Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In the small scene with Fidel and Dwayne deciding who gets to do the fun stuff around the island, Gary Carr's right arm is bent or straight depending on the angle. (00:12:40)
Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In the scene at Catherine's cafe, the lid on Richard's plastic bottle is off, on, off again. In the same part of the scene, the mug changes position between shots - its handle is pointing away from Richard or towards him, and when they ask him about voodoo, it even is alternatively in his hand or on the table depending on the angle, back and forth several times. (00:17:00)
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 #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)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode, Richard stirs his cup of tea with a spoon; in the close-up of the puzzle board the cup is still on the table, but in the frontal views he is reaching for it and putting the spoon in before the cut, and he has it in hand in the one after. (00:00:15)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Poole and Camille take the confessed murderer to the beach. She is fainting, and Richard tells her "It's OK, it's OK." Camille is supporting her with one hand behind her back, which becomes one hand on her forearm in the reverse shot. (00:01:30)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard asks the wife if it was unusual for the husband to get violent. She starts crying. Embarrassed, he hands her a handkerchief. When she is still seen from behind, notice her right arm; she lowers it, but in the next shot she is still sobbing in the theatrical pose she had before, hand on her forehead. (00:03:40)
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)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Before he leaves with the suspect the house she is a guest in, Richard asks if they own a gun. Astrid answers "Of course we don't", both hands on her belly. Wider angle, and she has both arms relaxed down her sides. (00:12:15)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard fills a glass with water and walks to his puzzle. Camille adds something, and within a cut his arm goes from an ascending to a descending motion without any time for him to drink in between. (00:17:20)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: The police crew is having beers to celebrate the alleged resolution of the case, but Richard is not convinced. During the scene, the beer bottles change position between shots - for instance when Fidel says "Maybe she was confused" he puts his hands on the bottle of Etensel, gone in the next shot with Camille piling on his objection - and in that shot even his hat on the table is facing the other way. In fact, throughout the scene his hat keeps rotating to different directions. (00:18:20)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: At the bar, Camille reminds Richard that he said that Megan must have been in shock. In foreground, she has her left fist in front of her mouth. Richard shrugs, and in the next shot, Camille lowers...her right fist. (00:18:30)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard reminds everyone that Patrick Knight was belligerent the night before. He puts his flat hand on the table. They ask him "So?" and in the next shot he's talking with the teaspoon in hand. (00:18:45)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Richard asks Camille if there's any statement on record from the restaurant staff, in one shot Sara Martins is holding the bottle by the belly, in the reverse by the neck. (00:19:55)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Richard says "I feel like Poseidon himself", Pierre has his hand on the back of his chair. He removed it in the previous shot. (00:22:55)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Throughout the crab-based lunch, multiple times Camille's hands are raised to munch seafood, or lowered. Example at the very end, when she is nomming her crab seen from behind, but in the front view she is holding the case file. (00:23:30)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: With Fidel's arrival, Richard's straw changes position in his glass from pointed to the right, to the left. (00:24:00)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: An outside shot of the shack on the beach has louvre doors with glass on the right middle door and louvres on the left. As Ben Miller closes the doors, the inside shot has glass in the middle of both doors. (00:28:00)
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)
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)
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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