Character Relationship Map: Ca$h

Characters

• Cash (played by Jean Dujardin) — protagonist

  A highly skilled professional con artist and thief who orchestrates elaborate confidence tricks for profit. Initially targets a wealthy family but is tested and recruited by a master criminal. Ultimat...

• Julia (played by Valeria Golino) — supporting

  An ambitious Interpol lieutenant pursuing Cash and his gang. Driven by promotion pressures, she gets forced into the criminals' confidence and participates in the heist, only to discover she is the ce...

• Garance (played by Alice Taglioni) — supporting

  A wealthy heiress targeted by Cash's confidence trick. Revealed to be a member of Maxime's gang playing the daughter role. She acts as both a con participant and Cash's romantic interest.

• Leblanc (played by Hubert Saint-Macary) — supporting

  An Internal Affairs agent from Brussels. Questions Julia about her investigation methods and tracks down evidence. His team trashes Julia's flat during their inquiry.

• François (played by François Berléand) — supporting

  A pool hall owner and Cash's mentor. A seasoned crew member who attempts a double-cross during the diamond heist to steal the jewels directly from the mine owner's room, but is ultimately outmaneuvere...

• Lebrun (played by Jocelyn Quivrin) — minor

  An Internal Affairs agent accompanying Leblanc. Participates in questioning Julia and searching her apartment for evidence related to her promotion and Interpol corruption rumors.

• Lardier (played by Christian Hecq) — minor

  A courier who initially handles business for Maxime. He executes a shooting of Cash's brother at a bank, an act later revealed to have been ordered by Julia to cover up skimming Interpol funds.

• Finley (played by Joe Sheridan) — minor

  A senior Interpol agent and Julia's rival for a promotion. Helps Barnes interrogate Lardier regarding the past bank murder.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Finley → Lardier (Professional Interrogator And Suspect) — Finley contributes to the official investigation into Lardier's connection with the murder.

  Finley helps question Lardier after Barnes and Finley pick him up following a tip, and the questioning reaches the bank killing from the previous year...

• Julia → Lebrun (Professional Investigative Subject) — Lebrun participates in the internal investigation that threatens Julia's position.

  Lebrun accompanies Leblanc while questioning Julia and searching her apartment for evidence connected to the corruption rumors.

• Julia → Leblanc (Professional Investigative Subject) — Leblanc investigates Julia's conduct and places her professional future under scrutiny.

  Leblanc questions Julia about her investigations, methods, promotion candidacy, and rumors that seized money has gone missing.

• Julia → Finley (Professional Promotion Rival) — Competition for advancement shapes Julia's pursuit of Cash and her willingness to take risks.

  Julia is told that she and Finley are both candidates for their superior's position, and she seeks an arrest to improve her promotion chances.

• Julia → Lardier (Professional Secret Employer) — Julia covertly directs Lardier to eliminate a liability connected to her corruption.

  The plot reveals that Julia ordered Lardier to kill Cash's brother after discovering that he was taking money she had skimmed from confiscated Interpo...

• Cash → Garance (Romantic Interest) — Cash's genuine feelings make him vulnerable during a con that is otherwise carefully controlled.

  Cash begins to develop feelings for Garance during the charity auction and pays €18,000 to protect a hippopotamus in Africa.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Lardier → Cash (Conflict Brother's Killer) — Lardier's murder of Cash's brother creates a personal link between Cash and the central corruption conspiracy.

  Lardier shoots Cash's brother several times with a silenced pistol at the bank.

• Cash → Julia (Conflict Pursuer And Fugitive) — Their relationship begins as a law-enforcement pursuit and becomes an unstable collaboration.

  Julia places Cash under Interpol surveillance, while Cash flees from the mercenaries and accepts her offer to hide him in her surveillance vehicle.

• Cash → François (Social Mentor And Protégé) — François provides Cash with an older criminal connection and a place for strategic discussions.

  François owns the pool hall identified as Cash's mentor's establishment, and Cash visits him there to discuss the planned job.

Story Analysis

A professional con artist and an ambitious investigator become entangled in layered deception, corruption, revenge, and a staged diamond robbery.

Plot Progression

1. A Murder Behind The Con — A bank killing connects Lardier to Cash's family and establishes the hidden criminal history surrounding the protagonist. Julia begins tracking Cash while competing for professional advancement.
2. The Heiress Trap — Cash targets Garance while mercenaries pursue him over counterfeit printing plates. Julia hides him and forces him to disclose the outline of his confidence trick.
3. Love And Rejection — Cash attends the charity auction with Julia and begins to fall for Garance. The event is exposed as a test designed to judge Cash's suitability for a criminal group.
4. Pressure From Within — Cash retaliates against the replacement chosen over him and is then invited into the Riviera diamond heist. Julia faces questioning, an interrogation linked to the old murder, and an invasive apartmen...
5. The Stolen Diamond Case — The hotel operation collapses when François attempts an independent theft and Julia takes the jewel case. The case is switched, and the final gathering exposes the conspiracy against Julia.