Episode #2.5 - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Camille concedes that Richard's babbling is "better than the dog story", her arms change position around her legs through a mid-sentence cut. Same when he tells her that they found strychnine in the bottle. (00:26:10)
Episode #2.5 - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Dwayne talks to the guy who is not a 'rocket surgeon', he sighs and slumps back on the chair, but his left arm stays on the notepad. Cut, and his arm is off the table entirely. (00:12:10)
Episode #2.5 - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: As the sleazy boss introduces both singers, the jealous one stands in the doorframe in different position between shots. (00:01:05)
Episode #2.4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: When Richard quantifies the odds of all the accidents and deaths happening in 48 hours as tens of millions to one, Fidel has his hand under his chin in the front view, no hand in sight when he's in the foreground. (00:38:00)
Episode #2.4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Fidel walks away from Liz Curtis almost tripping like an idiot and making a fool out of himself in general, Kelly Adams has her fingers in front of her mouth and chin in the front views, but not in the reverse shots. (00:15:55)
Episode #2.4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: Fidel is examining the corpse of Dr Ian Parks. Poole asks him then how did he know that the gun was being restored. Notice Camille in that same shot stops writing and lowers the pen hand. Fidel then stands, the cut comes, and Camille is shown still with both hands on the pad. (00:08:50)
Episode #2.4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: Richard makes his way from the taxi to the camp in the jungle. He passes by the suspect wearing a denim shirt (Chris Winchester), who sports a hairdo with several curls on his forehead. Cut to him passing by the suspect with a derpy face (Daniel Morgan), and Chris is in the background, slightly out of focus but with a clear forehead. (00:07:55)
Episode #2.4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: Frustrated by getting only white noise on the telly, DI Richard Poole puts the remote down. He puts it down at a sharp angle, with most of it off the book on the stand, but in the shot featuring the iconic lizard the remote is mostly on top of the book. (00:06:00)
Episode #2.4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: Dwayne goes to investigate the accident in the caves wishing a happy weekend to his bosses. Camille then flashes two fliers; from the front, the one in her left hand is the one on top of the other, from the back, it's the right one. (00:03:45)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: At Catherine's bar, Richard asks for a list of the clients of the past two years. At the cut, Camille is holding the beer by the neck, while her fingers were lower in the previous shot. (00:40:05)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: In the interrogation after the suspect has been captured at the free clinic, Richard without logic and continuity is in some shots (usually the reverse shots with Ben Miller in foreground) with his hands behind his back, in others with his hands in front of his stomach holding the medication. (00:32:30)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: Dwayne and Fidel are looking at the suspect leaving. When Dwayne starts saying "Aahh..." Fidel has his left arm raised, pointing. He finishes the sentence "it's called initiative" and Fidel is composed, not pointing anywhere. (00:29:55)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: Jayne Smythe has narrowly avoided being run over by a chicken. She then looks at the card Camille gave her; she looks at it pinching it between the fingers of both hands, that in close-up are just the right hand. (00:28:45)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: In the second interview with Camille, Paul Vincent says "She won't take no for an answer" closing his hands; both palms are open and apart after the cut. Similarly, when she says "Business or not" and there's a cut, in the second shot he has his thumbs up all of a sudden. (00:26:00)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: In the first interview with one of the patients of the clinic, Camille shows sympathy for the death of her 4th husband. She says "Yes I do" and puts the cup down. Then a couple cuts later, in a reverse angle she is shown putting down the same cup again. (00:16:35)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: Camille puts down the shiny bag at right angle with the magazine. When they decide they have seen enough of the room after finding the pills, the bag returned to its original position, parallel to it. (00:09:20)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Commissioner Selwyn Patterson makes his surprise appearance at the lobby, Camille turns towards him, fully; head and body. In the next shot, she only turned her head around and her body is still towards Richard. (00:03:40)
Episode #2.3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: The corpse is floating with her hair going all the way towards her right when she is face down, but in the close-ups with the underwater camera her hair is floating evenly at both sides of her face. (00:02:00)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: In her passionate defense, Sister Anne's veil changes position throughout the scene - windy as it is, keeping strict continuity would have been practically impossible. (00:40:00)
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: Sister Marguerite is mending the bike when Dwayne arrives. She halts with both hands the wheel's rotation, but in the next shot the wheel is spinning again. (00:34:20)
Answer: There's probably no particular reason. Sets and props on long-running TV shows often change as needed and for various reasons throughout a series run.
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