In the early hours of 9 July 1994, the deputy director of London's Tate Gallery, Sandy Nairne, is woken with devastating news. Two of the gallery's most valuable paintings have been stolen while on loan to the Schirn gallery in Frankfurt, Germany.

A look at the theft of a self-portrait of Rembrandt in a brutal robbery in Stockholm. The investigation takes a surprising twist involving charismatic FBI agents operating in Hollywood.

In 1994, Munch's The Scream is ripped from a gallery wall in Oslo.The detectives leading the investigation describe a complex and dangerous investigation which exposes the lengths to which criminals will go to gain a get-out-of-jail card for murder.