Continuity mistake: When Merritt is explaining to Dylan what mentalism is, he raises his hands and places them on his head, raising both the handcuffs and the handcuff chains with him. From the first angle, the chain has been raised so it is not touching the table, but when he goes to put his hands on his head in the following shot, a piece of the chain, from both handcuffs, is suddenly resting on the table. (00:28:35)
Audio problem: When Dylan and Alma are talking with Thaddeus in his dressing room, Thaddeus asks Alma if she is referring to Lionel Shrike and Dylan replies "I'm sorry, who?", but his mouth doesn't move with the line. This mistake is on the extended edition as the scene where they meet is different on the theatrical version. (00:34:00)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan is looking for Alma in the Mardi Gras crowd, he stops his conversation with Fuller and puts his phone to his chest. Dylan sees Alma and the phone is suddenly back to his ear. Then back to his chest again. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: In New Orleans, when Dylan finds Alma, there are two cops riding horses in the background. The shot cuts to a wide shot from behind Dylan where the horses are ahead of Dylan. The shot cuts again and the cops and horses are far in the background. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan finds Alma in New Orleans, the wide shot from behind Dylan shows him waving his left arm to her and keeps it in the air when he says "there you are", but in the next shot, his left arm is by his side. (00:44:20)
Audio problem: When Dylan finds Alma in the Mardi Gras crowd, he asks her if she's been doing some sightseeing while in New Orleans. There is an over the shoulder shot from behind Dylan when he asks this, where his mouth is not moving. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: When Jack's car is crashing on the bridge, there is a shot where the car stops flipping and comes to a stop. The shot cuts to Dylan and Alma in the car, but when the shot cuts back, the car is still flipping. (01:24:00)
Audio problem: When Dylan is explaining to Thaddeus the connection that Tressler Insurance and Credit Republican of Paris have to Lionel Shrike, he says "What do you make of that?" When Dylan says "of that", his mouth does not move in the over the shoulder shot. (01:45:50)
Audio problem: When Dylan and Alma are talking on the bridge, just after Alma says he knows how she feels about resolution, there is an over the shoulder shot from behind Alma where she speaks, but her mouth doesn't move. (01:53:15)
Continuity mistake: As the FBI and Interpol are questioning Etienne, when Dylan says the trigger word, he is looking straight forward at her. The shot then pans around to Etienne, and in the reflection of the mirror, Dylan can be seen suddenly in the middle of an argument with Interpol and not looking at her. (00:25:55)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel and Henley are walking up the staircase to the apartment, as she talks about Daniel's "anonymous posting" on her website, Henley has her bag strap on her shoulder. The shot changes to them reaching the top of the staircase, and the strap is suddenly off her shoulder and the bag is now behind held by her arm. (00:10:00)
Continuity mistake: After Merritt calls Daniel a control freak and Henley says it doesn't take a mentalist to figure it out, Daniel then says he would take it as a compliment. After he says this, the shot cuts to Henley looking at Merritt saying "Only he would take it as a compliment." In the next shot, Henley is suddenly looking at Daniel. (00:11:00)
Continuity mistake: When the magicians are standing outside the apartment showing each other their tarot cards, Daniel shows his tarot card The Lover whilst looking at Jack, but in the next shot, he is looking at Henley. (00:11:55)
Continuity mistake: When the Horsemen are congratulating Tressler at the Las Vegas show, as Daniel says "I want to say when we came to Mr. Tressler", Merritt and Henley are looking at Daniel, but in the next shot, are looking at the crowd. (00:18:05)
Continuity mistake: Merritt is doing a mental trick on a couple and starts by putting the wife into a sleep. In a long shot of the cafe, the husband is shown looking around the cafe. The shot cuts back to Merritt and the couple, and the husband is looking at his wife and Merritt. (00:02:10)
Continuity mistake: When Merritt mind reads the husband, he says "Beach. Cocktail. Florida?" and the husband replies claiming it was a business trip. As the husband says this, Merritt's hand is raised, but when the shot cuts back to Merritt, his hand is suddenly lowered. (00:02:35)
Continuity mistake: After Jack has performed the magic trick with the spoon, a member of the crowd pulls a spoon and a snapped utensil from his pocket and shows it to the crowd, one in each hand. The two items are level with each other. The shot cuts and suddenly his right hand is lowered whilst the left hand is still raised. (00:04:55)
Audio problem: When Henley is escaping the tank, there is a quick shot of the timer going past 22 seconds and a quick cut showing the tank of piranhas. During these quick cuts, Henley's panicked screaming can be heard, but it is not until seconds after this until Henley begins screaming for help. (00:06:10)
Other mistake: When the Horsemen remove $70,000 from Tressler's cheque, audience member Josepha is waving her flashlight on her paper, and begins to notice something. However, it is not until the next shot where it is shown that the 70 has appeared in front of her $562 written on her paper. (01:00:50)
Answer: He confessed under the pretense that he didn't want an expensive trial but really because he was in charge of the Eye all along.