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Ending Explained - Money Heist/La Casa de Papel (Official) | Netflix - YouTube
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We've finally made it.
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After 48 episodes,
two robberies
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and one man disguising
himself as a couch,
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yes that happened,
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Money Heist reached
its thrilling conclusion.
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This is not just
the end of season five,̧
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but of all Money Heist,
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and what a series
to go out on.
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The Professor got to boogie,
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Berlin had the world's first
one-man bar fight,
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and we enjoyed the funkiest
rendition of Bella Ciao yet.
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Even with the cops
at the door,
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there's no stopping
the grooviest robbers on TV.
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Money Heist's final run
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also delivered answers
we've been waiting for:
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how to get the gold
out of the bank,
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how to get the robbers
out of the bank
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and just what was
the relevance
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of all those
Berlin flashbacks.
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With the series wrapped up
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and our thieves
scattered to the wind,
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it's time to take a look
at the final episodes
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and break down
the masterstrokes
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of The Professor's
greatest plan yet.
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As if it needs to be said,
beware spoilers!
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Let's start with
the first part of the plan.
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How do you get 90 tonnes
of gold out of a bank?
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Turns out it takes
a smelter,
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an industrial oil pump,
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some complicated maths
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and one very virile
oil rig worker.
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Seven kids
with seven different women.
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From the moment
the gang crack
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the flooded vault
in part three,
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and started melting the gold
into tiny pellets,
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it was obvious
they weren't going
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to transport the gold
via traditional means.
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They were very open
about the fact.
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Lisbon explained it
to the court
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before being rescued
using the Paris plan.
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The plan is to steal
90 tonnes of gold
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from the national reserve.
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We're melting it.
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And the Professor spilled
the tiny golden beans
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to Sierra,
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but she chose
not to believe him.
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It'll come out
mushed up with the water.
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You think I'm stupid, right?
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The answer came
in episode six of part five,
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where Berlin visited an
oil rig in the Barent's Sea
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a whole five years before
the Bank of Spain heist.
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Here, we learn two things.
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One, that Berlin makes
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for a hugely fun passenger
on long trips.
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And two, that the pumps
used by the rig have
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the power to shift liquids
at high pressure.
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This thing sucks stuff
from the seabed
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as if it were baby food.
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By mixing pellets
with vault water,
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the robbers fill the drain
pipes under the bank
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with gold.
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This process uses
a small pump
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which doesn't have the force
needed to push that gold
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through the 11 miles of pipe
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from the bank
to the storm water tank,
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which is where Benjamin and
the gang are waiting for it.
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Enter the industrial pump,
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with the raw power to flush
the remaining vault water
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and the pipe gold all the
way to the storm water tank
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Too little pressure
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and the gold
won't get there.
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Too much
and the pipes will explode.
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The tricky part is manually
controlling pressure
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and calculating the values.
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Palermo cites
Darcy Weisbach
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which is an equation
in fluid dynamics
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used to find
the impact of friction
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on liquids
moving through a pipe.
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For once,
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The Professor has met
his galaxy-brained match.
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Am I crazy or am I
the only one who sees this?
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The final twist in the plan?
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Instead of pumping
the gold downhill,
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where the police
are more likely to look,
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Palermo chooses
to pump it upstream.
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We'll get the gold up the
river like fucking salmons,
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to the storm water tank.
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So when the police turn up
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at the wrong
storm water tank,
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there's not
a single gold ball in sight.
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Of course,
maths only gets you so far.
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To Palermo,
the plan is a love letter
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to his time with Berlin
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and it's his faith in that
plan and that relationship
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that pushes
the gang and the gold
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to where they need to be.
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Speaking of Berlin,
the drainpipe plan feels
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like an echo
of his earlier robbery
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at Frederiksborg castle…
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where he stole Viking
treasure with his son,
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then used the river outside
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to safely transport their
swag to another location.
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And speaking of Raphael,
now's a good time to address
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a tiny problem
in The Professor's plan.
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No sooner have they
extracted the gold by pipe
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and smelted it
back into ingots,
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the team is robbed
by another gang of thieves
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posing as policemen.
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Yes, the irony
of robbers being robbed
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isn't lost on us.
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Our gold's been stolen.
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The culprit?
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Berlin's son Raphael
and former wife, Tatiana.
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-We did it!
-We did it!
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To pick this twist apart,
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let's rewind
back a few years.
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In part three,
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we're introduced to Berlin's
new bride, Tatiana,
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during one of the show's
many flashbacks.
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On the plus side,
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it means we get another
Berlin musical number.
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But The Professor is alarmed
that Berlin has shared
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his plans
for the Bank of Spain heist
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with an outsider.
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By the way, she loves
the Bank of Spain heist.
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She knows.
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Staying in the past,
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but jumping
forwards a few months,
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Berlin introduces Tatiana
to his son, Raphael.
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He needs them both
to rob the Danish castle.
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But while the Copenhagen job
goes without a hitch,
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it ignites a spark between
Raphael and Tatiana,
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and nervous looks
in the boat
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blossom
into a full-on affair.
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We'd feel bad for Berlin
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but it's only what he taught
his son to do.
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If you really want
something in life...
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you have to steal it
from whoever has it.
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This results
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in the most expensive
bar bill in history
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for a heartbroken Berlin.
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But in a way,
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it also triggers the entire
Money Heist story.
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Berlin's broken heart
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and stint in jail
for smashing the bar
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is what opens him up
to working
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with his brother,
The Professor,
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on the original
Royal Mint heist.
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Before I die,
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you and I are going to rob
the Royal Mint of Spain.
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Yes,
Money Heist is basically
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just a really messy breakup.
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Eating a massive tub
of Haagen-Dazs
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would have been much easier.
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Back in the present,
we have fun
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seeing The Professor lose
his cool for a minute.
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She's a pianist.
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And a thief!
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But it's also neat seeing
the family resemblance
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between his work
and Raphael's.
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The idea of Raphael
observing the crime scene
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from a bank of monitors
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is a classic Professor move.
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as is
the attention to detail
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when he and Tatiana hide
the gold under the house.
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The total commitment
to the disguise is the same
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as The Professor dressing
as a homeless man
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back in season one,
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to, yes, stapling
himself and Sierra
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inside the couch.
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Of course, Sierra
does get the gold back.
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After The Professor realises
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Raphael and Tatiana
must be hiding the loot,
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Sierra tracks it by looking
for recently purchased land
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and confronts
the pair of lovebirds.
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And reclaiming the ingots
is crucial to the plan.
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It's the answer
to the other huge question
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hanging over the heist:
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how to get the robbers
out of the bank.
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Because while you may be
able to squeeze gold pellets
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through 11 miles of pipe,
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Helsinki is
more of a challenge.
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Without the gold,
we're done for.
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Then we're done for.
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The short answer is
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they plan to hold the gold
hostage outside the bank
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to secure the release of
the robbers inside the bank.
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That might sound
like backwards thinking,
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but you have to remember
the whole point
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of robbing the Spanish
Reserve in the first place
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was to use it as a
bargaining chip to free Rio.
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The gold was never
the real target.
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For his plan to work,
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The Professor needs
to apply financial pressure
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to the Spanish government.
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It's not enough
to take the gold.
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As Tamayo explains,
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the government have
safety nets in place.
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Bad news.
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I've got the support
of the European Central Bank
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to inject cash or buy debt.
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To amplify
the financial crisis,
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the robbers broadcast
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their successful
gold heist online.
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In fact, watch back
through the series,
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and you'll often see
characters filming
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on their mobile phones.
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No, it wasn't just
inappropriate TikToks,
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they were documenting
their heist.
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To further destabilise
the financial market,
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The Professor plants
fake clues
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to draw the police and army
to search
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for the gold in the ocean.
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Filling the storm water tank
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with charred remains
of fake documents
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reminds us of The Professor
planting fake leads
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in his hideout
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during the Royal Mint heist.
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He loves a wild goose chase.
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The plan is named
after Tom Thumb,
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or as he's known in Spain,
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Pulgarcito.
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The original
Tom Thumb story's
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where a tiny,
thumb-sized man
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goes on wild adventures,
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where he was passed
from bird to fish.
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which could relate
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to the long journey
Marseille leads Angel on
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in pursuit of the gold.
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But the Tom Thumb story's
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also seen as a tale
about how a tiny hero
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can take on
massive challenges.
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Which does link nicely
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to a handful of robbers
bringing down
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a financial market.
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With the stock market
plummeting,
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The Professor can negotiate
with Tamayo
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and offers to return it
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in exchange
for their freedom.
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This is why
the whole plan hinges
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on retrieving the gold
from Raphael and Tatiana.
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No bargaining chip,
no escape.
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Which leads us
to the final twist.
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The gold is returned,
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despite currently being
buried under a house
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and trapped in a standoff
between Sierra and Tatiana.
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Yeah, it confused us too.
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But this is the brilliance
of The Professor's plan.
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He returns brass
coated in gold,
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an idea he had
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after noticing how his
food tins resembled ingots.
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It's also an idea
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with a proven
Money Heist track record.
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Berlin's Copenhagen job
swapped Viking treasure
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for brass fakes.
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The twist hinges
on the concept
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that the gold in the reserve
is more of an idea
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than a valuable thing.
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Countries don't spend it,
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it just sits there,
underpinning the economy.
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Throughout the series,
people are remarking
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how no one can truly own
the gold.
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After all, it just fell from
space millions of years ago.
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And as Palermo notes
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of historic gold…
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This gold
was already stolen once.
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It can't be stolen twice.
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Finally, there's Lisbon
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dropping a neat literary
reference to Tamayo.
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Lazarillo de Tormes
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wasn't written
by the English.
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Was it?
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Lazarillo de Tormes
is a novella
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from the Spanish Golden Age
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and follows
a young boy mastering
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the art of thievery.
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It was so influential,
it invented an entire genre,
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the picaresque novel,
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taken from the word picaro
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meaning "rogue".
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She's almost making the case
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that ingenious deception
and improvisation,
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the skills
that define The Professor,
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are a key part of the
Spanish national character.
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And so it is
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they convince Tamayo
to work with them.
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While the robbers fake
their deaths
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to let him walk
away from the siege
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with a bit of pride,
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he also has to accept
the fake gold
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in the name
of stabilising the markets.
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And because the robbers
reclaimed the real gold
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from Raphael and Tatiana,
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they can use it
as a safety net.
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They just need to expose its
existence outside the bank
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to ruin the economy again.
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And it's this that finally
secures their future.
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It's one hell of a plan.
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And so we reach the end
of the Bank of Spain heist.
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It was not without
a few tears along the way,
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rest in peace
Nairobi and Tokyo,
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but it's also not the
bloodbath some expected.
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There was
a popular fan theory
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that more characters
would die.
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Some people felt
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the two teams of footballers
in part four
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represented
who would live or die.
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And others felt Nairobi's
heavenly flashback
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pointed towards The
Professor's eventual death.
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But it was not to be.
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The biggest question
we still have
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is why they never blocked up
those air vents.
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Between Gandia, Stockholm
and Arantxe Arteche,
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there was always someone
in the walls
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during parts four and five.
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Air vents, you are
the real MVP of Money Heist.
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And that brings us to the
end of our Ending Explained.
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Why not watch
our earlier theories videos
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to see how they stacked up?
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Well, after you've done
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an entire Money Heist
series re-watch, of course.
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