The Shield

The Shield (2002)

28 mistakes

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Playing Tight - S3-E1

Visible crew/equipment: Dutch and Claudette are watching an interrogation video of the Margos with Armin Chorekian. Just before the scene changes, the boom mic bobs down into the shot above Armins' head for a split second. (00:14:40)

AngryBird

Dominoes Falling - S2-E13

Visible crew/equipment: After Vic hears the news that Aceveda is firing Danni, Vice talks to him upstairs in his office. After they've finished talking, as Aceveda is about to open the door to leave the room, there is a silhouette of a boom mic reflected in the glass door. (00:36:10)

AngryBird

Breakpoint - S2-E12

Visible crew/equipment: Vic begins to question William about his son. After a while William becomes agitated and tries to leave the room, but Vic cuts him off. At this point at the bottom right of screen, a camera and the cameraman's elbow are in view. (00:30:10)

AngryBird

Inferno - S2-E11

Visible crew/equipment: During Vic and Shane's interrogation with a young man wearing a red shirt with a large number two on it, Shane is standing with his arms out and both of his hands are on the edge of table. There are a series of camera shots taken from underneath Shane's arms. In two of these shots, you can see both of Shane's hands on the table, yet another hand appears in the top left of the screen. It seems the cameraman is trying to shield the sunlight from his eyes/the camera. (00:32:20)

AngryBird

Inferno - S2-E11

Visible crew/equipment: Shane and Vic are talking with Kern Little in his recording studio. When they talk in a confined hallway, look closely in between Kern and Shane's heads as the men shuffle in their positions. There is a reflection of a boom mic that sways from left to right. (00:17:10)

AngryBird

Inferno - S2-E11

Visible crew/equipment: Julien is escorting Tomas out of The Barn, they pass through a set of double doors and talk. This shot is filmed though the glass of these doors. To the the right of screen appears a camera lens and part of a cameraman's arm. After the shot changes, the new shot is being filmed from this camera. (00:16:30)

AngryBird

Dead Soldiers - S2-E2

Visible crew/equipment: A crew member is visible holding a boom mic in the reflection of the parking enforcement officer's vehicle as the camera pans from left to right of screen. Immediately after the officer tells Dutch "...took her to Mission Cross." (00:10:50)

AngryBird

The Spread - S1-E3

Visible crew/equipment: Danni and Julien are seen escorting Tomas through a set of double glass doors in order to process him. In the reflection of the right door is a very distinguishable silhouette of a camera. (00:11:40)

AngryBird

The Spread - S1-E3

Visible crew/equipment: When Vic asks Wagenbach to take Connie to a hospital, Wagenbach is seated at his desk and as he stands he swivels to his right. Very obvious cameraman and camera behind Wagenbach here. (00:03:35)

AngryBird

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Our Gang - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Claudette, Danni, Julien and Wagenbach are at the overturned churro cart crime scene, Claudette is seen pulling a pair of white gloves from her pocket. The gloves then disappear from her hands in a wide shot of her talking to Julien about the crime scene, but reappear in the next shot. (00:16:45)

AngryBird

Streaks and Tips - S3-E4

Continuity mistake: While in a large police presence outside of the homicide location, Vic sends Lemon to put out an APB and run license plates. Lemon runs off but in the next scene is standing in the group.

bnemirow

Blowback - S1-E5

Plot hole: Detective Vendrell and his girlfriend are out looking for his stolen black Navigator, but they pull over and interrogate drivers of a blue Navigator.

bnemirow

Family Meeting - S7-E13

Continuity mistake: At the end of the Vic-Claudette interrogation at the Barn, Vic rips off a camera from the wall. But earlier, at the moment Claudette leaves the room after showing Vic photos of Shane's suicide, a square of exposed wall where that camera used to be is briefly shown. (01:00:17)

Moving Day - S7-E9

Visible crew/equipment: The cops follow Vic at the hospital in the parking lot, and as the camera is on him seeing the other cops, in the rear the cameraman and his spare camera are on the floor in-between the cars on the right. (00:29:35)

Dominoes Falling - S2-E13

Visible crew/equipment: During the scene where the strike team is outside on the sidewalk discussing the money train, there is a crew member about 2 feet behind Lem, visible over his left shoulder, face clear as day. (00:01:25)

Safe - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Claudette and Dutch are questioning a man in a leather jacket about his involvement in a meth lab. Claudette passes the man a photo, he doesn't recognise the girl, tosses it back across the table and Claudette reaches for it with her right hand. The shot changes and now the photo is in Claudette's left hand as she sets it down. (00:30:50)

AngryBird

Safe - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Aceveda and Vic are interrogating a man about the 'Narco Corrido' murders. Aceveda pushes the man into the corner of the room and begins to kick him. He get about six good kicks in before Vic diffuses the situation. After, Aceveda storms out of The Barn in anger, and Vic views the recording from the interrogation room. The footage is inconsistent as to what transpired earlier, in fact it is an entirely different take. Aceveda only manages about two kicks before Vic says "Enough, enough" - this and the rest of the dialogue is also conflicting. (00:29:30)

AngryBird

David Aceveda: You're going to free a murderer so his mob boss can kill him?
Shane Vendrell: It sounded a lot better the way Vic explained it.

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