Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Plot hole: Leon Hamilton is the most hated man in Sainte Marie, with over 900 people on the island conned by him. Yet exactly one person in the whole island knows how he looks like, every newspaper and website never ever published a picture of him even during the very public trial when they were trying to get their thousands of dollars back nor publish an archive picture after his death.
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: After Leon Hamilton is stabbed, Richard Poole gets out the whiteboard and says "this time it's personal." Yet the whiteboard has some writing on it and some pictures. If you look at it closely, it is Benjamin Lightfoot, the guy killed in the next episode when Richard is sick. So the whiteboard has everything from the next episode before it happens.
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: In the case resolution at the bar, the bottles jump on and off the counter onto Vincent's hand between shots, multiple times. (00:43:30)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: At the market, Dwayne and Fidel watch the crowd. The same person with a yellow floral shirt passes in front of them multiple times. (00:40:00)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Fidel manages to stop the beggar thief. The strap of the camera is between thumb and forefinger in the first shot, between index and middle in the next. (00:40:30)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Ann Hamilton opens the door of her bungalow to a mysterious person. Between the walk to the door and the close-up of the open door, her hair looks radically different (in front/behind the left shoulder, a single long lock of hair in front of the right shoulder). (00:39:20)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Suzie Park joins uninvited Richard and his new buddy Vincent who are having a drink. Richard's hand is off the glass in the front views, but it's around it when she mentions that she knows "the five BRMs", only to be gone suddenly at the cut. (00:36:20)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Camille holds her hand out to offer a slice of cake to Richard. The paper towel is folded when the camera is positioned behind her, open in the reverse. (00:38:45)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Richard is speaking with a hurt Gordon Foster. During the conversation, the same extras pass by in different shots. For instance look at the guy with the Hawaiian purple shirt that walks behind Poole at "God, I was drunk" and "Why were you sitting with him." (00:33:20)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Poole and Bordey are interviewing Gordon Foster, who lost the most money in the Paradise Beach scam. When he says "The divorce came through last week", the pen on the newspaper is in a different position (middle of the page, pointing straight forward) compared to the previous part of the scene. (00:27:25)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Samuel King is sitting outside a bar. On the promenade, notice a passerby walk past a couple. Samuel puts a 20 euros bill on the waitress' plate, and the same man and couple have the same encounter, again. (00:15:15)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: The lizard waiting for Poole on the desk is in a different spot of the table in close-up compared to the view of the whole room - just check the distance from the side. (00:12:40)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: When Dwayne waves around the dossier with Samuel King's name on it, in the closer angle he is holding it with the hand at the middle of the bottom side, while in the wider angle before and after he is holding it by the side/corner. (00:12:00)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Other mistake: An enraged Richard tries to get the drawing board in position making a bit of a ruckus. If you look at the board, it has names and pictures on it; they are from the future, since they are part of the 6th episode, "An Unhelpful Aid", evidently filmed earlier, out of order. (00:07:25)
Answer: There's probably no particular reason. Sets and props on long-running TV shows often change as needed and for various reasons throughout a series run.
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