Prison Break

The Old Head - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Michael hands out sledgehammers at the end and passes one to Abruzzi with the head facing down. Abruzzi then passes this one to Lincoln but the head is now facing up. (00:39:00)

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Cell Test - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When Sucre is on the phone and finds out Marie-Cruz is with Hector, the way he is holding the receiver changes between shots, with time to adjust his grip. (00:06:05)

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Allen - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Just as Bellick starts to look through Michael's cell, the position of the battery on the table changes between close-up shots without being touched. (00:14:30)

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Otis - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: At the end, Michael wraps a white handkerchief around Lincoln's wound. In the penultimate shot of the episode we get a closeup of the wound and the handkerchief is no longer around it. (00:40:10)

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Tonight - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Caroline is talking to the President, just as he is about to walk off she raises her hands up in front of her. Camera cuts and now they are lowered, and she raises them again. (00:29:20)

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Ogygia - S5-E1

Continuity mistake: On the tombstone in the previous episode, Michael's date of death is 11.4.2005. But in this episode, when Linc goes to the graveyard to visit Michael's grave, his date of death is 11.4.2010. It is also a different grave from the original, as the original was in South America beside the beach, and here we are led to believe it is in New York. (00:50:50)

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Trivia: The show was filmed in an actual prison (now unused) in Joliet. The death row cell used for Lincoln Burrows is the actual death row cell that held serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

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Answer: Roughly as follows. Linc "kills" Steadman in 2001. Michael robs the bank on March 9th 2005 and is sent to Fox River on April 11th. The breakout from Fox River takes place on or around May 25-31. Michael arrives in Sona on June 17th 2005. More details are here: https://prisonbreak.fandom.com/wiki/Prison_Break_timeline.

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That wouldn't make sense because the original grave stone in series 4 has Michael's death date as 2005, which is supposed to be at least 3 years after Fox River.

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