Day 7: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - S7-E1
Continuity mistake: When Alan Tanner shoots Gabriel Schector, three shots are fired, but four bullet holes are visible in the window.
Day 7: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - S7-E1
Character mistake: When Ethan Kanin tells president Taylor that Henry has managed to convince Kevin Aldridge to hold off on his report about the Sangalan invasion, he accidentally refers to the reporter as "Henry Aldridge."
Day 7: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - S7-E2
Visible crew/equipment: While FBI agents are searching for the sniper Jack tells Renee there must be a bad agent, and just as he warns her about who she lets in, the green T-mark is visible on the ground. (00:05:35)
Day 7: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - S7-E2
Character mistake: Larry Moss says that there are three dead bodies at Gabriel Schector's office, but there are only two: Schector and his bodyguard Ari.
Day 7: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - S7-E2
Factual error: Tony Almeida takes control of 2 planes to create a near miss. In reality all aircraft use a commonly available AM voice radio and pilots can hear each other's radio communications. It would be straightforward to contact the planes and warn them.
Day 7: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - S7-E2
Continuity mistake: In the "previously on 24" recap, Jack tells Renee Walker "the Department of Justice is about to file criminal charges against me." But in that scene in the previous episode, he used the departmental abbreviation "DOJ".
Day 7: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - S7-E6
Factual error: Mid-air collisions are almost always prevented by Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems which have been incorporated in all commercial aircraft since at least 1973. These systems are independent of ground control. These planes would not have collided.
Day 7: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - S7-E7
Revealing mistake: Samantha Roth's dead body is obviously played by a body double.
Day 7: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - S7-E7
Continuity mistake: When Agent Walker enters the building where Matobo is being held, Chloe tells her on com the stairway is to Agent Walker's left, she then immediately goes to the door to her right to enter the stairwell to let Jack Tony and Bill in from the roof.
Suggested correction: After saying there's law firms to the left (brown door) , and on your right is a suit of offices where Matabo's being held (glass doors)... Chloe says. "stairway is down the hall to your left." She then proceeded down the hall that's to her left. The door, however, is on the right-hand side of that hall. I can understand the person mistakenly understood that, but it's not a continuity error.
Day 7: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - S7-E9
Revealing mistake: When Renee says she couldn't get the laptop to boot up due to a fried hard drive, the Windows desktop is visible on it, which meant that the laptop did boot up.
Day 7: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - S7-E9
Other mistake: When Morris drops Chloe off at the FBI, he asks if she's sure she doesn't need his help. In the subtitles, Morris' name is incorrectly displayed as "Miles".
Day 7: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - S7-E10
Audio problem: When Dubaku sees Jack and Renee closing in on his car, he tells his driver "Go! Go!", but his mouth doesn't move. (00:09:05)
Day 7: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - S7-E10
Revealing mistake: Chloe says that the drive containing all of Dubaku's corrupt U.S. contacts is a PX-17 drive, but in the closeup of the drive, it reads "PX-3". (00:22:15)
Day 7: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM - S7-E12
Continuity mistake: In the split screen of General Juma talking to Jonas Hodges on the sat phone, Juma's jacket sleeve covers his watch in the left box, but not in the right one. (00:29:00)
Day 7: 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM - S7-E16
Continuity mistake: When president Taylor asks Olivia to be her acting Chief of Staff, Allison rests her head on her hand, with only her elbow on the couch. In the next shot, her arm is suddenly resting on the couch instead. There's a straight cut between the two shots, so she didn't have time to move. (00:10:55)
Day 7: 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM - S7-E16
Plot hole: The director of CDC informs the cabinet that the biological weapon at hand is a "prion variant indigenous to the East Congo" and refers to it as a "strain". A prion is a protein, not a bacterium, so it cannot be indigenous to a certain place and cannot belong to any strain. More importantly, prion diseases are not known to be transmissible in an airborne fashion (Mad Cow and Kuru, also prion diseases, are transmitted by ingestion), which kinda takes the air out of the threat. However, the description of prion disease symptoms and the example of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease as being caused by prions are accurate.
Day 7: 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM - S7-E17
Plot hole: Jack is informed that experimental treatment using stem cells from a genetically compatible donor is being developed that might be able to cure his condition. Stem cells are used to treat diseases where a cell type in the patient's body malfunctions, such as insulin-producing beta cells in diabetes, or where injury has killed cells that do not regenerate, such as in spinal cord injury. In these cases stem cells can replace the damaged cells and make sense as therapy (bone marrow transplant as leukemia treatment is one real such treatment). Prions (which is what the show calls the bioagent) and bacteria (which is how the show describes the bioagent) cannot be cured by stem cells, since the cause of the disease is not damaged or defective cells. Even if the disease damaged brain cells and stem cells cured that, it would resume later since the causative agent is still there.
Day 7: 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM - S7-E23
Continuity mistake: When the terrorist keeping an eye on Kim bends over to move his baggage for other people to sit down, Kim notices his neck is bleeding from him confronting and killing the FBI agent watching her (which she doesn't know). However, in the last 15 minutes of hour 5:00AM to 6:00AM, when he kills the FBI agent, he doesn't receive a scratch. (00:05:55)
Day 7: 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM - S7-E23
Factual error: The head scientist tells Tony that the pathogen can survive 2 hours and longer after to host's death. Assuming it is either virus or prion (a protein), it wouldn't be alive to begin with and could effectively remain in Jack's body indefinitely.
Day 7: 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM - S7-E23
Plot hole: The head scientist tells Tony that they need Jack's organs to reconstitute that pathogen since there is not enough of it in the sample. Assuming it's a virus, even a small sample could easily be grown in the lab to yield large amounts of the virus. Assuming it's a prion, they don't even need a sample since the could simply build it again from scratch so long as they knew the protein sequence (which is a likely assumption). In either case, Jack is unnecessary.
