Death in Paradise

One for the Road - S5-E2

Plot hole: The whole plan for the murderer to create a perfect alibi hinges on an incredibly precise timing of the victim's action and bodily reaction to the poison, both out of his control. The Governor needed to shake a lot of hands and deliver a speech without yet dropping dead, and everyone needed to ignore entirely the signs that she was feeling unwell. In fact, she needed to collapse as she was drinking, dropping the glass and doing it somewhere where he could squirt some more of that poison in the glass. He couldn't predict the whole situation with the glasses and the Commissioner that would create the alibi (he leaves the party when refreshments are just being served), but for this unpredictable chance to get an alibi he took the huge risk to carry the whole bottle of poison with him, which the plot never explains why was never found by the police or disposed of.

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Plot hole: The towel used for the trick is spotless, as Dwayne says, and the killer banked on it to remain that way, but the victim bled profusely all over the floor, same floor it was used to drag the victim across of.

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Factual error: The stratagem used to conceal the murder and disguise it as suicide is absurd from the start; it relies on the old trope of a gun "silenced" shooting through a pillow. It simply does not work, a gunshot in the early morning in the empty camp would have not been dulled down significantly by a pillow, and still be heard.

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Plot hole: The shower room door has a lock, that as shown in the denouement the killer never closed - making it fairly obvious that the victim did not lock herself inside the room to kill herself. Another minor but still significant problem with the stratagem used; the killer shot the girl in the chest; even if they didn't do any gunshot residual test on her hand, the trajectory of the bullet still would have proven the impossibility of a suicide.

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: DI Goodman is inspecting the pillows; when he gets to the second bunk bed, you can see that handling the pillow he accidentally catches with his arm a blue piece of clothing placed on the railing, dragging it a little along the way, towards the vertical support bar. The next shot is evidently from a previous take, because that blue rag is in the initial position, away from the bar. (00:39:10)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: When Goodman jumps up yelling "yee-haaw!" messing the wedding table, Commissioner Patterson grabs a towel with his left, but at the cut he is using the right hand to clean his left. Likewise, Florence has in the second shot a hand on her chest, but she didn't have that pose already in the previous, it was just her initial reaction. (00:38:00)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: Humphrey gets next to Leo's bed saying "Hey sexy." He has a hand in his pants and the other on the phone, but they swap place at the first cut. When he gets up and protests that he loved Sian, the phone disappears. (00:39:10)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: After hearing about the theory that perhaps Sian and her knew each other from back home, Perrie Campbell walks away. Goodman grabs the manuscript from the table, but his arm does not move in the reverse shots. He then puts it back, but when it is his turn to stand up, it is nowhere to be seen - yet it didn't look like he could have put it back much far away. (00:16:55)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: When Perrie Campbell says "Now I can see it", about the world out there, the bang on her right side is windblown. The wind is instantly absent in the next shot, just as in the rest of the shots from that angle. (00:16:35)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Factual error: When JP shows the article from the Cowbridge Gazette, it is the Wednesday 22.01.16. January the 22nd was a Friday in 2016. Following article's date; Wednesday 2.2.2016. Actual 2.2.2016: a Tuesday. (00:15:25)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: Humphrey brings attention to the toiletries when asked why does he not quite believe it was suicide; in close-up the bag is in shadow, but in the wider angle there was direct sunlight on the top of the bottles. (00:05:45)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: When Perrie Campbell tells her much younger friend that she can still drink her under the table, a bottle of beer suddenly appears in her hand. During the rest of the exchange the beer bottle in Sian's hand faces different directions each shot. (00:01:05)

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Flames of Love - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode, Perrie shows the moth tattoo to Sian. In the close-up of the lepidoptera, Sian's elbow is barely off the corner of the table, but she's leaning with just the hand in the following shots. (00:00:40)

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The Blood Red Sea - S5-E7

Plot hole: For the plot to go the way it was described, Newton had to wake up at the right time from his drunken stupor (that for some reason the real killer assumed would last eons), sail his boat, go somewhere at sea to dump the corpse, and then back exactly at his pier in the crowded spot where everyone knows him, and do a thorough bleaching of the cabin, all in less than half an hour, close to 15 minutes since he has then to go to Catherine's, which is half a mile away. So around 10 minutes being generous, for a hungover middle-aged man in bad shape and in shock and be there by 7:30, with the real murder happening around 7 (the wife says at 7:45 that it's been 45 minutes since they heard from him). Of course he also had to do that unnoticed, with no record or witness about a boat sailing in and out within a few minutes at dinner time, and likewise nobody saw the real killer running like mad at the docks - also of course, the whole stabbing was done without a single trace of blood getting on him.

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Man Overboard: Part 2 - S6-E6

DI Jack Mooney: My grandfather told me a story once, about these two wolves fighting inside all of us. And one of them is anger, envy, self-pity, regret. The other one is love, truth, faith, hope, that sort of thing.
And I asked him "which one of the wolves would win?" And do you know what he said?
"The one you feed."
(00:18:15)

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Erupting in Murder - S6-E1

Trivia: A bit of the episode has been cut for the streaming releases; at the end of the scene with Humphrey taking Martha's luggage, he would make a date with her for the next day, to cook dinner for her at 8. This has been eliminated probably because it created timing issues with 8 PM being too well lit (in contrast with the supposed timing of the murder) and the ending takes place at Catherine's for a cute drinking scene anyway. (00:22:50)

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Question: When Richard reminisces about England, he talks about going to the pub and having a pint. Yet the whole time he's in Saint Marie, he is never seen to drink alcohol with the rest of the team; only cups of tea. Why?

Answer: Most likely they had only tropical exotic drinks, he wanted an old fashioned English beer.

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