The assumption is that if the robbers messed with the feed on this particular road, they used it, and since it’s a beltway, they’re not trying to get the gold anywhere they must have buried it. They soon figure out that they’re actually watching a loop of old footage (the roads are wet, but it rained the day before - so that was a significant weather event, just not for the reason I expected) the tech know-how required for this also tips The Professor that Rafael is probably involved. The next phase of the plan is for Marseille to bring a small team to strike The Professor’s command post, burning papers and loading out hardware, and for Rio to hack traffic cameras looking for the dump trucks. Tokyo’s narration editorializes, “That was the first time The Professor said something nobody believed.” That can’t possibly be true of someone whose schemes are so grandiose, but emotions are high, and Tokyo is dead, so I guess I won’t try too hard to fact-check that one. The Professor then asks everyone not to panic they will get the gold back and extract the gang from the bank. Lisbon adds that the hostages and cops can’t find out they lost the gold or they’re toast.

The Professor finally decides everyone needs to know the state of play and explains the situation to the rest of the gang. Tatiana and Rafael’s plan is, of course, despicable for being so parasitic, but the compulsive tidier in me might be most offended by the sight of all the carefully stacked gold bars left in such a haphazard mess. The Professor visualizes what they did by inspecting the tire tracks and can tell that they dropped the ingots into a couple of dump trucks and covered them in the sand to hide them in plain sight. In a shack at the quarry, The Professor finds a video feed of the tank entrances as soon as Tatiana’s crew saw the trucks going in, they’d know it was only eight to ten hours before they’d be moving back out, loaded. And when Berlin (apparently) talked, Tatiana was listening very carefully. Palermo and Lisbon both have to remind The Professor that PEOPLE TALK IN BED. Sure, Tatiana was around during their plotting at the monastery, but she only knew the target, and Palermo locked up the plans every night. Palermo realizes whom all the evidence points to. The trucks are, in fact, at the quarry … but they’re completely empty, which means the robbers unloaded 90 tons of gold in half an hour. Once they determine via GPS trackers that they’re parked at a nearby quarry, The Professor radios to Lisbon and Palermo to break the bad news.

Once everyone’s had their zip ties clipped off, The Professor takes action, distributing Kevlar vests and guns and rolling out with the rest of the crew in pursuit of the trucks. We pick up where we left off: The Professor and the rest of the foundry crew absorbing the reality of being robbed.

Money heist season 2 episode 5