Creatures of the Night - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When the girl first arrives at the party, she places her hand on the white car, right above the grille. Later, when Stella takes the photo, the hand print has moved over to the side.
Continuity mistake: Stella prints the pictures of 6 suspects. Mac takes them all, holds one up and says : "That's the man we're looking for." But only 5 pictures comes out of the printer - and the picture of the suspect isn't among them. Mac holds up the picture of an black guy with afro hairdo - the suspect is white with rumpled black hair. Where does his picture come from ? (00:07:10)
Continuity mistake: In autopsy, Mac, Stella and Dr. Hawkes M.E. are examining a skeleton that was found on a bus. As Mac asks about cause of death, Sheldon points to a skull fracture that is evident above the skeleton's left eye, a fracture that wasn't there when the skeleton was first discovered sitting in the back of the bus.
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.
Creatures of the Night - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Mac is looking for the rat in the rainpipe, the shot changes and Mac has his sunglasses on for a split-second.
Tri-Borough - S1-E11
Continuity mistake: When Danny talks his case through with Mac, Danny raises a hand holding a pen up to his temple. In the following shot, his hand disappears, and in the next shot of Mac, Danny's hand returns. (00:31:50)
Tri-Borough - S1-E11
Continuity mistake: When Danny talks to Kaylie about Inhumanity, he has his hands clasped together in front of him, but in the next shot, both arms are behind his back. (00:17:30)
Grand Master - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Hawkes shows Mac the rib he is molding, he picks up a towel to dry it off. In the following shot, the towel is on top of the microwave, and Hawkes picks it up a second time. (00:26:10)
Grand Master - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Mac notices the blood on DJ Francais' shoe and shines his flashlight at Francais, Francais holds up his left hand to shield his face in one shot, but in the next shot, he's holding up his right hand. (00:10:10)
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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