Death in Paradise

Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: The timing of the scene when all of the 4 people who make the police force of Saint Marie reunite to check on Humphrey makes no real sense; there is no way that Fidel (but also Dwayne, even if at least there was a moment of contemplative silence before his arrival) couldn't have heard the chat going on in the room in the house at night being outside the open door. (00:39:20)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: In the more personal part of the conversation between Humphrey and Camille when he sits at the small table with her, the light flickers on Kris Marshall's face at different intensity depending on the camera angle used. (00:37:30)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: The scene with Humphrey and Camille sitting in front of each other with awkwardness and the guest bathroom story begins with him placing the paper on top of a book on the table. When he mentions the unconfortable family dinners, the book moved to the edge of the table without anyone coming near to it. (00:37:10)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Goodman is involuntarily jumpscared by Camille while on watch. After pawing the papers away, he turns towards her. He is holding still, but in the next shot (focused on Sara Martins) he is turning and standing straight, again. (00:36:20)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: After the reveal of Emily's identity, she is shown with an overdramatic lighting and thunder effect, Behind here, nobody. Cut, and suddenly both Humphrey and Camille are standing there, behind, stalking her like horror slasher villains. (00:33:15)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Camille on the rocking chair asks Humphrey "If it wasn't him..." Humphrey's hand in the foreground is on his chin. She finishes the sentence in the next shot, where Kris Marshall's hand is suspended in front of him at distance from his face. (00:37:10)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Everyone is gathering to address the sudden darkness problem. Anna Jackson in the wider angle reaches to get the lantern from her brother Joseph. New shot and it takes a couple seconds before that same action happens, again and in a different way. (00:29:40)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: When Fidel is taking Emily Benoit's prints, he is holding the glass with his index directly under the bulb on the stem in the frontal views, but the hand in foreground in the remaining shots is holding the glass a little above the middle. (00:27:35)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Fidel is taking Emily's fingerprints. She places the fingertips on the glass, and at the same time Dwayne is talking. He mentions the "pretty glowing picture" the newspapers paint. Fidel's middle finger is bent in a pretty peculiar position, but it's joined with the others in the next shot. (00:27:40)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Emily Benoit crouches to open the safe; Camille is flipping through the victim's book and in the front view she notices something, raising it and tilting it to look more closely. Next shot and it's as if the previous never happened. (00:17:00)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Humphrey is going through the various whereabouts of the suspects at the time of the gunshot. Emily Benoit says she was taking a shower. Her hands are on the table and are arms don't move, but in the following shot when Humphreys faces the nicer son, she has one hand on the table, the other in her lap. (00:09:25)

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Fidel finds the bullet; during this preliminary examination, the shirt of the victim is suddenly all neat and pressed in the shot when he looks down at it after Goodman's question ("Why is he not wearing a shirt?"). Moreover, the shirt in the close-up is fully sunlit, and it is not in the wider angles. (00:06:30)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: There's a rather burly woman with short blonde hair and a pink dress in the very last shot of the episode. She is an extra that keeps popping around in the ending scene at different times (before Dwayne's hot tin roof line, and during Catherine's magical angry bird memory). (00:51:35)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: Having (more) beers with Captain Jack at the end of the episode, Dwayne tells him "You've been like a cat on a hot tin roof"; a woman wearing a blue dress walks past them. Seconds later in the convo, in a close-up Paul Barber asks "Which you?" and the same woman is passing again, and with her two guys in green and purple from a previous shot. (00:49:25)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: Once Kris Marshall wins his staredown with the whiteboard, he exclaims; "It's you and it works!" and turns towards Fidel and Camille. Fidel in the background is holding the documents in a single pile, which become one for each hand as it cuts to a closer view. (00:38:30)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Plot hole: Leon Hamilton is the most hated man in Sainte Marie, with over 900 people on the island conned by him. Yet exactly one person in the whole island knows how he looks like, every newspaper and website never ever published a picture of him even during the very public trial when they were trying to get their thousands of dollars back nor publish an archive picture after his death.

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Dark Memories - S7-E7

Trivia: Spoiler; In this episode, for the first time the suspect (and eventual culprit) is not present for the ending confrontation, with a chance he'd get away with murder. The actor playing Samuel Palmer, Larrington Walker, died before the finale could be filmed.

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Question: Why did the cord on the wall phone in the police station change from straight in the early episodes to coiled later?

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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