Death in Paradise

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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: When Dwayne says that due to the fence, the only way in is through the villa, Goodman has suddenly the hand in his pocket in the cut mid-sentence. (00:11:50)

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Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: To round up the first interview, Humphrey gets up and asks where everyone was when the death occurred. In the wider angle he is holding the slip of paper in hand, which he didn't have standing up. (00:11:25)

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Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: Throughout the whole first interview with the band, the pretentious guitarist, co-songwriter and whatnot (Pete Thunders) keeps having different positions leaning against the door or not, and his beer bottle switches hand repeatedly for no reason. If sometimes that is technically possible (but unlikely) due to brief cutaway shots, other times it is not (such as when Vince Thuram says "this is my place). (00:09:00)

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Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: Introducing the various members of the music crew, Florence asks who the last member is. Vince Thuram, the producer, answers, but in the meantime there's been a cut, and the manager who had both hands in her lap, is now sitting with one hand behind, on the pillow. (00:09:55)

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Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: Before the phone rings, the new DS asks "And you?" to the goofy inspector, who is rubbing his foot with his wet sock in the left hand. Cut, and he's rubbing it with both hands all of a sudden. Florence's hands also equally suddenly go from above to below the belt. (00:04:30)

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Episode #4.5 - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: In the intro, Cheryl Moore says "We are going to break America"; her arms are raised, and yet mid-sentence in a cut when she's just partially in frame, she has them low. (00:01:10)

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Episode #2.7 - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: When Fidel and Dwayne arrive at the place where Camille and Richard are hiding for the hurricane, they can open the doors without a problem, whereas Camille and Richard had taken great care of locking the doors from the inside.

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In the Footsteps of a Killer - S6-E7

Trivia: In the close-up of the diary of Julie Matlock, you can read in the column to the right of the page with the mysterious number 19871 a name; Agnes Dahan. It's the name of the production buyer of the episode, and long time staff member of the show in production and art department. (00:20:20)

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Question: When Richard reminisces about England, he talks about going to the pub and having a pint. Yet the whole time he's in Saint Marie, he is never seen to drink alcohol with the rest of the team; only cups of tea. Why?

Answer: Most likely they had only tropical exotic drinks, he wanted an old fashioned English beer.

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