Death in Paradise

The Blood Red Sea - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: Sam Walker is holding back his dad Tosh, pulling him apart from the rival Newton Farrell. When Tosh snarls "Get away from my boat", his son has his left hand on his shoulder, but it's behind his back in the intermediate reverse shot. (00:01:25)

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The Blood Red Sea - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: The police are inside Tosh's boat, and Naomi Walker pokes downstairs to tell them that all his stuff is there and to help themselves. She has both hands on the manhole, which becomes just the right hand at the first cut. (00:17:25)

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The Blood Red Sea - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: Florence finds the divorce papers and calls Humphrey's attentions on them saying "Sir..." There is a paper sheet leaning by a corner on the laptop's right side. When the tabletop is again in frame (when Humphrey puts the coin back in the safe) the papers are arranged differently. (00:18:30)

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The Blood Red Sea - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: Humphrey found the cigar butt inside Newton's ship. He goes with his ever-smiling sidekick to interrogate him, finding him in asleep with a flask of booze between his hands. Cut, and Roger Griffiths' hands are on top of the flask instead than the bottom. (00:20:10)

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The Blood Red Sea - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: Florence puts on the table the knife sheath; it is laid out with the ends of the belt apart, but when Newton Farrell answers, they are joined together without anyone having touched it further. (00:20:30)

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The Blood Red Sea - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: Goodman calls it a day and mentions the stag party. Dwayne lays out on the desk three pair of handcuffs; the leftmost (the first he put down) is apart from the others, but when the lube comes into play, all three are clustered together. (00:22:35)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode, Perrie shows the moth tattoo to Sian. In the close-up of the lepidoptera, Sian's elbow is barely off the corner of the table, but she's leaning with just the hand in the following shots. (00:00:40)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: When Perrie Campbell tells her much younger friend that she can still drink her under the table, a bottle of beer suddenly appears in her hand. During the rest of the exchange the beer bottle in Sian's hand faces different directions each shot. (00:01:05)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: Humphrey brings attention to the toiletries when asked why does he not quite believe it was suicide; in close-up the bag is in shadow, but in the wider angle there was direct sunlight on the top of the bottles. (00:05:45)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: When Perrie Campbell says "Now I can see it", about the world out there, the bang on her right side is windblown. The wind is instantly absent in the next shot, just as in the rest of the shots from that angle. (00:16:35)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: After hearing about the theory that perhaps Sian and her knew each other from back home, Perrie Campbell walks away. Goodman grabs the manuscript from the table, but his arm does not move in the reverse shots. He then puts it back, but when it is his turn to stand up, it is nowhere to be seen - yet it didn't look like he could have put it back much far away. (00:16:55)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: When Goodman jumps up yelling "yee-haaw!" messing the wedding table, Commissioner Patterson grabs a towel with his left, but at the cut he is using the right hand to clean his left. Likewise, Florence has in the second shot a hand on her chest, but she didn't have that pose already in the previous, it was just her initial reaction. (00:38:00)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: DI Goodman is inspecting the pillows; when he gets to the second bunk bed, you can see that handling the pillow he accidentally catches with his arm a blue piece of clothing placed on the railing, dragging it a little along the way, towards the vertical support bar. The next shot is evidently from a previous take, because that blue rag is in the initial position, away from the bar. (00:39:10)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: Humphrey gets next to Leo's bed saying "Hey sexy." He has a hand in his pants and the other on the phone, but they swap place at the first cut. When he gets up and protests that he loved Sian, the phone disappears. (00:39:10)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Plot hole: Leon Hamilton is the most hated man in Sainte Marie, with over 900 people on the island conned by him. Yet exactly one person in the whole island knows how he looks like, every newspaper and website never ever published a picture of him even during the very public trial when they were trying to get their thousands of dollars back nor publish an archive picture after his death.

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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: 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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