Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Catherine arrives bringing beer. She puts one next to Camille, and the neck label is positioned with the part with no logo facing the camera. In the following close-ups of Sara Martins though, the yellow circle with anchor logo is facing the camera. (00:24:20)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Humphrey uses a blue paper tissue to try and write down the pros and cons list; in the table close-up, the cup of goobers and the coaster are roughly aligned on the same plank, while they are at greater distance in the other shots. (00:23:40)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: In the sequence with Humphrey slipping and eventually falling from the railing, Kris Marshall's position keeps changing - as easily revealed by the distance from the bars of the railing. (00:21:25)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: After Betty says "But I did love Jenny", her right hand is raised to the glass, something that does not match the previous and following shot. (00:19:50)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Humphrey speaks with the groom, and then walks away. He moved barely a couple meters, and walking on the dock there are extras (the woman in purple that was shopping at the stall, and the woman sitting by the boat.) that made rather significant jumps in space and time to be there. (00:16:55)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Commissioner Selwyn Patterson sneaks into the police station. Dwayne spots him; in close-up, the table lamp is angled lower and switched on, as opposed to the rest of the scene. (00:13:00)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Humphrey passes the cork to Dwayne holding it with the palm pointed up in the first shot, down in the second. (00:08:10)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Florence unfurls the evidence bag twice in different ways in separate shots when Goodman mentions that the victim couldn't have opened the door coming out of the tub, and similarly moves the pink scrapbook to her left twice. (00:07:30)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Kris Marshall is holding the scrapbook the first time in two completely different ways (hand in the middle or not) depending on the camera angle that alternate. (00:07:00)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: DI Humphrey Goodman is holding the jasmine candle in close-up with his fingers at the top, but in the next shot his fingers are at towards the bottom of the glass. (00:06:30)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Humphrey is talking to the hotel staffer, and goes back to the bathroom to check the candles as he asks if they came with the room. Camille holds the notepad tilted towards her, but the next shot starts with her pad tilted the opposite way. A moment later, Florence opens her own pad, and re-opens it when DI Goodman is back with the candle. (00:06:25)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: When Florence checks the wash bag to see if the victim was using any bath salts, the notepad is turned differently in hand between shots. (00:05:15)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Character mistake: Close captions in the episode write down the Frenglish mish-mash by Goodman as "leoffer" without space, when he's saying "le offer" ("offer" in French is "offre", but he's just making a joke, with "le" making automatically everything sound French).
Episode #4.3 - S4-E3
Plot hole: Five people in total are on a remote location, but they have food poisoning, so severe that they call in the paramedics. Humphrey arrives when they are being taken care of already. During all the time it took for the doctors to arrive, and when the actual rescue was there and was administering help, nobody bothered to check on the victim in his tent - if anyone did, they would have found him dead, since the poison killed him in 30 minutes. The son, the lover and the good friend of the victim, nobody thought about him for a moment.
Episode #4.3 - S4-E3
Plot hole: The killer poisons the victim's belonging when they met early in the morning - that means that the victim stayed the whole day with the poison in the pages of his journal he always brings with him. Yet the murderer's plan required the poisoning to happen at a very specific and precise moment: the end of the day after they'd all had eaten together the stew with the non-lethal dose. It is something that they couldn't have planned at all the way it is described, not when they did the poisoning so far in advance.
Episode #4.3 - S4-E3
Continuity mistake: Humphrey walks into Henri Garon's place, camera in hand, showing him video proof of his mischief. In close-up, the lanky policeman's pinky finger is off the camera, while in the shot before and after the finger is on the camera lens. (00:37:15)
Episode #4.3 - S4-E3
Character mistake: On the website of the Saint Marie Heritage Society, there's an ample mention of Catherine's bar where the society gathers. However, it mentions the lovely "Catherine Duval" serving drinks - Catherine is Camille's mother, and their last name, as also present in the credits, is Bordey, not Duval. (00:20:45)
Episode #4.3 - S4-E3
Continuity mistake: Florence is showing the silhouette in the camera screen - and her fingers are positioned on the device in an entirely different way between close-up and other angles. (00:20:15)
Episode #4.3 - S4-E3
Continuity mistake: Goodman and Camille are driving back from the chat with the treasurer of the Society and wonder if $4,000 are enough to motivate someone to kill. In this part of the scene, Camille takes her hand off from the steering wheel, but it's back in the reverse shot. (00:18:15)
Episode #4.3 - S4-E3
Continuity mistake: When Ryan asks Theresa where do the cloths go, Goodman has his left arm across the belly, over the jacket. At the reverse shot, his hand is nowhere to be seen, his posture reveals he has it pocketed. (00:17:45)
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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