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Red Hair and Silver Tape - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Jane speaks to the owners of the restaurant, the female owner is writing something and also has a drink. She takes the drink with the pen in the same hand. When the shots changes, the pen is no longer in her hand. The shot goes back to the original position and the pen appears again. (00:09:35)

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Red Tide - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: The victim's father comes face to face with Flipper at CBI and he lunges towards Flipper. Lisbon stops him. At first her right hand is on his left shoulder. Cut to the shot from behind, the same hand is now under his left armpit.

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Red Tide - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: At the end, Lisbon gives Christine's father a card and tells him to get help for his alcoholism. The way she holds the card differs between shots.

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Red-Handed - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: After Lisbon gives Patrick the $100 he is seen walking to the table handling chips. But when he sits down, only then does he convert the notes to chips.

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The Thin Red Line - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Dale Blakely punches Patrick in the nose for talking to his wife. In pain, Patrick first holds his nose with his right hand. Cut and it's his left hand. The hands alternate throughout the scene. (00:28:45)

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Red John's Friends - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: This happens right at the very end at the hotel room in Mexico. Jane and Lisbon are sitting on the bed and the cellphone rings. It's Red John calling. There's a beer bottle next to the phone on a round table. At first the label faces towards the middle of the table. When Jane picks the phone up, the label now faces the other way. (00:43:20)

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Russet Potatoes - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When we first see Rigsby interview Lindsay, she says "Royston would never hurt Mary Beth. Not in a million years, if that's what you're thinking." Later in the episode when this scene is shown again in flashback, she says "Royston would never hurt Mary Beth if that's what you're thinking, not in a million years."

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Red Scare - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: Lisbon and Jane enter the interrogation room to interview the wife of the murder victim. As Lisbon sits down she opens her notepad upside down. Next shot of her the notepad is right side up. Remaining shots of Lisbon shows the notepad upside down again.

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Code Red - S2-E16

Continuity mistake: Lisbon is telling the CDC agent that the scientist's death is a homicide. The agent has an ear piece in his left ear in close-up shots. In all other shots, the piece isn't in his ear.

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Every Rose Has Its Thorn - S3-E19

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Agent Lisbon is asking Jane why he's obsessed with the woman he's investigating, Lisbon's pen is in her right hand. But when she waves, the pen has disappeared, but in the next shot it's back in her hand.

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Every Rose Has Its Thorn - S3-E19

Continuity mistake: In the beginning when Patrick is talking to the widow Erica Flynn at the police station, when she first leaves the interrogation room the zipper in the back of her dress is down about four inches. As she is walking to the elevator, when she goes into the elevator and turns, you see that it is now zipped up completely.

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Ruby Slippers - S4-E21

Continuity mistake: When Cho finds Archie's notebook under the bed, he turns to near the end and starts reading Archie's entry. But the position of where Cho has the notebook open changes, depending on the camera angle.

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Red Dawn - S5-E5

Continuity mistake: Jane ordered the leather couch he is later seen napping on for the office in a previous season when he made a deal to be able to get a couch (only upper-level officers were allowed to have couches). Since this episode was a flashback to the first time Jane met and worked with the team, the couch he falls asleep on would not have been there, as that event had not yet happened.

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Revealing mistake: Any time any character is driving a Suburban, or any other vehicle with a column mounted shift lever, the shifter is in park while they appear to be driving.

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