Tri-Borough - S1-E11
Character mistake: When Danny runs the bullet he found at the crime scene through IBIS and finds a match, "homicide" is misspelled "homocide". (00:08:20)
Other mistake: Mac is leaving a message for Christine. There is a close up of his cell phone. The keypad on the phone has the numbers in the wrong order. On every phone in history the first row of numbers is "123". On Mac's phone it is "789", like a computer keyboard.
What Schemes May Come - S3-E20
Factual error: When Mac is using the mouse to demonstrate induced hibernation to Peyton, the speed of the mouse's heartbeat on the heart monitor was about that of a human. Due to their small size, real mice have an average heartbeat of 500-600 bpm, which is so fast it can sound like humming.
Factual error: During the autopsy of the head, the shot changes to inside the eye, showing the needle entering to extract the vitreous fluid. The inside of the eyeball is shown as white. This is incorrect: the inner lining of the eye is black (hence why the pupil, a hole in the iris, looks black).
Continuity mistake: Season 5, episode 15 ("The Party's Over). After Mac talks to Dunbrook in the park, the latter walks away with a cup of coffee in his right hand. When the shot changes, his cup is instantly gone.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode when Mac & Stella first look in The Box at the beach, Lucas' head is at the back right corner of The Box with a leg wedged from the back left to the back right corner and the back quite uppermost. When they open The Box in the lab and go to remove it with the doctor, the head is in the front right corner with arms and legs visible uppermost like the body has been rotated, but it would not have been touched or removed from The Box by that point. The second arrangement of the body is shown in the flashbacks throughout the episode.
Revealing mistake: When Messer is trapped in Mr Hudson's safe, the newspaper clippings he pulls out from the drawer show obvious Latin dummy text in the articles, while the headlines are in English.
Sex, Lies, And Silicone - S5-E4
Continuity mistake: After Hawkes pats his old friend on the shoulder with the newspaper in front of the hotdog stall, there is a brief shot in which Hawkes is empty handed. In the next shot he's holding the newspaper again.
Plot hole: The coroner found the ticket stub in the throat of the guy whose tongue was cut out, he died in the ER. The ER staff would have have found the ticket stub while trying to save his life. With the tongue being cut out they would have opened up his mouth to stop the bleeding.
Factual error: When Mac Taylor's ID card from the Marine Corps is being shown, there are two unintentional mistakes and one probably intentional. First, the design of the ID card in no way resembles an actual DoD issued military ID, but this was probably an intentional mistake by the creators of the show. The picture on the ID however, has two unintentional mistakes. First, Marines are never photographed in their dress blues for official purposes; Mac would have been in cammies or service dress charlies for the photograph. Second, Mac is revealed in several episodes to have been an officer, yet he is shown wearing the dress blues of an enlisted man.
Continuity mistake: Episode 6-6, "It Happened to Me": when Hawkes talks to Stella at the end of the episode, he has both of his hands raised out in front of him. In the next shot, his left arm is down by his side, and he raises it again. (00:41:10)
Continuity mistake: When the bank manager's wife is being prepared for autopsy, Sid begins by taking pictures of the wife. In these shots you can see her wrists and ankles are bound with tape. First he cuts off the tape on the ankles and places it in the evidence envelope with Danny and Lindsay. Next he begins to cut the tape from the wrists. As he is doing so, the next shot cuts to a full body view of the wife in which she has the tape back on her ankles again.
Factual error: Whenever someone uses an iPhone (which is the phone of choice on CSI:NY), the screen stays lit when talking on the phone. The iPhone has a sensor which dims the screen when you put it to your ear, but only if you're actually making a call.
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Mac is on the flight, he's holding a newspaper while the flight attendant walks toward him, but it cuts to a closer shot and the newspaper is instantly different as the flight attendant tells Mac he has an urgent call.
Continuity mistake: After Danny assists Lindsay with the multiple footprints issue, when Danny gets the phone call from Don, his dark shirt's right sleeve is unbuttoned and loose, but it cuts to a wider shot and suddenly his dark shirt sleeve is buttoned up, covering his watch and the white shirt. (00:26:40)
Cool Hunter - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: After the intro, while Mac is inside the empty water tower taking photos of Stacie, the victim's body is lying face down, but there's a close-up of both feet as if she's already lying face up, though it's not until about seven shots later that Mac turns the victim over onto her back.
Visible crew/equipment: While Mac and Stella are speaking to Heather and Scott, the couple who reside in 9C, Scott tells them everything that transpired with the man from the elevator, and at the start of the flashback, a blue T-mark is visible on the floor. (00:31:05)
Continuity mistake: When Danny joins Hawkes at the crime scene, the victim's right false eyelash is lying across her cheek. While Hawkes takes photos, just as Danny says, "She might have just come from work," the victim's right false eyelash is gone, but then it reappears on her cheek in the same position as previous shots. (00:08:20)
Visible crew/equipment: When Delafont tells Mac, "None of it would have happened if he delivered what he promised," Jo figures out the connection between the cases. It then cuts to Jo with the Post-its, and at the start of the following wide shot, as she turns to walk over to the computer screen with suspects, a red T-mark is visible on the floor. It becomes visible again in a following shot. (00:35:30)
Continuity mistake: In the scene that Lindsay is taking photos with her phone, she states she was taking pictures to send to her mom. Her mom died when she was a child.
Chosen answer: Probably to broaden the scope of the show's plot and give the audience a chance to see the characters in a different setting, People act differently at home from the way they do at their workplace. By the ninth season, the characters would have become overly familiar and predictable. It gives the writers a chance to do something different with them.
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