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Continuity mistake: When Sgt. Howie inspects the register at the school the first shot of the Beltane Term page shows Rowan Morrison's address as 'The Tuck Shop', when it switches to a closer panning shot her address is changed to 'The Post Office'. (00:32:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the shot where Mattie walks towards the toilet at her school, you can see there's a pencil in her hair pointing downwards. When she's inside the toilet, the pencil's direction and her hair have both changed.

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Continuity mistake: During the demonstration with the billiard balls as 'Indians', the balls are placed differently on the table depending on the take. (00:37:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Holmes reveals that Sir Evan is the mole, the Nazi gives a big smile and we can see that his entire right cheek is shadowed. In the next shot, there is no shadow on his face and he remains serious. In the next shot, Sir Evan smiles again and the shadow has returned. (00:58:56)

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Continuity mistake: Talking with the feds about the case, Cross says "This guy's a collector." Kyle Craig in the background goes from holding a pad to a folder, and then closes it multiple times when it was closed to begin with. (00:24:00)

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Continuity mistake: Joe is looking through his yearbook while Marie chats with the old headmistress. He finds the page with Adrian's photo. At first, the name under the photo is Adrian Pryce. In the closeup shot, it now reads Adrian Doyle Pryce. (01:12:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Holland shows the bartender the dollar bill in the shape of a shirt, he is smoking a cigarette before he takes the cigarette out of his mouth. Holland mentions to the bartender that he made it himself, with nothing in his mouth, but in the next shot, the cigarette is suddenly back. (00:09:45)

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Continuity mistake: Parker filled a beer pitcher and there was very little foam. After leaving from behind the bar, the beer pitcher was half foam. (00:20:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Barry tells Ray to go check if the fisherman is alive, Barry's flashlight keeps changing position from his right hand to his left hand. (00:15:58)

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Continuity mistake: When Dani is looking at Simon and Connie complaining to Ingemar after the female elder jumps off the cliff and they turn back to face towards it, Christian says "Oh my God" realising the male elder is about to jump off. At this moment, he has his left hand over his mouth and his right hand by his side. The shot then cuts and Christian now has his right hand over his mouth and his left hand on his chest. (01:10:55)

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Continuity mistake: In the classroom when Peter is being possessed, he slams his face down into his desk twice, splattering blood onto it. After he falls back screaming, the camera changes angles and now his desk is clear of blood. (01:38:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Murdock is in jail talking with Emma on the phones through the glass, he presses his fingers to hers, against the glass, & the glass shatters. Right when it is shattering & he pulls away, if you look very carefully you can see the reflection of his hand in an additional pane of glass that is still there! The next shot shows no glass as they kiss, but when the original glass breaks, there is still a pane of glass remaining, as evidenced by the reflection of his hand. (01:05:08)

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Continuity mistake: When the crime bosses meet up at the casino, in the exterior shot, there are a few items on the desk including a bottle, an ash tray, a plate with a slice of pizza and a newspaper. Later, when Batman appears and punches one of the crime bosses onto the table, the bottle, ash tray and plate have suddenly moved closer to the newspaper. (00:02:00 - 00:02:28)

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Continuity mistake: When Don Knotts is in the old Simmons mansion, he falls down a chute of some kind. If you watch closely you will see the stunt person looks nothing like Don Knotts. It is a younger man with very straight hair.

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Other mistake: After the third homicide, everyone gathers around the statuettes of the ten little Indians. Small problem, though. There are eleven little Indians. (00:42:20)

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Continuity mistake: Velma reluctantly agrees to Daphne's idea to check out of the mysterious locker. She says "We'll come up with something." Right part of the frame, and in the background there's an extra (black kid with a plaid white shirt) that is simultaneously also eating at the table in the reverse shot. (00:31:15)

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Continuity mistake: After Willis rescues the people, he's at breakfast with his son and wife. He slides the newspaper to his son. Close-up on paper (beside orange juice) shows "Bold" typestyle on story slug. Camera pans up to Willis, cuts to son, cut back to newspaper. Suddenly typestyle is italicised (noticeable on "f" in "found"). (01:34:30)

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Continuity mistake: At the start Edgar smashes his car up and kicks his window out and jumps out leaving a bit of glass in the window frame. However after the camera changes, the 2 bits of glass have disappeared. (00:01:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Sook-Hee is standing outside in the rain before leaving, she is shown holding an umbrella whilst it rains. She walks over to say goodbye, whilst still holding onto it. A second later, she leans in to kiss a baby on the head, and the umbrella is no longer there. It is shown later that she placed the umbrella on the ground, but she was not shown doing this earlier in the scene. It just disappears in between shots. (00:02:20)

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