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Riots, Drills and the Devil: Part 2 - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: This happens during LJ's fight with his mom and step-dad. When LJ says "You got no clue do you?" you can see Lisa's hands on his shoulders trying to calm him down. When the shot changes, Lisa's hands are on her hips. (00:18:45)

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First Down - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: Bellick's partner, Geary, is wearing a light grey T-shirt, with a very prominent sweat stain on the front. Throughout the episode, this stain constantly changes shape and size, even within two shots of the same scene, and sometimes it disappears altogether. This is best seen when him and Bellick are herding the prisoners to their car. In the close-ups of him, his shirt is completely dry, in long shots the sweat stain is there. (00:04:45)

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The Old Head - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: In the scene where LJ comes to visit Lincoln and admits to breaking the coffee table, LJ's hand moves between shots. When Lincoln is shown, you can see LJ sitting in front of him with his chin resting on his hand. When the shot changes to close-ups of LJ, his hand is down and completely out of the shot. (00:08:10)

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The Rat - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: In Episode 14, "The Rat", when Lincoln and Dr. Tancredi are in his cell together, he says "How it gonna feel when they tighten the belts". He then turns his head so that he is looking the doctor in the eyes, but when the angle changes, he is staring directly in front of himself, and his head is not turned at all.

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Manhunt - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: When Steadman takes out his gun, he presses it to the back of Veronica's head. She does not flinch or shy away from the gun, but in the next shot, a close-up of Steadman, the gun muzzle is pointed at the camera with Veronica off-screen, and so the gun is suddenly not touching her. (00:22:40)

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Under & Out - S3-E11

Continuity mistake: When T-Bag and Lechero are in the tunnel talking about Michael planning something, Lechero has the crowbar level with his face in some shots and lowered in others. (00:14:00)

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Dirt Nap - S3-E10

Continuity mistake: Lechero regains command of the prison and dumps the bodies of the two guys off the ledge. His face goes from being clean to full of sand to clean in three short shots. (00:36:20)

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Buried - S2-E7

Other mistake: When Sara's dad is found dead, Sarah pulled him, so his body dropped on the floor with his key, but this key is different from the other square key that they used it to open his private locker. (00:16:30)

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Allen - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Michael is finishing up the Allen key, he is wearing his grey sweatshirt. Yet when he finishes it and checks it on his tattoo he is wearing his blue shirt over his sweatshirt. (00:36:00)

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Otis - S2-E2

Character mistake: In the newspaper article that Lincoln reads about LJ's hearing, his surname is punctuated incorrectly. It reads "Burrow's" instead of "Burrows'." (00:03:55)

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Map 1213 - S2-E5

Character mistake: When C-Note is using the woman's computer on the train, the Army website says "Access my be denied to some parts of this site" instead of "Access MAY be denied." (00:21:00)

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Tweener - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When Abruzzi's lawyer tells Abruzzi he is broke, Abruzzi points at him saying "I told you from the beginning what would happen if he screwed me." When it cuts Abruzzi's hand is suddenly lowered. (00:15:00)

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Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Michael puts the duck down in front of Abruzzi, the position of the cigarettes on the table in the middle change without being touched. (00:14:30)

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Ogygia - S5-E1

Continuity mistake: On the tombstone in the previous episode, Michael's date of death is 11.4.2005. But in this episode, when Linc goes to the graveyard to visit Michael's grave, his date of death is 11.4.2010. It is also a different grave from the original, as the original was in South America beside the beach, and here we are led to believe it is in New York. (00:50:50)

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Trivia: The show was filmed in an actual prison (now unused) in Joliet. The death row cell used for Lincoln Burrows is the actual death row cell that held serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

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Answer: Roughly as follows. Linc "kills" Steadman in 2001. Michael robs the bank on March 9th 2005 and is sent to Fox River on April 11th. The breakout from Fox River takes place on or around May 25-31. Michael arrives in Sona on June 17th 2005. More details are here: https://prisonbreak.fandom.com/wiki/Prison_Break_timeline.

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That wouldn't make sense because the original grave stone in series 4 has Michael's death date as 2005, which is supposed to be at least 3 years after Fox River.

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