Over the past year I have seen a few headlines on the Wirecard scandal in Germany and took a closer look. That closer look took me through a series of events beginning in 2002 through Wirecard's downfall in 2020, which read more like a movie or a novel than real life. Dan McCrum, a writer for the Financial Times in London, wrote a series of articles on Wirecard that questioned its accounting. The story has so many players, events, and twists and turns that I can only highlight a few of them here.