WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW
Money Heist is a series about a group of robbers in a standoff with the police, trying to hold out as long as they can in one place or another. Of course there are going to be awesome moments.
- The entire plan is a mixture of Batman Gambit for when things go exactly as planned and Xanatos Speed Chess for when things go off the rails.
- It should be noted that any resulting mistakes usually aren't flaws within the plan itself, but when the robbers allow their human emotions to go off the rails.
- Helsinki makes the mistake of not making sure the team's car is compacted, or at least ensure the traces are erased. The Professor ends up having to rush in and try to scrub away the evidence.
- His first attempt fails when the Russian junkyard tender sets his dogs on him, but when the police are closing in to find it, he goes into desperation mode and manages to scrub it clean while the police were in the junkyard and actively searching for it.
- He then makes a harrowing escape by disguising himself as a vagrant, complete with soiling himself to remove suspicion.
- The junkyard tender is then asked to help create a composite sketch, having seen him in his first attempt. The Professor tracks down his Facebook account and threatens the man's family with his "connections" if he doesn't sabotage the police's efforts.
- Sixteen hostages have escaped after setting off plastic explosives in the loading dock, and a GEOS team is ready to storm the place while the heist team attempts to patch up the hole, but the gunfire makes it impossible. Cue Tokyo armed with a Browning Machine Gun (actually a Rheinmetall MG3), forcing the SWAT to scatter and giving the team enough time to repair their wall. Bonus points for not inflicting a single scratch on the police, as planned by the Professor.
- Kudos should be given to the hostages as well for having successfully gotten out.
- Arturo discovers that Denver and Monica are having a relationship and tries attacking him out of jealousy. Denver initially didn't want to hurt him, but Arturo stabbed him with a pair of scissors. Those scissors were blunt and basically did nothing, and Denver easily overpowers him. Arturo, being the coward he is, reveals the escape plan, which gives the team time to respond.
- Ángel enters the building as part of a group of medics to cure Arturo after the police accidentally shot him, in an attempt to buy time for the police to infiltrate the mint. The heist team plants a microphone in his glasses, allowing them to learn everything the police is doing and framing him as The Mole.
- And then, in order to foil the infiltrators', the heist team switches up everyone's masks so the infiltrators will stand out, forcing them to abort the mission.
- Season 1 ends with the police finding the heist team's HQ and raiding the place, giving us a spectacular Cliffhanger as the Professor manages to engineer a situation that would ensure any evidence found would be nullified while everyone nonchalantly escapes.
- The Professor finally meets the police's best forensics expert, who also happens to be Raquel's ex, after the man finds potentially incriminating proof. The Professor goads him into a fight and effortlessly takes him down without getting touched himself. He's even referred to as "Chuck Norris with glasses."
- He does get arrested for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, which could land him up to four years in prison. Since he delivered a Curb-Stomp Battle, he has no evidence supporting him. His solution? Beat himself up so it looks like he attacked him in self-defense.
- The beginning of the Bank of Spain heist: the gang announces their return to all of Madrid by dropping 140 million euros from the blimps flying above the city, all of them with the Dali mask painted on the side. A powerful way of saying, "We're back".
- After that, the Professor makes a public broadcast informing the people of Rio's illegal detention and that they're going to war with the State to free him.The Professor: The State has begun this war. And we shall not hide. We shall fight, blow... for blow. And this time... we're going big.
- After the transmission, Colonel Prieto calls the Army to secure the city. This is where we see how resourceful the gang is now thanks to the previous heist: they use 65 Pakistani hackers to monitor the military and find out which unit is being sent to the Bank of Spain, then they go there dressed as soldiers, with truck, guns, and everything.
- And finally, after they're inside the Bank and gathered the future hostages, Palermo has the "honor" to announce the heist:Palermo: Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Palermo. And I have two pieces of news for you. Good and bad. The bad one is that the Bank of Spain is under attack. The good one... (takes off the Army outfit, revealing the red jumper under it) We are the attackers!
- After that, the Professor makes a public broadcast informing the people of Rio's illegal detention and that they're going to war with the State to free him.
- The Governor of the Bank of Spain, Mario, deserves a mention for being a good Defiant Captive. True to the Professor's prediction, Mario refuses to enter the flooded vault, even at gunpoint. He then hits Denver when he tries to force him in, and when the latter threatens to amputate both his hands, he just extends his left one, as if saying, "Go ahead." Truly a man of principles.
