Death in Paradise

Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Fidel manages to stop the beggar thief. The strap of the camera is between thumb and forefinger in the first shot, between index and middle in the next. (00:40:30)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Ann Hamilton opens the door of her bungalow to a mysterious person. Between the walk to the door and the close-up of the open door, her hair looks radically different (in front/behind the left shoulder, a single long lock of hair in front of the right shoulder). (00:39:20)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Suzie Park joins uninvited Richard and his new buddy Vincent who are having a drink. Richard's hand is off the glass in the front views, but it's around it when she mentions that she knows "the five BRMs", only to be gone suddenly at the cut. (00:36:20)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Camille holds her hand out to offer a slice of cake to Richard. The paper towel is folded when the camera is positioned behind her, open in the reverse. (00:38:45)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Richard is speaking with a hurt Gordon Foster. During the conversation, the same extras pass by in different shots. For instance look at the guy with the Hawaiian purple shirt that walks behind Poole at "God, I was drunk" and "Why were you sitting with him." (00:33:20)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Poole and Bordey are interviewing Gordon Foster, who lost the most money in the Paradise Beach scam. When he says "The divorce came through last week", the pen on the newspaper is in a different position (middle of the page, pointing straight forward) compared to the previous part of the scene. (00:27:25)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Samuel King is sitting outside a bar. On the promenade, notice a passerby walk past a couple. Samuel puts a 20 euros bill on the waitress' plate, and the same man and couple have the same encounter, again. (00:15:15)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: The lizard waiting for Poole on the desk is in a different spot of the table in close-up compared to the view of the whole room - just check the distance from the side. (00:12:40)

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Episode #1.5 - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: When Dwayne waves around the dossier with Samuel King's name on it, in the closer angle he is holding it with the hand at the middle of the bottom side, while in the wider angle before and after he is holding it by the side/corner. (00:12:00)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Richard and the others get back to the police station after accompanying Mrs. Talbot to check her husband's body (or lack thereof), there's a cut to the jigsaw puzzle; it is recycled from the opening of the episode, because the shadows (including those cast by the window bars) are exactly the same. (00:00:10 - 00:06:20)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the episode it is declared that the visit at the Knights' house happened just before 9:30. The light during the entire episode (the part referring to the first day, at least) is not consistent at all; when they go check the body in the prologue, the beach is sunlit like it's noon, while after the opening looks more like early morning.

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Richard retrieves the bag with the turtle eggs. In close-up the bag opens with the lid towards the left (his right). When he closes it, he closes it from the right (his left). (00:34:20)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: During the stakeout, Fidel is eating with a plastic fork. Dwayne starts the engine up, and during the various cuts, Fidel is not holding the fork, he is, he isn't. (00:30:30)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Throughout the crab-based lunch, multiple times Camille's hands are raised to munch seafood, or lowered. Example at the very end, when she is nomming her crab seen from behind, but in the front view she is holding the case file. (00:23:30)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Richard asks Camille if there's any statement on record from the restaurant staff, in one shot Sara Martins is holding the bottle by the belly, in the reverse by the neck. (00:19:55)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Richard reminds everyone that Patrick Knight was belligerent the night before. He puts his flat hand on the table. They ask him "So?" and in the next shot he's talking with the teaspoon in hand. (00:18:45)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: At the bar, Camille reminds Richard that he said that Megan must have been in shock. In foreground, she has her left fist in front of her mouth. Richard shrugs, and in the next shot, Camille lowers...her right fist. (00:18:30)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Richard fills a glass with water and walks to his puzzle. Camille adds something, and within a cut his arm goes from an ascending to a descending motion without any time for him to drink in between. (00:17:20)

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Man Overboard: Part 2 - S6-E6

DI Jack Mooney: My grandfather told me a story once, about these two wolves fighting inside all of us. And one of them is anger, envy, self-pity, regret. The other one is love, truth, faith, hope, that sort of thing.
And I asked him "which one of the wolves would win?" And do you know what he said?
"The one you feed."
(00:18:15)

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Erupting in Murder - S6-E1

Trivia: A bit of the episode has been cut for the streaming releases; at the end of the scene with Humphrey taking Martha's luggage, he would make a date with her for the next day, to cook dinner for her at 8. This has been eliminated probably because it created timing issues with 8 PM being too well lit (in contrast with the supposed timing of the murder) and the ending takes place at Catherine's for a cute drinking scene anyway. (00:22:50)

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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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