Money Heist Season 2
Money Heist (Spanish: La casa de papel, [la ˈkasa ðe paˈpel], lit. ’The House of Paper’) is a Spanish heist crime drama television series created by Álex Pina. The series traces two long-prepared heists led by the Professor (Álvaro Morte), one on the Royal Mint of Spain, and one on the Bank of Spain, told from the perspective of one of the robbers, Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó). The story is told in a real-time-like fashion and relies on an unreliable narrator, flashbacks, time-jumps and hidden character motivations for complexity.
The series was initially intended as a limited series to be told in two parts. It had its original run of 15 episodes on Spanish network Antena 3 from 2 May 2017 through 23 November 2017. Netflix acquired global streaming rights in late 2017. It re-cut the series into 22 shorter episodes and released them worldwide, beginning with the first part on 20 December 2017, followed by the second part on 6 April 2018. In April 2018, Netflix renewed the series with a significantly increased budget for 16 new episodes total. Part 3, with eight episodes, was released on 19 July 2019. Part 4, also with eight episodes, was released on 3 April 2020. A documentary involving the producers and the cast premiered on Netflix the same day, titled Money Heist: The Phenomenon (Spanish: La casa de papel: El Fenómeno). In July 2020, Netflix renewed the show for a fifth and final part, which was released in two five-episode volumes on 3 September and 3 December 2021, respectively.
Similar to Money Heist: The Phenomenon, a two-part documentary involving the producers and cast premiered on Netflix the same day, titled Money Heist: From Tokyo to Berlin. The series was filmed in Madrid, Spain. Significant portions were also filmed in Panama, Thailand, Italy (Florence), Denmark and in Portugal (Lisbon). A South Korean remake set in an alternate universe, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area, was released on 24 June 2022, while a direct spin-off, Berlin, with Pedro Alonso, Itziar Ituño, and Najwa Nimri reprising their roles, was released on 29 December 2023, forming a shared universe.
The series received several awards including the International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series at the 46th International Emmy Awards, as well as critical acclaim for its sophisticated plot, interpersonal dramas, direction, and for trying to innovate Spanish television. The Italian anti-fascist song “Bella ciao”, which plays multiple times throughout the series, became a summer hit across Europe in 2018. By 2018, the series was the most-watched non-English-language series and one of the most-watched series overall on Netflix, having particular resonance with viewers from Mediterranean Europe and the Latin American regions.
Money Heist Season 2
STORY
Episodes 01
“Masked No Longer”
A team of police are brought to the discovered villa and search through “evidence” planted by the Professor earlier. Raquel’s ex-husband Alberto is called in to lead the forensics examination, and finds burned evidence about the Professor in the chimney. In the Mint, Helsinki decides to euthanise his cousin Oslo, which he does so tearfully. Salva rides back to Madrid with Alberto and provokes him into a fight, knocking him out and erasing the evidence. When Alberto awakes, he arrests the Professor and brings him to jail. The Professor uses the bathroom at the prison and beats himself up to make it look like Alberto was the aggressor. He calls Raquel, who helps release him. Meanwhile, the robbers start losing hope after many hours without news from the Professor, and Tokyo begins a mutiny after becoming restless.
Episodes 02
“The Head of the Plan”
Berlin exacts revenge on Tokyo for her mutiny, in which she played Russian roulette with him — he ties her to a table and rolls her out the front door to the police. Rio wants revenge. Tokyo fakes an injury to buy time, the Professor’s number one rule after being captured. During interrogation, she comes face to face with Raquel, who wants the answer to one burning question, “Who is the Professor?”
Episodes 03
“A Matter of Efficiency”
By the Professor’s promise that he will free Tokyo from the police, Rio rejoins the robbers and helps them stop Arturo’s latest escape plan. Meanwhile, Raquel sets a trap for the Professor by creating a hoax that Ángel has awakened from his coma, in hopes it will lure him to the hospital to finish him off before he can identify the Professor. The Professor, skeptical of the announcement, posts a fake casting call for clowns at the hospital and dresses up like one, blending in with the crowd while confirming the hoax. Later, while Salva meets with Raquel at a cafe, she sees an orange hair from his clown wig on his jacket. She finally realises that Salva is the Professor.
Episodes 04
“What Have We Done?”
Raquel takes the Professor into custody and interrogates him at the villa. The Professor admits that he has fallen in love with her, and she performs a polygraph test on him. Meanwhile, Arturo is punished for his multiple attempts to escape and Moscow reveals a secret to Denver: Moscow left his wife and Denver’s mother when he was young because she was a drug addict. Denver is outraged and says he will cut Moscow out of his life. While Tokyo is transported to prison, she is freed by mercenaries sent by the Professor. She rides a motorcycle directly into the Mint, avoiding being shot by police as Moscow opens the door.
Episodes 05
“Against the Clock”
Moscow is gravely injured by police gunfire and the police refuse to send aid. The robbers rush to finish their escape tunnel. Having escaped from and incapacitated Raquel, the Professor waits for her to wake up. He confronts her, using the fact that he did not escape while she was unconscious as proof of his love. He walks out of the villa held at gunpoint by Raquel, but she is emotionally unable and unwilling to stop him from escaping. Colonel Prieto, Suárez, and Alberto confront Raquel and remove her from the case after they identify the Professor as Salva (Sergio), with whom they believe Raquel is co-operating. With her gun and badge taken away, she steals Ángel’s badge and starts to conduct her own investigation by looking through surveillance footage of restaurants to determine the route the Professor took from his hideout. As she leaves, Ángel awakens.
Episodes 06
“Bye Beautiful”
The police, led by Suárez, launch an attack on the Mint to liberate the hostages and capture the robbers. The robbers rush to escape with the €984 million they printed, less than half of their estimate. Raquel finds the Professor’s hideout and she is tied up. Raquel and the Professor kiss passionately and he lets her go. Raquel visits Ángel in the hospital, where the police arrest her. At a moral crossroads, she initially refuses to divulge the Professor’s hideout, but when Colonel Prieto threatens her with several charges that would cause her to lose custody of her daughter, she relents. As the police race to the hideout, a tactical squad inside the Mint is fought off by Berlin so the rest of the robbers can escape in time, until he is shot multiple times. The remaining robbers, with the addition of Mónica, escape to the Professor’s hideout minutes before the police arrive to find it empty. One year later, Raquel has left the force and the robbers’ whereabouts are still unknown. When Raquel notices coordinates on a postcard previously given to her by the Professor, she tracks him down in Palawan, Philippines.
CAST
- Úrsula Corberó as Silene Oliveira (Tokyo): a runaway turned robber who is scouted by the Professor, then joins his group and participates in his plans. She also acts as the narrator.
- Álvaro Morte as Sergio Marquina (The Professor) / Salvador “Salva” Martín: the mastermind of the heist who assembled the group, and Berlin’s younger brother
- Itziar Ituño as Raquel Murillo (Lisbon): an inspector of the National Police Corps who is put in charge of the case
- Pedro Alonso as Andrés de Fonollosa (Berlin): a terminally ill jewel thief and the Professor’s second-in-command and older brother
- Paco Tous as Agustín Ramos (Moscow) (parts 1–2; featured parts 3–5): a former miner turned criminal and Denver’s father
- Alba Flores as Ágata Jiménez (Nairobi): an expert in counterfeiting and forgery, in charge of printing the money and oversaw the melting of gold
- Miguel Herrán as Aníbal Cortés (Rio): a young hacker who later becomes Tokyo’s boyfriend
- Jaime Lorente as Ricardo / Daniel Ramos (Denver): Moscow’s son who joins him in the heist
- Esther Acebo as Mónica Gaztambide (Stockholm): one of the hostages in the Mint who is Arturo Román’s secretary and mistress, carrying his child out of wedlock; during the robbery, she falls in love with Denver and becomes an accomplice to the group
- Enrique Arce as Arturo Román: a hostage and the former Director of the Royal Mint of Spain
- María Pedraza as Alison Parker (parts 1–2): a hostage in the Mint and daughter of the British ambassador to Spain
- Darko Perić as Mirko Dragic (Helsinki): a Serbian army veteran and Oslo’s cousin
- Kiti Mánver as Mariví Fuentes (parts 1–2; featured parts 3–4): Raquel’s mother
RELEASE
16 October 2017
