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The Hush Heist - S6-E6

Factual error: The gadget Ash gets Shaun to hide inside the bank vault deposit box is essentially a large and extremely powerful electromagnet. An electromagnet powerful enough to support a grown woman's weight (which it does later in the episode, when Emma uses it) would require significant power: either from a mains supply of electricity (which isn't possible, given the device is locked inside a deposit box), or else from batteries far larger than what could fit inside the gadget as shown on screen.

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Getting Even - S4-E3

Factual error: Ash gives Albert a slip of paper with Lily's home address, including a postcode of WC2E. That postcode is in Central London, but the house Albert then goes to is somewhere far more suburban, a long way from WC2. (00:50:21 - 00:55:22)

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Missions - S2-E4

Factual error: The police visit Richard Shaw's estate agency towards the end of the episode. The establishing background shot opposite where the estate agency allegedly is is of what was then the Cable and Wireless Building (long since bought by Vodafone). That building's real-life address is in the SE1 postcode. The problem is that the business card the police officer holds with the address has a completely different postcode.

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Whittaker Our Way Out - S3-E3

Factual error: In the flashback scene to Whittaker senior's trial at the Old Bailey (which takes place in the late 19th or early 20th century), the judge in the trial is wearing a long, full-bottomed wig. This is completely incorrect - since the late 18th century, full-bottomed wigs have only been worn by judges on ceremonial occasions, not in court. At trials, judges wear short wigs instead. (00:05:17)

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