As usual, I watched Money Heist three times before making this video, and I finally figured
out what really happened in the ending. Why Rafael did what he did. And it’s magical.
But let’s start at the beginning. In the first half of Money Heist Part 5, Berlin
told his son that: “If you really want something in life, you have to steal it from somebody
else.” Since Rafael looked back at Berlin’s wife, we assumed that Rafael would steal her.
And he did. Little did we know, Rafael would eventually do it again with the gold. But
we are getting ahead of ourselves. At the end of the first half of Part 5, the
Professor helped Alicia Sierra give birth. As the Professor mourned the loss of Tokyo,
Sierra escaped with her newborn and she called Colonel Tamayo in an attempt to get her job
and her freedom back. But Colonel Tamayo would not agree to her terms. He would not resign.
Instead, he sent cops out after her. So Sierra and the Professor became a team by happenstance.
They hid from the police and made their way to the storm water tank.
Meanwhile, the team inside the Bank of Spain used an oil drilling pump to funnel all 90
tons of gold there. The police heard the pumps, so they realized what the heist team was doing
and they went to the storm water tank. Unfortunately for them, they had assumed that the team would
pump the gold downstream. But the heist team had actually pumped the gold to the upstream
storm water tank. So the Money Heist Team had the gold. But
then, Rafael and Tatiana showed up disguised as cops, they stole it, they drove it to a
nearby personal property, buried it, and covered it up with a nice little house.
That was a big problem. Half of the Money Heist Team was still inside the Bank of Spain.
To make matters worse, they thought that they had subdued Sagasta, but he had secretly sent
an injured Arteche on a solo mission through the ventilation ducts. Stockholm actually
heard Arteche at one point. But since Stockholm had previously seen hallucinations of Arturo,
she assumed that the sounds that she heard was just hallucinations of Tokyo. So basically,
Arteche snuck around and she detained Palermo. Then the police entered and took everyone
else captive. But the Professor was the Master of Illusion.
And the Master of Illusion performed his final trick. First, he turned himself in so that
he could be with his team. To help them to stay strong, while he negotiated with Colonel
Tamayo face-to-face. His team in Pakistan then told the world the truth. They released
video showing that the heist team had stolen the gold out of the Bank of Spain. This caused
the markets to crash 14% before closing. Overnight, Spain asked for help from the Central Bank
of Europe, but they were denied. So when the market opened the next morning, it crashed
hard. And trading was called to a stop after just three minutes.
The Professor then drove in trucks of gold-plated brass. It was fake gold. A nod back to the
Viking gold that Berlin, Tatiana, and Rafael stole in Volume 1. But what is gold anyway?
The Bank of Spain doesn’t use gold to pay for anything. They use the Euro – a fiat
currency. So faith in the Bank of Spain was restored despite the gold being an illusion.
If Colonel Tamayo had told the world that is was fake, he would destroy their economy.
So in the end, Colonel Tamayo lied to the press. He lied and said that they got the
gold back. He then said that the Money Heist Team was killed in a shootout and he carried
them outside in body bags. The Final Illusion. In truth, they were given pardons, passports,
and a way out of the country. They flew off into the sunset. And they had
the gold. Here’s how that went down. Since Sierra had found the Professor when no one
else could, he motivated her to believe in herself. So while he went to the Bank of Spain
to perform the final trick, she went on a mission to find the gold.
Sierra realized that the Professor had decided to rob the Bank of Spain after they had robbed
the Royal Mint of Spain. Since Berlin died during the first heist, Sierra realized that
Rafael and Tatiana would not have known about the second heist until they saw it unfolding
on the news. Therefore, Sierra went and looked for property that had been bought within the
last five days. And Sierra found the gold. But she had unknowingly set off trip wires,
so Rafael and Tatiana’s team showed up and cornered them. That is when Sierra gave Rafael
a note from his uncle, the Professor. Rafael trusted his uncle to give him a share of the
gold, so his team allowed Sierra’s team to drive the treasure house off to Portugal.
And why did he trust his uncle? Here’s the reason. Rafael asked his uncle:
“Sergio. I don’t understand. Why are you planning a heist? My dad I can understand.
You know. But you … with all that knowledge that you have…”
“Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What we do is far more than just work. It’s a tradition
in our family.” This was the most important scene of the show.
The one in which the Professor told the story about his father. Rafael’s grandfather.
How, as a child, he saw his father killed robbing a bank.
“So when you ask me why I choose to plan the heist, the answer’s simple. To talk
to him.” And here’s the thing. Rio heard the voice
of Tokyo after she passed away. “I wanted to tell him that it was me. And
that I wasn’t gone yet. That I was at peace.” So in theory, Rafael heard Berlin’s voice
here. The voice of his father telling him that he was at peace. And encouraging him
to trust his uncle. So in the end, Rafael trusted his uncle because
stealing is in their blood. “It’s a matter of family.” “And I
will try to fix you.” “It’s our heritage. It’s really important
that you never forget that.”