Revealing mistake: When Messer is trapped in Mr Hudson's safe, the newspaper clippings he pulls out from the drawer show obvious Latin dummy text in the articles, while the headlines are in English.
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.
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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