Rest In Peace, Marina Garito - S6-E18
Continuity mistake: At the end, Mac goes into Stella's office and she's asleep on the couch. The clock reads 10:37. As he covers her with the blanket it reads 10:36. Then when he leaves, it reads 10:37 again.
Grounds for Deception - S5-E24
Revealing mistake: When Mac shows Stella the photo of The Professor and her "mother", you see that it is the actress (Melina Kanakaredes) with a wig on.
Plot hole: When Sid and Hawks are telling mac that the piece of glass from the girls shoulder is from the window from bar, Sid tells Mac the scar shows it healed in the last month, but it's been established several times earlier in the episode that the bar shooting happened 3 months earlier.
Other mistake: The body in the bank has one entry wound because the gun has no kickback, but in the flashback of the manager getting shot the shooter pushes the manager back then shoots him twice, the managers body moving alone would have causes the two bullets to enter at to different points.
The Closer - S1-E22
Character mistake: When Hawkes shows Mac, Danny, and Aiden a bruise on Gilbert Novotny's body, and tells them he was struck with a baseball, Danny refers to Gilbert as "George Novotny", like Stella did earlier in the episode. (00:28:15)
White Gold - S9-E14
Continuity mistake: When Mac and Danny are telling the pizza owner about his nephew's death, in a shot from the side the man's arms are by his side, then it cuts to the front and his hands are on his hips.
Dancing with the Fishes - S2-E6
Revealing mistake: While Dr. Hammerback examines the dead cable car driver you can see the "corpse" is still breathing and moving his eyelids.
Factual error: Towards the end, Eva Mason blows up Leonard Brooks' flat in an attempt to kill him, by heating up gas from the stove using an uncovered light bulb. This wouldn't work as shown as the filament from the bulb would burn out before igniting the gas - and besides, a spark from the light switch would have ignited it first.
Continuity mistake: The dead body of a girl is in the autopsy room. There is a closeup of her face on a TV monitor. Her hair is wet and tucked under her head and the v-shaped stitches on her torso are reddish in color. Next shot her hair is spread out and the stitches on her torso are blueish.
Character mistake: In the scene in which Stella, Adam, and Hawkes are trying to get clues from the $1 bill left by Shane Casey at the bar, Stella notes that the Latin phrase "E Pluribus Unum" has had its word order changed and now reads "E Unum Pluribus". From this, she deduces that the meaning has changed from 'from many, one" to "from one, many'. However, Latin is a highly inflected language, in which the meaning of a word changes not from its position in a sentence, but from the ending that is attached to the word. Therefore, both 'e pluribus unum' and 'e unum pluribus' mean exactly the same thing.
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Baldwin shows up at Sid's office near the end of the episode, Sid is viewing his computer with his hand on his chin in thought. When he looks up, his hand is on the table top. (00:38:50)
Pot of Gold - S6-E17
Continuity mistake: When Danny talks to Lindsay in the lab, he folds his arms over his chest left over right. In the following shots, his arms are right over left, then back to left over right. (00:10:50)
Continuity mistake: When Stella and Linsday are checking a table in Rob Mayer's home, when Stella is about to move the table, she has two gloves in hers hands (not wearing them, just holding). In the next shot, she is just holding one glove. And when the shot changes again, she is instantly wearing gloves on both hands. (00:25:35)
Cold Reveal - S3-E22
Continuity mistake: When Stella is staring at the mystery picture from her police academy graduation, the photo jumps from her right hand to her left.
Continuity mistake: In the flashback of Whitman Price's death, the final position of his body is inconsistent relative to where his body was when the crime scene was processed. (00:10:00 - 00:33:40)
Tri-Borough - S1-E11
Continuity mistake: When Danny talks his case through with Mac, Danny raises a hand holding a pen up to his temple. In the following shot, his hand disappears, and in the next shot of Mac, Danny's hand returns. (00:31:50)
Tri-Borough - S1-E11
Continuity mistake: When Danny talks to Kaylie about Inhumanity, he has his hands clasped together in front of him, but in the next shot, both arms are behind his back. (00:17:30)
Chosen answer: Probably to broaden the scope of the show's plot and give the audience a chance to see the characters in a different setting, People act differently at home from the way they do at their workplace. By the ninth season, the characters would have become overly familiar and predictable. It gives the writers a chance to do something different with them.
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