Hustle

Hustle (2004)

4 mistakes in season 8 - chronological order

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Gold Finger - S8-E1

Plot hole: The gang plan to sell 100 kilograms of gold to their mark Dexter Gold for £500,000. In fact they show him 100 standard gold ingots, not 100 smaller 1 kilogram ingots which are about the size of a small mobile phone. A standard gold ingot weighs 12.4 kilograms. They are showing him 12,400 kilograms of gold - nearly 12 ½ tonnes! First, Gold is an expert. He would know right away that they couldn't possibly be offering 12 ½ tonnes of gold for half a million pounds. Nobody is that stupid - that amount of gold would be worth two hundred and fifty million pounds! Secondly, he would be aware of the difference between a standard 12.4 kg and a one kg ingot. Thirdly, they have the fake gold stacked on an ordinary wooden pallet. That amount of gold (or anything else) would crush it like tissue paper - and it could not possibly be transported in an ordinary Army truck like the one shown.

Gold Finger - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: When talking to Sean, Ash says that Liverpool play like a "bunch of girls" (not realising Sean is recording him saying this). However, when Sean subsequently plays the tape, in the recording Ash now describes a team as playing like a "load of girls" instead.

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Curiosity Caught the Kat - S8-E3

Factual error: (Spoiler alert) At the end of the episode DCI Wainwright arrests DI Fisk on a charge of "corruption." As a senior police officer she would know there is no such charge, and the word "corruption" is far too general a term to be used as a criminal charge anyway. Fisk would be charged with "Misconduct in public office contrary to section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977."

Eat Yourself Slender - S8-E4

Character mistake: While investigating the "robbery" at the art gallery, DS Rivet enters the sterile crime scene without wearing gloves. He not only picks up a vital piece of evidence - a discarded receipt - with bare hands, he allows the salesperson in the shop it came from to handle it, too. Not only has he hopelessly contaminated the crime scene, he has made an important physical artifact useless as evidence.

Mickey 'Bricks' Stone: Albert, what the hell were you doing in a church today?
Albert Stroller: Gil Stewart died this afternoon. I was there at the end.
Mickey 'Bricks' Stone: Oh God, I'm so sorry Albert. You two were like brothers.
Albert Stroller: We worked Vegas together. That man was made for bright lights. Poor bastard - died of a stroke in a dental surgery.
Mickey 'Bricks' Stone: Well, someone should sue them.
Albert Stroller: Aye, he was pretending to be the dentist.

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The Hustlers News of the Day - S3-E5

Trivia: In some versions of this episode the name of the newspaper the grifters con has been rather clumsily dubbed over as "The Weekend World" rather than the original "The Sunday World", which is a real newspaper.

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