Death in Paradise

Episode #1.7 - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: Snakes frightens Richard, who is not really listening to the claim that they are smart and loyal. He is holding his pen and paper, slightly pulled back, as he says "Even so..." In the next shot they are already on the table, off his hands, as he reacts jumping back. (00:08:20)

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Episode #1.7 - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the first interview with a band member, Richard is shown writing in the foreground, but puts pen and paper on the table only in the following shot. As the scene goes on, he keeps his pen more or less tilted in each new shot. (00:05:30)

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Episode #1.7 - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: Camille finds the gun and makes a mocking face to Richard. As he is "or not"-ing, he holds the deceased's beads in his right hand - next shot and his right hand is free and has to reach for the beds, held in his left hand. (00:04:40)

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Episode #1.6 - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: "Freddie" reports to DS Babu Frik the findings on the man on the boat, Danny Barber from Panama. He is holding the notepad with his right hand, reverse shot and the arm is down his side, back to the first angle and back to the notepad in hand. (00:21:40)

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Episode #1.6 - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: When one of the brothers gets up and tells the other "Better than being old before my time", Mark Lightfoot is drinking from his glass, and instantaneously isn't in the next shot. (00:00:55)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Fidel manages to stop the beggar thief. The strap of the camera is between thumb and forefinger in the first shot, between index and middle in the next. (00:40:30)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Ann Hamilton opens the door of her bungalow to a mysterious person. Between the walk to the door and the close-up of the open door, her hair looks radically different (in front/behind the left shoulder, a single long lock of hair in front of the right shoulder). (00:39:20)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Suzie Park joins uninvited Richard and his new buddy Vincent who are having a drink. Richard's hand is off the glass in the front views, but it's around it when she mentions that she knows "the five BRMs", only to be gone suddenly at the cut. (00:36:20)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Camille holds her hand out to offer a slice of cake to Richard. The paper towel is folded when the camera is positioned behind her, open in the reverse. (00:38:45)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Richard is speaking with a hurt Gordon Foster. During the conversation, the same extras pass by in different shots. For instance look at the guy with the Hawaiian purple shirt that walks behind Poole at "God, I was drunk" and "Why were you sitting with him." (00:33:20)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Poole and Bordey are interviewing Gordon Foster, who lost the most money in the Paradise Beach scam. When he says "The divorce came through last week", the pen on the newspaper is in a different position (middle of the page, pointing straight forward) compared to the previous part of the scene. (00:27:25)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Samuel King is sitting outside a bar. On the promenade, notice a passerby walk past a couple. Samuel puts a 20 euros bill on the waitress' plate, and the same man and couple have the same encounter, again. (00:15:15)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: The lizard waiting for Poole on the desk is in a different spot of the table in close-up compared to the view of the whole room - just check the distance from the side. (00:12:40)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: When Dwayne waves around the dossier with Samuel King's name on it, in the closer angle he is holding it with the hand at the middle of the bottom side, while in the wider angle before and after he is holding it by the side/corner. (00:12:00)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Richard and the others get back to the police station after accompanying Mrs. Talbot to check her husband's body (or lack thereof), there's a cut to the jigsaw puzzle; it is recycled from the opening of the episode, because the shadows (including those cast by the window bars) are exactly the same. (00:00:10 - 00:06:20)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the episode it is declared that the visit at the Knights' house happened just before 9:30. The light during the entire episode (the part referring to the first day, at least) is not consistent at all; when they go check the body in the prologue, the beach is sunlit like it's noon, while after the opening looks more like early morning.

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Richard retrieves the bag with the turtle eggs. In close-up the bag opens with the lid towards the left (his right). When he closes it, he closes it from the right (his left). (00:34:20)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: During the stakeout, Fidel is eating with a plastic fork. Dwayne starts the engine up, and during the various cuts, Fidel is not holding the fork, he is, he isn't. (00:30:30)

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Episode #2.7 - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: When Fidel and Dwayne arrive at the place where Camille and Richard are hiding for the hurricane, they can open the doors without a problem, whereas Camille and Richard had taken great care of locking the doors from the inside.

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Erupting in Murder - S6-E1

Trivia: A bit of the episode has been cut for the streaming releases; at the end of the scene with Humphrey taking Martha's luggage, he would make a date with her for the next day, to cook dinner for her at 8. This has been eliminated probably because it created timing issues with 8 PM being too well lit (in contrast with the supposed timing of the murder) and the ending takes place at Catherine's for a cute drinking scene anyway. (00:22:50)

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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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