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Legacy from a Friend - S3-E18

Continuity mistake: The threat about the Romanian mime troop does the trick, and Magnum stands up to go after Higgins for some begging. The cloth he's cleaning the crossbow with dangles in its length in the first shot, but it's draped over the handle in the next. (00:14:00)

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Legacy from a Friend - S3-E18

Continuity mistake: Magnum's search for clues at Marcus' is interrupted by a banshee scream from the girl with glasses. In the first few shots of the sequence, Tom Selleck's left arm is never in the correct position, being low in frontal view and raised in reverse shot, doing the same movement twice in different shots, etc. (00:09:05)

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Legacy from a Friend - S3-E18

Continuity mistake: Magnum follows his inner voice and gets inside Marcus' quarters. The camera follows him and he stops in front of the desk where a picture is balanced on one side on some stacked papers. In the close-up that follows, the picture is flat on top of Marcus' appointments book. (00:08:45)

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Legacy from a Friend - S3-E18

Visible crew/equipment: At the beginning of the episode, Magnum's friend drives off in a fancy car, and Magnum is thinking about it as he gets on his own fancy car. In the door of the Ferrari you can see the reflection of set lights. (00:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the opening interview with the trucker, the wide shots with him leaning against the grill show just a few thin hair out of position. In the close-ups he sports much messier hair with large curl out of place in the middle of the forehead. (00:00:50)

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist just arrived to his college. Long shot as he gets off the taxi, and to the right of the frame you see a group of 3 girls crossing the street and walking on the lawn. Cut, and the 3 girls have yet to cross. (00:07:00)

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Other mistake: Both in the instruction booklet and in-game, Mark Rose's finishing move is mistranslated as "Northern Right Suplex." The wrestling move is called Northern Lights Suplex.

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Continuity mistake: In the first episode, the cold Federico is shaken by the first approach with the bookstore owner Giulia. When he comes back inside the store, the woman is leaning against the corner of table when the camera is in front of her, she isn't in the shots from the back of the store. (00:04:30)

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Continuity mistake: Mariso Golfetto is beginning a tirade about immigrants and assaults on women. A woman gets her drink from the barman, picking it up with her right hand, completing the movement. Reverse shot, and not only she repeats the gesture and still needs to pick up the glass, but she does it with her left hand. (00:07:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, Bob Fredericks pulls his bicycle over. His wife takes off leaving him behind. A young man walks by him twice in the two separate shots and at different distance. (00:01:00)

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Continuity mistake: Catherine is in Brittany's flat and she sits down telling a bit about her past. Seen from behind she is touching the hair on the right side of her face, instantly turned into the left side at the cut. (00:16:25)

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Other mistake: Whoever did the English localization doesn't believe in commas (often long sentences go by without any), but sometimes errs on the other end of the spectrum. For instance, the intro of the game says; "Maybe it's because we're entrusted with the live of the living, but for as long as I remember." Full stop. It breaks the sentence, that continues in the next screen. The whole translation is full of examples of random punctuation throughout the game.

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Factual error: After the first fight with Bruno Bucciarati, a map of Italy is shown, tracking the progress of the story. The map has written on it names of both regions and cities, but with no internal logic and consistency; some of the names (Sicily, Adriatic Sea) are in English, others in Italian (Sardegna, Napoli), and instead of the name of the region (Calabria) the name of its capital city (Catanzaro) is used (there's no dot to mark a specific city).

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Episode #3.2 - S3-E2

Stupidity: Throughout the whole episode, no effort at all is made to find out where were the chocolates purchased, and the bottle of champagne that accompanied the box(es) is completely ignored, not even addressed in a throwaway line (such as that it's too common to trace, or whatnot). It's not directly part of the murder trick so it not even considered. The explanation of why the other incriminating box is still there is also quite ridiculous, since the murderer is left alone for enough time to do strike again with a very timely effort involving her leaving the only room of her bungalow (which involves her, the most known and conspicuous person on set, stalk her in plain view for an undisclosed amount of time), but could not find a few seconds to take a walk a few feet away and bury the box in the sand or bushes, flush the poisoned chocolates down a toilet, throw them at sea, just about anything. It's a bit of chocolate and cardboard, not exactly hard to dispose of that in a big set in the wild.

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Episode #3.2 - S3-E2

Stupidity: Spoiler - In the flashback, apparently the killer 'framed' Susie by going as herself and on the phone going "Helloo, Susie speaking" next to the one guy that is a police informant - not the guy who sold her the fish poison. It would have made sense if she did that while she was buying the tetrodotoxin, but there's no way she could have known that that particular guy was going to talk to the police and they wouldn't be able to instead get a description from the original poison seller (that the police seems to ignore anyway and just let him deal unscrupulously - nobody has a good reason to own a bag of venom - in deadly substances).

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Episode #3.2 - S3-E2

Stupidity: The whole case could and should have been solved in 5 minutes if only the cops did what any normal cop would have done; once it became clear (very early in the case) which rare poison was used; trace where it came from. Which in this episode is depicted as being ridiculously easy (all it takes is send Dwayne to the docks to give 20 bucks to his buddy), and is instead resolved very late because it is relegated to a little side-quest Fidel has to deal ineffectively with while the main characters psychoanalyse people and air their dirty laundry.

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Episode #2.7 - S2-E7

Stupidity: For his experiment, Richard times Dwayne's departure with exact precision including a 3 count, getting angry because he 'cheats' taking off before it's over...but does that while the others, and himself, have yet to even get to their parallel parked cars. That makes no sense at all. (00:13:55)

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Episode #2.5 - S2-E5

Stupidity: For the plot to go the way it is shown, the police, that were specifically looking for poison from an unknown source, had to completely neglectful checking the trash bin (or they'd find a bottle with - literally - the name of the victim in big glitter letters, which is sure to draw attention!) and somehow miss the fact that the victim's food and drink were into a mess of shattered glass that made at best dubious which one her real glass was. Both are pretty huge oversights nobody seems to care about and that would have raised at least some suspicion from even the most casual investigator, especially when no poison was found in the glass.

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Birdman of Budapest - S3-E15

Other mistake: Rick and TC are at the counter of the Chinese joint when they hear a bang and a car speeding off. The noises are almost simultaneous, which means the lone assailant exploded a gunshot from their car while they were at the wheel. Uncanny coordination, recovery time and reflexes, contrary to the parking custodian in a booth we see there, who reacts to the car passing by, but was unfazed and with their back turned after a shotgun has been supposedly been fired meters away from him. (00:28:25)

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Plot hole: The culprit is in cahoots with the man that Magnum is trying to expose as WWII war criminal, and fears nothing from him, as he even explains to Magnum later; in fact he is his goose with the golden eggs. Yet he, a politician, kills his guy in broad daylight, for no reason, running the risk not only to be caught red-handed, but also more logically to be linked to him due to the investigations that will unveil the deceased as one of his major supporters. Instead, he does not touch Magnum, someone he has no connections with and tons of potential enemies. Let's not forget that the main motive that pushes Magnum to investigate is his assumption that someone wanted to kill Higgins, which is not the case, and the culprit knows that.

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