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Cell Test - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Michael is in the infirmary raising his hands to his face, camera cuts and he does the motion again. Camera cuts again and he performs the motion for a third time. (00:02:30)

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Rendezvous - S2-E10

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning when the van is chasing the police car, watch the position of the van. It gets nearly alongside the cop car, only to jump behind it when the scene changes. (00:04:40)

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Flight - S1-E22

Continuity mistake: The blood mark the young inmate leaves on the concrete changes from the time its made until when its found. When its made it is just a small blotch. When Bellick finds it, it is a full on hand print. (00:10:30 - 00:14:25)

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Fin del camino - S2-E21

Continuity mistake: While Michael is speaking on the phone to the Spanish operator, the small antenna on his phone is raised, but when he starts speaking with Alex and the shot changes back to Michael the small antenna seems to have disappeared. (00:38:15)

Subdivision - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: When the kid returns from the store and opens the trunk, Michael and T-bag both grab a shovel, Michael grabs the green and T-bag grabs the silver handled shovel. The next shot they have switched shovels and keep the switched shovels the rest of the scene. (01:17:30)

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Suggested correction: Both handles are green. The sun is reflecting on the one due to the angle and the glare gives the impression of being silver.

Ssiscool

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Manhunt - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: At the end, the way Sara holds the swan changes between shots. In one shot, she has both fingers behind the swan's neck, then one behind and 1 in front. (00:38:50)

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Breaking and Entering - S4-E2

Continuity mistake: At the car dealer where Don Self speaks to the seller, the seller says "How did you find me?" and they are inside the car dealership. Don responds with "I've never lost you". Suddenly when Don answers they are outside the building, like they teleported. (00:13:25)

Season 1 generally

Factual error: When Michael fills the tank with water (below the stock room), he then strips his clothes off, and slides down a pipe and into the water at the bottom of the tank. Since the water level was way above him, the pipe he slid down and the access to get there would have been flooded also. There was no water in the pipe he slid down, so for that area to be dry, it would have to be above the water line.

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Trivia: The show was filmed in an actual prison (now unused) in Joliet. The death row cell used for Lincoln Burrows is the actual death row cell that held serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

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Answer: Roughly as follows. Linc "kills" Steadman in 2001. Michael robs the bank on March 9th 2005 and is sent to Fox River on April 11th. The breakout from Fox River takes place on or around May 25-31. Michael arrives in Sona on June 17th 2005. More details are here: https://prisonbreak.fandom.com/wiki/Prison_Break_timeline.

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That wouldn't make sense because the original grave stone in series 4 has Michael's death date as 2005, which is supposed to be at least 3 years after Fox River.

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