Riots, Drills and the Devil (2)

Turk misleads Lincoln, by sending him into a secluded area, where he attempts to kill him. However, after the two men struggle, Lincoln pushes Turk over the edge, where he soon dies. Back in Michael's and Sucre's cell, T-Bag is keeping an eye on CO Hudson, who knows of the escape plan. Abruzzi enters the hole and helps Sucre with breaking down the wall. Sucre, a devout Roman Catholic, struggles with drilling through a depiction of the devil. Also adding to the dilemma is the fact that gas pipes lie behind the wall, and that drilling in the wrong place may cause a fatal explosion. However, together they are eventually both able to drill strategically placed holes and manages to break it down to see the pipe on the other side.

Sara is still trapped in the room, where the rioters almost break through, and try to set fire to it, where Michael manages to arrive through the vents and rescues her from them. However, the rioters follow her and Michael, who try to evade them. Sara asks how Michael knows about the pipes and he replies by saying that he has had PI duties to clean up toxic mold in the pipes. Soon, Michael is able to knock out one of the leading inmates and rush to an exit. However, when they arrive, a sniper, sent by Govorner Tancredi, who is adamant to do what it takes to rescue his daughter, aims at him. Michael quickly ducks as the pursuing inmates are fired at and Sara reunites with her father.

Veronica and Nick arrive in Washington D. C. and receive the address from the placed phone call, a payphone. The payphone is next to the building of the company the Vice President uses. The phone rings and Veronica answers it. The caller tells them that they are dead. In a panic, Veronica and Nick run away from the payphone. Michael returns to gen-pop and reunites with Lincoln before heavily armed SORT teams invade the prison and force the inmates back to their cells. In Michael's cell, the team discuss what to do with Hudson. Michael, Lincoln and Sucre want to

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Lupin Season 3 premieres October 23 on Netflix: Assane Diop’s riskiest escape plan begins

Season 3 of Lupin premieres on Netflix on October 23, 2026 — just 14 days from now — and that is excellent news for anyone who has missed the show’s particular blend of gentleman-thief elegance, emotional stakes and breathless Parisian cat-and-mouse action. The French crime drama returns with Omar Sy as Assane Diop, the master of disguise inspired by Arsène Lupin, and this new chapter looks set to push him into exactly the kind of impossible corner that made the series a global phenomenon. If your BetaSeries calendar has a gap for late October, this is the moment to fill it.

For viewers who have not revisited Lupin in a while, the essential setup is simple: Assane Diop has spent the series using the mythology, tricks and theatrical intelligence of Arsène Lupin to avenge his father Babakar, who was destroyed by the powerful Pellegrini family. Assane is not just a thief; he is a strategist, a performer and a son still haunted by an injustice that shaped his entire life. Previous seasons tied together revenge, corruption, police pursuit and Assane’s complicated family life with Claire and their son Raoul. That is all you really need going into Season 3: Assane may be brilliant at disappearing, but the people he loves are the one thing he cannot leave behind.

That emotional conflict appears to be the engine of the new season from the very first episode. Season 3 opens with Assane devising a plan to make things right with Claire and Raoul by getting them out of France. It is a classic Lupin premise: the solution sounds simple, but the execution requires nerve, deception and perfect timing. The official summary makes one thing clear — the stakes are higher, the margin for error is gone and Assane’s genius may not be enough if his enemies are already anticipating his next move. This is exactly the kind of immediate pressure the show does best, turning a family decision into a full-scale criminal operation.

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