In a flashback scene with The Professor and his brother Andres, who viewers only met as Berlin in part one, we learn that Andres has a girlfriend named Tatiana. Andres told her all about his and Palermo’s plan to rob the Bank of Spain and about The Professor’s plan to rob the Royal Mint of Spain, which viewers got to see in seasons one and two.
Assuming there will be a season four, we expect to find out more about Tatiana since she could blow everyone’s cover by revealing what she learned from Berlin. Or, in another twist, she could help them out since she’s a skilled thief herself. That is all, of course, hypothetical.
While Lisbon (Raquel) is hiding out in a chicken coop and The Professor is up in a tree in the nearby forest, he finally confesses his love for her with a heartfelt monologue.
Sadly, that loving moment doesn’t last because Lisbon is caught by the owners of the farm where she’s hiding out. She puts her skills as a negotiator to good use and tries to come up with a deal in which she’d give the couple 20 million Euro to let her go.
While this is going on, The Professor tells Palermo to kick off the Alcatraz Plan. Its purpose? To make the police think the thieves were escaping—not actually robbing anything—by inserting a GPS chip onto Marcella’s ferret, Sofia. As expected, Sofia’s whereabouts led the police on a wild goose chase.
Then, Alicia realized The Professor was trying to create a distraction because “he’s on the verge of collapse.” So she suggests that the police attack and “go straight for the heart. Break them from the inside out.”
How did she plan on doing that? By going after Nairobi. Thanks to her criminal record, Alicia figures out that Nairobi has a son, Axel that could be used to lure her out.
Because of a blue teddy bear that Alicia brought out as a signal to attract Nairobi, viewers learned that Nairobi used the teddy bear to store pills, cocaine, and heroin, using her young son as a mule.
Alicia makes good on her promise by bringing 9-year-old Axel out so Nairobi could take a peek at him through a window. What Nairobi doesn’t know is that, in that moment, Alicia gave the green light for a nearby sniper to shoot her through the window.
Now that the thieves are busy trying to save Nairobi’s life, since she was just shot in the chest, the police plan to go into the bank guns blazing.
While that’s happening, The Professor is listening as Lisbon gets captured by Suarez, the police captain and her former colleague. He begs her to tell them that he’s running towards her but she refuses to give up his location.
Viewers and The Professor are led to believe that Suarez kills Lisbon and frames it as self defense. That moves The Professor to break another one of his rules: Not to kill anyone.
“This isn’t a robbery or a challenge to the system. This is war. Act accordingly,” he tells Palermo via their walkie-talkie system.
Palermo takes that signal and has Tokio and Rio launch two RPGs at the tank headed towards the bank. What no one knew at the time was that Lisbon wasn’t dead. On Alicia’s orders, Suarez only pretended to kill her to trick The Professor and, instead, took her into police custody.
“The Professor had fallen for his own trap. The ear’s ability to elicit paranoia. That’s the card that Sierra had played to destroy us,” Tokio, who also narrates the series, says. “Then, it was war.”
Needless to say, fans were stunned by the way season three ended. With season three ending on such a cliffhanger, viewers have a ton of questions like: Where are the police taking Lisbon? What is The Professor going to do now? Will he find out that Lisbon isn’t dead? How will the thieves move on now that they’ve declared war on the Spanish government by blowing up a tanker? Is Nairobi going to survive that blow to the chest? What is Alicia’s plan now? Is Tatiana, Berlin’s former girlfriend, ever going to show up?
Netflix hasn’t officially confirmed whether the show is coming back—but fingers crossed all of these questions get answered if it does return.
