Day 3: 4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M. - S3-E16
Continuity mistake: When Michelle shoots the escaping hotel customer, her gun shows a jammed shell casing while she points her gun at him. The jammed casing wasn't there after she fired her final warning shots and disapears suddenly just before she shoots him down. (00:39:00)
Day 5: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: When Agent Aaron Pierce steps out of the helicopter, the right half of his face is severely wounded, with lots of blood and a bandage on it. 12 minutes later, when he is back in the Presidential house, he's talking with Miss. Logan and his face is completely clean, with not a single scratch or sign of wounds on his right half of the face. (00:12:55 - 00:25:00)
Day 4: 10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M. - S4-E16
Continuity mistake: When Jack shoots Nicole through the wall, she slides down, smearing blood on the wall. However when Jack comes to check if she is dead, no blood is seen on the wall.
Day 4: 2:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. - S4-E8
Continuity mistake: When Curtis Manning is chasing Mary-Ann Taylor out of CTU, you see Mary-Ann exiting through a solid grey door marked by an EXIT sign in a wall which looks like concrete. As she passes through the door, you can see sunlight on her from almost directly above. In the next shot Mary-Ann is seen exiting through a glass door in a wall of glass panels. Unless there is a section of CTU's roof missing, the room she exits from in the second shot is not the room she exits to a few seconds earlier in the first shot.
Day 3: 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. - S3-E23
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Wayne and Fox are in Sherry's house searching for the pill container, right before Sherry asks, "What's going on here?" Wayne is seen wearing latex gloves. The camera then cuts to Sherry. When it cuts back to Wayne, his gloves have magically disappeared.
Day 7: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM - S7-E24
Continuity mistake: In the season finale of 24: Day 7 when Tony is torturing Alan Wilson and Jack comes in and shoots Tony in the shoulder, we can see Wilson raise his hands while lying on the floor with his legs to his left. Wilson remains in this position when Jack shoots Tony in the knuckles. Directly after the shot of Jack shooting Tony in the hand, we can see Wilson sitting cross-legged. With the time elapsed, he had no time to change into his position that quickly. (00:19:50)
12:00 Midnight-1:00 A.M. - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Kim Bauer has a full set of glittery pink disco nails on episode one (midnight) but then these are not visible at all in most episodes. In the 2pm episode her nails look clean/natural in nearly all the shots, apart from during the phone call with Rick where traces of pink glitter can be seen. I know she's had a very rough night but it doesn't explain the amount of damage her nails have sustained.
Day 2: 2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M. - S2-E19
Continuity mistake: In the "Previously on 24" segment, after obtaining the memory chip, Jack says "We got the chip." In the previous episode, however, he says "We got it." (00:01:15)
Day 6: 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM - S6-E17
Continuity mistake: After the staged vehicle crash and shootout, Jack is riding in a vehicle with agent Doyle. It is very dark during the fake shootout; but once the scene changes, daylight is seen through the window of the vehicle Jack is in.
Day 7: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM - S7-E12
Continuity mistake: In the split screen of General Juma talking to Jonas Hodges on the sat phone, Juma's jacket sleeve covers his watch in the left box, but not in the right one. (00:29:00)
Day 7: 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM - S7-E16
Continuity mistake: When president Taylor asks Olivia to be her acting Chief of Staff, Allison rests her head on her hand, with only her elbow on the couch. In the next shot, her arm is suddenly resting on the couch instead. There's a straight cut between the two shots, so she didn't have time to move. (00:10:55)
Day 7: 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM - S7-E23
Continuity mistake: When the terrorist keeping an eye on Kim bends over to move his baggage for other people to sit down, Kim notices his neck is bleeding from him confronting and killing the FBI agent watching her (which she doesn't know). However, in the last 15 minutes of hour 5:00AM to 6:00AM, when he kills the FBI agent, he doesn't receive a scratch. (00:05:55)
Day 7: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - S7-E2
Continuity mistake: In the "previously on 24" recap, Jack tells Renee Walker "the Department of Justice is about to file criminal charges against me." But in that scene in the previous episode, he used the departmental abbreviation "DOJ".
Chosen answer: Nobody knew, not even the writers, until at least halfway through the season when they were writing the end. They wanted to keep all options open.
Nick N.