Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)

5 continuity mistakes in The Cornish Mystery - chronological order

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The Cornish Mystery - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: Mrs Pengelley is outraged by Hastings' question about the niece. Poirot opens his umbrella and begins to move forward to ask a different question. The left side of his coat is mostly spotless, but in the next close-up that side is instead covered in water stains, including a quite visible streak on the chest. (00:05:40)

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The Cornish Mystery - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: Hastings sits down when Japp is having his meal at the inn, and eats one of Japp's sandwiches. In the rest of the scene, the sandwiches on the plate change position and Japp's beer has been replenished a bit. (00:35:00)

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The Cornish Mystery - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: When Japp does the comical fistwave at Poirot at the end, Poirot's carriage is passing by a line of people (woman with red coat, young woman with greenish one) that already passed by when the constable was giving the 'bad news' to Japp. (00:48:20)

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The Dream - S1-E10

Plot hole: Nobody hears the sound of a gun being fired past a door they were waiting almost in front of, and the police cannot tell apart a shot fired point blank by one fired 20 feet away and probably at a very sharp angle. Moreover, the bleeding should be all over his face, since leaning the way it is shown in this adaptation is most likely to lead the victim to fall over, and even leave bloodstains out of the window and on the ground below, which someone would have noticed in the crowded factory.

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Answer: He definitely says "Belgian", but the subtitles get it wrong and show him saying "American."

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Answer: It sounds a bit like "American", but listen very closely and you will hear "Belgian".

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