Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Camille circles Adam on the whiteboard the circle is complete, however a few seconds later it's half rubbed out. (00:37:46)
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: An outside shot of the shack on the beach has louvre doors with glass on the right middle door and louvres on the left. As Ben Miller closes the doors, the inside shot has glass in the middle of both doors. (00:28:00)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Richard is walking in the market a woman holds out an item for him. The camera changes and this item is now held in a completely different way. (00:02:30)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Solly is at the start with a trickle of blood running down his face from his temple to the jaw line. However when we see Solly get killed, he is lying on his back so the blood should trickle towards to the back of his neck.
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Diane is reading the prenup, the envelope goes from the middle of the papers to the top then the bottom without being moved. (00:33:55)
Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: The principal admits his lie and brings the team to his real destination. At the entrance, Commissioner Selwyn Patterson's is standing with his hands behind his back, in front of him, and behind his back again at the cut. (00:23:20)
Episode #1.5 - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: After Leon Hamilton is stabbed, Richard Poole gets out the whiteboard and says "this time it's personal." Yet the whiteboard has some writing on it and some pictures. If you look at it closely, it is Benjamin Lightfoot, the guy killed in the next episode when Richard is sick. So the whiteboard has everything from the next episode before it happens.
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Camille picks up the laptop from the victim's desk, and Jon Taylor tries to stop her. The laptop is positioned differently in her arms between shots. (00:14:40)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Richard has concluded that one of the 6 people in the lift killed the bride, the shot changes to show Fidel and Dwayne loading the 4x4 up. Fidel is putting the lights in the back, camera changes and now he's receiving goods off Dwayne. (00:13:30)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When William welcomes the police to the floor, his hand is outstretched. When camera changes his hand is no longer outstretched. (00:06:20)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Catherine Bordey walks back after lying the smackdown on the killer, Ricketts is leaning against the fence with both hands, while he is leaning with one arm to the window frame in shots before and after. (00:46:00)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: During the denouement, the newspaper on DI Chris Ricketts' table is oblique in the frontal views, parallel to the table when the camera is behind him. (00:39:50)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Waiting for Richard and his big reveals, Camille is sitting with her mom at the bar. She says that she heard her new beau made her lasagna, and lowers her hand. In the next shot she is still leaning on it as if nothing happened. (00:39:00)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Richard cracks the case and starts looking at the board, mumbling and giggling in front of it, the others are staring at him changing the way they hold their paper sheets between shots. Richard himself has a brisk change of position when he laughs saying "That's superb!", going from a closed fist to an open hand. (00:37:30)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Jacko Gardiner is leaning against his suburbia door talking to Poole and Bordey, but his arm is angled up in the front view, perpendicular in the view from behind. (00:18:50)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Richard asks the owner of the import/export company if the victim owed him money, he is holding his handkerchief in his left hand seen from behind, in his right hand from the front. (00:13:15)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: In close-up, Richard holds up Dwayne's police shield with his 3 fingers placed lower than in the wider angles, where the middle was touching the fold of the wallet, instead of being an inch below it. (00:02:45)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: First time we see the victim, there's a striking difference between close-ups (no less than 5 coins on the pillow) and the angle with the whole bed (less coins, different lighting, head sunk into the pillow more). (00:01:40)
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: DI Richard Poole gets in front of the victim's gate holding his bag in his left hand, and in the next shot he has it in his right. (00:01:10)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Fidel shows the clock in the evidence bag, the close-up puts the clock firmly in the corner of the bag, where he was not in the wider shot. (00:49:40)
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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