Money Heist's fifth and final season has begun
and it really has raised the roof.
Well, technically it dropped the roof
with explosions and all-out warfare
seizing the Bank of Spain.
Money Heist has always been
a difficult show to second-guess.
Would you ever have predicted Arturo
going full-Rambo in a forklift truck?
Yes, that happened.
The wait now begins for the final episodes
on December 3rd,
and it has left fans wondering what lies in store
for The Professor and the gang.
So, let's round up the juiciest fan theories
about what might happen in the final part
of Money Heist.
Do be careful if you aren't up to date,
there are plenty of spoilers!
The first half of Part 5 ended with a massive shock,
as a wounded Tokyo made a brave last stand
against the special forces and sacrificed herself
to give bald terminator Gandía
an explosive farewell.
As the first character we ever met in Money Heist,
saying goodbye to Tokyo was never going to be easy,
which maybe explains
why some fans are holding out hope
that she isn't really dead.
The main thinking behind this theory
is that Tokyo is the show's narrator,
and many believe she's retelling
the story of the heist having survived it.
Some even speculate she's telling the story
to Nairobi's son, Axel,
to explain how his mother died.
An even wilder theory
is that the entire Money Heist story
is being made up in Tokyo's head
and that it's actually her way of coping
with the tragedy of losing her boyfriend
in the first bank heist we see in flashback.
If either of these narrator ideas were true,
Tokyo would need to be alive to tell the tale.
There's also the popular fan theory from Part 4
that when Nairobi dies she enters heaven or limbo
and joins all the robbers who've previously died:
Oslo, Moscow and Berlin.
But earlier in that same setting,
we also see Denver, The Professor and Helsinki,
which could foreshadow their deaths.
Tokyo isn't seen in this heavenly garden,
so could it mean she survives?
Stacked up against this theory is the fact
that in Money Heist's "Making Of" documentary
From Tokyo to Berlin,
we clearly see Tokyo actress Úrsula Corberó
give an emotional farewell to the cast and crew.
If they faked that to trick us,
it would be a deception worthy of The Professor.
But, hey, keep the dream alive, right?
While the bank robbers have a rough time in Part 5,
Berlin has a much smoother ride
in flashbacks to an earlier heist
he pulled off in Copenhagen.
The only explosion here
was the popping of champagne corks.
These flashbacks reunite us with Berlin's wife, Tatiana,
and introduce his son, Rafael.
As neither Tatiana or Rafael
have appeared in the Bank of Spain heist,
it has fans wondering
if these two have a role to play in the current robbery.
As Berlin had been planning the Bank of Spain job
for many years,
it might not be a coincidence that his son
ended up learning a skill that could play a part.
His whole education just to prepare him
to crack open banks,
and you thought your parents were pushy.
Another theory is that Rafael
is destined to team up with Tatiana,
potentially having an affair with his dad's new wife.
After all, as Berlin explains to him…
If you really want something in life,
you have to steal it from whomever has it.
And the look on Rafael's face
suggests he has something in mind.
If he were to team up with Tatiana,
could they throw a spanner
in the works of The Professor's plans?
Fans theorised back in Part 3
that letting Tatiana in on the Bank of Spain plan
was a bad idea.
By the way, she loves the Bank of Spain heist.
She knows.
Could she sweep in with Rafael
to take the prize at the last moment?
Time will tell.
However, there's another theory
which could take Money Heist
in a very different direction.
Some fans think Rafael
is actually The Professor's son.
With his glasses
and slightly awkward social skills,
he certainly has more in common
with the brainy mastermind than suave Berlin.
This would also provide an answer
to one of the biggest mysteries of Part 5.
When Alicia Sierra is interrogating
the captured Professor in his lair,
she accuses him of lying to his brother, Berlin.
I'm trying to set the facts straight and tell the truth.
You've been lying the whole time.
You didn't even tell your brother the truth.
What truth is she referring to?
If The Professor was Rafael's dad,
that would be a pretty big secret
between the brothers.
Or maybe it's just more mind games
from the devious Alicia.
Speaking of Alicia,
the interrogator we love to hate
has lots of fans guessing about
whether she can be trusted going forwards.
You'd think that The Professor helping her
during a traumatic birth
would bond them for life,
but careful viewers don't believe she's on Team Heist.
For starters, she was clearly seen hiding
a pair of pliers up her sleeve.
Now, she could just be planning
to help Marseille put together that crib,
but fans think she's planning
to cut The Professor's communication with the bank.
Eagle-eyed viewers also point out
a moment during the birth
where Alicia is clearly seen reading
The Professor's documents
as she searches for equipment.
Could it be that she's figured out
The Professor's plan
and is working to double-cross him?
If Alicia can't trust the robbers
or her former friends with the police,
she might try taking the gold for herself.
One thing's for sure,
never underestimate Alicia Sierra,
as she warns The Professor herself.
There are no big battles without big opponents.
Alicia has good reason
to be puzzled by The Professor's plan.
One of the great mysteries of the Bank of Spain heist
is exactly how the gang plan to pull off
their audacious robbery.
We know for sure that Bogotá has his smelting crew
turning the bank's gold reserves into tiny pellets,
but that still leaves them
with thousands of balls to transport.
Well, some fans think The Professor
has already explained the plan
and that he wasn't lying to Sierra when he told her…
We're turning it to grit...
into...
two-millimeter nuggets to get it out.
It would be bold to tell your enemy your scheme,
but he could be relying on Sierra not believing him,
which, conveniently, she doesn't!
You think I'm stupid, right?
There are lots of fan theories
about the robbers using water
to transport the gold nuggets
out of the Bank of Spain.
The fact that the main vault is flooded with water
as a security measure
means that water eventually needs to be flushed out,
and that could be the key to removing the gold.
Other fans think this plan has been foreshadowed
in Berlin's Copenhagen robbery.
Having removed the Viking gold from the vault,
Berlin throws it into the river
to the dismay of Rafael.
But it was all part of Berlin's master plan,
as his crew later collect the gold
from the water at a safer time.
Is this a dry run?
Well, more of a wet run, for the Bank of Spain heist?
The other question is how to get the team
out of the bank with the gold.
You can't flush Helsinki down a toilet.
One fan theory thinks the plan is to get the gold out
and then hold it hostage in exchange for the crew.
Tamayo tells us again and again
how important the gold is.
The National Reserve is a country's backbone.
Is Sierra's dignity more important
than the safety of 47 million people?
If they're so scared of tanking the Spanish economy,
surely that's got to be worth the price
of a few bank robbers.
One really out-there fan theory suggests the gold
isn't even the primary target
in the Bank of Spain heist
and is a diversion from the robbers' real goal.
This theory begins in the Copenhagen flashback,
where Berlin explains to Rafael
how to pull off a crime with no risk.
So tell me, Dad, what's a zero-risk robbery?
One that goes unnoticed when you rob them.
Berlin's plan to steal Viking gold
involves replacing priceless pieces with brass replicas
so that the museum owners
won't realise they've been robbed
for many months.
After all, you can't be accused of a crime
that no one knows about.
Jump forward to the Bank of Spain heist
and pay close attention to the bank's museum.
We hear Denver and Palermo
discuss the value of its treasure.
Why aren't we melting all this gold?
This gold was already stolen one.
It can't be stolen twice.
And when the special forces are preparing
to blow up the roof to gain access to the bank,
Ángel warns them about damaging
the treasures within.
There are Goya paintings and Quimbaya gold in there...
This theory believes
that The Professor knows the special forces
will have no choice but to blow the roof
to enter the bank,
destroying the paintings and artifacts,
which gives him an opportunity to steal them
without anyone realising.
Admittedly, if this is the plan,
they've kept it quiet,
so quiet that Palermo and Denver don't know about it.
But, hey, it wouldn't be the first time
The Professor has surprised everyone.
And those are just some of the fan theories circling
one of the most unpredictable shows around.
Come on, did you ever picture Arturo
with a flamethrower?
Thought not. With only a few months to go
before the second half of Part 5 drops,
we've not long to wait.
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