On 21st December 1988, 259 passengers and crew, many Americans on their way home from England, were just beginning to relax on a 747 jumbo jet. Suddenly, a blast from the cargo hold blew a hole the size of a dinner plate in the airliner's skin. Although small, the opening caused a drastic loss of air pressure that broke the plane into pieces as it flew over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Luggage, airplane parts, and people begin falling toward the town below. Within minutes, an explosion stretching 350 feet into the air shattered a quiet neighbourhood. Eight homes were incinerated. Across town, a piece of the plane's cabin crushed two more houses. Emergency crews were immediately dispatched, but it was far too late for a rescue mission.

More than four million pieces of wreckage were spread over 845 square miles of northern England and southern Scotland. In total, 270 people were dead. At the time, it was the worst act of airline terrorism against the United States.

Investigators immediately suspected terrorism. They quickly determined that a bomb packed inside a Toshiba radio-cassette player brought down Flight 103. The discovery focused suspicion on a radical Palestinian organization with ties to both Syria and Iran. The group had been caught making similar bombs and was known to target US interests.

Before long, tiny fragments of evidence found in the fields near Lockerbie begin to paint a different picture. Pieces of charred clothing and a circuit board the size of a thumbnail soon pointed detectives toward the African nation of Libya. Like Syria and Iran, the country was known to sponsor terrorism and Libya's leader, Colonel Moammar Qadhafi, held a grudge against the United States.

The Final Report explores the amazing detective work that produced two indictments against Libyan intelligence agents, as well as the political maneuvering that finally brought them both to trial. In the end, one man would go to jail for the deaths of 270 people, leaving some to declare victory, while others cried foul.