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Unlike the dowdy "Hanratty," Joe Shea was a sharp dresser and a savvy operator. He wasn't just a paper-pusher; he was a seasoned investigator who realized early on that Frank Abagnale wasn’t just a bank robber—he was a chameleon.

The movie dramatizes the capture with a tense confrontation in a warehouse. In reality, the climax of the Shea/Abagnale saga happened in Montreal. carl hanratty

: In a pivotal scene, Abagnale identifies a fake check for Hanratty by noting the paper is "double bonded," making it much too heavy to be a legitimate bank check, and that it lacked a perforated edge because it was "hand-cut, not fed". Unlike the dowdy "Hanratty," Joe Shea was a