Han van Meegeren sold a fake Vermeer to Hermann Göring, then used that fact to escape a treason charge after the war — and the art world's most respected experts had been fooled for years. This is the story of a mediocre painter who became the greatest art forger of the 20th century, not because he was a genius, but because connoisseurship is mostly ego dressed up as expertise. If last episode taught us that states try to control art, this one asks: what happens when one desperate, bitter man controls what the state thinks it owns?