Lupin Part 2 finally gives Assane Diop proof against Hubert Pellegrini, but it does not give him a normal life. Assane forces Pellegrini to confess to framing Babakar, the police arrest Pellegrini and Dumont, and then Assane leaves Claire and Raoul because beating his enemy has not made the danger around him disappear.
Spoiler warning: This article explains Episodes 9 and 10 and the ending of Lupin Part 2.
How Assane finally proves what Pellegrini did
The final operation uses Pellegrini’s own public event against him. Assane gets close enough to force the truth into the open: Pellegrini admits that he hired Babakar and framed him for stealing the necklace because he wanted the insurance money.
That confession answers the injustice that began Assane’s obsession. His father did not betray the Pellegrini family. He was used as the convenient person to carry the blame for a crime designed by his employer.
Why Dumont also falls
Pellegrini’s protection depended on more than his own money. Commissioner Dumont repeatedly helped keep the system around him intact. By the finale, the police officers pursuing Assane have enough information to turn on Dumont instead.
Pellegrini is arrested for the kidnapping of Raoul and for the deaths tied to the conspiracy, while Dumont’s authority collapses. Assane wins the case he has been building since the Louvre robbery.
Why Assane still leaves Claire and Raoul
The victory does not erase what his methods have cost his family. Raoul has been kidnapped, Claire has lived through police pressure and Assane remains a wanted man whose plans repeatedly pull the people closest to him into danger.
At the bridge connected to Raoul’s name, Assane tells them the Pellegrini fight is over but admits Claire was right about the larger problem. He is still causing them harm. So he leaves with a promise that he will return and watch over them even if they cannot see him.
That farewell directly sets up the life on the run explored in Part 3, when Assane eventually concludes that disappearing is not enough and chooses prison to free his family from the consequences of his schemes.
Is Pellegrini really defeated?
Part 2 treats the arrest as a genuine victory. Assane has exposed the original fraud and broken the protection that allowed Pellegrini to act without consequence.
But later parts make clear that arrest is not the same as removal from Assane’s life. That distinction gives the Part 2 ending a different meaning in retrospect. Assane believes he has completed the revenge he began for Babakar. What he has actually completed is only the first cycle of a rivalry capable of following him even into prison.
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