Hawaii Five-0

Ohana - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Danny and Steve are driving from the hotel to the contractor's house. Every time the camera cuts to Scott Caan, Alex O'Loughlin's hand is in the foreground on the same spot at about 1 o' clock of the steering wheel, regardless of what his character is doing. In the second part of the conversation (after the 'fear of death' mention) he even blatantly drives with his left arm, but still we see just a right hand during Caan's close-ups. (00:17:10)

Sammo

Ohana - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When on the roof Danny is having pleasant conversation with the terrorist about sepsis and organ failure, the guy has his bleeding arm first all bare to the elbow, then covered by his jacket. (00:14:55)

Sammo

Ohana - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When the trio is on the hotel roof interrogating the member of the gang of kidnappers, Steve is leaning over to speak and has his hands on his knees, but after a close-up on Chin, there's a shot where Steve is standing. (00:14:40)

Sammo

Ohana - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Danny shows up with a paper bag at Steve's and when Steve asks about the contents, he says it's those "donut-looking things they sell around the block." He passes the bag of malasadas from the left hand to the right, but it cuts to Alex O'Loughlin and we see in frame Danny's right hand, empty. (00:03:55)

Sammo

Ohana - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Roland Lowry is speaking with his son at the beginning of the episode. When his son whines that daddy is such a dictator, the position of his fingers on the phone changes between shots (fingertip on the back of the phone, fingertip on the side of the phone). (00:00:55)

Sammo

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Steve manages to fire 2 to 5 shots through the car's windshield (the windshield is intact before that), but when the car crashes into the container it has no less than 6 bullet holes in it. And when he pulls Sang Min out of the car, from that camera angle the windshield has no bullet holes. (00:35:00)

Sammo

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the undercover operation, Danny tells Chin to pull the plug on the operation "Let's get her out of there." Steve's hand is on his belt, but it then cuts to a close-up where he has his hand on the radio. Similarly, during a cut to a close-up on Daniel Dae Kim, Scott Caan's arm pops up in view out of nowhere. (00:32:35)

Sammo

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: The police operation with Kono undercover begins showing a timestamp on the video feed saying that it's "Monday, 21:16:40" (approx). Inside the warehouse though, when the smuggler boss asks her what she does for a living, we're back in time at 21:14:18. From then on, the time changes inconsistently to 21:15:33, 21:16:46 (more than a minute when she is just turning around), 21:16:04 (again wrong order) and as he sends a text to the mole, the reply comes at 9:24, which would mean 5-6 mins have passed. (00:31:30 - 00:34:10)

Sammo

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Grace Park comes out of the water and punches a guy; the part of the surf with the red and black logo faces up. Then she picks it up, and, in a way that does not register right consider her motion and the rotation, that side of the board is facing her. Another cut, and the board is facing the opposite direction. (00:28:20)

Sammo

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Danny and Steve are standing dressed like dorks in the parking lot outside Kamekona's joint, behind them on the left there's a guy who is changing bathing suits using a towel to cover himself. When they speak with the pesky kid the guy finishes his deed and leaves, but when Danny reaches inside the car for the big pink fuzzy thing, that guy is back in that spot. (00:26:05)

Sammo

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When the weapon dealer raises his arm to shoot Steve, he does it in two consecutive shots, and the hostage in the first one has her hands far apart on opposite ends of his forearm, in the second they are close together. (00:19:30)

Sammo

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Steve McGarrett takes the picture of the footprint, what is photographing is different from what was shown earlier; the print and the objects to the left shifted - easy to tell using the tiles as reference, since in the picture the heel of the foot stops right at the line between two tiles, while it went well across it in the original shot. (00:10:50)

Sammo

He Kane Hewa'ole - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: During the police chase there are flashing blue lights visible on Chin and Kono's faces during the interior shots, but from the outside of the car only the flashers in the grille are working.

Tanngrisnir

Ko'olauloa - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, the surfers are in the bay to spread Ian's ashes. Ben lets go of Kono's hand and is handed the urn with the ashes by the man to his right. He removes the lid of the urn and hands only the lid back. Yet in the overhead shot immediately following, the urn is back on the board of the man to Ben's right, and there is nothing on Ben's board. He's holding Kono's hand again. In the next shot, he is tipping the ashes from the urn.

Stripey

Lehu a Lehu - S6-E2

Visible crew/equipment: Danny is supposed to be looking for the suspect in the woods by himself and you can see another person on the top right hand side of the frame. The crew member looks as if he knows he is in the way and slowly backs away. (00:35:15)

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Trivia: Before he passed away, James MacArthur, who played Danny in the original series, was in negotiations to play Mamo Kahike, an old family friend of McGarrett's.

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Ma lalo o ka 'ili - S4-E17

Question: Why did Tommy chase after Kelly with a loaded weapon in his hand towards the police after she ran from his car towards them? Common sense would have said that to do so meant the police would have no choice but to shoot to kill.

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