David McCloskey

That very up-to-date nitty gritty detail is really, really important.

The Canadian ambassador, so Taylor's wife, had been booking and rebooking tickets across multiple dates.

So that whenever the green light for the operation came, they would have seats on a flight on that day.

The film shows the Bryan Cranston character, Affleck's boss in charge of the tickets.

But the real tickets had been purchased in Tehran by the Canadian ambassador's wife.

The secondary documents you talked about, Gordon, Canadian driver's licenses, apparently very difficult to maintain because again, you want that to be a real driver's license.

Mendes had one of his guys spending over a week in Ottawa working out with the Canadians how you get the driver's licenses.

You need health cards.

You need business cards, obviously, in each house guest's name.

You mentioned the Guild Union cards.

You need those.

Receipts, ticket stubs, dry cleaning slips.

You need to look like you are coming from...

montreal toronto vancouver la and that in your wallet in your belongings is the actual life of a person because you think that you don't travel with a bag that's totally empty of this stuff yeah so once you've got all of that together we're heading towards the end of january now aren't we where effectively you've got this

He's not.

And this guy's totally written out of the film.

But by late January, Mendez

and his partner are in Frankfurt, Germany doing final preparations.

Now, his partner is a guy he calls Julio in the book.

Julio is actually a guy named Ed Johnson, who is a CIA linguist who had worked with Mendez on previous operations, and he's also got a lot of documents expertise.