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Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Stupidity: It is stated that the police got the fingerprints of the culprit thanks to a certain object. In other words, they investigated the murder without taking any fingerprints from any suspect - even the one who has been jailed for shooting the corpse - and they even had his file already from the previous inquiries.

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Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Stupidity: This is another episode when with a very limited number of suspects, not checking the phone records makes the case more complicated than it would be, but more importantly, the bad guy keeps the phone used for the shady affairs constantly switched on for no reason. No attempt is made by the police to trace the area it comes from, either - in fact it's very naive of the Commissioner to even try to call the number - but it works.

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Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Stupidity: The police finds a message the victim recorded on the phone. Conveniently, there is no timestamp on the message; it's a vital clue and with a modicum of effort surely a date of the recorded file could have been determined - but of course it would have made the mystery easier.

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Episode #4.2 - S4-E2

Stupidity: The way the investigation proceeds makes no sense - it is especially obvious for us viewers having actually seen the scene; Karl arrives and meets the wife of the victim, who is busy in the kitchen. He walks just a few feet outside, placing his doctor bag on the bench that is right there, and again, right there with no wait, he pulls a deck of cards out of his pants and puts that on the table. A gunshot is instantly heard. Karl and Katie Peters should be perfectly able to validate each other's alibi, because there's no way that either of them could have shot the victim.in the shack in the less than 10 seconds they lost sight of each other. Instead, the whole episode goes on as if it could be possible for everyone to just go on and shoot someone while being mere meters away from each other.

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Stupidity: The detectives suddenly bring everything to a dramatic halt to have a word with Joseph, because Fidel has been able to check the prints and his were the only ones on the gun and therefore he became really suspicious. It's his own gun, and people can wear gloves - in fact they do all the time! The fact that they automatically turn on him and he is unable to defend himself is simply 'because the plot this time says so', since in every other episode Joseph's prints would have been exclusion prints - they are supposed to be there and there's nothing suspicious about it.

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Stupidity: Humphrey picks the gun from its case using a pen to avoid leaving prints (since for some reason he's not wearing gloves), but then starts messing with the box with his bare hands without having it dusted for any print. Since the box was owned by only one person and hidden under his bed, any other print would have been important evidence. (00:11:40)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Stupidity: The villain concocts a demented plan that puts him at absurd risk (if anything goes wrong, he is caught red-handed) and accomplishes nothing, since it does not make him and his accomplice unlikely suspects any more than anyone in the group. It does not make it look like it was an outsider doing it (no attempt is made to fake a robbery), nor a result of an accident. It makes obvious it was a murder (a knife plunged in the back!) but does not pin the guilt on anyone else in the team, which would have been really easy to do (plant the knife or any of the victim's belongings in anyone's tent) and with the two being in on the scheme without anyone suspecting they were connected to each other, it would have been easy to create an alibi for each other, but they don't have any. It should also be noted that there's no reason why the victim wouldn't have exposed the culprit's crime earlier to his fellow birders, since he knew he was going to harm the animals.

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Stupidity: At Catherine's, Humphrey is browsing the photos; neither he or his agents noticed before amongst all the bird and wilderness pics the very obvious series of shots of a woman in a hotel poolside and in close-ups. And yet he has to have printed the (obviously enormous, since he already went through them in the afternoon and investigated the cane seen in them) amount of photos entirely, but finds the photos dining outside from a very small pile on his little dinner table. Those pictures stand out at first glance.

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: At the boxing gym, the litigious guy throws a punch that stays clear off Tom Selleck's face by a mile. (00:15:50)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: The position of the tube at the end of the conveyor keeps changing between shots. (00:46:40)

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Other mistake: One of the trivia questions appears just as the cryptic words "Plastic flower."

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Nancy phones Mother Goose, the hair over Leslie's shoulder moves back. (00:11:30)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: The wing chun warrior prank calls Magnum telling him to walk Diamond Head. Look at the first shot when Magnum begins to actually move (after it cuts to Choi); there's a woman with a purple bag and pink ribbons, and a bearded dude with blue swim shorts and a backpack. Magnum walks, gets scared by a ninja throwing star, and when he is back to the first payphone and Choi tells him "The other way", here's Bag Lady and Backpack Guy again playing extras. (00:35:40 - 00:36:25)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: The first time we see TC's chopper, the pilot is wearing brown pants - for the rest of the episode TC is wearing blue jeans. (00:05:30)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When TC is roasting Magnum about his "beady bloodshot eyes", there are no pauses in the conversation but the cable of Magnum's headset jumps in a different position and makes a different curve between shots. (00:06:00)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Character mistake: As they are driving to uncle Han, Mai Ling says that 11 other members of her family might have died for the urn. Magnum speculates "Cousin Ho." But he called him "uncle Ho" in his "should have stayed in bed" voiceover at the beginning of the episode. (00:09:55 - 00:28:25)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: En route to uncle Han, Mai Ling's hair switches back and forth throughout the exposition about the McGuffin vase. (00:27:20)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Waiting for the valet to bring the car in front of the King Kamehameha club, Magnum silently asks for the explanation from Mai Ling. Her hair is behind her shoulders as she sighs, and in front of her shoulders when she begins explaining about the deadly assassin with the kiddie decal. (00:26:00)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Character mistake: Rick is supposed to be at least competent in first aid, but there's a short (and awkwardly edited in) clip with TC trying to get up and groaning in pain where the taping around his torso is so loose he shouldn't have bothered at all. (00:25:10)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Audio problem: Sorting the whole 'protecting the vase' business when it's first brought up, Higgins asks "Is the vase Chinese?" The audio in the scene becomes really spotty, culminating with Magnum saying "Mai Ling" in audio, with Tom Selleck mouthing something else entirely. (00:17:40)

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