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Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Revealing mistake: Richard at home is reading a book on slavery. An English book, at least the cover and the big header of the first internal page are in English, and about slavery. But a quick peek before the cut easily reveals that the book is written in French and talks about cocktails. (00:28:10)

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Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Character mistake: The clinic who ran the tests for Roger Seymour's brain tumor surely does not employ just brain surgeons, because the spelling in the official report is simply atrocious ("apetite" (twice), "consistant"). (00:21:00)

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Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: Louis Nelson's shirt during the first interview with the police pops up fluttering in the wind suddenly between shots when he tells Poole that he was cleaning the barn. (00:11:25)

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Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: When Kim Neville answers Richard's first question ("Almost a year"), she has her hand in front of her lips in the view from behind, hands on her lap in the fuller view later. This continuity gap keeps happening also at the end of the scene before Fidel arrives. (00:10:30)

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Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: When the doctor introduces the various guests to Richard and Camille, the close-up on Alex features him at an angle and under a lighting that have nothing to do with the rest of the scene. (00:08:55)

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Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: In the prologue, Roger Seymour is snogging his attractive young lover. She has her fan in her left hand when he says "I won't be long", but the fan is gone (and in her right hand) in the next shot. (00:00:40)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: When Catherine Bordey walks back after lying the smackdown on the killer, Ricketts is leaning against the fence with both hands, while he is leaning with one arm to the window frame in shots before and after. (00:46:00)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: During the denouement, the newspaper on DI Chris Ricketts' table is oblique in the frontal views, parallel to the table when the camera is behind him. (00:39:50)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Waiting for Richard and his big reveals, Camille is sitting with her mom at the bar. She says that she heard her new beau made her lasagna, and lowers her hand. In the next shot she is still leaning on it as if nothing happened. (00:39:00)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: When Richard cracks the case and starts looking at the board, mumbling and giggling in front of it, the others are staring at him changing the way they hold their paper sheets between shots. Richard himself has a brisk change of position when he laughs saying "That's superb!", going from a closed fist to an open hand. (00:37:30)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Factual error: In the close-up of the password from Antigua and Barbuda, the nationality listed is "Antiguan", while as redundant as it seems, official passports from that country list it as "Antiguan and Barbudan." It also has no place of birth listed at all. (00:24:20)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Other mistake: A mysterious character breaks into Nadia's house after the police left. He does it by literally punching a hole in the door and reaching for the keys that are in the keyhole, inside. How did the police close the door when they left, if keys are still inside?

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Jacko Gardiner is leaning against his suburbia door talking to Poole and Bordey, but his arm is angled up in the front view, perpendicular in the view from behind. (00:18:50)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: When Richard asks the owner of the import/export company if the victim owed him money, he is holding his handkerchief in his left hand seen from behind, in his right hand from the front. (00:13:15)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: In close-up, Richard holds up Dwayne's police shield with his 3 fingers placed lower than in the wider angles, where the middle was touching the fold of the wallet, instead of being an inch below it. (00:02:45)

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Episode #1.8 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: First time we see the victim, there's a striking difference between close-ups (no less than 5 coins on the pillow) and the angle with the whole bed (less coins, different lighting, head sunk into the pillow more). (00:01:40)

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Episode #1.7 - S1-E7

Factual error: The victim has been shot while he was lying in the coffin with his arms crossed. Somehow, he keeps his arms perfectly crossed even when he's dead, despite being carried around in a casket propped in vertical position merely a little more than 15 minutes later. Rigor mortis takes way longer to begin, his lifeless arms would have flailed off position a long time before, not stayed in the dramatic mummy position with no supports to hold them in place. (00:04:30)

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