Death in Paradise

Death in Paradise (2011)

128 mistakes in season 3 - chronological order

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Episode #3.4 - S3-E4

Continuity mistake: In the final part of the enquiry, Goodman pulls out of the evidence bag with the bottle of poison; the bag is turned differently between shots (check out of the small ribbed part in the corner, the bottle's cork). (00:45:40)

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Episode #3.4 - S3-E4

Continuity mistake: Simone's reaction shot to Helen saying "I wasn't even here!" is flipped, as the position of her hair makes obvious (she wears the hair combed on the opposite side throughout the whole episode). (00:47:05)

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Episode #3.4 - S3-E4

Other mistake: Twice in the episode Fidel gets from the computer a fingerprint match for Adam Frost. The date of the sample is February 10th, which not only is inconsistent with the supposed timeline of the episode (the security camera puts the murder on March 7th, and the previous episode was set in the fourth week of March as per the gigolo's appointment schedule). but also differs from Natasha's fingerprint date, February 9th. The murder was discovered in the morning, so the victim's prints have been taken the same day as the suspects'.

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: Inspecting the study where the victim supposedly killed himself, DI Humphrey Goodman at one point rattles the window handle and then at the cut stands side by side with Commissioner Selwyn Patterson. In the shot from that particular angle, which repeats itself a few seconds later when he says it's "one of those things" after he made an exaggerated shooting gesture, his right hand does not appear gloved (and he tucks it both times rather quickly under the other arm), while he wears latex gloves in the rest of the scene. (00:05:20)

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: The two detectives plus the Commissioner have broken to the family the news of the case being a murder investigation. They walk down some stairs discussing the case; Dwayne' scooter is visible in the background, shadows in its vicinity. When Patterson bids his farewell, Camille and Humph get called by Dwayne; the shadows by the bike now extend through a larger space all of a sudden. (00:09:05)

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: Camille tells Humph that Marlon Croft they just spoke to is "probably" her father. He reaches them outside; during the scene the passersby walk at relaxed pace yet the street crowd behind Marlon completely changes after the brief cut on Humph and Camille. (00:13:30)

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: When Camille tells her mom about Marlon being on the island, she turns around theatrically asking back "Your father?" Throughout the scene, Elizabeth Bourgine's arm position and stance appears subtly inconsistent between shots, and Camille goes from having one hand at the hip to the arm flat against her side at the cut following "It's just bad luck." (00:14:10)

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: There is a cut when Humphrey says "if you caught your dad having an affair..." Camille's bottle of fictional beer is then facing a different direction. (00:19:25)

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Character mistake: Fidel says that the victim "removed" the hard drive of his laptop, even pointing out an empty slot where the HD would be. During his massive overacting when he figures out of the solution of the case, Humphrey says that Jacob "wiped" the hard drive. (00:21:40 - 00:41:00)

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: After checking the phone records, the detectives go talk to Drew. Throughout the scene he has his left arm perched on the back of the seat, or just down his side casually. (00:23:00)

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Episode #3.5 - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: Showing it to the police for the first time, Marlon is holding the plane ticket in his left hand when the camera is behind him, the right hand in the frontal view. (00:29:05)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: Chief Goodman has implicitly outed himself as a birdwatcher, and the others look at him with pity. When Fidel resumes speaking saying "Well...", Humphrey lowers his binoculars and moves the evidence bag from one hand to the other and vice-versa. Besides small jumps in continuity that occur, the evidence bag does a 180° between shots. (00:05:30)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: At the setup of the whiteboard, the name of the victim is shown in close-up. The letter R in 'Mark Talbot' is written with a full eyelet and the K has its oblique strokes that don't join together. In the next shot Dwayne is standing by the board and the writing changed. The mistake happens for the remaining names too, different between close-up and view of the whole board. (00:15:35)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: During the first whiteboard scene, you can tell different takes have been edited together because in some of the shots with the same angle (Danny John-Jules from the waist up) something happened that smudged away a bit of the vertical stroke of the first T in Matt Webster's name, and in others it is untouched. (00:15:40)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: Humphrey cracked the case; looking at the whiteboard, he says that the "Who" is kinda obvious. The names on the board are written differently than the first time. (00:16:00 - 00:38:00)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: In another bit of his ridiculously exaggerated lack of coordination, Humph knocks the whiteboard down. He is reaching out with his left arm to tap it, actually taps it with the right, Dwayne catches the board, and in the next shot he's catching it again while Goodman pulls the left arm back. (00:17:20)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: At Humphrey's after speaking with Alec Burton, Camille is looking through documents when the scene begins. She lowers the paper in her right hand in the very first shot, it is higher up in the following, and she has yet to open the document folder in the frontal. (00:21:25)

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Dark Memories - S7-E7

Trivia: Spoiler; In this episode, for the first time the suspect (and eventual culprit) is not present for the ending confrontation, with a chance he'd get away with murder. The actor playing Samuel Palmer, Larrington Walker, died before the finale could be filmed.

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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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