers to make the secrets public. However, Sierra is able to unbalance the Professor and Raquel Murillo (now code-named 'Lisbon'), with psychological taunting. Inside the bank, the team divides when Nairobi and Palermo disagree over the use of force on the unruly restrained guards. Nairobi reveals her love for Helsinki and berates Palermo for not acting on his feelings for Berlin when he was alive.
21	6	'Todo pareció insignificante'	'Everything Seemed Insignificant'	Álex Rodrigo	Javier Gómez Santander, Álex Pina, Juan Salvador López, Luis Moya, Ana Boyero	19 July 2019
In flashbacks, the Professor discusses the plans for the bank with Martín, Andrés, and Andrés' love interest, Tatiana, where he is immediately alarmed at how much she knows. Andrés defends her, stating that he is in love, but the professor vehemently disagrees, arguing that the first rule of the heist must be to forego personal attachments. In the present, Sierra plans to neutralize the Professor's blackmail leverage by releasing false information to the media. Tamayo agrees and organizes a second breach led by Suárez. The Professor and Lisbon have an argument and lose communication with the team inside the bank, just after learning this. Having relied on mobile transportation and broadcasting, they become stuck when a tree breaks their antenna and the wheels sink in mud. They narrowly escape detection with the help of some sympathetic local farmers. They then manage to inform the team of the breach 10 minutes before it happens, who defeat, capture, unclothe, and humiliate the breaching team by forcing them sing 'Bella ciao' on video. Given no other option, Tamayo and Sierra agree to release Rio in exchange for the breaching team and 40 hostages.
22	7	'Pequeñas vacaciones'	'A Quick Vacation'	Álex Rodrigo	Javier Gómez Santander, Álex Pina, Almudena Ramírez-Pantanella, Ana Boyero, Juan Salvador López, Luis Moya	19 July 2019
Sierra prepares Rio for release at a military hospital. At the exchange, Rio is shocked by the massive crowds gathered in support of the robbers, wearing red jumpsuits and Dalí masks. The exchange proceeds smoothly and he rejoins the robbers. During the reunion, the police and government intelligence team listen in on their conversations, having planted a listening device inside Rio before releasing him. In flashbacks, the Professor instructs the team, preparing them to detect and remove these devices surgically from Rio, if the time comes. After speaking with Rio, the Professor says that he deserves, 'a little vacation', the code phrase that confirms he is bugged. He instructs Tokyo to act normal in spite of the listening device, as he hopes to use their sexual intimacy to convince the police that the listening device is working. Privately, Rio breaks up with Tokyo, believing that she will be better off with someone else. Nairobi surgically removes the listening device. The police manage to locate the Professor and Lisbon using a drone, forcing them to separate and try to escape on foot; the professor camouflages himself in a tree, while Lisbon is unable, she takes shelter in a barn.
23	8	'La deriva'	'Astray'	Jesús Colmenar	Javier Gómez Santander, Álex Pina, Almudena Ramírez-Pantanella, Emilio Díez, Luis Moya	19 July 2019
Tokyo drinks herself into a semi-stupor as a result of her breakup and insults Rio as a coping mechanism for her emotional pain. In the forest, a massive manhunt begins for the Professor and Raquel. Raquel is discovered in the barn by a farmer and his wife, which begins a Mexican Standoff and a negotiation between Raquel and the farmers. The robbers create a diversion to make the police think they are escaping, drawing resources away from the manhunt. Afterwards, Sierra plans to use Nairobi's son, whom she had lost custody as a result of using him as a mule, as a pawn to psychologically destabilise Nairobi while the police prepare a full assault on the bank using an armoured car. Suárez and his men close in on Raquel's position as Raquel bargains with the farmers for her freedom by offering a reward greater than that of the police. Sierra brings Nairobi's son, Axel, in front of the bank, luring Nairobi to a window. Sierra gives the green light for a police sniper to shoot; Nairobi is shot in the chest. As the robbers scramble to aid an exsanguinating Nairobi, the police begin the assault. In the forest, Suárez and the Civil Guard find Raquel and remove the farmers from the barn. The Professor hears gunshots over Raquel's microphone, and thinking she is executed, he becomes distraught. Palermo radios the Professor to inform him of the incoming assault and the Professor declares DEFCON 2, meaning war. Tokyo and Rio rush into firing position with RPG-7s and fire on the approaching armoured car, destroying it. It is revealed that Raquel is alive and in custody, with Tokyo narrating that the Professor had fallen for his own trap, that Sierra had ordered Suárez to fake an execution to elicit a drastic response, stating that 'the war had begun.'

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^abSome publications refer to 'part' as 'season'.^[5][6]
2. ^Part 1 was released as 13 episodes on 20 December 2017 on Netflix.
3. ^Part 2 was released as 9 episodes on 6 April 2018 on Netflix.

Money Heist Season 2 Episode 1

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