Money Heist (La Casa De Papel) explained -Season 1

Money Heist (La Casa De Papel) explained -Season 1

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There are nine people plan to rob mint. The total amount they will take is 2.5billion dollars. Will their plan succeed?


"Realize that the news will be talking about us every day. and people will say those motherfuckers. I wish I'd thought of that first." -Professor


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On Friday at 8:35 a.m., masked heists move by car. The masks they wore looked like Spanish painter Dali. He is a painter who mainly expresses dreams or fantasies through his paintings. It seems to express the expectation of the heists to achieve their dreams. Anyway, the captain of the heists moving by car is ‘Berlin’. This is because 'Professor' has to command away from the heists . Robbers wait for something after moving to their destination. In common sense, it is impossible to just enter the Mint with weapons weighing three tons, so they plan to steal trucks carrying monetary paper, load luggage, and enter the Mint. The robbers were lurking and when the truck arrives, they aim the gun at drivers and succeed in stealing the truck.


"If the truck had their family or cash in it, they wouldn't have opened the trunk door. But it's transparent paper, who cares?" -Tokyo


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After successful capture, heists take their three tons of weapons and equipment into trucks and head to the Mint. A truck of robbers arrives at the time when high school students come on a field trip and enter the mint. As soon as entering the Mint, hacker ‘Rio’ accesses the security network in the truck and takes control of the security system. Eight heists succeed in entering the mint under the command of the leader ‘Professor’ who plans all situations outside the Mint. ‘Tokyo’ and ‘Nairobi’, who have been waiting in front of the Mint, occupy the main gate and other robbers armed with network control occupy the inside of the Mint. Then ‘Nairobi’ and ‘Tokyo’ take everyone to the Mint in front of the main gate. ‘Rio’ hacks into all systems so that 'Professor' can easily control them. In just a few minutes, it succeeds in controlling both the Mint facilities and people. After putting blindfolds on all the hostages, ‘Berlin’ uses his abilities to explain the situation in a scary but soft voice.


"Nice to meet you guys. I want to apologize first. You guys are being held hostage now. I'll let you live if you do what I ask you to do." -Berlin


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At the same time, engineer ‘Denver’ and his father ‘Moscow’ begin to open the safe door. There is a huge amount of money when they open the door. Moscow has been doing numerous robberies, but he is relieved this time. 


"I've been in and out of prison for 12 years. Do you know why? Because I'm not very smart. But we are doing this with a smart commander " -Moscow


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Those who succeed in opening the safe door put the money in their bags. The perfect plan is going on successfully, and even in this situation, the heists prepare more thoroughly as if they had planned for a long time. They collect all hostage's cell phones, attach them to walls, manage them, and connect lines through toilets rather than conventional communication methods to communicate with professors outside the Mint. It is to prevent inspecting content. It has been a long time since the robbers took control of the Mint, but no one outside knows this. After a while, the robbers gathered at the entrance with a bag full of money. At this time, the director of mint, "Roman," secretly takes off the blindfold and checks the robbers. But not long after, Berlin noticed that. Berlin put on the blindfold of "Roman" and said.

 

"I'm sure you'll die if you do that again".


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With this money bag,  we thought they were going out through the entrance, but the robbers just opened the entrance and stood still. And the emergency button in the country of Mint is pressed by the robbers themselves. Police find out about this and are dispatched to the Mint. But still, the robbers stand there. 


"The police should never know what we've done. Police should think that we are here to rob the Mint.” -Professor


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Their goal is not to run away with the money in safety. After taking control of the entire Mint, their plan is to warn the police without injury, delaying it as if they were forced to enter the Mint again, and then staying in the Mint for a long time. However, despite practicing and repeating this situation countless times, "Tokyo" came back to the Mint late, and the police immediately fired at "Tokyo" without warning shot. In this situation, "Rio" shot the police directly and injured them. This creates variables in the perfect scenario planned by 'Professor'.


"If even one person gets hurt, we become robbers, not Robin Hood". -Professor


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Originally, the plan of the robber’s leader “Professor" is not just to steal money, but to get out with the people's support. However, nothing is going well as they planned.


Meanwhile, police Inspector “Raquel”, who is spending time with her daughter, has an emergency call. It is an order to negotiate with the heists team. Upon arriving at the place, “Raquel” asked about the camera inside the building to check the situation. However, the police say that there is no camera signal. Nobody knows anything about what's going on inside the Mint building. The only information the police have is that the police arrived as soon as the heists left with bundles of money and the shooting took place in this situation. "Raquel" attempted to talk to "Professor," the leader of the heists group, and Colonel "Prieto," claimed armed repression and strongly asserted that. He argues that we should form a commando again this time to deal with the robbery, but Raquel refuses because it could hurt hostages. Also "Raquel" argues that is on purpose they ran into the police while running away


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At that time, a very important part of the plan goes wrong, causing division within the members because they hurt police. To solve this problem, "Berlin" attempts to contact the "Professor," the "brain's" role of the heists group. 


When Raquel attempts to contact the heists , the heists connect Professor and Raquel with a line connected to the toilet. In this case, "Professor" is not in the Mint, but "Raquel" thinks that "Professor" is in the Mint. Anyway, the leader of the heists group and the leader of the police make the first call. 


"This is Inspector Raquel Murillo in charge of negotiation. who is this?"

"(Professor in distorted voice) The man in charge of the heist".


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Inspector Raquel attempts to negotiate with the heist, but the "professor" says strange things.


"What are you wearing?"" -Professor


In the meantime, the "Professor" greets everyone who listens to the conversation along with the "Raquel" inspector. Thus, the first communication with the intention of "professor" ends. 

‘Rio’ takes one high school girl in the hostage group and heads to the room. And the heists call her a "little lamb" and ‘Professor’ knew she would be an important hostage

heists raise up people and gathered in one place of the Mint. Robbers not only take off hostage blindfolds and reveal their faces, but also give clothes and masks like them. They also hand out weapons without bullets.



The situation outside the Mint is urgent. According to the government's instructions, an armored vehicle arrives in front of the Mint. When Inspector Raquel asked Colonel Prieto about this, he replied that it was because there is an important person inside. “The little Lamb”, specially managed by robbers, is the daughter of the British ambassador and a close friend of the British queen.  If armed soldiers come in, no matter how armed a robber group with weapons will be, they will lose. However, 'Professor' was also expected of this situation and this was one part of the plans. 


"They have to come in without preparing enough time, then we can win the first round".


At the time when commandos enter slowly and quietly surrounding the Mint in all directions, the telephone rings to the robbers. Professor orders Berlin to operate. Berlin orders hostages wearing the same masks and clothes as robbers to carry guns and move to all facilities. As predicted by the "Professor," police commandos approach the cargo area which is the most accessible place. Commandos drill a hole in the door and put a small camera inside to check the situation. When there is hope that the police will be able to enter easily, they get a call.

 

"I'm not a robber, I'm Alison, the daughter of the British ambassador. Robbers gave us guns and made us wear the same masks."


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In addition, what was seen in the small camera was already waiting armed in expectation of their invasion. Even everyone is wearing masks, so the police do not know who is who. In other words, if you shoot recklessly, you can kill all the hostages. Inspector Raquel requests the cancellation of the operation and the commander of the commando also accepts it because everyone could die if they enter. This is the perfect plan and victory of the "Professor" As a result, heists take the lead in the robbery of the Mint. Now the police can’t distinguish who was the hostage or the robber and it is impossible to implement armed repression. At this time, the real plan of the heists has started.


Why didn't the heists take the money out? And why did he want to remain in the Mint? Because they didn't come to steal money. I'm not here to steal money, they went into mint to print money. "Nairobi," an expert in counterfeit money, forced mint employees to begin to print money.


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"We are gonna make this place feel like a nightclub for 24 hours" Nairobi.


As a result, a huge amount of money is stamped every second like game money.. If they print money like this for a few days, they can actually make 2.5billion dollars.

Raquel arrived at the restaurant in anger. She ordered a cup of coffee and sat down. Raquel also has a busy day, so she finally calls his daughter. But she can't call because she doesn't have batteries. Then, a man asks her.


"Do you want to use mine"? -Professor


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The ‘La Casa de papel” symbolizes a mint that prints paper, but also means a house made of paper that can collapse at any moment.  In this series, tension, strength, and variables through hostage and heists according to detailed strategies occur interestingly. So I was interested in the situation where the operations planned by 'Professor' were gradually changed by those variables. So I want to recommend this series if you haven’t seen it until now. Let's meet at season 2!


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