Han van Meegeren sold a fake Vermeer to a Nazi war criminal, got arrested for collaboration after the war, and then had to paint another forgery in prison just to prove he was a liar — and the art world has never quite recovered from the embarrassment. This episode is about what happens when a con exposes not just one man's greed, but the entire system of connoisseurship as a performance of confidence over competence. It's also, uncomfortably, a story about how much we need the forgery to be real.