<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view . Please clean it up to conform to a higher standard of quality, and to make it neutral in tone . (July 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view . Please clean it up to conform to a higher standard of quality, and to make it neutral in tone . (July 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an attempted robbery of precious paintings fails when museum employees discover imposters posing as staff who have been smuggled in using a Trojan Horse . In all the confusion of locking down the museum and capturing the robbers, billionaire Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) slips into an adjacent room and steals the painting of San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Monet . The insurers of the $100 million artwork send investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) to assist NYPD Detective Michael McCann (Denis Leary) in solving the crime . McCann is annoyed that he has a civilian involved in the investigation, but is attracted to Banning . He asks his second in command to do a background check on her and finds she is more than just a pretty face . </P> <P> The next morning as the police are reviewing video of the robbery, Banning shows up . They notice that the room containing the Monet couldn't be seen on the screen . In discussing why with a museum employee, they deduce that something caused the temperature to rise in that room so the new cameras couldn't differentiate between people and walls . She goes back to the room with Michael where she realizes that one of the benches only has two legs when in the video it had three . They then brainstorm over what could have been in the briefcase to cause the change in temperature . Crown not only shows up to finger one of the detained robbers, but donates one of his own personal paintings that fits the same space as the Monet . After watching Crown, she looks up who has been attempting to buy Monets and finds his name on the list again and again . She convinces Michael to let her begin surveillance on him and finds that he is someone who would steal the painting not for the money, but for the excitement . After the press conference donating the new painting, Catherine attracts Crown by intimating that she knows what he did . On her way out, he asks her for a date and she accepts . </P>

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