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The Lost Mine - S2-E3

Audio problem: There's a bit of a mix-up in the codenames of the cars who chase Reggie Dyer. Unit 7 is the first to give chase and it is identified by its crew with the photographer. Then Unit 8 intercepts at the rendez-vous point. Check the license plate; FVW 49. Japp mentions a "unit 10" that is not shown. Later in Chinatown, Japp calls for the other cars, and "Car 8" responds, but its license plate is now YD 8501 and it's another car model. Unit 10 is again not shown. They dubbed in the wrong voiceover, they should have kept offscreen the second response by Unit 8 and made it Unit 10's.

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The Lost Mine - S2-E3

Factual error: One of the two police cars identified as Unit 10, is appropriately enough, a Sunbeam-Talbot Ten. The episode is set in 1935 though (with amazing accuracy for some details, including the poster for the movie "George White's Scandals 1935" shown before the car tailing starts), and that car was manufactured only after 1937. (00:19:55 - 00:22:00)

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The Lost Mine - S2-E3

Other mistake: Japp manages to coordinate the pincer action of the 3 police cars using a very broad map and no real information about the whereabouts of the suspect. The whole scene is rather silly, it would work in a modern thriller with a GPS, perhaps, not with toy cars and a street map of London.

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The Lost Mine - S2-E3

Stupidity: The policemen in car 7 are able to take pictures and talk to Japp with total ease, with a direct eyeline at such a low distance from the 3 people that is quite amazing they haven't been discovered - everyone was blind and possibly deaf, since they were so close and with the window open, you'd think they could even easily be heard.

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The Lost Mine - S2-E3

Factual error: In Poirot's study, Lord Pearson shows the big piece of mineral, saying "You're left holding a a nugget of top-grade 24-carat silver." That's a laughable blunder, from a top level banker and investor about to do a massive mining deal even. Silver purity is expressed in millesimal fineness. (00:11:30)

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The Lost Mine - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: His Bankship visits Poirot during the evening, and begins telling him the story of the silver mine. "For half a century, men have died", he says. Poirot has the magnifying lens in the right hand, but also the rock in the left; cut to a different angle, the hand with the rock is held low, out of frame, and then back to the first shot, with the rock exactly where it was. (00:11:55)

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The Lost Mine - S2-E3

Factual error: The episode is set at a precise date (it's even a plot point); 8/2/1935. But at the beginning Poirot and Hastings are playing Monopoly, and right there on the board you can distinctly read; "Trade Mark - Pat.app. For Nº 3796-36." As signaled by the last 2 digits, it's a 1936 edition (the UK localization of the game). (00:01:40)

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The Veiled Lady - S2-E2

Stupidity: The gang is brutal enough to have Lavington killed; considering they know where he lives and that there's just a single housekeeper, it would have been miles easier for them to just kill or tie her up and ransack the house themselves with all the time they wanted, rather than involving the most famous detective with an obvious ruse and hope he'd find the object.

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The Veiled Lady - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: The cream colored shoes of the Lady are prominently featured in the finale. When the actress has to run, not only are the heels replaced by modern tennis shoes, but they're black, in contrast with her white stockings. (00:46:40)

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The Veiled Lady - S2-E2

Factual error: To meet The Veiled Lady the second time, Hastings and Poirot go to the Natural History Museum. The establishing shot is the iconic "Dippy the Diplodocus", right in the main hall. But in 1935, Dippy would have been in the reptile hall instead, and with his head and neck mounted differently. (00:37:35)

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The Veiled Lady - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: Poirot tells Miss Lemon to calm down because "It is only the simple blackmailer." Pauline Moran has her right hand on the bag, but in the close-up that follows her hand is at a distance from it. The difference in position (and thus in the takes being edited together) is reflected by a mistake happening a few seconds later, when you can notice as she turns around to answer the door, that her gloves have also switched hand. (00:12:10)

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The Veiled Lady - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Poirot and Hastings enter the Athena, there's an establishing shot as they walk to the right of the concierge. In the following shot, some elements like the lady with the flower dress by them are consistent, but the desk employee is suddenly on the phone and a bellboy appears by the stairs. Also the lady in the corner changes from a blonde to an elderly woman in a red coat. (00:05:50)

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The Veiled Lady - S2-E2

Other mistake: Poirot, Hastings and The Veiled Lady go upstairs because the lobby is 'too public'. The man spying on them is hiding behind the same newspaper prop used in the previous episode of the season, where Hastings was reading it in Cornwall at the beginning. So must be a pretty old issue now (Peril at End House takes a few days, and they were on holiday). (00:07:40)

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The Veiled Lady - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: Sitting on the park bench, Japp narrates the jewelry heist to Poirot. The passersby during the scene change in the various angles, and the most evident demonstration is offered by the fella that starts his walk exactly when Japp sits down. Grey pants, a sleeveless vest and hat, he walks all the way to the path in the background and exits stage right. But he's walking behind Japp when he says "The stones in his pocket were not the real stones." (00:03:00 - 00:03:45)

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Continuity mistake: Look behind Norby when he pries open the bus doors; a woman with a teal pantsuit is not exactly inconspicuous as she strolls along the sidewalk. A few cuts after (when he says "A little guy, about two feet tall") the same extra is recycled, walking in the exact same direction. (00:31:50)

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Continuity mistake: When the mother and the nanny are rushing back to the room where the phony photographers were, the housekeeper is doing some cleaning in a part of the hall to the side of the door. The butler opens the double doors, and she is suddenly already in view, trailing behind the trio. (00:14:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the close-up of the three idiot kidnappers getting their feet crushed by a passing van as they stand in the middle of the street, their order in the line is wrong. The leftmost person is wearing boots, so it's supposed to be Veeko, who is in the center in the other shots. (00:44:10)

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The Adventure of the Cheap Flat - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: In the first scene with the 'G-Man', the room in the shots with the camera roughly by his shoulder is lit in a different way, with his body fully in the 'sun'. Especially visible when he picks up the phone and starts spouting yankee-isms going all "Yeah yeah so what yeah." (00:09:00)

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Continuity mistake: Batwoman has an extended battle with a dude on top of the semi. In the last phase of the battle (when he charges at her after nearly having been knocked out and is by his buddy in the mirror), there's no trace of the debris and torn tarp, nor of the gun. (00:03:10)

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Hone made aishite? Akane koi o fukuzatsu kossetsu - S1-E5

Plot hole: Dr. Tofu is able to tell that Ranma was hit by a softball (he says something about the marks like he actually sees them), but Ranma's wound is still covered by the bandage, that he'll remove in the next episode. This is linked to a larger mistake in the following episode. (00:19:55)

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