Continuity mistake: When Ray Winstone takes his pill with whiskey while talking to Mel Gibson, he takes a swig of the drink and knocks the pill back, leaving some alcohol in the glass. When we cut to a wide shot his glass is completely empty.
Edge of Darkness (2010)
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Starring: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic
Other mistake: After Craven shoots the driver of the car that took his car door off, you can see that there is no gas tank underneath the car.
Continuity mistake: In the scene after Craven talks to the Senator, the vehicles beside his police vehicle change from the shot showing him enter the car to the next angle showing his car leave its spot.
Thomas Craven: You had better decide whether you're hangin' on the cross... Or bangin' in the nails.
Senator Jim Pine: I am a United States senator!
Jedburgh: By what standards?
Thomas Craven: Everything's illegal in Massachusetts.
Question: How and when did Thomas Craven get poisoned? He was already sick before he got tasered, kidnapped and taken to the Northmoor facility.
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Chosen answer: Possibly from getting his daughter's blood on him, when he accepted a drink from the Northmoor executive, or from handling his daughter's radioactive belongings. Given the depth of the coverup, they may have even anticipated that she'd come to him and broken into his house and poisoned him before the story even began.
Captain Defenestrator