Continuity mistake: When Aunt Mary is writing on the whiteboard at the hospital, the word "killed" changes style between shots. (00:31:40)
Episode #4.1 - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: Dwayne realises that he did not ask the cute girl's name, and looks at her now far away. Something is wrong with this shot of Joséphine Jobert and her derriere; walking down the same street there's the same couple that is having a drink right next to Dwayne (his black shirt with colourful drawings is not exactly hard to miss). (00:20:50)
Beyond the Shining Sea: Part One - S8-E5
Continuity mistake: The video played on the mobile where Tiana is shown leaving on the boat shows her wave with her right arm. In the previous scene she waved from the boat with her left arm. (00:03:26 - 00:07:52)
Continuity mistake: Humphrey picks up the folders of the suspects from Mooney's desk using his left hand, and in the next shot they are in his right hand. (00:31:10)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Richard is walking in the market a woman holds out an item for him. The camera changes and this item is now held in a completely different way. (00:02:30)
Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: The principal admits his lie and brings the team to his real destination. At the entrance, Commissioner Selwyn Patterson's is standing with his hands behind his back, in front of him, and behind his back again at the cut. (00:23:20)
Episode #3.5 - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: The land rover is going on a track but the next shot inside shows a road in the side mirror's reflection.
Other mistake: The police force is searching the room of the deceased at the beginning of their investigation, Humphrey stands in front of a map of Saint Marie with the exclusion zones. The map though shows an island upside down compared to the map you could see in Episode 7 of season 2. (00:10:10)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Richard has concluded that one of the 6 people in the lift killed the bride, the shot changes to show Fidel and Dwayne loading the 4x4 up. Fidel is putting the lights in the back, camera changes and now he's receiving goods off Dwayne. (00:13:30)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When William welcomes the police to the floor, his hand is outstretched. When camera changes his hand is no longer outstretched. (00:06:20)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When coming out of the sea at the start, the guy's hair goes from sleek to messy and back between shots. (00:02:00)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Megan grabs DI Richard Poole's hand sobbing "I'm scared." We're talking about her left hand, because in the right hand she's holding the handkerchief he gave her. When DS Camille Bordey butts in, she is clinging to his hand with her right, and holds the hankie in her left. It keeps happening even during the conversation. (00:03:55)
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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