Death in Paradise

Death in Paradise (2011)

124 mistakes in season 4 - chronological order

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Episode #4.3 - S4-E3

Plot hole: Five people in total are on a remote location, but they have food poisoning, so severe that they call in the paramedics. Humphrey arrives when they are being taken care of already. During all the time it took for the doctors to arrive, and when the actual rescue was there and was administering help, nobody bothered to check on the victim in his tent - if anyone did, they would have found him dead, since the poison killed him in 30 minutes. The son, the lover and the good friend of the victim, nobody thought about him for a moment.

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Episode #4.3 - S4-E3

Plot hole: The killer poisons the victim's belonging when they met early in the morning - that means that the victim stayed the whole day with the poison in the pages of his journal he always brings with him. Yet the murderer's plan required the poisoning to happen at a very specific and precise moment: the end of the day after they'd all had eaten together the stew with the non-lethal dose. It is something that they couldn't have planned at all the way it is described, not when they did the poisoning so far in advance.

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Humphrey is talking to the hotel staffer, and goes back to the bathroom to check the candles as he asks if they came with the room. Camille holds the notepad tilted towards her, but the next shot starts with her pad tilted the opposite way. A moment later, Florence opens her own pad, and re-opens it when DI Goodman is back with the candle. (00:06:25)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Florence unfurls the evidence bag twice in different ways in separate shots when Goodman mentions that the victim couldn't have opened the door coming out of the tub, and similarly moves the pink scrapbook to her left twice. (00:07:30)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Commissioner Selwyn Patterson sneaks into the police station. Dwayne spots him; in close-up, the table lamp is angled lower and switched on, as opposed to the rest of the scene. (00:13:00)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Humphrey speaks with the groom, and then walks away. He moved barely a couple meters, and walking on the dock there are extras (the woman in purple that was shopping at the stall, and the woman sitting by the boat.) that made rather significant jumps in space and time to be there. (00:16:55)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Humphrey uses a blue paper tissue to try and write down the pros and cons list; in the table close-up, the cup of goobers and the coaster are roughly aligned on the same plank, while they are at greater distance in the other shots. (00:23:40)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Catherine arrives bringing beer. She puts one next to Camille, and the neck label is positioned with the part with no logo facing the camera. In the following close-ups of Sara Martins though, the yellow circle with anchor logo is facing the camera. (00:24:20)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Camille answers the phone of the police station. Humphrey is biting his nails...but it's the nails of his left hand in one shot, right hand in the other. (00:30:00)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: In the sequence with Camille handing Humphrey the marker that tips his conscience, he is holding the cork in different ways between the various shots. (00:34:35)

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Other mistake: On the first day of investigations, Florence says that "two days ago" the victim withdrew a large sum of money. A CCTV shot is shown later in the episode, establishing that day as March 9th 2015 - remarkably consistent with the date of the previous episode and the coroner's report. So it is the 11th, and the investigation concludes on the 12th, a Thursday. However, at the end of the episode, Dwayne says that it's Saturday.

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Episode #4.4 - S4-E4

Character mistake: Close captions in the episode write down the Frenglish mish-mash by Goodman as "leoffer" without space, when he's saying "le offer" ("offer" in French is "offre", but he's just making a joke, with "le" making automatically everything sound French).

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Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: In the intro, Cheryl Moore says "We are going to break America"; her arms are raised, and yet mid-sentence in a cut when she's just partially in frame, she has them low. (00:01:10)

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Man Overboard: Part 2 - S6-E6

DI Jack Mooney: My grandfather told me a story once, about these two wolves fighting inside all of us. And one of them is anger, envy, self-pity, regret. The other one is love, truth, faith, hope, that sort of thing.
And I asked him "which one of the wolves would win?" And do you know what he said?
"The one you feed."
(00:18:15)

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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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Show generally

Question: When Richard reminisces about England, he talks about going to the pub and having a pint. Yet the whole time he's in Saint Marie, he is never seen to drink alcohol with the rest of the team; only cups of tea. Why?

Answer: Most likely they had only tropical exotic drinks, he wanted an old fashioned English beer.

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