Heartwarming / Money Heist

• Whether or not you think the Age-Gap Romance is weird or not, there's no denying that Rio's feelings for Tokyo are genuine and vice-versa. Case in point:
  • Tokyo was 100% willing to screw the plan the moment she thought Rio got hurt.
  • Rio proposes to her the night before the heist.
  • Tokyo confides to him that her mother was away often due to having to work a double shift to make ends meet. Since nobody could stay with Tokyo, she was always home alone during those time, which made her very scared. One day, her mother told her the story of the magic door: If she was ever frightened, she could open this magic door and her mother would be on the other side. But she could only do it once in her life. Rio says she's stronger she thinks she is, because he would've opened it the first night, while she never did out of sheer determination.
• Tokyo and Nairobi's friendship starts when Tokyo notices Nairobi's C-section scar. Nairobi reveals to her that she had a son taken away from her and the reason she wants to money is to renew their relationship.
• Our very first impression of Denver is that he's a brutish, hot-blooded thug who needs to be leashed lest he beat someone up for looking at him funny. He's actually sensitive and moral. Despite Berlin's direct order to execute Monica for nearly compromising their plan, he refuses to do so and hides her.
  • Moscow is heartbroken finding out that Denver had killed a woman and wanted to turn himself in because he didn't want his son to be a killer. Imagine his relief to find out she's fine.
  • Monica's wounds are getting infected and they need to extract the bullet. Denver was to steal some supplies whilst a medical team was operating on Arturo, Monica's lover. He was also supposed to deliver a note, but decided against it because Arturo loved his wife. Unfortunately, it fell out of his pocket and Nairobi picked it up. Fortunately, she didn't rat them out and offered to help them instead.
  • Monica ends up falling for him because of his kind nature.
• Tokyo, Rio, Nairobi, and Denver going to a festival together.
• Nairobi notices the other students are bullying Allison because she has preferential treatment as a result of being the Ambassador's daughter. Nairobi gives her a pep-talk about how she shouldn't have to put up with their shit.
• Helsinki and Oslo's relationship as they are cousins who have worked together for a long time. This makes Oslo's death all the more sad.
• The Professor regularly meets with Raquel to gain her trust and exploit her vulnerabilities. This proves to be his own undoing as he genuinely starts to develop feelings for her, and becomes attached to her family.
  • The first time he comes close to breaking his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule is when he plans to poison Raquel's mother so she cannot expose his identity. Even before he realises she has Alzheimser's and manages to tie the loose thread without killing her, he cannot bring himself to go through with the deed and knocks the cup from her hand at the last second.
  • While knocking out Raquel's abusive ex-husband was also necessary to destroying the evidence he possessed, the Professor's protectiveness over Raquel and his disgust at her husband's actions is entirely genuine. It's hard to tell whether fighting him was an excuse to get to the evidence, or the other way around.
• The Professor's idea to start a whole new heist in the Bank of Spain to rescue Rio, who's been arrested and is being tortured in some unknown place, shows how much he cares for the team. Slight subverted, since he's had that heist in mind for a long time, and Rio's prison was the excuse he needed to set it in motion, but there's still loyalty in there.
  • While disclosing his plan with the rest of the group, the Professor points how the group backed up each other when each one of them made a mistake during the first heist. It works, and Nairobi is the first to volunteer to the heist, followed by Helsinki and an initially reluctant Denver. They are truly a family.
• After a shootout with the military results in the deaths of Tokyo and a few soldiers, Lisbon and Rio make a public declaration lamenting that the heist has become a war with casualties, and saying that the people outside the bank should stop supporting them and go home. Instead, the crowd starts chanting, "We're not leaving!", much to their relief and Tamayo's distress, showing that even with all the lines they had to cross, they're still on the gang's side.

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