Catch Me If You Can Page #4

Tell her I'm sorry that I could

not take her to the Junior Prom.

Love, your son, Frank.

Hello, how are you?

Fine, thank you.

I have a payroll check here

I'd like to cash.

Certainly.

Thank you.

Uh, excuse me.

I'm sure you hear this

all the time

but you have the most

beautiful eyes I have ever seen.

Yeah, I do get that

all the time.

How would you like it?

Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

We won't have any cash until

the banks open in an hour

but, uh, I'm sure

they can cash your check

at the airport.

The airport?

Who cashes checks

at the airport?

Well, the airlines, sir.

They've always taken care

of their own.

Hello.

Hi. Are you deadheading?

What?

Are you my deadhead to Miami?

Mi...?

Yes, yes.

Yeah, I'm the deadhead.

Here you go.

You're a little late,

but the jump seat is open.

You know

it's been awhile

since I've done this.

Which one's the jump seat again?

Have a nice flight.

Are you my deadhead?

Frank, Captain Oliver.

- John Larkin, the copilot.

- Hello.

Fred Tulley, flight engineer.

Frank Taylor, Pan Am.

Thanks for giving me a lift,

boys.

Go ahead and take a seat, Frank.

We're about to push.

What kind of equipment you on,

DC-:
?

Uh, 707.

You turning around

on the redeye?

Uh, I'm jumping puddles

for the next few months

trying to earn my keep

running leapfrogs

for the weak and weary.

No shame in that.

We all did it.

Have a seat.

Thank you.

Would you like a drink

after takeoff?

M-Milk?

Check.

V-one. Rotate.

V-two. Positive rate.

Gear up.

Dear Dad:

Today was graduation.

I am now a copilot

earning $1,400 a month

plus benefits

and the best part is

they tell me

my family can fly for free.

So tell Mom to pack her bags

and buy a new swimsuit

because I'm taking us all

to Hawaii for Christmas.

I love you, Dad.

Aloha, Frank.

Hello, deadhead.

Hello.

Enjoying your free ride?

Marci...

did you drop this?

Must've slipped

right off your neck.

No...

No!

No...

Yes, yes, yes, yes!

Yes!

Why are you stopping?

I want to tell you something,

Marci.

This is by far...

the best date I have ever

been on.

I'd like to open a Money Market,

please.

Okay.

Welcome to Miami Mutual Bank.

How may I help you?

My name is Frank Taylor.

I'm a copilot for Pan Am.

I'd like to cash

this check here, and then

I'd like to take you out

for a steak dinner.

And then we feed the checks

into the MICR machine

which uses special ink

to encode the account numbers

on the bottom of the checks.

And where are these numbers?

They're, um... right here.

Right there?

see?

They're called routing numbers.

so where do the checks

get routed to?

You know, I don't exactly know.

Nobody ever

asked me that before.

Our next item up for bid

is also from the Jersey

Central Bank foreclosure.

This is a MICR encoder

a machine used

to encode bank checks.

Do I have an opening bid?

Our unknown subject

is a paperhanger

who started working

on the East Coast.

In the last few weeks,

this unsub has developed

a new form of check fraud

which I'm calling "the float."

What he's doing is

he's opening checking accounts

at various banks

then changing the MICR ink

routing numbers

at the bottom of those checks.

Next slide, please.

Next slide, please.

Uh, the remote thing is broken.

You'll have to do it by hand.

You've gotta... try the...

Agent Mullen, it should be...

it should be the square button

just there by the side.

This carousel doesn't work.

It's a bad carousel

you got there.

Thank you, Agent Mullen.

Got to move it manually.

This is a map of the 12 banks

of the U.s. Federal Reserve.

slide.

MICR scanners at every bank

read these numbers

at the bottom of a check...

slide...

and then, ship that check off

to its corresponding branch.

Carl, for those of us who are

unfamiliar with bank fraud

you mind telling us

what the hell

you're talking about?

The East Coast branches are

numbered zero-one to zero-six.

The central branch

is zero-seven, zero-eight

so on, so forth.

You mean those numbers

on the bottom of a check

actually mean something?

All of this was in the report

I filed two days ago.

If you change...

a zero-two to a one-two

that means that check,

which was cashed in New York

does not go

to the New York Federal Branch

but it is rerouted

all the way to the san Francisco

Federal Branch.

The bank doesn't even know the

check has bounced for two weeks

which means our unsub can stay

in one place

paper the same city

over and over again

while his checks circle

the country.

You know,

you want to talk to my wife.

she's the one balances

the checkbook at our house.

Next slide.

Daddy!

My son, the birdman.

some uniform, Frank.

What do you think?

Nice.

sit down.

so, Dad... Daddy, have you

gotten the postcards?

Of course.

This fork is ice cold.

No, no, Dad, th-that's

a chilled salad fork.

It's a fancy restaurant,

you know.

Well, here...

I-I got you something.

What's that?

Open it.

You know what those are, right?

Those are the keys

to a 1965 Cadillac

DeVille convertible.

Brand-new, Dad.

Red with white interior

split seats,

air conditioning, the works.

Are you giving me a Cadillac?

Yeah. I'm giving you a Cadillac.

Dad, sh-she's parked downstairs.

When we're done eating lunch

why don't you, you know,

drive on over to Mom's house

pick her up,

take a little joyride?

Do you know what would happen

if the IRs found out

I was driving around

in a new coupe?

I took the train here, Frank.

I'm taking the train home.

All right.

I have plenty of money.

You know, if you

ever, ever need anything...

You worried?

About me?

No, I'm not... I'm not worried.

You think I can't buy

my own car?

Two mice fell

in a bucket of cream, Frank.

Which one am I?

You're that second mouse.

I went by the store today.

I had to close the store

for awhile.

It's all about timing, Frank.

The goddamn government

knows that.

They hit you when you're down.

I wasn't going to let them

take it from me, so I just...

shut the doors myself,

called their bluff.

sooner or later,

they'll forget about me.

I understand, I...

Have you told Ma?

she's so stubborn, your mother.

Don't worry.

I'm not going to let her go

without a fight.

I been fighting for us...

Dad?

...since the day we... we met.

Daddy, out of all those men

you were the one that

took her home, remember that.

that tiny social hall

watching her dance.

What was the name of that town?

Montrichard, Dad.

Yeah.

I didn't speak a word of French

and six weeks later,

she was my wi...

she's your wife.

My son bought me

a Cadillac today.

I think that calls for a toast.

To the best damn pilot

in the sky.

It's not what you think.

I'm just a copilot.

You see these people staring

at you?

These are

the most powerful people

in New York City

and they keep peeking

over their shoulders

wondering where

you're going tonight.

Where you going, Frank?

Dad, nobody's staring at me.

some place exotic?

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