00:00Hi, welcome back to my channel, in this video, I will explain the ending of Rough Diamonds,
00:04so let's begin.
00:06Netflix's crime drama Rough Diamonds follows the story of the Wolfsons, a family of diamond
00:10traders living in Antwerp.
00:13Their business had been struggling for a while.
00:15The death of a family member triggers everything that has already been hanging by a thread.
00:20When Noah returns, it is to pay respects to his younger brother, but then he discovers
00:24that his family is in a bind.
00:26Noah decides to stay long enough to help them, but things soon get out of his hands.
00:31Over the course of 8 episodes, the show goes through many twists and turns, completely
00:35upturning any plans that Noah had for himself and his family.
00:39Here's what happens to him in the end, just to let you know this video will contain spoilers.
00:43One day, Yankee Wolfson walks into his family's office in the Diamond District in Antwerp
00:48and shoots himself in the head.
00:50This tragedy brings back his estranged brother, Noah, who had left the family 15 years ago
00:54and moved to London.
00:56Noah discovers that Yankee was into gambling and owed a lot of money to some dangerous
00:59people.
01:00Noah, who has become a part of a crime family in London, deals with the situation, but then
01:05he discovers that the mess is bigger than he'd imagined.
01:09His family is in millions of dollars of debt, and no amount of threatening and haranguing
01:12from Noah can get them out of it.
01:15Their money is stuck in the pockets of an Albanian mob boss, which has obstructed the
01:18cash flow, creating problems for the Wolfson family.
01:22With the help of his mother-in-law, Kara, Noah strikes a deal with the Albanians.
01:27He believes it is a one-time thing, but the Albanians make it clear that they will not
01:30let go of the cash cow so quickly.
01:33Does Noah stay in Antwerp?
01:35Noah ran away from his family 15 years ago because he didn't want to live the life laid
01:39out for him.
01:40He felt suffocated there, so he moved to London to find his freedom.
01:44He returns to Antwerp to attend his younger brother's funeral.
01:48If things had been fine in the family, Noah would have returned on the next flight back.
01:52However, he sticks around to help them.
01:55Whenever Noah thinks that he is done and that the problem has been solved, and he can go
01:58back to London, something new comes up, and he is forced to stay in Antwerp.
02:02Ultimately, he comes up with a way to deal with their problems in one clean move.
02:07The greatest danger to the Wolfson family is the Albanians.
02:11They owed a million and a half to Noah's family, but the Wolfsons had to strike a new deal
02:14with them to get their money.
02:16They wanted to use diamonds to launder their money, and this task was delegated to the
02:20Wolfson family.
02:22The second threat to the family comes from the prosecutor, Joe Smets.
02:26She was looking into the Albanians but then turned towards the corruption in the Diamond
02:29District.
02:31She had Eli in her clutches and almost signed him on as a state witness.
02:35When he refused to do her bidding, she found another witness who held a grudge against
02:39the Wolfson siblings.
02:41Even when the powers in the Diamond District tried to settle the case out of court, Smets
02:44held the settlement.
02:46If she prevented it from being signed, then the Wolfsons and other traitors would have
02:49to appear in court, and no one wanted to be questioned on the stand about their secret
02:53dealings in the past.
02:55Noah proposes a plan to give Smets what she wants and simultaneously get her and the Albanians
03:00off their back.
03:01With Kara's help, he robs the Canadian mining company next door to the Wolfson office.
03:06The loot is to be divided into three parts.
03:10One part goes to Kara and Noah in London.
03:13The second part belongs to the Albanians, and the third is reserved for Noah's family
03:16in Antwerp.
03:18Kara gets her part in London, and Noah's family won't receive the diamonds until the
03:21whole thing with the prosecutor blows off.
03:24Noah figures out the location where the Albanians are hiding the diamonds and shares it with
03:28Smets.
03:30He will give her the Albanians, in return for which he wants her to let the settlement
03:33pass and stop looking into the ongoings in the Diamond District.
03:37Smets agrees to the plan, but when she reaches the location that Noah gave her, she finds
03:41it empty.
03:43There are no diamonds.
03:44Later, Noah discovers that someone inside the police force tipped the Albanians about
03:49the raid, allowing them to hide the diamonds somewhere else.
03:52This means that Smets has nothing, so she can't go after the Albanians, which implies
03:56that the primary threat still lingers on his family.
03:59However, he can get the prosecution off his back, so he gives Smets something else to
04:03work with.
04:05However, this means that he won't be able to leave Antwerp anytime soon.
04:09His alternate life in London is gone, and he can't go back there anymore.
04:13Moreover, he starts to feel increasingly at home in Antwerp and is eventually placed in
04:17the same seat as his father, making him the de facto leader of the Wolfson family.
04:22What happens to Kara and the Albanians?
04:25When Noah went to London for a fresh start, he ended up working for Kara McCabe, a mob
04:29boss who controlled the drug scene of South London.
04:32He fell in love with her daughter, Joanne, and had a son, Tommy.
04:36Joanne died, but Noah kept working for Kara.
04:39While handling his family's problems in Antwerp, Noah collaborates with Kara to handle the
04:43Albanians.
04:45He also clarifies several times that he will always choose his family over her.
04:49He reiterates this in the end.
04:52Noah strikes a deal with Smets.
04:54She will drop the charges she'd accumulated on her family and the secret bank that handled
04:58their money.
05:00In return, he'd get her the stolen diamonds and the Albanians.
05:03When he fails to deliver both these things, Smets threatens to take him into custody and
05:08send him to jail for any charges she can easily slap on him.
05:11There is only one thing that Noah can do now.
05:14He doesn't know where the Albanians relocated the diamonds, but he does know that part of
05:18it is already in London with Kara.
05:20Noah gives the details of Kara's operation to Smets.
05:24If he can't give her all the diamonds, he will give her a part of it, enough for the
05:27news to make the headlines.
05:29He is allowed to go free, but hellfire reigns on Kara's operation in London.
05:34When the diamonds are found in her possession, she is arrested.
05:38The seizure of the place from where she ran her operations also means that the prosecution
05:41will have enough to build a case against her and send her to prison for a very long time.
05:46In return for some lenience in her sentence, Kara gives up the name of the lawyer who had
05:50set her up with the Albanians.
05:52In Antwerp, the prosecution approaches the lawyer and is persuaded to come under witness
05:56protection in return for testifying against the Albanians, he signs the papers, indicating
06:01that he is ready to go through with it.
06:03However, in the next scene, he is shot dead, presumably by the Albanians, which means that
06:08Smets will have to wait a little longer to get her hands on them.
06:11Do Noah and Hila end up together?
06:14When Noah left Antwerp, he didn't just leave behind his family and business.
06:18He also abandoned Hila, the girl he was supposed to marry.
06:22With him gone, the family tried to fix the situation, and Hila was married off to his
06:26younger brother, Yankee.
06:28Despite having two children with Yankee, Hila still loved Noah.
06:32However, she also knows that she will never have a future with him, even after he returns,
06:36and tries to convince her otherwise.
06:39After Yankee's death, Hila is advised by the women to find another husband as soon as possible.
06:44They force her into settling for older men, considering that no eligible bachelor would
06:48want to marry the widow of a man who killed himself.
06:50However, Hila ends up crossing paths with Yehuda, a young widower who lives in New York.
06:56Hila realizes they have a lot in common, and Yehuda is open-minded, which means she can
07:00do whatever she wants in New York.
07:02She can finally enjoy the freedom she didn't have in Antwerp.
07:05By this time, she and Noah had rekindled their romance.
07:09When he discovers she is marrying someone else, he tries to change her mind by offering
07:13her a future with him in London.
07:15Considering his past record, Hila is skeptical of his promises, but she still hopes to have
07:19that life with him.
07:21Noah decides to leave the life of crime once the Albanians are dealt with, and his family
07:25is safe.
07:26However, his plans go awry, and when he gives up Kara to the cops, he shuts down the possibility
07:31of London.
07:33Noah tells Hila about the complication, but she already knows that he wouldn't leave
07:36Antwerp even if things had gone right.
07:39Ever since he returned and got involved in the family business, he'd started carving
07:42a place for himself in the family, and had become more and more comfortable in the ways
07:46he'd run away from 15 years ago.
07:49Even before he told her they couldn't go to London, she knew they had no future together.
07:53So, she tells him that things are over between them.
07:57She is moving to New York and will marry Yehuda rather than waiting for Noah to come through
08:00on his promises.
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