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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jerry Talaba watches Kojak walk forward for the first time and open his jacket, the gun is pointed at him, then pointed up in the close-up reverse shot. (00:13:05)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Having just seized control of the store, Jerry Talaba asks the owner about other exits or access to the roof. He then asks, "What's that?" He and his accomplice move towards the position of two hostages (most notably the girl's). The man holding the assault rifle has his left hand on/off it at the cut. (00:11:20)

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Stupidity: During the final phases of the Turnabout Sisters case, trying to press Redd about him not being solely guilty of wiretapping will cause Edgeworth to state that "unidentified fingerprints several days old were found in the Fey and Co. Law Offices" and they'd "obviously" belong to Redd. That's an unnecessarily ridiculous non sequitur; being an office with several clients, it'd be astonishing if there were no "unidentified prints" at all.

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Factual error: In the second case, Phoenix arrives on the scene of the crime just 11 minutes after the murder occurred, but examining the body, he finds the murder weapon "encrusted with dried blood." In that short of a timespan, the blood would be anything but crusty - especially considering that the smell of blood is so strong that Phoenix can feel it from the corridor.

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Other mistake: One of the slip-ups that incriminate Redd White involves the way the victim died. Phoenix points it out, saying, "The victim died from a 'single' blow!" Using quotation marks for "single." The autopsy report, though, does not literally say "single," but just that died from "a blow" without ruling others out. If this seems minor, consider that the Trilogy remake feels the need to remove the quotation marks, obviously because it was not quoting the in-game text of the autopsy report, which was much more vague.

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: In the first scene, where Kojak manages to get inside the store to parlay with the criminals, he asks to talk to the wounded officer. Harvey Keitel says, "Go ahead." In the next shot, Jerry Talaba and Jack Murzie hold their guns in a different way. (00:15:15)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Revealing mistake: When Kojak drives to the store where the hostage situation takes place, the side mirror of the interior view does not match the car he arrives in. The footage is also noticeably sped up at the last turn, when he passes by a Delicatessen window and a Rent-a-car sign. (00:09:30)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: In the sequence, with the policeman getting shot outside the store, with all the other cops trying to get to him, he lies alternatively with his arm on the ground, unmoving, or rolled on the other side, pressing his wound. (00:08:30)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the shootout with the criminals that just holed up inside the store, one policeman tries to make a forward run but is gunned down. In the closer angle, he performs a stunt on a uniformly dimly lit road, but in Harvey Keitel's POV, there is a clear divide between sunlight and shade. (00:08:20)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Visible crew/equipment: When we see the first patrol car reaching the crime scene, the robbers are startled and fight the cops. But if you look in the background when the patrol car pulls over, you can see there is already at least one policeman on foot. However, he's in the background - a real-life cop stopping traffic so the scene can be filmed. (00:03:40)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Other mistake: At the beginning of the episode, there are a few sequences with police cars going at notable speed down the streets of New York. In a few instances, you can see people gathered in street corners, looking at the filming. One egregious example is when the criminals loading the van are startled by the sirens. In the following shot, two bystanders look at the car, then turn towards the camera, and one even takes a few steps back to get out of frame. (00:03:40)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Factual error: The armed robbery is reported by the radio call as happening in "4014 Nostrand Avenue", which is a real street in Brooklyn. However, the first detectives to respond to the dispatch identify themselves as being from "Manhattan South" (makes sense, Kojak being a Lieutenant of the fictional 11th Manhattan South precinct), and the rest of the episode is set obviously in Manhattan. That's many miles away.

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Revealing mistake: A citizen just reported the armed robbery. In an interior shot of the patrol car, supposedly fast driving down the streets of Manhattan, the pedals of the car are visible in the left part of The Frame; there's no foot on the accelerator. They filmed a close-up of the radio inside a still car. (00:02:35)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the credits at the beginning of the episode, watch the camera car view of the street where the armoured van is parked ("Created by Abby Mann"). It's dawn and the van casts a very distinct shadow on the asphalt. Mere seconds later, the getaway car of the robbers gets in the intersection, and the lighting of the scene is flat, shot during a different part of the day. (00:01:35)

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Factual error: The name of Riccardo Scamarcio is "Vitale Portfoglio." Portfoglio is not an Italian last name or word (that would be "Portafoglio", wallet).

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Stupidity: One of the major reveals and plot twists of the movie lies in the fact that a certain character is an accomplice of the medium. The reveal, though, does not explain at all how said individual managed to fool Poirot; the trick briefly shown involves a simple rope pull to open a door. Poirot was looking exactly for that kind of trick, paces around the room constantly on maximum alert, and examines the door itself later. Likewise, it does not explain where and how they could hide the stuffed animal.

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Factual error: Poirot's bodyguard announces that the palace where the movie mostly takes place is called "Palazzo Lacrime dei giovani." No such palace exists in Venice, but that's obviously not a mistake per se; the problem is, such a name does not fit a Venetian palace. The word "Giovani" has a modern ring to it and wouldn't have been used for the orphan children of the story, considering that it's the equivalent of "young adults" rather than "children" - and regardless, it's just as awkwardly sounding as an imaginary "Castle Tears of the Youngs" in Britain.

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Continuity mistake: During the conversation between Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver on the bench, the same people keep passing by them over and over. Watch when Tina Fey says "I'm the smartest person"; behind her, there's a woman in a red coat, carrying a dark handbag. She walks behind them in the next shot; seconds later, she says "Then afterwards" in another close-up, and the woman reappears in the same position as the first time.

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Continuity mistake: Sitting on a bench in Campiello dei Miracoli, Ariadne Oliver shows Poirot a series of newspaper clippings about the mysterious medium Mrs. Reynolds. Tina Fey's thumb is placed in a different position on the page in the various shots.

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Other mistake: Poirot receives a box of chocolates when he's home, then goes out shopping for eggs with the same box in hand, and in the next scene he's back home, having breakfast with the eggs. There's no apparent reason for this behaviour; who goes out for an errand bringing along a sealed box they just received?

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