For those who have seen La casa de papel, Rafael, the son of Berlin, has been one of its great surprises. While some thought that he would be the ‘ace’ up the teacher’s sleeve, the truth is that it was the opposite.
When we least expected it, he would end up stealing the loot from the robbers. With his scenes debated by viewers, there are two in particular that could shed light on what the paper that the teacher sent Rafael said said.
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The message Rafael received: remember the family or a deception from the teacher?
In chapter 10 of La casa de papel, season 5, Rafael and Tatiana steal the gold from the Bank of Spain that had been collected by La Resistencia. As the scenes go by and the professor’s desperation to know what will happen to the money, he sends Alicia Sierra (Najwa Nimri) to catch his nephew. When they meet, she hands the young man a note. He reads it and the gold goes back to the original thieves. Now the big question is: what message did that paper contain?
The first option, and the one that more than one thought, is that the professor agreed to give him a share of the loot. This is what is intuited when Tatiana asks Rafael if he is sure that he will receive what was promised and he responds: “Yes, it is a family affair.”
However, thanks to a theory by Reddit user LastChance1337, a new option has been born: What if what they had stolen was the fake gold and that’s why Rafael agreed to return it? This idea was born after seeing that Dalí’s faces are marked on the ingots that he took, which later turned out to be false. The real ones do not bear any mark.
To counter this assumption, we must see what happens in chapter 7 of season 5 (minute 40.21), where the gold appears without marks. However, the one that Rafael steals, in episode 9, season 5 (minute 24.14) does bear the mark of robbers. I mean, he took the fake ones.
Also, in the sequence we see that the teacher talks to Palermo, who he asks what money really is. “The money from the Bank of Spain is nothing, it is just a psychological support.” Here the character of Rodrigo de la Serna understands that he will change gold for brass “Just like Berlin did with the Viking treasure.” This modification of the plan was only known to them, so Rafael possibly learned from the note that the loot he had was fake.
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