Out of the Frying Pan - S8-E18
Continuity mistake: Vance slams the axe on the table and through a picture of the victim. However, when Vance removes the axe a minute later, the axe is through a different part of the picture. The 1st time the axe goes through the neck/shoulders of the man in the picture but when removed it's in the forehead. (00:29:50)
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs rejects the agent's file, Cynthia reaches for the ringing telephone with her right hand and Gibbs stops her with his left hand, but in the closeup Gibbs has his right hand on Cynthia's left hand. The closeup is a flipped shot, note their watches. (00:03:05)
Masquerade - S7-E14
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs has got the numbered yellow cones at the crime scene, they alternate from on his bandage to his hands between shots. (00:03:40)
Masquerade - S7-E14
Continuity mistake: When McGee is at the online wedding, a man with a green shirt and blue folder can be seen walking down the steps behind him. The same man can be seen preforming the same action a few seconds later. (00:03:00)
Continuity mistake: The amount of foam atop Ton'y beer when talking to his dad is constantly changing. (00:18:20)
Nine Lives - S6-E5
Continuity mistake: When Fornell walks past the reporters at the court house he passes The Wall. Camera cuts and he has jumped back and isn't near The Wall. (00:36:30)
Silver War - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Abby realises she is like a Barbie doll, her hands are together by her chest. Camera cuts and one hand has moved away instantly. (00:24:00)
Continuity mistake: Gibbs puts his gun in his drawer on a blue folder then goes to talk to Fornell in the lift. When he comes back, he picks his gun up and the contents of the drawer and position of the gun have completely changed. (00:14:50 - 00:16:50)
Continuity mistake: When talking to the warehouse manager, the manager has a clipboard with pink post it notes on. Watch closely and you will see the clipboard is constantly facing different directions as indicated by the pink post it notes. It some shots it's facing away from the manager, and in others it's facing the manager. (00:05:05)
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs visits Abbie's lab to ask about the smoke detector and computer, he finds the CPU disassembled on her table. The "hard drive" is placed on a white tray in front of the cover, which has been removed from the CPU. Initially, the hard drive is white in color. However, in the close-up shot, it turns black and looks like a different piece altogether. Furthermore, the white tray disappears, and the hard drive sits on the CPU cover. In the wide-shot, the white tray reappears, and the hard drive is again white as it was originally. (00:24:50)
Silver War - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When inside the Smithsonian, Tony is fooling around with a bear. The baseball hats on all 3 agents have black trim on the brim, then white trim, then black trim. Zeva says her hat has a 9mm hole, and pokes a finger through a hat with a black trim. Gibbs says it is for ventilation. Then she drives home, the hats have white trim, and hers has no hole.
Continuity mistake: When Tony tells Ziva he won't help her track down the remaining 'Smiths', a woman in the background is walking down the stairs; as Tony stands up, she takes two steps down from the lower landing. When the camera shot changes on Tony, she's back on the landing. (00:25:15)
Power Down - S7-E8
Continuity mistake: When the team finds the abandoned car from the robbery, and Tony notices the blood trail, he is initially kneeling down, then standing up. He then kneels down a second time, and then is instantly standing up again. (00:21:25)
Continuity mistake: When Vance shows Gibbs the access card belonging to their dead petty officer, the position of his hand on the card changes between shots. (00:38:35)
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs is at the batting cage with Col. Mann, he raises his bat, ready to swing. In the next shot, his arms are down by his side and he raises the bat again. (00:02:30)
Chosen answer: "Policing your brass", means to pick up your expended shell casings, after firing your rifle, or pistol.
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