Han van Meegeren sold a fake Vermeer to a Nazi war criminal and somehow became a Dutch national hero — and that's actually the least interesting thing about him. This episode tears into what the van Meegeren scandal reveals about authentication, expertise, and the uncomfortable truth that the art world's gatekeepers have always been more invested in protecting their own credibility than in finding the truth. If last week was about who controls taste, this week is about who controls reality.