Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Character mistake: When Dwayne speaks with the record bootlegger, he asks him about a recording from "last night" 'show, when it was instead the show from two nights before. He correctly mentions a few lines later what happened "the other night." (00:39:50)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: The police staff is sitting at the table while DI Richard Poole is listening to the bootleg. Throughout the sequence, Camille's hand position changes between shots multiple times. Same for Dwayne's hands when he asks him to rank the band; Dwayne's hand goes on/off the table between shot and reverse. (00:40:30)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Poole holds the Greatest Hits CD, his hands hold it in a different position between shots. Same when he passes it to Camille. (00:41:10)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Richard starts laughing having cracked the case, Camille's arm position on the back of the chair keeps changing between shots. (00:42:50)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: In the denouement, Richard shows a picture to the audience, then he puts it back on the pile on the table. Notice the picture's corner is touching the side of the plastic folder with all the others. When Richard walks back to the table having shown the camera to Renward, the photo moved to a completely different spot. (00:44:15)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Fidel shows the clock in the evidence bag, the close-up puts the clock firmly in the corner of the bag, where he was not in the wider shot. (00:49:40)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Revealing mistake: When the guitarist punches the bass player in the face you can see him miss. (00:50:02)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Solly is at the start with a trickle of blood running down his face from his temple to the jaw line. However when we see Solly get killed, he is lying on his back so the blood should trickle towards to the back of his neck.
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Audio problem: In a typical movie clichè, the snake at the neck of the ophiophilist member of the band produces the characteristic insidious sound of a rattlesnake despite being a python.
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: DI Richard Poole gets in front of the victim's gate holding his bag in his left hand, and in the next shot he has it in his right. (00:01:10)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: First time we see the victim, there's a striking difference between close-ups (no less than 5 coins on the pillow) and the angle with the whole bed (less coins, different lighting, head sunk into the pillow more). (00:01:40)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: In close-up, Richard holds up Dwayne's police shield with his 3 fingers placed lower than in the wider angles, where the middle was touching the fold of the wallet, instead of being an inch below it. (00:02:45)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Richard asks the owner of the import/export company if the victim owed him money, he is holding his handkerchief in his left hand seen from behind, in his right hand from the front. (00:13:15)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Camille picks up the laptop from the victim's desk, and Jon Taylor tries to stop her. The laptop is positioned differently in her arms between shots. (00:14:40)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Jacko Gardiner is leaning against his suburbia door talking to Poole and Bordey, but his arm is angled up in the front view, perpendicular in the view from behind. (00:18:50)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Factual error: In the close-up of the password from Antigua and Barbuda, the nationality listed is "Antiguan", while as redundant as it seems, official passports from that country list it as "Antiguan and Barbudan." It also has no place of birth listed at all. (00:24:20)
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)
Answer: Most likely they had only tropical exotic drinks, he wanted an old fashioned English beer.