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Peril at End House - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: Jim Lazarus pulls over by the protagonists to complain about being unable to see Nick. During the scene, Paul Geoffrey's different facial expressions are shown in the side mirror of the car, but each time we cut back to him, he has the same stoic face listening to Poirot. (00:47:00)

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Peril at End House - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: Poirot rudely awakens Hastings with his three questions. You get a good view of Hastings' wristwatch on the bedstand. When at the end of the Q&A Hastings turns his attention to the watch, it is in a completely different position. (00:41:25 - 00:42:35)

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Continuity mistake: During the dinner scene, different bottles have been used in different takes, since the foil in some shots is touching the rim of the bottle, in others is exposing about 1/4 of an inch, and in others has been torn off unevenly, with the gap also not facing the same direction between shots. (00:10:05 - 00:13:35)

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Continuity mistake: Richard chats up the beautiful stranger at the bar counter; his phone moves closer to her between shots before he scoots closer. On a related note, since they are always pretty close, also Pierce Brosnan's hands throughout the whole scene jump from actually touching the glass stem, to just being on the counter. (00:07:40)

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Continuity mistake: Naomi Watts holds the baby to her chest while Viggo Mortensen walks away; she is supporting her with her right hand behind her head, which becomes the left hand in the faraway shot. In the same shot, Kiril is jumping around, but is leaning against the wall at the following cut. (01:33:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the finale, once Nikolai delivers the line about being king, the baby cries. From that point on, the side views come from takes filmed while the baby was sleeping and therefore is quiet and still, while shots from a different angle have Christine moving. (01:32:35)

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Continuity mistake: Anna sits by Nikolai at the hospital, and after a while, he turns towards her as she moves her hands to her thighs. The next shot though has rather spotty continuity; Anna's hands are turned differently, the eye contact with Nikolai is lost, and the heart monitor from 47-48 has now a mostly steady 55 pulses. (01:21:45)

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Continuity mistake: After some fighting on the floor, Nikolai manages to put a knife in the chest of one of the sauna killers, and is fighting with the other. They get close to two poor dudes who are minding their own business; in the first shot you see the younger of the two completely stepping out of the way, a good couple meters away from the action. In the next one though, Viggo, the aggressor and those 2 are practically in a single line. (01:18:50)

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Continuity mistake: The bigger Chechen assassin punches Nikolai after the first slice across the chest. When Viggo is rolling on the floor and ends up on all fours close to the wall, his chest is quite clean, but when the guy angrily walks up to him, his chest is a bloody mess just before getting kicked. (01:18:05)

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Continuity mistake: Nikolai gets hurt for the first time (slice across the chest, shown in a close-up) by one of the hitmen. He punches the aggressor in the face, who bounces against the wall. His hand is in plain view and there's no weapon. Next shot, he's brandishing the knife, and drops it only a moment later. (01:17:55)

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Continuity mistake: In the first phases of the conversation about the sleeping accommodations (hotels full, Yacht Marina etc.), Tilda Swinton's hand motions are inconsistent in the shot/reverse shot succession. For instance, she's playing with her drink using the straw, held in her right hand that turns into her left hand at the cut. (00:10:45)

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Continuity mistake: The four tourists walk down the path once Corrado Guzzanti vacated the table. He bows to Tilda Swinton passing by. Meanwhile the sleazy manager greets a bunch of people at another table. He does it walking past a table with two women; there's a cut with no jumps in the distance he travels as he walks past them, and the woman that was simply eating is now bent to the side, going through her bag on the ground or something like that. (00:10:15)

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Continuity mistake: The four tourists walk to the busy absconded restaurant. They look down from the ridge overlooking the tables, which is followed by a close-up of a table with 4 people. Between these two shots the napkins on the table have changed, and in the other table in the background the bottle of wine moved from being placed between two plates, to a position in front of the woman. (00:09:05)

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Continuity mistake: The Chechen brothers approach Nikolai in the sauna. Viggo Mortensen has a towel draped across his back, with an irregular profile, covering the right shoulder more than the left. After a brief cut on the hitman preparing his knife, there's a close-up of Viggo, with the towel neatly arranged and properly balanced. (01:17:45)

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Continuity mistake: In the kitchen, Semyon is decorating dessert. He orders his son to go get the brandy bottles, and he tries to deflect the order on Nikolai. When Semyon says "No, no, he stays here", there's perfect continuity in Viggo Mortensen's gesture with the cigarette - too bad that the extra in the background had already moved away from the sink in the previous shot and now she is still working on it, and moving only after a second. (01:05:15)

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Continuity mistake: Outside of the hospital, Anna finds Nikolai on her bike, waiting for her. When he sticks out his arm with the address, pay attention to the background; there's a couple walking down the pathway, and someone with a reflective vest coming from the left. Cut for a couple seconds to Naomi Watts thinking about the proposal, and the people there haven't advanced. Similarly, camera back on her, a woman is wheeled out of the door, but does not show up in the reverse shot on Mortensen, or rather, she does but only in the one that follows. (00:55:20)

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Continuity mistake: Anna storms out of the burger place to talk to Nikolai. For the greater part of the scene, when the camera is on Naomi Watts her hair is nice and tidy, while in the reverse shots on Viggo Mortensen, the wind messes up her bangs. (00:49:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Nikolai the driver goes to the burger joint to talk to Anna and her family, the latte in front of Anna's mother in the wider shots throughout the scene has the cocoa on top in a narrow circle. In the closer angles instead it's sprinkled more spread out, noticeably different. (00:47:40 - 00:49:30)

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Continuity mistake: Anna is taking loving care of Christine in the hospital room, and while she does that she is interrupted by the creepy voice of Semyon who went all the way there. The position of Naomi Watts' arm on the crib changes between shots. (00:38:15)

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Continuity mistake: After using the girl in the brothel, Nikolai puts money and an icon prayer card next to her. Between the 3 shots where you can see those items, the girl is not supposed to have moved, curled in her exhausted semi-fetal position, but you can see how the card, money and even the bracelet she is wearing all change position. (00:37:30)

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