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.