Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: Fidel is showing the lack of oxygen to the victim'skin pointing at it with his right hand, a blue pen sticking from the fist at the top. At the cut when Humphrey says "Respiratory failure?" the pen is not sticking. (00:04:15)
Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: Humphrey arrives on the crime scene, by the body. Camille is putting gloves on; she has the right one and is in the midst of putting the left on, cut and she is gloveless putting the right on, cut again and she is putting the left on using her gloved right. (00:04:05)
Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: When the stand-in slumps to the ground, someone asks to get her some water. In that close-up, Thea's left arm straightens, but it's bent at the elbow in the next shot. In this new shot, there's also a zombie on the right of the screen that has his hand at his hips, but he is scratching his chin in the next one. (00:02:00)
Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: Lexi call the attention of the production assistant Susie for tea with her left hand, which turns into the right hand at the cut. (00:00:55)
Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: When we cut from the fake B-movie to 'reality', Lexi has both hands on her hips fixing the waistband, but she is hunched over with the baseball bat in her right hand in the new shot. (00:00:40)
Episode #3.1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: All the local crew is at Catherine's having beers - including Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in a very rare sighting without the uniform. The bottle of Tensel in front of Camille faces different directions between shots. (00:49:35)
Episode #3.1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: During the denouement, DI Humphrey Goodman repeatedly points his finger when he says that the "why" was "most elusive." The next shot has his arm completely still, close to the body, and from behind you can see he is not talking, just a little nod before the cut. (00:43:25)
Episode #3.1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Goodman makes the last guttural noise with his throat burnt by Catherine's rum, Camille's hand is in inconsistent positions between shots, at the side of her head or under the chin. (00:30:50)
Episode #3.1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Camille introduces Humphrey and her mother, the extras in the background make various gestures, with in particular the man at the right edge of the frame suddenly drinking off his bottle in the shot when Kris Marshall says "Thank you." (00:29:05)
Episode #3.1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Camille has a moment of grief with her mom, but Humphrey arrives with "Ah, Dwayne said I'd find you here." Catherine turns around and puts her arm on the chair's back before the cut to a new shot, when she is still holding Camille's hand. Similarly, Camille then introduces Goodman leaning back with her arm on the back of the chair...or not, since in the wider angle her arm is down. (00:29:00)
Episode #3.1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When DI Humphrey Goodman says "So, we're left with four friends", Dwayne behind him is holding some documents. Change of view, and he is leaning with both hands on the desk. (00:19:50)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: In the first examination of the body, Fidel photographs the wound. Poole appears behind him and asks "So?"Behind Poole, you can see the air conditioning unit, turned off and with its grid closed. Seconds afterwards, Poole peeks above the desk and the plot point establishes that the A/C is running. (00:04:35)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: Fidel grabs the envelope with his results. Brief reaction shot on Dwayne and Poole, and suddenly the beer bottle and Best's cell phone have rotated. (00:43:00)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: In the whimsical finale, Richard rips away from Dwayne's hands the envelope with the test results; the envelope switches side multiple times between shots - just look at the stampings and how they change position from cut to cut. (00:42:40)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: When the killer walks away from the victim, his right arm touches the carpet in the first shot, is above it in the next, and was even further distant from it in the one before the opening roll of the episode. (00:40:00)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: When the murder is shown, the killer grabs the gun with both hands at first, then the close-up shows them pick the gun from the drawer with just the left hand. (00:39:40)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: During the denouement, DI Richard Poole holds the evidence bag with the murder weapon showing it to his audience. The bag is held differently between shots, as the blue bands make easy to spot. (00:37:35)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: Richard lifts the soft paper towards the UV light picking it with his tongs by the far corner - in the close-up the strip is pinched right in the middle of it, though. (00:24:25)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: In the scene with Richard bossing Camille around with his brisk finger-waving, she is pinning in place the red tape using just two fingers pointed against the book or her hand hovering on top of it, clenched in a fist, depending on the angle. (00:09:50)
Episode #2.8 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: Checking out of the crime scene, Richard puts the plane ticket down after the interview with the PA is over. In close-up the ticket lands diagonally across the bottom side and the left side of the organizer, but in the shots of the room the ticket is placed on the top side of the page. (00:09:00)
Answer: Most likely they had only tropical exotic drinks, he wanted an old fashioned English beer.