A curator for a small museum, Mrs. Ellen(Toby Poser) and a professional art authenticator, Bernard Jackson(Tom Bloom), are found dead in a flat containing priceless paintings which has Eames and Goren curious as to why they were set up as a murder-suicide when it appears that the motive wasn't robbery. In this episode we see that Goren is in fact a fountain of knowledge, not only is his art expertise astonishing, but he also can speak German. Not to get too technical, the plot yields such interesting twists as the forgeries of Jewish paintings(paintings from Jews killed in the Holocaust, confiscated by the Nazis)and a tax scam providing great profits when wealthy owners had their prize work shown in smaller museums. The potential suspects are a German art seller, Rudy Langer(Tomas Arana), who detests Americans and their "inadequate tastes" in paintings and a master forger looking for her own chance to feature original work, Sylvia Moon(Elizabeth Marvel). A specific ingredient found in the paint of a forged Monet unable to be verified turns out to be crushed algae pellets for aquarium fish! The supposed suicidal hanging of the curator just might relate to another one, this one a student who shared a room in college with Moon. Moon also was a student under murdered art authenticator when he was a professor(a sexual relationship is also discovered).
Review of Art
