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Part 9 - S1-E9

Other mistake: When we first see Gordon aboard his jet, the shot of the jet from the outside is a flipped shot. Note the lettering on the right engine.

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The Bullet - S1-E17

Other mistake: After learning Carl Hamlin had been shot with a 9mm bullet instead of a .38 revolver, the detectives, along with Ray Murray from SID, return to the scene where they conclude no one could have shot Hamlin and left the study. Murray asked Friday if they had seen an empty shell casing, to which Friday correctly replies that "there was no reason to look for one." However, they start to look around the study to find one after already realizing that he could not possibly have been shot there.

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The Chameleon - S1-E31

Other mistake: Mace's chest camera sends images from impossible angles - including several that include Mace himself. At the end, his superiors watch him from a camera that's obviously mounted in a tree and not on his person. Yet when Mace smashes his chest camera, the transmission goes dead anyway. (00:48:00)

Jean G

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Turnabout - S1-E2

Other mistake: When Tom is sitting in the chair reading Ellen Combs' medical/surveillance file, the page he is reading just contains the lyrics from the Ella Fitzgerald song "Someone to Watch Over Me".

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Episode #5.6 - S5-E6

Other mistake: The caption at the end says that Steve was cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting of "Police Constable Martina Tranter." She was actually a Police Sergeant.

Necrothesp

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Episode #1.7 - S1-E7

Other mistake: Surveillance cameras are shown on monitors when the mass panic kicks in even though any chip-dependent electronics shouldn't work in the game world (previously stated by Chotu). (00:08:20)

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Episode #1.15 - S1-E15

Other mistake: Laura is in the security control room of the plant, and finds a Master Lock Console screen; she sees it has Biometric Scan access and comments to Rich "It's not a retina scanner. It works on biometrics." She then brings up a photo ID of an employee on the monitor, lifts up the scanner and places it against the monitor, to get access. Firstly, retinal scans ARE biometric. She should have said "It's not an iris scanner," which requires a physical eyeball to scan. Secondly, no monitor from the 2005 period would be high-resolution enough to fool a biometric scanner. (00:25:20)

David R Turner

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All the Time in the World - S4-E19

Other mistake: Charlotte enters the Duchess' bedroom, walks past Pete & Myka, with her hand behind her back, hiding something. She stands in front of them, trained security people; neither of them notice the gun in her hand (which is visible to the camera, so it is not hidden via artifact), before she shoots her husband.

DavidRTurner

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Suggested correction: His name is Harry Markham. He doesn't say Malcom.

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Suggested correction: Be more specific. What part of the opening credits?

tomthemill

When their shadows are black and going across the screen from right to left.

Rob245

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The Patience of Maigret - S1-E1

Other mistake: A newspaper headline reads "MAIGRET tient t'il enfin le tueur?" This makes no sense in French. It should read "MAIGRET tient-il enfin le tueur?" ("Does Maigret have the killer at last?"). (00:27:55)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Other mistake: Weol-ju goes into the forest at night and sees her house has been set on fire. From where she is standing, there is a large distance between her and the house, and the fire is so huge, that she can see it all the way from the forest. She then runs back, and given the distance between the forest and the house, should have taken a while, but the house is still in the middle of burning down when she arrives. The fire should've definitely worsened during her run back to the house. (00:12:23)

Casual Person

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Voices Carry - S2-E2

Other mistake: The rear windshield of the car was supposedly shot out, but you can see the defroster lines on the intact rear windshield. When the truck comes up behind them with their high beams on, the driver keeps looking into a non-existent rear view mirror as if they are blinding him. (00:12:45)

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Episode #1.2 - S1-E2

Other mistake: The General and Blore search the Doctor and the Judge's bag when the clock in a close-up strikes 8. When the doctor in an outbursts dumps Vera's bag on the floor, he stands by the clock that now shows it's 9:35. (00:05:05)

Sammo

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