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Otis - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Lincoln Borrows is secretly talking to his son in prison using a cell phone, he is seen wearing an inner blue plaid shirt for most of the scenes before. As the conversion starts and focus switches between the two, the inner shirt is visible and not visible. It disappears and re-appears three times during the conversation. (00:20:00)

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Otis - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: The dust, dirt and general marks on Linc's side of the car change drastically between leaving the car park and arriving at the court. (00:23:00)

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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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Otis - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: At the end, Mahone gets out of his car and leaves the door open. When he's at the truck, if you look behind him his car door is now shut. (00:40:15)

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Scan - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Sarah is talking to her father at the jail, she has a clump of hair that is constantly switching from in front of her face to behind her ear depending on the shot. (00:21:10)

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Scan - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When C-Note goes to his daughter's school, he leans against a pillar amongst the railings. Camera changes and now he's further along the railings as the pillar is gone. (00:27:10)

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First Down - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: Just before Roy and Brad pull along side Michael and Link, there are no major dents in Brad's door. By the time they pull along side, a massive dent has appeared in his door despite not hitting anything in the 3 seconds it took to get from behind to level with the car. (00:01:50)

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First Down - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: During the car chase in the beginning of the episode, Bellick's car swerves to avoid hitting a truck as they go over a bridge. The next shot is from in front of the cars, and in the background you can see the bridge and a stretch of road behind it, but the truck has vanished. (00:02:40)

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First Down - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: All throughout the car chase, the car Michael and Lincoln are in has a license plate on the front bumper. But after Bellick has forced their car off the road, the car makes a jump before hitting a tree, and while it is in mid-air you can see that the license plate has disappeared. (00:02:50)

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First Down - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: Bellick's partner, Geary, is wearing a light grey T-shirt, with a very prominent sweat stain on the front. Throughout the episode, this stain constantly changes shape and size, even within two shots of the same scene, and sometimes it disappears altogether. This is best seen when him and Bellick are herding the prisoners to their car. In the close-ups of him, his shirt is completely dry, in long shots the sweat stain is there. (00:04:45)

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First Down - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: When agent Mahone is looking at the photocopied newspaper articles, at first he is holding a single sheet of paper, and you can read the headline in reverse through the paper: "Life Sentence for Mob Boss Abruzzi". We then get a close-up of the articles from his point of view, and he is now holding two sheets of paper, where the topmost reads "Governor's Daughter Wins Humanitarian award". Mahone places this paper on his desk, and you can see that he is once again only holding the one "Life Sentence." paper he had to begin with. (00:05:30)

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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: Paul Adelstein, who plays Paul Kellerman, also guest starred in a season 4 episode of Law and Order SVU in which he played a character named Kellerman.

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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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