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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Richard says "Mothers can be real hazards, particularly yours", he has his right hand on the steering wheel, the left in the next shot. (00:04:30)
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)
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)
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)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Fidel crosses the police line to show Poole the damning fingertip, his hat passes at the cut from his right hand to his left. (00:14:05)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: After Camille shut everyone up with her whistle, Richard says "We'd like to speak with Miss Neville." She has her arms folded, but they are down her sides in the reverse shot. (00:30:00)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Richard gets the proper inspiration to solve the murder thanks to the ribbon Camille dropped on his desk, ribbon and paper are in positions entirely different and under a completely different lighting between close-up and the shot when he picks the ribbon up. (00:33:20)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: Richard brought Camille to the mill and entrusted his bag to her. As he thinks out loud, he grabs a big iron hammer. Camille changes position moving her hand from the top of the bag to the bottom, and does it again in the close-up a moment later. A few shots later she suddenly is holding the bag by the top again (when he mentions "walking down the track"). (00:34:15)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Dwayne faces the culprit at the end, the handcuffs are above or below his pointed index finger, depending on the angle. (00:46:15)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: The detectives are inside Father John's office for his interview. First time the clock is fully in frame, it's 8:20. When Richard exposits for the audience what a postulant nun is, it's 8:17, and it stays the same when Richard speaks again in the same position, asking the priest about anything suspicious happening. When Sister Anne arrives moments later, the clock jumped to 8:26. When she makes her exit, we're back at 8:17. (00:05:00)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: When Camille holds the list with the mysterious names and numbers, she holds it with the left hand at the very top of it in close-up, while it's much lower in the shots before and after. (00:14:10)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: In the first scene of the episode with the whiteboard, the writing of the names is different in close-up and wider shots. (00:15:25)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: When Richard tells Camille about the nightmares of Sister Geoff Capes he still has, he is shaking his right fist, which becomes the left at the cut. (00:17:40)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: Interviewing Laura Masters, Daryl Dexter's business partner, she makes a joke about imported champagne; the level of champagne in the flute changes between shots, from full above her thumb, to an inch below it. She is also sitting back with the glass in hand when she had just put it down and was leaning forward earlier. (00:28:05)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: When Richard and Camille intercept Dexter by the holy water pool, he has either both or just one hand on the camera, depending on the angle. (00:32:00)
Answer: There's probably no particular reason. Sets and props on long-running TV shows often change as needed and for various reasons throughout a series run.
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