3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Richard and the others get back to the police station after accompanying Mrs. Talbot to check her husband's body (or lack thereof), there's a cut to the jigsaw puzzle; it is recycled from the opening of the episode, because the shadows (including those cast by the window bars) are exactly the same. (00:00:10 - 00:06:20)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the episode it is declared that the visit at the Knights' house happened just before 9:30. The light during the entire episode (the part referring to the first day, at least) is not consistent at all; when they go check the body in the prologue, the beach is sunlit like it's noon, while after the opening looks more like early morning.
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard retrieves the bag with the turtle eggs. In close-up the bag opens with the lid towards the left (his right). When he closes it, he closes it from the right (his left). (00:34:20)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: During the stakeout, Fidel is eating with a plastic fork. Dwayne starts the engine up, and during the various cuts, Fidel is not holding the fork, he is, he isn't. (00:30:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Throughout the crab-based lunch, multiple times Camille's hands are raised to munch seafood, or lowered. Example at the very end, when she is nomming her crab seen from behind, but in the front view she is holding the case file. (00:23:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Richard says "I feel like Poseidon himself", Pierre has his hand on the back of his chair. He removed it in the previous shot. (00:22:55)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Richard asks Camille if there's any statement on record from the restaurant staff, in one shot Sara Martins is holding the bottle by the belly, in the reverse by the neck. (00:19:55)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard reminds everyone that Patrick Knight was belligerent the night before. He puts his flat hand on the table. They ask him "So?" and in the next shot he's talking with the teaspoon in hand. (00:18:45)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: At the bar, Camille reminds Richard that he said that Megan must have been in shock. In foreground, she has her left fist in front of her mouth. Richard shrugs, and in the next shot, Camille lowers...her right fist. (00:18:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard fills a glass with water and walks to his puzzle. Camille adds something, and within a cut his arm goes from an ascending to a descending motion without any time for him to drink in between. (00:17:20)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: The police crew is having beers to celebrate the alleged resolution of the case, but Richard is not convinced. During the scene, the beer bottles change position between shots - for instance when Fidel says "Maybe she was confused" he puts his hands on the bottle of Etensel, gone in the next shot with Camille piling on his objection - and in that shot even his hat on the table is facing the other way. In fact, throughout the scene his hat keeps rotating to different directions. (00:18:20)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Before he leaves with the suspect the house she is a guest in, Richard asks if they own a gun. Astrid answers "Of course we don't", both hands on her belly. Wider angle, and she has both arms relaxed down her sides. (00:12:15)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Megan grabs DI Richard Poole's hand sobbing "I'm scared." We're talking about her left hand, because in the right hand she's holding the handkerchief he gave her. When DS Camille Bordey butts in, she is clinging to his hand with her right, and holds the hankie in her left. It keeps happening even during the conversation. (00:03:55)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard asks the wife if it was unusual for the husband to get violent. She starts crying. Embarrassed, he hands her a handkerchief. When she is still seen from behind, notice her right arm; she lowers it, but in the next shot she is still sobbing in the theatrical pose she had before, hand on her forehead. (00:03:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Poole and Camille take the confessed murderer to the beach. She is fainting, and Richard tells her "It's OK, it's OK." Camille is supporting her with one hand behind her back, which becomes one hand on her forearm in the reverse shot. (00:01:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode, Richard stirs his cup of tea with a spoon; in the close-up of the puzzle board the cup is still on the table, but in the frontal views he is reaching for it and putting the spoon in before the cut, and he has it in hand in the one after. (00:00:15)
3rd Apr 2020
Continuity mistake: Marina does a Bette Davis on Magnum and then turns around to leave. She stands in the middle of the entrance, with still her glass in hand. Quick cut to Magnum, and the glass conveniently disappeared. (00:26:55)
3rd Apr 2020
Continuity mistake: Magnum hears a noise at the bottom floor and starts walking downstairs. In the shot right before the close-up of his foot breaking the step, at the top of the stairs you can see some candles he was not carrying and are not consistent with the illumination of the scene - in fact you can see Magnum with candles only in a brief shot in the 'teaser' before the opening credits, in a scene that was left out of the episode. (00:28:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Continuity mistake: When Wilson MacLeish is kneeling on the golf course, the light changes drastically between close-ups (shadows) and wider angles (strong sunlight on the chest). (00:45:10)
3rd Apr 2020
Continuity mistake: In the hilarious stretched out comedy scene with Magnum trying to chase the suspect in his armor, whenever he is shown charging at the door and eventually breaking in, he is wearing the sword that he never retrieved - and in the moments when it's Tom Selleck in the armor and not a stuntman, he is not wearing it. (00:37:00)
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