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Royal Mint of Spain Heist (Seasons 1 & 2):
Raquel Murillo
See the "Lisbon" folder in the "Criminals" page.
Ángel Rubio
Sub-inspector Ángel Rubio
Played by: Fernando Soto
Voiced by: Keith Silverstein (English)
A sub-inspector of the Spanish National Police and Raquel's aide in the operation during the first heist. He was the first officer to discover the identity of the Professor during a self-imposed solo mission, but had a drunk driving accident before he could tell it to anyone else, and fell into a coma before recovering near the end of the first heist. He later returns for the second heist.
- Amicable Exes: He mentions to have had an ex-wife, in addition to attempting a relationship with Raquel. Aside from being an explicit friend of Raquel's, it's implied that he's on friendly terms with his ex-wife too, even if this detail isn't explored much.
- Convenient Coma: He's in a coma for a significant part of the second season, and the threat that he may wake up and reveal the Professor's identity dangles overhead for all of that time.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's not among the biggest contributors on the police's side to both heists, but he finds out about the Professor's identity by himself, and would have busted the entire heist team if he didn't have a car accident under the influence of alcohol.
- Dogged Nice Guy: To Raquel before she joined the heist team. He's a loyal friend to her, while also making it clear that he wants more than friendship.
- Everyone Has Standards: During the Bank of Spain heist, he gets more and more disgusted with the way Tamayo handles the crisis, outright calling him out for using illegal methods. Although, unlike Raquel and Sierra, he never changes sides; he does his best to fight off the heist going by the book to the end.
- Hero Antagonist: To the Professor, as his most compatible rival on the good side of the law.
- Hidden Depths: Much to Raquel's surprise, he's a fan of both competitive soccer and modern painters like Andy Warhol. While she already found out about the former at some point before the series' events, she discovers the latter onscreen at the beginning of Episode 5 of Season 1, when Angel brings up Warhol in his guess of what painters the robbers might have taken inspiration from for further masks and later discusses it to Raquel.
- The Lancer: He's Raquel's most immediate subordinate during the first heist, although she refers to Suárez as her actual second-in-command for the operation.
- The Mole: He's firmly on the side of cops, but this is invoked by the heist team in Episode 4 of Season 1, wherein they frame him for being a Mole for them by Helsinki planting a microphone into his glasses during Angel's examination alongside the two surgeons sent to treat Arturo. Needless to say, the other cops overlook this, as it doesn't convince them at all.
- His Name Is...: He found out about the Professor being behind the first heist earlier than any of the other cops, but had an accident while driving drunk during his return to the city, when he was going to tell it to Raquel via phone.
- Out of Focus: He's an active character in the respective first seasons of both heists, but becomes less prominent afterwards.
- Token Good Teammate: With the other sane members either leaving or defecting to the heist team, he becomes this to the police force in the second heist.
Alfonso Prieto
Colonel Alfonso Prieto
Played by: Juan Fernández
Voiced by: Pete Sepenuk (English)
A colonel from the Spanish National Intelligence Center, who represents the general government's interests in the first heist. He's also partially responsible for the events that began the second heist.
- Implausible Deniability: The man still tries to blame others when journalists and the United Nations get concrete proof placing him as the one who ordered Rio's torture.
- Jerkass: He continuously undermines Raquel's work, and then berates her when his attempts at getting things done do not work.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: In Episode 7 of Season 1, when the Professor gives the police the option between getting Alison Parker (and only Alison) or eight other Brighton College students released, he unhesitatingly orders Raquel to ask for Alison because he sees keeping the relations between Spain and the UK on good terms as something more important than the lives of eight teens. The result: not only isn't Alison freed at all (as the Professor implies first by telling Raquel that if he doesn't call her in the next couple hours, he already chose his decision), but the national police (and the entire Spanish government by proxy) gets a shitstorm of bad PR when the Professor publishes recorded audio of the call for the news media to notice. Even when he tells Raquel that he and the CNI will take responsiblity for the decision, he leaves it vague by saying he can't publicly say it on his own.
- Oh, Crap!: He has an epic one when Rio outs him specifically as the one who ordered his capture and torture.
- Rabid Cop: He puts a Kill on Sight order on the heist team the moment he first arrives to the police tent adjacent to the Mint. That says a whole lot about him.
- Storm the Castle: His first idea during the first heist is to charge in with all guns blazing and get it over with as quick as possible. Averted in the end: due to the presence of the British ambassador's daughter in the building, nobody else thinks it's the best course of action.
- Villain Ball: He has Rio captured at the beginning of Season 3, but instead of taking the logical option of using him to negotiate a surrender for the heist team, he has him tortured by several contractees in Algeria to spill the Professor's beans. It leads to the second heist, Rio's prison exchange, and him going down as a torturer.
Suárez
Inspector Suárez
Played by: Mario de la Rosa
Voiced by: Kyle McCarley (English)
The leader of the GEO group (the Spanish equivalent to the SWAT) put in charge of both heists. For the most part, he's one of the most straight members of the police, being ruthless when the situation calls for it, but reasonable.
- The Dragon: In Seasons 3 and 4, he becomes more willing to use potentially immoral measures to stop the robbers, and acts in this capacity to Tamayo.
- The Lancer: He's the man in charge of the GEO team assigned to the Spanish Mint heist, and is explicitly stated by Raquel to act as her second.
- Everyone Has Standards: Just like Angel (and despite his growing technical attitude), he openly shows his displease with Tamayo's tactics as the Bank of Spain heist marches on. Particularly when Tamayo calls for Black Ops soldiers for dealing what is, at the end of the day, a civilian issue.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic:
- Unlike the other GEO officers involved, who wear the standard helmets and masks, Suárez wears no headgear at all when he comes to the police's raid on the Mint in the Season 2 finale.
- Averted later in "Everything Seemed Insignificant", wherein Suárez wears a helmet and oxygen mask alongside the rest of the five-member GEO squad sent inside the Bank as part of the police's first raid attempt during the Bank heist, which involves the unleashing of narcotic gas into the bank.
- Taking the Heat: Early in Season 1 (Episode 4 in the original airing, Episode 3 in the Netflix release's combined episode listing), one of the police snipers shoots Arturo by mistake, believing he was one of the robbers when he threatened to shoot Moscow and Denver over Mónica's supposed death and unintentionally caused panic among the other hostages at the Mint's rooftop. Although Raquel gave the order, Suárez was the one who insisted on taking the shot. When Raquel admits her mistake, Suárez doesn't hesitate to take responsibility for his fair share of the blame.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: He becomes more ruthless in Season 3 due to his growing pressure in the police's inability to catch the robbers, particularly towards Raquel, since he felt betrayed by her. However, after he captures her, he cools down considerably and behaves closer to how he was in the first two seasons.
Alberto Vicuña
Inspector Alberto Vicuña
A forensic expert, Raquel's ex-husband and Paula's father. Raquel divorced from him for abusing her; ever since then, Alberto tried to make amends with Raquel to not avail.
- The Ace: He has a great reputation among the Spanish National Police for being one of their best forensic investigators, to the point that some regard him as the best. Even Raquel orders him to be sent to the countryhouse in the first episode of Season 2 because of his professional talent.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Becomes this in the Season 2 premiere, where he's the forensic who finds the countryhouse's place with legitimate evidence to the Mint heist. Because of this and his plan to return to Madrid after he's done with his countryhouse shift (which the Professor needed to take to return to his facility after spending a good time without calling or responding to the robbers), the Professor is forced to deal with him and the piece of evidence he had taken for himself.
Bank of Spain Heist (Seasons 3, 4, & 5):
Alicia Sierra
Inspector Alicia Sierra
Played By: Najwa Nimri
A pregnant police inspector who's initially in charge of interrogating Rio, and later becomes the main investigator and negotiator in the Bank of Spain heist, serving Tamayo's second-in-command for the operation.
- The Baroness: Clearly fits the bill, and some of her interactions with Raquel imply that she was already like this when both of them were still students.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: After The Professor and some of the teammates help her give birth to a baby girl, she mellows down towards them.
- Big Bad: Serves as the main antagonist for a good part of season 3 and 4, though in the later episodes of season 4, it's more a case of Big Bad Ensemble with Gandia.
- Broken Pedestal: After Tamayo spreads rumours about her being part of the heist team, Sierra finally sees the police for who they really are and makes allies with the robbers.
- Brutal Honesty: When facing the press for the illegal containment and torture of Rio, she cheerfully confesses with gruesome detail and throws all her superiors under the bus.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Her tracking skills come to use in the end when she finds where the gold stolen by Rafael and Tatiana has been hidden.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She seems to love her daughter and at least have a sense of duty when it comes to her, telling the professor that the only reason she won't kill him and risk jail is because her baby would need her for the next eighteen years.
- The Chessmaster: She manages to beat the Professor at his own game by faking Lisbon's execution and then finding his hideout with a gun pointed to him.Sierra: Checkmate, you son of a bitch!
- The Dog Bites Back/Heel–Face Turn: Joins the Professor and his team for the foreseeable future when Tamayo leaves no stones unturned into discrediting her confession.
- Evil Counterpart: To Raquel/Lisbon. She serves as the main negotiator with the robbers which was Raquel's role in the early seasons, and is much more ruthless than her. Both of them also ordered the shooting of a person in the Dali outfit (Arturo for the former, Nairobi for the latter), both end up getting backstabbed by the Police, and both also join the Professor for revenge after initially attempting to capture him.
- Evil Redhead: Has red hair that matches her cruel personality.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: In seasons 3 and 4 she was mostly shown with her ponytail on, signifying her ruthlessness towards the heist team, but later in season 5 she finally lets her hair down, showing her slowly mellowing down towards them.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Initially subverted: Sierra pretends to make amends with the Professor and the gang after they help deliver her daughter Victoria. However, when the Professor breaks down after the death of Tokyo, she makes her escape. Following a chase, she manages to corner the Professor and intends to sell him out to Tamayo so that he drops her charges, but it turns out Tamayo sounded a police alarm in his apartment and they're forced into hiding. Eventually, she promises the Professor to not get in his way again and work with him for the remainder of the heist, ultimately playing the trope straight.
- Freudian Excuse: She mentions that her husband died of cancer shortly before the Bank heist, and admits that she Took a Level in Jerkass after his death.
- Guile Heroine: She's able to break the minds of the Professor and Raquel, both of whom already showed themselves to be highly competent masterminds (even if only temporarily), though is without some manipulation.
- Manipulative Bitch: She's able to manipulate and mess with the emotions of other characters like Lisbon, the Professor, and Nairobi.
- Meaningful Name: It's implied that Sierra named her newborn daughter Victoria to symbolize her prospective triumph over the Professor. She does end up victorious in the end, but on his side rather than against him.
- More Deadly Than the Male: She's the most ruthless and competent member of the police force, in comparison to the male members at a similar level to her. She's also The Professor's intellectual match, investigating and tracking him down on her own while evading Tamayo's prosecution of her at the end of Season 4.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: During her interrogation of Lisbon she makes some pretty disparaging remarks about Lisbon's mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's (calling her the "crazy grandma" and mockingly portraying her as a confused puppet) and implies that Alberto's Domestic Abuse of Lisbon was her fault for her "awful taste in men". Lisbon is left speechless... which was likely Alicia's plan.
- Pregnant Badass: She's pregnant to the close point of giving birth, but that does not mean she's not willing to get involved in Rio's torture or join the police operation.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She delivers an epic one to the Professor during a car chase with him, exposing that he didn't really organize the heist to save Rio or even to defy the government: he did it out of sheer ego to escape the boredom of his family life with Raquel. And the surprising thing is... the Professor admits she's absolutely right.
- Sadist: Has no problem in torturing Rio, and actually feels excited when she's sent to the Bank operation to capture the heist team.
- Spanner in the Works: Puts a huge dent on the Professor's plans as well as her own team once she readily confesses to the torture she inflicted on Rio.
- Start of Darkness: Although she was always a quite ruthless police investigator, she says she wasn't always as bad as to be an unrepentant torturer; that changed with her husband's death to cancer.
- Sweet Tooth: There are probably more scenes where Sierra is seen eating or drinking something sweet than scenes where she isn't.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Almost never seen with her hair down.
- Torture Technician: She is in charge of interrogating and torturing Rio — by all means necessary.
- Worthy Opponent: The Professor himself explicitly recognize this to her. He even uses it to convince her to find the gold taken by Rafael in the series finale.
Luis Tamayo
Colonel Luis Tamayo
Played by: Fernando Cayo
A friend of Prieto and the colonel of the Spanish National Intelligence Center who leads the police force and oversees Sierra's work as negotiator during the Bank of Spain heist.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Is much harsher than Prieto on the robbers, willing to use extreme measures that will risk the hostages if it meant the capture of the robbers.
- Deadpan Snarker: Probably what distinguishes him most from other characters in the series. Sarcasm is pretty much his default mode, and he uses it with pretty much everyone, both his subordinates and even his superiors.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Although Tamayo proves to be the most morally bankrupt main antagonist in the show, when Sierra takes his wife hostage, he shows genuine concern for her.
- He's also shown to be very close and caring to Prieto; when the latter seems to be close to an stress induced heart attack, Tamayo, addressing him by his first name, calms him down and tells him to go rest and leave everything to him.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- When Sierra orders to have another tank go at the bank after the heist crew had just blown up the first tank, Tamayo shuts her down because he doesn't want any more men to risk their lives trying to enter the bank.
- He's disgusted by Arturo being a Glory Hound, and aptly tears into him.
- Eventually sacrifices his pride so that the robbers don't endanger Spain's economy, by reluctantly letting the robbers go.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Pretty easy to get to his nerves. Although he never exactly loses control of himself, he is quite prone to lash out to his subordinates.
- Happily Married: For 17 years with his wife. Something that, as he himself puts it, "it's going out of style in today's society". And judging from his behavior (see Even Evil Has Loved Ones above and Pet the Dog below), he ain't lying.
- Lost in Translation: His dialogue has a lot of sarcasm, filled with idioms and cultural references that don't always translate well into English, neither in sub nor dub. Even his voice tone is a key part of his character, and can be quite difficult to grasp for non-Spanish speakers. Fortunately, Cayo's performance manages to sell it well enough that most non-Spanish speaking audiences still find him very entertaining.
- Mean Boss: Pretty much all of his subordinates (and even his peers) are subject to, at least, a mean-spirited remark from him at some point.
- Motor Mouth: Pretty much every time he gets angry, which is... really often.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He ends up causing Sierra to join the heist team after taking her off the case.
- Oh, Crap!: He gets three of these.
- The first is when he realizes the heist team has Europe's darkest secrets with them.
- The second is when the heist team disables the military's tanks with RPGs.
- The third one is when Sierra takes his wife hostage and assaults her when planning to bargain for her freedom.
- Pet the Dog: As previously mentioned, he shows genuine concern for his wife once she's in danger, and only goes back to work after making sure she will be OK.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Arturo when the latter won't get off his high horse.
Benito Antoñanzas
Benito Antoñanzas
Played by: Antonio Romero
- The Mole: He's recruited by the Professor in Season 4 to act as his eyes and ears.
- Token Good Teammate: Besides being blackmailed by the Professor, he's the most moral of the police team and one of the few concerned with the legality of Tamayo's and Sierra's actions.
Major Sagasta
Major Sagasta
Played by: José Manuel Seda
A Major in the Spanish army, specialized in Black Op missions. Tamayo calls him at the beginning of Season 5 to put an end to the heist once and for all after he uses up pretty much all of his other alternatives.
- Black-and-Grey Morality: His worldview is that he believes there are "right and wrong sides" in war because, while he thinks politicians and soldiers like himself are "a bunch of motherfuckers", he also thinks dictators and terrorists like the robbers "are much worse".
- Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: While he almost always shows himself as cool and collected, even in the middle of battle, his subordinates tend to behave a bit more... out there.
- Commanding Coolness: In Spanish, his rank is actually "commander", or "comandante". He's called "major" in the English dubs due to the fact that Spanish and Anglophone military ranks differ slightly at this point of the chain of command.
- Consummate Professional: One of the reasons he's called by Tamayo is the fact that he's an extremely professional soldier who will do whatever it takes to get the job done.
- Elite Mook: As part of the Spanish special forces, he commands a group of soldiers who are far and above everything the robbers have ever faced up to that point.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Despite being a ruthless soldier, the way he's groomed makes him look a bit more "handsome" than the rest of the police side, even while wearing his battlefield outfit.
- Sociopathic Soldier: Downplayed. When he discusses about how to enter the Bank of Spain, he makes perfectly clear that he's going there with the intention of taking the bank, NOT saving lives. He goes as far as to tell the police to not expect more than a 30% survival rate among the hostages. All without even flinching. However, he also makes very clear he's unwilling to take the job unless the higher ups accept that, and at the moment of truth, he and his team manage to capture all of the robbers without harming any hostages.
Sargent Arteche
Sargent Arantxa Arteche
Played by: Jennifer Tormenta Miranda
A member of Sagasta's Elite team.
- Action Girl: As part of Sagasta's special forces, she proves to be one hell of a soldier.
- Elite Mook: One of the toughest enemies the robbers have to face. She even manages to reduce Palermo without being detected before it was too late.
