Assane Diop is coming back, and this time someone else is wearing the mask. Lupin Part 4 arrives on Netflix worldwide on Friday 23 October, three years after Part 3, with Omar Sy returning as the gentleman thief. Here is a spoiler-light catch-up on Parts 1 to 3, everything Netflix has confirmed about the new episodes, and how to watch.
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The story so far, without the big twists
Part 1 (January 2021, five episodes). Assane Diop is the son of Babakar, a Senegalese immigrant who worked as a chauffeur for the wealthy Pellegrini family in Paris. When a priceless necklace went missing, Babakar was blamed and died in prison. Years later, Assane, raised on the Maurice Leblanc novels his father gave him, sets out to clear Babakar’s name using the methods of Arsène Lupin: disguise, misdirection and a very long game. It opens with a heist at the Louvre and sets up everything that follows.
Part 2 (June 2021, five episodes). Picks up directly from Part 1’s cliffhanger, with Assane’s teenage son Raoul in danger and Hubert Pellegrini fighting back. The stakes are personal rather than financial, and the season builds to a public showdown staged for maximum audience. Parts 1 and 2 were filmed together and play best back to back.
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Part 3 (October 2023, seven episodes). Assane returns to Paris after time in hiding, as a wanted man who cannot easily see his family. New threats arrive from his own past, including figures connected to his mother, and the part ends with Assane paying a personal price to keep the people he loves safe. Netflix’s synopsis for Part 4 makes clear that, four years on, he is in prison.
The recurring cast is worth knowing before Part 4: Ludivine Sagnier as Claire, Assane’s former partner and Raoul’s mother; Antoine Gouy as Benjamin Férel, his oldest friend and accomplice; and Soufiane Guerrab as Youssef Guédira, the detective who first spotted the Lupin pattern. Shirine Boutella plays police officer Sofia Belkacem.
What Netflix has said about Part 4
Netflix confirmed the 23 October date on Tudum, where it describes Part 4 as eight episodes. According to Netflix’s synopsis, Assane is still behind bars four years after his arrest and wants only to serve his sentence and keep a promise to his son to take the family to Senegal. Then a statement signed “Lupin” announces a string of simultaneous museum heists in Paris. The burglaries succeed, the evidence points to Assane, and camera footage appears to place him at one museum during a robbery in which Captain Belkacem is seriously injured. To prove his innocence and unmask the imitator, he has to escape and become Lupin again.
Netflix’s cast list for Part 4 includes Sagnier, Gouy, Guerrab and Boutella, along with Théo Christine and Laïka Blanc-Francard. Netflix has not described the roles. “I often say that Lupin is an extraordinary plaything,” Sy told Netflix. “I find great joy in it every time.”
Behind the camera, the series was created by George Kay in collaboration with François Uzan, inspired by Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin, with Sy and Louis Leterrier as showrunners. It is produced by Gaumont with Carrousel Studios.
Lupin’s Paris
Lupin has always used the city as a set, and a copycat targeting museums suggests Part 4 will do the same. Earlier parts filmed in and around real landmarks, including:
- The Louvre: the setting for Part 1’s opening heist, where Assane poses as a cleaner.
- Étretat, Normandy: the chalk cliffs and the Aiguille Creuse rock that Leblanc made famous in his novel L’Aiguille creuse (The Hollow Needle). Leblanc lived in the town, and his home is now a museum devoted to Lupin.
- The streets of Paris: from the river to the rooftops, the city’s bridges, apartment blocks and train stations are where Assane does most of his disguising and disappearing.
How to watch: dubbing and subtitles
Lupin is a French-language series. On Netflix you can watch it in the original French with subtitles in a wide range of languages, or choose a dubbed audio track, including English. Netflix also offers audio description on many titles. Both options are set from the audio and subtitles menu during playback, and Netflix remembers your choice per profile.
The French original with subtitles keeps Sy’s own voice; the English dub suits watching while doing something else. Either way, Parts 1 to 3 total 17 episodes of roughly 45 to 50 minutes, so a full catch-up takes about 14 hours, or a long weekend.
If you are short on time, Part 1 followed by the final two episodes of Part 3 will cover enough ground to follow Part 4’s setup.
Where to watch
- Lupin Parts 1 to 3: Netflix, worldwide including CA, US, UK, AU and NZ, streaming now.
- Lupin Part 4: Netflix, worldwide, all eight episodes from Friday 23 October.
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