Continuity mistake: When Dylan enters Thaddeus' prison cell and begins looking around, there is a clock on the wall showing 7:52. As Thaddeus walks into the cell seconds later, the time on the clock is suddenly 7:55.
Continuity mistake: When Merritt is explaining to Daniel, Jack and Lula that they are in China, he starts saying "I think where we are right now, they don't refer to it as Chinese food." In this shot, he is standing beside Lula, maybe a few inches ahead of her, but in the next shot, Merritt is suddenly a couple more feet ahead of her. (00:27:20)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan and the Horsemen are infiltrating the OCTA party, Daniel is carrying a tray with four different lines of sushi. Daniel then walks into the hallway still holding the tray and the four lines of sushi and their position on the tray have suddenly been reversed. (00:16:55)
Continuity mistake: When Walter Mabry is explaining how the Horsemen ended up in Macau he walks over to sit on the couch to show the slideshow of the plane trip. As he walks over, Atlas is not on the same couch as the other Horsemen, but when Walter goes to sit down he squeezes between all of the Horsemen with Atlas now on the end of the same couch as everyone else.
Continuity mistake: When Owen Case is being introduced at the OCTA launch, Merritt and Lula are backstage and Merritt says "Nice work, lady" whilst putting his hat on. In the next shot, his hands are suddenly by his side. (00:20:30)
Continuity mistake: At the magic shop, when Daniel is reading out the list to Li, Daniel first has his right hand on the paper, but in the next shot, he is holding the paper with his left hand. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: In Dylan's first scene, he walks into a meeting room at the FBI and requests a minute with the director. During this, Dylan has a mug in his left hand and a file in his right hand. There is a long shot in this scene, with the shot several meters from Dylan, where the file is suddenly in his left hand. Then in the next shot of Dylan after that, the file is suddenly back. (00:07:20)
Continuity mistake: While Chase and Merritt are drinking in the bar, in one shot Chase is wearing sunglasses, in the next shot the sunglasses have disappeared. (00:48:10)
Continuity mistake: After thinking they have thrown the Horsemen off the plane, Tressler peels off the label to the bottle that he and Walter are drinking from and finds the tarot card on it. He is holding the bottle by the bottom when he peels the label, but when he hands the bottle to Walter in the next shot, he is holding the bottle by the top. (01:46:40)
Continuity mistake: When Walter finds out about the Horsemen's plan to expose him on New Years Eve, Walter tells a bodyguard to get his father. The bodyguard begins to walk past Walter, but in the next shot, the bodyguard is suddenly at the other end of the room. (01:27:05)
Continuity mistake: When Merritt and Chase leave the magic shop to go for a drink, Jack has his hand placed on top of a reverse rain machine. The shot then cuts to a closer angle of the reverse rain machine where his hand is no longer on top of it. (00:45:20)
Continuity mistake: When Walter begins hijacking the Horsemen at the OCTA launch, Dylan says "let's go to the back", and the FBI director tells him to stay here. There is a bald FBI agent standing in front of him to the right, but in the next shot, the FBI agent is suddenly behind him. (00:24:15)
Continuity mistake: When the security guard at the OCTA launch finds the Evans Mental Facility wristband on the CCTV guard's wrist, the wristband and wrist are pointed away from the CCTV guard's face, but in the next shot, the wristband and wrist is directly facing the CCTV guard. (00:18:10)
Continuity mistake: When Jack is performing in London, there is a woman directly in front of him, recording him on her phone. In one shot, she has her left hand across the left side of the phone and is holding it, but in the next shot, she is only holding the left side with only two fingers. (01:29:20)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan is on the boat with Walter and Tressler, there is a bloody cut on his bottom lip, but when he is rescued by the Horsemen minutes later, the bloody cut has suddenly vanished. The cut reappears when Dylan and the Horsemen are talking in the next scene. (01:15:05 - 01:22:15)
Continuity mistake: When Walter is explaining his relationship with Owen to the Horsemen, Merritt's position changes whenever the shot is on him. He is either sitting on the couch with his arm on the arm rest and leaning forward, sitting with his arm on the arm rest and has his back against the couch or sitting with his back against the couch with his hand in his lap. (00:37:45)
Continuity mistake: After arriving at the Macau casino, Chase starts teasing Merritt and Merritt then gives Chase the finger by rubbing his eyes with his middle finger. Merritt then begins to lower his arms, but in the next shot, his arms are suddenly by his side. (00:33:10)
Continuity mistake: When the Horsemen are escaping the OCTA party, Merritt starts accusing Daniel of being the lead Horseman and removes the microphone headset he is wearing. The shot then cuts to an angle behind Merritt, and the microphone headset is suddenly back on his head. (00:25:40)
Continuity mistake: When the Horsemen are exposing Owen Case at the OCTA party, as Lula says "He's mocked your privacy. He scorned it", she is standing facing the audience and is mostly covered in stage light. The shot then cuts to Daniel talking, and Lula, visible to the right of shot, is now standing facing Daniel and only half covered in stage light. (00:22:40)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel is trying to take the OCTA CCTV guard's ID pass, he takes a picture of him with a Polaroid camera so that he can stick it onto a tag to prove that he is from a mental hospital. When the picture prints out from the camera, all that is shown is shown is the image of the guard against a white background, instead of the wall seen behind him. Also, when Daniel takes the picture, the guard has his head turned to the right to face Daniel, but when the picture prints, the guard has his head positioned completely forwards. (00:17:40)
Answer: The entire sequence in London was all a montage. It is never really established if all of the scenes that took place there were coinciding with each other. The scene where Jack hypnotises Chase could have easily taken place after he had finished the street show.
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