In August 1988, Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski robbed a bank in Gladbeck. When the robbery fails, they take two hostages.
Offish American Business man James Parker tries to desperately purchase a old castle in the city of Prague from the two local owners that use various tricks to get him to turn away from investing in it.
Each episode reenacts a true story sourced directly from Royal Canadian Mounted Police case files.