The Best Way Out Is Always Through - S3-E22
Continuity mistake: When Bell and Holmes are looking at the files, there's an open book next to Bell. When he starts texting, with both hands, the book becomes closed in one shot and then back open in the next.
Continuity mistake: At end of the episode, when Sherlock leaves Detective Bell outside the 11th Precinct, Bell had a book and an envelope of which Bell puts the envelope in his pocket leaving the book, the next shot shows Bell turn and throw the envelope in the trash and the book disappears. (00:39:15)
Render, and Then Seize Her - S5-E3
Continuity mistake: While talking Paige picks up a small white Chinese food takeout container to close it and puts it back down on the desk. She picks up a the larger container that has the red pictures and the word enjoy on it and starts to close it. In the closeup she has the small white container back in her hand.
To Catch a Predator Predator - S5-E5
Continuity mistake: When Joan is sitting on the couch folding ties while Shinwell tries on a shirt, she has a folded up blue tie with white dots. When the camera cuts back to her and she's now folding a gray tie, you can see the blue tie with white dots, unfolded, lying on the clothes. Previously there was no tie there. And in the next shot of her, she once again folding the blue tie and the gray tie can't be seen.
Continuity mistake: When Shinwell and Sherlock are playing chess, the captured pieces move around in various shots. For example, Shinwell takes Sherlock's knight, he places it closer to him than the pawn. In the next shot the pawn is closer to him. It changes a few more times as do the captured white pieces.
How the Sausage Is Made - S5-E8
Continuity mistake: When Sherlock puts down the meat sample in the cup, you see the toothpick tilt over to the side. In the next shot, the toothpick is straight up and down. In some shots, the meat sample in the cup are gone.
How the Sausage Is Made - S5-E8
Continuity mistake: The note Watson picks up changes when it switches to a close up view of the writing. For example, you can see one line ends with "you when" and another line ends with "not" (being underlined). In the close up the corresponding lines end with "you when I" and "not to" (not still being underlined).
It Serves You Right to Suffer - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: When Joan accuses Agent Whitlock of gathering intel to Rip Off/ambush/rob the gangs, a woman enters the hall behind her. Moments later, The Woman disappears having never walked past Joan or Agent Whitlock. She didn't open any of the doors in the hallway either since she was walking straight down the hallway.
Continuity mistake: When Marcus and Joan are watching Gephardt's video, he says he's taken lives. At this point the play bar is by his fingers. It cuts to Marcus and Joan, and we hear the video continue to play for more than 12 seconds. When it cuts back to the video, the play bar is nearly in the same position, when it should be well past his hands and near his elbow.
The Ballad of Lady Frances - S5-E17
Continuity mistake: While talking with the guitar expert, Joan places the guitar down on the sofa with the fretboard facing away from her. When the guitar expert comes and sits down next to her, the guitar's fretboard is suddenly facing her.
On the Scent - S7-E9
Continuity mistake: Sherlock and Marcus visit a suspect's house. There are a bunch of cell phones on a console. One is gold with the name "'Mandy" on it. In a wide angle shot the gold phone is by itself next to some other black phones. Next closeup shot you see the gold phone is on a different position behind some other phones, and a green phone is added to the bunch. (00:18:40)
Chosen answer: M broke into the brownstone and left a note. Holmes deduced he was staying at a high-class hotel from the soap scent on the note, and gave a picture from a hidden camera to his "irregulars" on the street to stake out hotels. One of them saw him, so Holmes followed him to his next intended victim and knocked him unconscious with a baton.
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