Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: Goodman asks the suspects if anyone saw Shelley earlier that morning. Alison Turner has her fingertips against her temple, but it's a closed fist in the next shot. (00:14:40)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: Inspecting the hotel room, Florence pulls the money out of the wallet holding it at a certain distance in the first shot, much closer/partially still inserted in the reverse. (00:11:30)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: Florence tells Humphrey poolside that the victim was "stabbed in heart. Death would have been instant." Goodman in this wide shot listens with his hand a bit lowered, placing it just below his chin, but it's in front of his belly in the next shot. (00:09:25)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: Humphrey and Florence are at the resort, and she just laid down the preliminary forensics reports. Dwayne calls their attention; Florence leans against the railing with right hand and puts the left one on her hip. Except, the next shot she is leaning on the railing with both. (00:10:00)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: The police is at the crime scene for the first time; the victim has her phone lying horizontally on her arm, but in close-up the hand dropped lower and the phone now is at 45°. (00:06:40)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: After the desk accident, the phone ring at the Honore police station. Florence is looking at her boss puzzled holding the cup in one hand, except in the intermediate overhead shot, when she is using two, and again she goes from one to two all of a sudden when she asks Dwayne about the call. (00:06:25)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Revealing mistake: Florence passes a mug of coffee to her boss, who goes on to sit in his chair and have a tragic overacting accident. However, when things were still normal and he merely approached the desk, you could see Florence already stop drinking and frown preoccupied before anything bad happened. (00:06:10)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: First shot right after the opening theme; Dwayne is holding the Saint Marie Times and his hand is on the box above what we see in close-up is an article about the recession. In that close-up though, his hand is much, much lower on the page. (00:05:00)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: The victim is discovered. She is holding her phone in close-up in a direction that seconds the fingers, but in the aerial shot the phone comes in from the opposite direction, left to right. (00:04:25)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: The coach of the winning duo looks in the distance at the other volley players leaving. His glass is noticeably fuller in the slightly out of focus reverse shot. (00:02:30)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: In the establishing shot of the serve of the matchpoint, the corner of the field is free from shadows and the people standing in the opposite corner cast long shadows. In the following shots, both these conditions change. (00:00:20)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: When Daisy Buttercup tells the investigators that Stevie ended the relationship, she plays with his necklace in the front views using both hands - but just one hand as in the rest of the scene when she is from 3/4 behind. (00:38:45)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: Humphrey is holding the copy of the artwork of the reissued album. Overwhelmed by his staff's objections, he goes to his desk and crashes in his chair. His hand is on the shorter, longer, shorter side of the paper sheet, a change for each cut. (00:35:40)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: At the Bullet Bar, JP tells Dwayne he's not a big drinker. He has his thumbpad on the edge of the glass in great evidence in the first and third shot, and lower in the intermediate one. (00:27:05)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: During the scene with the guitarist in the bar, his glass is more full or less full between shots - easy to tell when in some shots the ice cubes pop on the surface and in others they have melted completely. (00:22:25)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene with Pete Thunders in a bar - when they ask him about the loss caused by the sponsor defamation - a guy in a yellow tee walks out of the bar. At the end of the scene, when Florence gets a phone call, the same guy makes his exit stage right again. (00:21:45 - 00:23:30)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: JP shows Goodman what he found; in the cut before the moment he presses the button. Humphrey suddenly has his fingers touching his lips, while he had both hands down an instant before. (00:19:55)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Factual error: Humphrey mentions that the fire that destroyed the recording studio happened in July 1991. The first page of the Saint Marie Times carrying the news though has Thursday 12th as a date; in July 1991, the 12th was a Friday. (00:16:25 - 00:16:55)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Revealing mistake: Florence prints the first page from the Saint Marie newspaper, from a generic "Thursday 12th"; the whole first page is taken by the news of the fire destroying the recording studio...but half of the article talks about "the world's largest message in a bottle", instead. (00:16:25)

Sammo

11th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: After checking out the planters, Humphrey walks along the pool saying the killer "covered their tracks by staging the scene", and goes on through an editing cut. Florence had both hands together in the first shot, in the second she's listening with her hand under her chin. (00:12:25)

Sammo

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