Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: Dwayne aided by Emily is bringing in the two boxes of papers from the storage. Transporting them is a difficult task with the storm that is raging on. A strange storm that happens to shake the plants in the foreground, but with Caroline Proust's hair and the leaves of the trees on the other side completely untouched. (00:16:40)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Emily Benoit crouches to open the safe; Camille is flipping through the victim's book and in the front view she notices something, raising it and tilting it to look more closely. Next shot and it's as if the previous never happened. (00:17:00)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Questioning Rosie Curloo after Fidel's cocoa stunt, Officer Dwayne Myers' arm position changes depending on the camera angle. (00:23:20)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: Goodman and Bordey are interviewing Terrance Jackson after the revelation involving Rosie. During the scene, in most shots despite the storm that supposedly is happening, the leaves outside are subjected to a gentle breeze if at all. (00:26:00)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: When Fidel is taking Emily Benoit's prints, he is holding the glass with his index directly under the bulb on the stem in the frontal views, but the hand in foreground in the remaining shots is holding the glass a little above the middle. (00:27:35)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Fidel is taking Emily's fingerprints. She places the fingertips on the glass, and at the same time Dwayne is talking. He mentions the "pretty glowing picture" the newspapers paint. Fidel's middle finger is bent in a pretty peculiar position, but it's joined with the others in the next shot. (00:27:40)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: The lights go off, and DS Camille Bordey uses her phone to be able to see something again. She holds the phone by the longer side in the front view, by the shorter side when her hand is in foreground over a discombobulated Kris Marshall. (00:29:30)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Everyone is gathering to address the sudden darkness problem. Anna Jackson in the wider angle reaches to get the lantern from her brother Joseph. New shot and it takes a couple seconds before that same action happens, again and in a different way. (00:29:40)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: Dwayne finds a newspaper which hilariously happens to have a perfect close-up photo of one of the suspects out of the thousands of protesters, right on the first page. Couple of problems with it; first, the text is just 2 paragraphs copy/pasted all over, and second, more blatant; the caption of the photo says "Valerie Clayton", but Dwayne just called her "Valerie Pellow." (00:33:00)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: After the reveal of Emily's identity, she is shown with an overdramatic lighting and thunder effect, Behind here, nobody. Cut, and suddenly both Humphrey and Camille are standing there, behind, stalking her like horror slasher villains. (00:33:15)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Other mistake: Camille is the fastest reader ever; she holds the newspaper for TWO seconds and already she can tell that Valerie's dad lost his business because of Jackson (which is something the article itself, if you check it out on freeze-frame, does not say, incidentally - even if it did, she couldn't extrapolate the information this quickly from the page). (00:33:15)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Goodman is involuntarily jumpscared by Camille while on watch. After pawing the papers away, he turns towards her. He is holding still, but in the next shot (focused on Sara Martins) he is turning and standing straight, again. (00:36:20)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: The scene with Humphrey and Camille sitting in front of each other with awkwardness and the guest bathroom story begins with him placing the paper on top of a book on the table. When he mentions the unconfortable family dinners, the book moved to the edge of the table without anyone coming near to it. (00:37:10)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Camille on the rocking chair asks Humphrey "If it wasn't him..." Humphrey's hand in the foreground is on his chin. She finishes the sentence in the next shot, where Kris Marshall's hand is suspended in front of him at distance from his face. (00:37:10)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: In the more personal part of the conversation between Humphrey and Camille when he sits at the small table with her, the light flickers on Kris Marshall's face at different intensity depending on the camera angle used. (00:37:30)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: The timing of the scene when all of the 4 people who make the police force of Saint Marie reunite to check on Humphrey makes no real sense; there is no way that Fidel (but also Dwayne, even if at least there was a moment of contemplative silence before his arrival) couldn't have heard the chat going on in the room in the house at night being outside the open door. (00:39:20)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Dwayne and Fidel rush to tell Humphrey that Joseph is missing. Kris Marshall has his fist raised in the second shot, but he had folded arms while turning around. (00:40:25)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: When Goodman puts on the table the shotgun shell, it does not have on top the white stuffing shown in close-up and in the next wider angle. (00:46:25)
Episode #3.8 - S3-E8
Continuity mistake: Tech-savy Jim is asked to fix the wi-fi in the intro of the episode. With a shark-like grin Pam Chandler replies he'll be "only too happy to help", and raises above her bosom the hand with the sunglasses. Jim passes her in the next shot, where her hand is low to the point of being out of frame. (00:01:20)
Episode #3.8 - S3-E8
Continuity mistake: Emma is late for the party; Jim says that maybe he should go check on her, to which his wife goes "Whaaat?" Notice the straw in her drink, pointed to her right. New shot, and it is pointing left. And when the guys scuttle away, the straws in her glass are two. (00:02:15)
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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