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Continuity: Season 1, episode 12 ("Loose Ends"). When Michael is on the phone with the heroin dealer at the docks, he has his phone at his left ear. When the camera moves to a shot from the back, there's no phone near his face (or in the frame for that matter) and his mouth doesn't move while talking. When the shot cuts back, the phone instantly is back at his ear.

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Continuity: Season 1, episode 9 "Hard Bargain": When the kidnapper holds Michael at gunpoint on the balcony, his hand holding the gun is shaking. In the next shot, from behind, his hand is perfectly still. The shot then switches back, and his hand is shaking again.

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Continuity: Season 1, episode 8 ("Wanted Man"). When Michael is eating his slush, the way he holds his cup changes between shots.

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Continuity: Episode 59, "Brotherly Love": At the end of the episode, before the SUV rolls, it is a new Escalade. However, during and after the roll, it changes to a first generation Escalade.

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Continuity: Season 4, episode 16. When Michael has his gun on the dirty cops head, the gun is resting on his forehead and Michaels hand is on his throat. In the next shot the gun is right between the cops eyes, and his hand is on his chest. This keeps going back and forth a few times.

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Factual error: Season 4, episode 10, "Hard Time". When Fiona slips Michael a "key" during their kiss, Michael keeps it and no problem. In reality, all prisoners are searched thoroughly before returning to their cells. This includes a full oral search.

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Continuity: This basically happens in nearly every episode. Whenever Michael's mom is smoking, which she does a lot, her cigarette and smoke change size and position with every shot. Although it's hard to keep a cigarette burning the same way with each take, it seems as if no attempt was made at all.

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Continuity: Season 1, episode 12 ("Loose Ends"). When the heroin importer is questioning Sam, he has his hand around his face, with his fingers touching his ear. When the shot moves to the front, his hand is more on his throat and nowhere near his ear. When we cut to the back, his hand moves again.

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Pilot (season 1, episode 1)

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Continuity: When Michael drops his mother off at the hospital, she takes her cigarette out of her mouth to talk to him. In the next shot, the cigarette is back in her mouth.

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Continuity: When Michael is talking to Walter, the art dealer, the latter has his hands folded together. In the next shot he has one hand on his lap and the other on the table.

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Continuity: Just after Michael throws his mothers cigarette out of the car, there is a shot from the inside through the front window. There is a large crack in the glass, bottom left of the rear view mirror. When the car is shot from the front, there's no crack.

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Old Friends (season 1, episode 3)

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Continuity: Near the end of the episode when Mike is threatening the Assassin, by withholding his allergy shot. The needle flips instantly in his hand between shots. Noticeable because of the black tip on one side.

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Continuity: When Michael needs a ride, he tells Sam "The Charger's busted, you're driving me over to my mom's." However, it's not til the next episode that he even remembers that his father's old Charger is in his mother's garage, and he doesn't want anything to do with it til the end of the episode.

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Broken Rules (season 1, episode 7)

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Continuity: Michael has to prove himself for his new "boss" Concha Ramirez. He walks across the street to Fiona and starts a mock robbery to get her purse. When he approaches the car, the window is down. Three seconds later he is at the car and the window is up so Michael can break it. Watch as the window frame goes from clean (as if the window were down) to broken pieces of glass on the frame between shots.

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Hard Bargain (season 1, episode 9)

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Visible crew/equipment: When Michael drives away at the end of the first scene, you can see a boom mic reflected on the car's surface.

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False Flag (season 1, episode 10)

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Continuity: When Michael is talking to Evelyn she picks up her glass and brings it to her mouth. When switching to a different angle her glass is back on the table, and she has her hands on her lap.

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Loose Ends (2) (season 1, episode 12)

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Continuity: Michael is having a meeting with the guy who is asking how Michael found out about him (where Sam is standing guard with the sniper rifle.) Michael has a gun pulled on him and is trying to escape. As Michael is trying to leave in the Charger, he pulls backwards and makes a 90 degree turn so that the passenger side of the Charger is facing the guy with the gun. The windshield could not have been shot from this angle. The next camera shot Michael is driving backwards again with the windshield facing the guy so he can shoot a hole in the center of Michael's windshield.

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Trust Me (season 2, episode 3)

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Continuity: When Michael is talking to Barry, Barry's hands change position with each shot. On the table, folded together, holding his glass, etc.

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Scatter Point (season 2, episode 5)

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Revealing: When Sam pops open the cabinet with the wire he will later cut, you can see that the wire was cut and glued together again. When Sam cuts the wire some time later, it's in perfect condition. The taping was probably done in reverse order.

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Bad Blood (season 2, episode 6)

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Revealing: When Victor is opening the padlock, sparks fly around in close ups. In the wide angle shots there are no sparks at all.

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