The Black Chateau

"What Dimitri plans to do with the Clockwerk part is beyond me, but those plans end tonight."

- Sly Cooper, from the episode's introduction

"The Black Chateau" is the first episode of Sly 2: Band of Thieves. It was set in Paris, France, and the main antagonist was Dimitri Lousteau.

The Setup
The Cooper Gang went to Paris to track down Dimitri Lousteau, who was described by Sly as an underworld celebrity, equally at home in high-class art circles and shady back-alley crimes.

Dimitri was once a passionate, young art student, whose art techniques and visionary style were rejected by the art world. He then turned to a life of crime and began forging old masterpieces. He then became the owner of a nightclub on the west side of Paris, which would lure chic, young patrons from far and wide.

Somewhere in Dimitri's nightclub were the Clockwerk's first body part, his tail feathers. While the gang had no idea what Dimitri's plans were, they vowed that night they would put an end to them.

The Getaway
The gang successfully thwarted Dimitri's counterfeiting operation and made off with Clockwerk's tail feathers. The gang's escape got tricky due to Carmelita and Neyla arriving on scene to arrest Dimitri and shut down his nightclub. In celebration of a successful heist, the gang spent a week in Monaco, where Bentley wanted to practice his new card counting formula.

Map
The safe is located in Dimitri's office and is opened with the combination 2-3-1. Upon opening it, Sly receives the Knockout Dive.

Behind the scenes
Since this is an episode in Sly 2 where the main antagonist is defeated, if one hovers over the episode in the episode list, an INTERPOL symbol appears in the bottom left-hand corner. By pressing upon seeing the icon, the player can watch a bonus video of a cinematic heist pulled off by the Cooper Gang.

In the PAL version of the game, the gambling scene was removed from the getaway cutscene. As The Sly Collection was likely a port of the PAL version of the game (due to the tendency for these later released versions to have minor bug fixes and faster load times), it also is missing the gambling scene.