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The part 4 of Money Heist is just around the corner, so here is a recap of the first two parts of the show. I’ll post a recap for the third part of the show in the coming days. Once I’m done with the recaps I’m also going to post reviews of all the parts. So let’s start with the recap.

P.S. I might have made some errors in typing Spanish names, sorry about that.

The story starts with Tokyo(she wasn’t always called Tokyo but more on that later) on the run from the Police due to a heist gone wrong. She survived the heist but her boyfriend died. Before running away for a long time she contacted her mother to meet her for the last time, they decided to meet, but Tokyo’s mother was setting her up to the police. A mysterious person called the professor comes up to Tokyo, and let’s her know that the police are gonna capture her when she goes to meet her mother. Shows Tokyo the proof that he isn’t lying, and asks her to join him for a heist of the century.

The plan was to rob the Royal mint of Spain and actually print 2.4 billion Euros, which was around 2.7 billion dollars(P.S. I might refer to euros as billions accidentally)

He has assembled a team of eight people for the heist, each with a different skill set for the job, it’s like the dream team for the heist. But before we talk about all the characters, he set up three rules which we need to talk about, they are no real names, no backstories, and no relationships, and the most important rule was no killing. So the crew decides to go with names of cities instead. So about the crew,

Tokyo– Also the narrator of the show is a very hot headed and a volatile person, which comes to bite the crew in their ass later in the show.

Berlin– He was the most important person of crew after the Professor, once the heist started and they were inside the royal mint of spain.

Moscow– Before he got into the world of crime, he used to work in a mine. He’s an expert in working with all the industrial machinery.

Denver– He’s the son of Moscow, a hothead with a weird laugh. He’s also great at crowd control, so guess who’s incharge of hostages.

Rio– He’s a computer whiz, he’s the one who hacked the alarm system of the mint and is best at what he does, but when it comes to some other job he’s an idiot. He and Tokyo are also dating

Nairobi– She’s an expert at forging fake bills, she’s the one who checks the quality of the money they have printed.

Oslo and Helsinki– Two army veterans, they are the muscles of the crew. But when it comes to brains they contribute little to the crew.

The Professor– He’s the mastermind of the Heist. He was legally a ghost, a smart one at that too. He got the crew together, and even though during the heist he wasn’t inside the mint and was ordering the crew from outside, he still was a key player.

The crew got into the Royal mint of Spain by hijacking a delivery truck. Once they got inside their plan was on, but everything didn’t go according to plan. Once they were inside they disabled all the alarms, got hostages under control, even dressed the hostages up like the crew and gave them fake guns too, and planted explosives on all the entrances of the mint except the main entrance. But one of the hostages, Monica Gastambide was pregnant and was planning to get an , she also tried to sneak a phone and tried to contact the police. So Berlin ordered Denver to murder her, but Denver just shot her in leg, talked her out of getting an abortion and fall in love with her. Once they were done setting up the mint for themself, they rang the manual alarm so the police would be informed and put on a show in front of the police to make it look like the heist just went south. Their plan was to shoot and miss the police but Tokyo accidentally shot the police when Rio was almost hit by a bullet. At the same time one of the Hostages Alison Parker, she was also the daughter of Ambassador of U.K. got on her cell phone and took photos of two of the members of crew, Tokyo and Rio. Thus helping police identify both of them.

Outside the mint, the lead inspector on the case Raquel Murillo met a stranger in a restaurant who introduced himself as Salva, but we knew him as professor. Back inside the mint they made some of the hostages print the money, and made some of them dig a fake tunnel so just in case some hostages do escape they provide the police with incorrect intel, while they escape via another tunnel. Once Denver shot Monica he hid her, but Moscow thought Denver actually killed Monica and had a panic attack. To provide Moscow with fresh air, Denver took a bunch of hostages on the rooftop of the mint. Where snipers accidentally shot a hostage called Arturo, he also was the manager of the mint. Then Police negotiated with the Professor to let them send a doctor and a nurse inside to treat Arturo’s bullet wound. Professor agreed, the police sent a Doctor and used this as an opportunity to send a cop as an undercover nurse. So the police decided to send Angel the second lead Investigator on the case. The Professor recognised Angel, let the crew know about him and the crew planted the bug on the Angel. The Police also tried to use this as an opportunity to infiltrate the mint through other means. The police dressed as robbers to blend in, but little did they know that the robbers prepared for this and they changed their masks. When the police identified Tokyo and Rio they also found out about the vehicle they used to scope out the mint before heist. Even though Professor asked Helsinki to take care of the car, Helsinki did a terrible job at it and the police almost caught up to them, but the Professor somehow managed to save them. Since Berlin ordered the murder of Monica, to teach him a lesson, Professor left one of his belongings in car. By this time the crew finds out that Monica is actually alive and Berlin has a fatal disease by which he would die within 8-24 months. While sorting through the Car mess the Professor was almost caught by the police. Professor was able to clean up the car but was not able to destroy it, and the Police were able to get to it. The Police found a button which belonged to Berlin and later they were able to identify him.

The Inspector then negotiates with the Professor to let her in and see the condition of hostages, Professor agrees to their request. While doing this the Inspector tried to sneak in a microphone, but it was a trick by the police to target Rio as he was the weakest link. They hid a sd card inside the microphone which contained a recording from Rio’s parents. Meanwhile Angel saw through the facade of Salva and knew something was off about him, so Angel went to the alleged Cider factory of Salva and took Professor’s teaspoon, and gave the spoon to forensics to look for fingerprints. So to protect himself, Professor made such moves that would make the police think that they have a rat amongst themselves.Meanwhile inside the mint Arturo was trying to organise a breakout from the mint.

Raquel and the Angel go into an argument about Salva, but Raquel listens to the inspector and does a background check on Salva, but finds there’s nothing intimidating about Salva that he could be the Professor. Inside, some of the people were successfully able to escape, during their escape Oslo was also injured. So other hostages stopped abiding from the crew’s rules. So to counter this the crew promised the hostages who would help them willingly will get 1 million dollars. Al lot of hostages agreed and business inside the mint went as normal. But the crew needed time to print the money, so to buy more time Professor went to Toledo(The place where they prepared for the heist), planted the evidence about Berlin, Tokyo, and Rio since police already Identified them, and let the police know about the location of their safe house. By this time Helsinki killed Oslo so he would not have to suffer anymore. By this time the professor wasn’t able to contact inside the mint for more than 18 hours and everyone except Berlin started to panic. Helsinki and Nirobi were with Berlin and said they should trust the Professor and hold the ground. Meanwhile Tokyo, Rio and Denver wanted to make a run for it. Moscow sided with Berlin and due to the majority Berlin won. But Tokyo was not going to play by the rules and tried to hold Berlin a hostage.

Outside the mint, Angel was thrown off the cas for being a rat. He tried talking to Raquel but she would not answer his calls. Then Angel receives a call from forensics that the fingerprint of teaspoon matches with one inside the car. As Angel was about to crack the case he got into a car Accident and went into a coma. Professor was in a car with Raquel’s Ex-husband, they got into a fight and her ex-husband lost. So he arrested Salva for assaulting a police officer since he was too ashamed to admit that he lost to Salva. Raquel comes and rescues Salva. Inside the mint, Niarobi was able to save Berlin from Tokyo, later Berlin choked Tokyo, tied her to a stretcher and threw her out of the mint into the Police’s hand. Turns out Professor had a plan for this too. Even though Tokyo was upset about being thrown out she did not want Rio getting into trouble so she kept her mouth shut. Meanwhile Rio was pissed about this and almost ruined the Heist So Berlin made him a hostage. Once the Professor’s situation became better and was able to contact the crew, everyone got a breath of relief. But to Professor’s surprise Niarobi took over the position of being in charge of the heist, Professor accepted this and asked Niarobi to tell Rio that he will save Tokyo from the police. The Police tried to trap Professor by aring the news that Angel’s condition is good and he might come out of a coma soon. Professor knew this could be a trap but did not want to leave anything to chance. So Professor went to the hospital that Angel was in, to make sure he has not come out of a coma. The next day Salva and Raquel meet, Raquel found out that he indeed was Professor, but by this time both were in love so she could not hurt Professor. Alongside, Tokyo was being transferred to maximum security prison, Professor already put a plan in motion to intercept the transfer. Tokyo escaped, and could not get in contact with the professor as he was stuck with Raquel.

So Tokyo decided to go back into the mint, contacting Rio minutes before she was about to enter. She rode inside the mint via a motorcycle. But this stunt cost Moscow his life. Professor was able to subdue Raquel and took her to Toledo and left her there. The Crew puts their escape plan into motion, Angel wakes up to make things complicated. Raquel was also under fire from her superiors since she was in a relationship with the professor. By this time Raquel was also confused between whether to give up the Professor or not. Then Raquel decides that she wants to help Professor, so she goes and talks to Angel, and makes sure he would not help the police. Police knew that robbers were now desperate, so they decided to enter the mint, the police were able to rescue the hostages, and were really close to catching the crew. So to make sure the rest of the crew could escape, Berlin stayed behind to slow down the Police, because of him the crew was able to escape successfully with more than 900 million euros. They were not able to reach their goal of 2.4 billion euros but this still was a lot of money. Also by this time Monica also joined the crew

And with this we are done with the recap of Part 1 and Part 2 of money heist or La casa de Papel. Thanks for reading the blog till here, if you enjoyed this make sure to subscribe to my blog so you do not miss out on any future content. And the recap of part 3 is coming soon so stay tuned for that.

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