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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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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Trivia: In the clips from the episode played before the opening, Nancy Nakamura has a comeback line ("Don't be too sure") that she does not get to say in the episode, where she just smiles and looks at Goto.

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Continuity mistake: Magnum approaches the Nakamura house getting out of the car with light beige shoes. The young and pretty granddaughter of the deceased walks him around the corner, to her father. In the scene with Russell Nakamura, Nancy's Father, Magnum suddenly has dark brown moccasins, which you can see when he walks towards him and then away. And then when Nancy walks him back to his car, the beige shoes are back. (00:20:10)

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Revealing mistake: After the savage beating, the two other prisoners go check out what happened inside the restroom. The take of Kirin Nakamura lying face down begins with the actor stretching his finger before he has to play corpse for a while not moving a muscle. (00:04:25)

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Continuity mistake: Nancy Nakamura steps away from Magnum telling him she "did not have to decide." Her hair is fully combed back. She is briefly out of frame, and Magnum walks back to her without her moving, but her hair is now cascading all over her shoulders. (00:39:00)

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Other mistake: Hank Palmer appears in the closing credits as "Hank Sorenso", but his last name is pronounced by everyone (and logically so) as "Sorenson", and Rick says his first name is Fred. (00:31:00 - 00:48:00)

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Continuity mistake: Magnum sits down with Saichi Goto leaving the girl on the pier. He asks him "what do you remember about 'em?", and holds his left hand with his right. Reverse shot and it's the other way around. (00:26:10)

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Revealing mistake: Magnum usurped Higgins' desk while he's at the hospital. He is checking out of the article about Enoka running for Senate. If you look at the first article on the left, it begins with "The facts regarding the situation remain the same, state the authorities", the famous filler text that appears in dozens of props made by Earl Hayes Press. (00:16:35)

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Forty Years from Sand Island - S3-E17

Continuity mistake: In the flashback, the one who supports Mr. Nakamura's head does it with the thumb raised above a cone of shadow and clear of his chin in close-up, not matching the previous and following shot. (00:04:30)

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I Do? - S3-E16

Plot hole: Marsha and Magnum have a wedding in great pomp and supposedly need to entrap an embezzler making believable their relationship...but who goes to work the day after their own wedding? A board is also mentioned, but apparently Magnum was appointed VP without any prior consultation.

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I Do? - S3-E16

Revealing mistake: Rick at the "flawlessly vulgar" banquet drinks cheap champagne from a cup that falls on the floor revealing to be plastic. The floor is all wet already before the glass falls. (00:04:40)

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I Do? - S3-E16

Character mistake: Bickering with his pretend wife after risking his neck with the falling crates, Magnums says "we can stop playing house, I can go back to being a private detective, which is exactly what I should have been in the first place." Magnum has a verbal tic during the series and he fiercely corrects everyone when they call him a private eye, or detective, as he goes only by "investigator" (the I in P.I, after all). He's using the wrong word here. (00:22:35)

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