She's bored, jaded and utterly relentless - an insurance investigator who'll do anything to recover the preposterously valuable Monet that he pilfered, brilliantly and seamlessly, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Men make women messy.
Sounds cliche, and in a way it is. As the movie begins, Crown is present one morning at the Met while an elaborate theft is being set up in the bowels of the building. Later in the day, Crown returns - and the theft unfolds before his very eyes. As it distracts others, he sweeps in to the Impressionist room and coolly swipes the Monet. Banning is dispatched from Switzerland to investigate, and immediately suspects Crown.