Money Heist (Spanish: La casa de papel, transl.

 The House of Paper) is a Spanish television crime

drama series created by Álex Pina. It premiered on 2 May 2017, on Spanish network Antena 3. The
first two parts revolves around a long-prepared, multi-day assault on the Royal Mint of Spain in
which a group of robbers take hostages as part of their plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion. It
involves eight robbers, code named after cities, focusing on Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó), and led by the
Professor (Álvaro Morte) from an external location, as they battle with hostages on the inside, and
the police on the outside. The third part revolves around an assault on the Bank of Spain. After over
two years, the surviving robbers are forced out of hiding, and with the help of new members, they
battle the police on the outside.
The show is filmed and set in Madrid, Spain. Initially intended as a limited series, Antena 3
distributed the series in Spain before Netflix acquired it in late 2017. Netflix edited the series and
released it 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 for a third part, which was released on
19 July 2019. Part 4 of the series is also in production.[2][3]

Season 1 (2017)[edit]
Season 1 begins with the aftermath of a failed bank robbery by a woman named "Tokyo", as a man
named the "Professor" approaches her to save her from being caught by the police. The story then
jumps to the beginning of a multi-day assault on the Royal Mint of Spain by eight robbers, all code-
named after cities: Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Nairobi, Rio, Denver, Helsinki and Oslo. The group of
robbers, all dressed in red jumpsuits with a mask of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, take 67
hostages as part of their plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion through a self-built escape tunnel.
The Professor heads the heist from an external location. Flashbacks throughout the season show
the five months of preparation in an abandoned hunting estate in the Toledo countryside; the
robbers are not to share personal information nor engage in personal relationships.
Inside the Mint, Denver begins a love affair with the hostage Mónica Gaztambide, while another of
the hostages, Arturo Román, devises several escape plans, eventually freeing 16 hostages at the
cost of Oslo's life. On the outside, inspector Raquel Murillo negotiates with the Professor and begins
an intimate relationship with his alter ego "Salva". The robbers have difficulties sticking to the pre-
defined rules, and face isolation, mutiny, and difficulties dealing with the police when the Professor is
distracted by Raquel, all while suffering from an increasing lack of sleep. The Professor's identity is
repeatedly close to being uncovered, until Raquel realises his true identity, but is emotionally unable
and unwilling to hand him over to the police. After 125 hours in the Mint, the robbers escape
successfully from the Mint with €984 million printed, at the cost of the lives of Moscow and Berlin.
One year after the heist, Raquel looks at postcards given to her previously by the Professor, which
she decodes for a location in Palawan in the Philippines. She travels there and finds the Professor,
smiling.

Season 2 (2019)[edit]
Season 2 begins two years after the heist on the Royal Mint of Spain, showing the robbers enjoying
their lives paired-up in separate locations. However, when Interpol captures Rio with an intercepted
phone, the Professor picks up Berlin's old plans to assault the Bank of Spain to force Interpol to
hand over Rio. He and Raquel (going by "Lisbon") get the gang including Mónica (going by
"Stockholm") back together and enlist three new members: Bógota, Palermo and Marseille. The
disguised robbers sneak into the heavily guarded bank, take hostages and eventually gain access to
the gold and state secrets, while the Professor and Lisbon are in a moving van to communicate with
the robbers and the police. A breach in the bank is thwarted, forcing the police, lead by Colonel Luis
Tamayo and pregnant inspector Alicia Sierra, to release Rio to the robbers. Part 3 concludes with
Lisbon being caught, and the Professor interprets gunshots in the distance as her execution. When
Palermo radios the Professor to inform him that Nairobi has been gravely injured by a police-
inflicted sniper shot in the chest and that the police are about to begin another assault on the bank,
the distraught and shaken Professor declares DEFCON 2. The final moments reveal to the audience
that Lisbon's execution was faked, with Lisbon alive and in custody. Tokyo narrates that the
Professor had fallen for his own trap and that "the war had begun."