Marshall47
Cadet
NOTE: I did not find all of these myself, i'm just refering the info from the site at the bottom of the post.
Season 1
1. Truth Be Told
# When at the track, Sydney is talking to Will and he tells her congratulations, she mouths "Thanks" but her voice comes in on delay.
# After Will reads Sydney's note and meets her on the roof he say: "Meet me on the roof" as if he was quoting what was written on the note. However the note just said: "I'm on the roof".
# After Sidney kicks her SD-6 assassin into the car window, he falls down, with his hands down. Jack's car shrieks and when Sidney reaches down to the ground to pick up the gun the assassins hands are up again, falling.
# After fighting the SD-6 assassin, Sydney hears Jack's car shrieking and looks to her left and you can see that she is holding something on her right hand and lowers it, however she wasn't holding anything when she kicked the assassin to the car's window. This shot is actually the same one when Sydney is pointing the gun at her father, says "daddy?" and hears other car shrieking and looks to the left.
# Sydney has been working for SD-6 for seven years and she never happened to run into Jack or hear someone mentioning his name?
# After handcuffing Suit & Glasses to the chair and knocking the two guards out, Sydney picks up one gun, but in the next shot she is holding two.
# When Sydney handcuffs Suit & Glasses to the chair and knocks the two guards out, she runs into the lab and is seen by a security guard on the surveillance camera. If you look closely she is holding something wrapped up on her right arm. This shot is in fact the one after she steals the Mueller device and blows up the lab.
# When Sydney is telling Danny how she came into the CIA, it shows her talking on a pay phone. After she says, "So I met with him," you can see a camera man's reflection in the pay phone on the far left. The camera is not a video camera, but a still photo camera and is pointed down.
2. So It Begins
# When Sydney is digging Ivanov's gravesite, you can tell when the shot switches from on-location to lot shooting. If you look at the "dirt walls" you can see the actual hole in the ground has rough walls that stick out a few inches, but when it switches to lot shooting, the walls go to brown, sorta-smooth (i.e. just look at the walls, they're too perfectly square and straight).
3. Parity
# When Syd tracks down her Dad to talk to him, he gets out of his car without anything in his hands. He and Syd talk and he walks away from her with a briefcase in his left hand.
# Two things about the ball of plutonium: First, wouldn't the CIA be worried about Sydney's health if she is directly exposed to plutonium? Even if a couple of minutes can't do serious damage they should still be cautious. Second, why is Sydney scared of dropping the plutonium? There's not going to be a nuclear explosion if it hits the floor.
4. A Broken Heart
# The picture from Malaga, Spain is actually from Stockholm, Sweden. The building with the clock tower is The City Hall, where the Nobel Prize Banquet takes place.
5. Doppelgänger
# Sydney and Dixon find out that the bomb inside Patel is controlled by a remote detonator whose range is about 15 meters judging by the distance between the cars during the chase before Jacqnoud can trigger it. As the bomb also equals 300 pounds of TNT how did he plan to survive the UCO bombing if he has to be that close to detonate it and the bomb is that powerful
# When Sidney steals the ambulance, the original driver is visible through the passenger side window. As Sidney pulls away, the driver remains visible while the van moves off frame. Instead of Garner driving the vehicle out of the shot, the camera crew just rolled right to get the appearance of the van taking off and the foley artists inserted a peal-out sound.
# When the car with the bad guys blows up, there is no engine.
# In the Scene in Berlin with Sidney walking, we see a blacked out building (Lower Right Hand Corner), and an American flag.
# The first part of this episode supposedly takes place in São Paulo, however the kid that finds her does not speak the Portuguese spoken in Brazil. It sounds like a crossover between Portuguese standard and Spanish, which is understandable since the young boy is actually Mexican in real life. Besides, the ambulance driver says "señorita," which means 'miss' in Spanish – the Portuguese (Brazil) work for it is 'moça' or 'senhora'.
# If the "terrorists" were planing to detonate the bomb in the middle of an important meeting, why do they try to detonate it, when the bomb is nowhere near the meeting. Seems if they wanted to kill the bomb-carrier, they would have done it already, instead of implanting a boomb into his body.
7. Color-Blind
# When Shepard is having a black and white flashback to when he killed Danny, you can see the shadow of the camera operator on the wall right before the bathroom is entered.
8. Time Will Tell
# When Sydney is escaping from the building and about to jump off the roof you can clearly see her high heels she is wearing as she attaches the roap. She then jumps with the same shoes on, but at the bottom we see a different pair of shoes on her as she swings to safety. Then at the bottom she runs off in the original pair once again!
# When Sidney has to collect the Rimbaldi-artifact before Anna Espinoza does, they have to get into a secured room where only security cards give access to. When she is in she escapes out of that severe secured room through a simple unsecured window.
9. Mea Culpa
# In the scene in a patio where she is discussing her situation, each time the camera flashes back to her, a different ear is uncovered or neither ear is uncovered. First right ear, then left ear, then neither ear then right.
# Will takes two beer bottles out of the fridge when he is talking with Francie about half way through the episode. Both beer bottles are most definitely open.
# If Sydney's fall was stopped by her leg catching on the ladder, then the sudden catch from that height and speed would have done some damage to her leg (like her ankle, or calf, etc), but there is no telltale sign or even a reference that she's sustained such an injury.
# After Sydney was shot, you can see has three bullets stuck in her vest, but later after climbing out of the pit and collapsing on the ground, her vest is clean.
11. The Confession
# The exterior establishing shot of the port during the "Athens" segment is completely wrong. This port is clearly of a small Aegean island; not of a city with 4 million residents.
# The bodyguard mentions to the club owner that he has an "11 o'clock." Of course there is no way any club in Greece would be open at 11pm let alone be so packed. It's interesting how California based shows + movies (ie. 99% of TV shows and movies) assume the entire world is as boring as California is, where everything is dead by 2am.
12. The Box (1)
# In the corridor with all those red lasers you don't see a single hole or mirror in the walls where the light could come from or where it would be reflected.
# The failed mission that Cole was on was in 1996. Cole said that the KGB contacted the CIA through various channels to confirm whether or not he was a CIA operative, but the KGB was disbanded in 1991.
13. The Box (2)
# Dixon manages to enter a perfectly spelled and punctuated message in his PDA, with his hands tied and using the end of a plastic handcuff, while being watched by armed terrorists. Uh-huh.
# Sydney takes out one of the terrorists, and Cole can hear him getting beat-up over the walkie-talkie. If the terrorist is getting beat up, who is holding down the button to transmit?
# When Syd is lead into Sloane's office to meet Cole, her tools and everything are scattered on Sloane's desk. A few minutes later, when she's tied up with the hostages, all of her tools and everything (including the earring she needs to escape) are now scattered on the floor around her.
14. The Coup
# McNeil has been in prison for 8 years; in all that time, shouldn't his former employers have changed the computer room passcode and the other passwords at least once?
15. Page 47
# In Tunisia, Dixon says "...and if you happen to see a sandwich..." Sydney says "You got it" but mouths something different.
# When Sydney is talking to the man on the boat, she actually speaks swedish, but the subtitle says [Speaking russian].
16. The Prophecy
# After Poole open the laptop on Sloane's desk you can see it closed when Sloane is looking at the picture, but in the next scene it is still open.
17. Q & A
# In "Truth be told" the SD-6 set appears different. When she returns 3 months later in "So it begins," the SD-6 set is different. But in this episode, when Sidney flashes back to when she first started working for SD-6, the set appears as it did in "So it begins," not "Truth be told".
# In "Truth Be Told" Sidney tells Danny she worked for SD-6 for 1 month before being upgraded to agent. In this episode, she says she worked for the bank for 6 months before being working for SD-6.
# The flashback to "Spirit" uses an alternate scene than in the original episode (Sidney doesn't accentuate the "Thank" in this episode).
# When the car first begins to sink in the first underwater shot, you can see the green tank walls.
# Just before the car goes over the dock, you can notice that the front wheels of the car are completely at a 45 degree angle as if you were turning left, in other words would technically not be able to go straight. Also, if you look carefully at almost any camera view, you can see a cord guiding the car into the water.
# Why did none of the police officers at the scene attempt to rescue Sidney from the sunken car?
# In order to suck air through a tire nozzle, Sidney would have to push in the pin with her tongue. No one has a tongue strong or flexible enough to do that.
# Sydney is brought in a hearing room where the FBI team will be asking her questions. A man walks in and offers her a vanilla milkshake placing it right in front of her. When the FBI staff enters the room, we get a straight shot at Sydney and notice that the milkshake has been moved to the left of the screen (Sydney's right arm). Then after one or two shots (aprox. 1-2 seconds total) to the FBI committee and back we can see that the milkshake is now located in from of Sydney's left arm (to the right side of the screen) in from of the microphone. Given that she has been cuffed to the chair all this time, how could she possibly have moved it?
# The first time Sydney mention Rambaldi's name to Kendall, she pronounces it "Meelo", then in the next scene she says is correctly "Milo."
18. Masquerade
# When Sydney retrieves the 'slightly chilled' data core, she falls, and the glass in her helmet starts to crack. Few seconds later, Noah Hicks carries her out to safety, but now there are no cracks in the glass anymore.
19. Snowman
# Both Sloane and Vaughn mispronounce Mackay, the town in Queensland, Australia where Sydney is sent to find Calder. They pronounce it "Mack-ay", the end rhyming with the letter A, when it's actually pronounced "Mack-ye", rhyming with the letter I.
21. Rendezvous
# In Indonesia, they should be speaking Bahasa Indonesia, and not Bahasa Malaysia, the national language of Malaysia.
# Sydney must have amazing healing powers. During her fight with Nixon in Indonesia, he slashes her upper arm with a knife, deep enough to immediately draw blood through her shirt. Upon her return to SD-6 in Los Angeles, someone bumps into her arm, and apparently the wound is still healing, since she gasps and winces in pain. A day or two later, when she appears in the Paris nightclub, she's wearing a sleeveless outfit, and though both arms are clearly visible, there is no trace of the wound.
# Sloane says Sark is "on a trans-Atlantic flight" after escaping from the nightclub with Khasinau. So, Sark flew from Paris, to the Americas... then back to Geneva? Wouldn't it have been easier to just fly from Paris to Geneva?
# Sodium pentothal, a.k.a. the "Truth Serum," is commonly used to extract information form prisoners in this kind of shows. However, while under the effect of the drug, the patient may lose his inhibitions, but he does not lose self-control, which means that Will would not have told anything he did not want to.
22. Almost Thirty Years
# Emily's wine glass goes from half full to 3/4 full from the point Arvin gives it to her, and the point at which she drinks it.
# When Sydney is talking to Jack on the docks about the page and the liquid, she mistakenly reverses who has each. She states that the CIA has the page and that SD-6 has the liquid.
# When the water "ballon" bursts the water it contained is enough to fill the entire corridor to the roof in addition to at least that high in the warehouse. Compressed water?
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Season 2
23. The Enemy Walks In
# Dixon goes to Sloane to accuse Sydney of being a double agent, citing two incidents: Using a different call sign than the one SD-6 had given her, and that he had followed Sydney and witnessed her breaking into an SD-6 underground vault. Jack enacts a cover-up: He tells Sloane that he gave Sydney the "Freelancer" call sign because he didn't trust Sloane, but nothing is done to explain why Sydney was breaking into the SD-6 vault!! Sloane doesn't question further, even though he knows something was stolen from the SD-6 vault.
# In the first 5 minutes when Sydney is talking with her mom and they cut from Irina to Sydney you can tell they used shots from last season and new shots from this season because Sydney's blue wig is styled differently between shots. In some shots the hair is brushed under in other shots it hangs perfectly straight.
24. Trust Me
# Despite the fact we see Sydney putting on a big bandage on her shoulder gunshot wound, later in the episode when she's wearing the zebra-dress to get into the hotel in Rabat, it's nowhere in sight.
# When entering the CIA headquarters, Vaughn instructs Sydney to turn left after passing the intersection cameras. When they cut to the surveillance footage, you see Sydney arching to her right to cross the street.
# When Sydney is in Helsinki, there are visible skyscrapers in the background. However, there are no skyscrapers in Helsinki.
# When Sydney is talking to her mother through the glass wall of the cell, when the camera goes back and forth between Irina and Sydney, continuity errors are shown, as Sydney's hair is in front of her right ear, then behind, then in front of and so on.
# When getting a long shot giving an introduction to Rabat, it actually is the well-known marketplace in Marrakech, Marocco.
25. Cipher
# When sitting outside the launch facility, Dixon is dressed in full camouflage, right down to the face paint, & sitting next to a tree, to further "blend in"... Then he open his laptop, to gain access to the Launch Site's security camera's... He uses a Mac Powerbook because amidst all that Blending he opened a Bright silver laptop, with a Glowing Apple logo on the outer side of the screen!
# In the scene right after Sydney comes out of the launch tubes and fire behind her, you can see the wire for the luge pulling her.
26. Dead Drop
# At the end of the last episode, Dixon warned that the ice could freeze over in 4 seconds. Sydney proved this after her confrontation with Stark, by falling through the broken ice, & being frozen beneath it. However, in this episode, after she shoots her way out, the ice manages to keep itself from freezing for a good 20 seconds while she tries to climb out and eventually is pulled out by Dixon.
27. The Indicator
# The IP address that Sydney gives to SD-6 in not possible. The maximum number for IP addresses is 255, while Sydney gives an address containing 256. This would not connect to any computer.
# It is understandable the show uses stock footage when Sydney zips around the world as easily as going to the supermarket, but producers should bear in mind the show is seen everywhere. When Sydney goes to Buenos Aires, some vegetation covered hills are seen, like something in the Brazilian jungle. Buenos Aires is flat as flat can be - no hills closer than 300 miles.
# When Sydney cuts the power at the Triad research leader's place, in the first shot everything blacks out including the rope-lights, but in the next shot, the rope lights are on.
# When Sidney traveled to Budapest, she traveled left her car in front of the Parliament. In this episode there is the red star on the Parliament. The red star hasn't been on the Parliament since 1989, when the communism failed in Hungary, and the building has been renovated. So that scene is a bad montage with Sidney (in 2002) and with the Parliament (before 1989).
28. Salvation
# At the very end of the episode when Vaughn is shaving, the area he just shaved is still full of stubble.
29. The Counteragent
# Japanese ambulances are solid white with minimal red markings. The ambulance depicted in the Tokyo scene was not Japanese (nor Japanese made) - it was solid red on the lower half. There are non-Japanese made ambulances, such as made by Merecedes-Benz, however they are rare.
# In the hospital just after the monitors around Vaughn start beeping a doctor states "He's bleeding internally". Yet another doc wants to do a peritoneal lavage. You only do such a lavage to determine if there's a bleeding at all. So why do one when they know what's going on already?
30. Passage (1)
# Kendall says that "the Uzbeks have admitted and Defence Intelligence has confirmed" that the six suitcase bombs went missing six months earlier. Why would the DIA need to confirm something the Uzbeks had admitted?
31. Passage (2)
# When Jack arrives at the helicopter, he asks Vaugn to call off the airstrikes. Vaugn calls in the request. Who was he asking? The Indians? Why would they suddenly honor his request?
33. A Higher Echelon
# What's the point of putting Jack's fingerprints on the wheel of the rental car he rented in Taipei? First of all...where's the car itself? Did they detach the wheel and bring it to L.A. by itself? And secondly, that was months ago that Jack rented the car - it would be more suspicious if there were clean copies of his fingerprints on the wheel - rental companies clean their cars, and rent them out to other people. There should be dozens of other customers' prints on the wheel, assuming there were any prints at all.
# Why did Marshall turn back on Suit and Glasses at the end? It didn't seem to know that Sydney was about to rescue him. How could he put her mother's life at risk so blatantly? He knew that they would kill him and her.
# An easily recognizable corridor has been used in at least 3 episodes which supposedly occur at different locations:
2x01 - The Enemy Walks In : Time: 30:56
2x06 - Salvation : Time: 22:20
2x11 - A Higher Echelon : Time: 37:59.
34. The Getaway
# Sydney is called into SD-6 while with her father at the CIA headquarters. The bottom of her hair is curled. Sydney heads straight to SD-6. She walks through the identification room at SD-6 and her hair is now straight. Moments later she is in Sloan's office and Marshall gives her roses. Her hair is now curled again.
# You can see the skidmarks from Sydney's car on the pavement from previous takes of them skidding the car around the corner and into the truck.
# Shouldn't Vaughn's cover be a little more cover-y than "Department of State"? Even most of the audience knows that's a pretty common cover for CIA agents.
# When Jack is reading Sloane's e-mail, the voice over says "Jack, I'm sending this via a secure server. I'm sorry..." but the text on the computer screen just reads "Jack, I'm sorry..."
# Twice during the show, characters say the Boy Scout Motto is "Always Be Prepared". In actuality, the motto is simply "Be Prepared".
# Sodium pentothal, a.k.a. the "Truth Serum," is commonly used to extract information form prisoners in this kind of shows. However, while under the effect of the drug, the patient may lose his inhibitions, but he does not lose self-control, which means that Jack would not have told the truth if he chose not to.
# Marshall demonstrates a ring with a concealed blade, which he says, "will cut through anything". He accidentally cuts his tie, but the ring isn't near the tear, and you can actually see Marshall pull down the other half of the tie as he "cuts" it.
35. Phase One
# Kendall says that they found seven SD cells, and there is a screen behind him that beeps as it changes spots on the map. You don't get to see all seven places because the camera goes into a close-up of Kendall's face, but you should hear the beeps. But you only hear five beeps, not seven.
# At the console connected to server 47, Sydney connects a Palm Pilot via a USB-connector, but the command she types would've sent the data to the COM(1)-port, not the USB.
36. Double Agent
# The german police car shown in the scenes is white. However german police cars are usually green-white.
37. A Free Agent
# Sydney and Michael are in a bank trying to get to Sloane, aiming their guns at him while his bodyguards are aiming their guns at Sydney and Michael. But Sydney's finger isn't even on the trigger, which is odd, given the circumstances.
# A few things to Zurich/Switzerland: 1. In Switzerland vehicles have license number on the front, but the one shown in the episode are on the back of a car. In front are only the number and the two letters for the "state" without the flags. 2. The interior of the bank looks not like a typical Swiss bank, more like a American bank! 3. The streets shown during the car chase look not like Swiss streets. In Switzerland is the line white now yellow/black. The traffic sign shown are no "Swiss" one! Except the skyline is obviously nothing shot in Switzerland!
38. Firebomb
# When Sydney is in the bathtub, Vaughn comes in and hands her a glass of wine that's about half full. Camera switch to her... she takes the glass, that's now less than a quarter full, then hands it back to Vaughn. Camera switch back to Vaughn... he takes back the glass that's again about half full.
# When Sydney is running down the stairs in Kabir's base, she radios Vaughn and he tells her to turn right at the bottom of the stairs. When she reaches the bottom, she turns left (not right) and says there's no door, something must have changed.
39. A Dark Turn
# What Irina said while she was in Bangkok it's definitely not Thai.
# When Irina walks out of the room she slit Stuka's throat, there isn't any blood on her hands or clothing. If she slit his throat, blood would be everywhere, or at least on her hands.
# When in Panama, Irina looks out of the Limo's window and a sign on something says "Los Angeles Airfield"
40. Truth Takes Time
# Why does Sark have an electro-shock heart unit (or whatever the complete technical term for it is) in his briefcase at Brucker Biotech?
# It sure seems as if Emily has all of her fingers in several shots of both her hands throughout the episode. Did they find a new one to sew back on the one her and Arvin cut off to make her disappearance look convincing?
# About shooting and ear protection: No immediate harm is done to the ears, but the repetitive shock to the ear drum can cause permanent damage if done without protection for long periods of time.
# When Sark used the defib unit to take out Irina's transmitter, wouldn't that have stopped her heart as well? He would then need to use it on her again, but this is not seen (unless it happened quickly when they cut between scenes).
# When Irina is copying the files onto the disc the message on the screen 'Das Bringen ordnet...ein' makes no sense whatsoever - it translate to 'The acquiring is arranging...on'
42. Countdown
# How did they turn the electricity back on in Di Regno's apartment?
# So, Jack recruited Dixon, yet Dixon never bothered to mention to Sydney that he knew her father was an agent, before she learned he worked for SD-6?
43. Second Double
# Why are no guards around when Dixon is almost killing Will? Will is an important prisoner at that time, too important to die and nevertheless it could have been the other way around...
44. The Telling
# When Francie hands Will the ice cream, she mouths, "I got you your favorite", but you don't hear the audio. You can also see the line if closed captioning is on.
# Instead of Dixon telling Sydney over their headsets that they've found her father, he tells someone else to tell her, which doesn't make much sense when he's communicating directly with her.
# Irina plans to buy the plans for the NSA's Rambaldi storage facility, however, later, she tells Sydney that the facility was raided a month ago. Dialogue in the second part would indicate that the two episodes take place immediately after one another.
# When the CIA learns the NSA storage facility has been raided, Kendall is furious. However, since he is part of the NSA Rambaldi research team, shouldn't he have known already?
# The shot showing the change of scene to Stockholm, isn't of Stockholm but of Amsterdam: the Doelensluis bridge and part of the Rokin street is shown.
# When CIA acquired DNA of the second double, they compared it to Tippin's to verify he's not the one. Shouldn't they see from DNA right away that person is female?
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Season 3
45. The Two
# If Sydney was on the DOJ "Enemy of the State" list, why was it that she was able to walk into the CIA and Dixon's office without any problems?
# During the operation CIA headquarters had satellite images of the area showing agents and enemies as dots. When Sydney is talking to Eric she says "We never had this conversation, after the gunfight I disappeared". She obviously doesn't want Eric to report the conversation to CIA headquarters telling them they had talked after the gunfight, but wouldn't they have seen all along via the satellite images that they had been standing next to each other for minutes after the gunfight?
# The establishing shot for Paris with the Eiffel Tower shows the tower with a giant, light-up number screen--This screen represents a publicity move in the late 1990s to make a countdown (in days) to the year 2000. In the footage, it's at 821 days. In Season 1 they mention the Patriot Act, dating the show to post 9-11-2001.
47. Reunion
# When Jack goes into Dixon's office (to distort Sidney's face) his badge jumps form the right side to the left.
# Marshall mispronounces the words "Bayesian" and "eigenvalue" while discussing image enhancement of the murder video. The correct pronunciation would be familiar to anyone knowledgeable about mathematics.
48. A Missing Link
# When Sidney steals the diamond necklace out of the hotel she jumps off the balcony into the pool and returns to the van where she shows the necklace which is around her ankle. However, in the shot where she jumps off the balcony there is no necklace around her ankle. In the first shot in the pool it isn't there either, but in the second shot in the pool the necklace suddenly appears around her ankle. However in the pool it was around her left ankle, in the van it is around her right ankle.
# Again in the scene where Sidney jumps from a high floor into a pool we expect to see two things happening, but they don't. First of all such a jump would force a lot of the pool's water to jump out as if a bomb exploded. That does not happen and we can only see the water's reaction as if someone from the ground level had just taken a plain dive. Also such jump with the above consequences should have first all of all wet all the surrounding guests and even if that did not happen, it should have made them curious about the strange woman that has just jumped from a building floor inside the pool, half-naked, in the middle of a party. Yet we see no reaction and a man just gives her a towel as if everything is all right.
49. Repercussions
# When Sark hands off the money for the bio-weapons, the top bills flutter in the wind and you can see the plain white paper underneath them making up the rest of the stack, even though the payoff is supposed to be authentic. In other words, the prop department didn't bother to use real money for all the stacks.
# During the car chase you can see Lauren in the car steering to the right to make a tight turn, but in the next shot out of the car you can see all vehicles making a left turn.
# The code Marshall is working on in Osaka isn't really program code, it's a "makefile" - a description on how to compile the actual code. This particular makefile was generated by "GNU Automake."
50. The Nemesis
# In the office that is supposed to be in London there is a lamp that clearly uses an American plug.
# The beam from Allison's laser sight should not have been visible (unless the air was filled with aerosol particles).
# It seems pretty odd that Sydney, with all her training as super agent, could have just walked towards the lift and looking at the body without even checking the surrounding to see if Alison was nearby to knock her unconsious from the back! That precaution would have been rule no. 1 in the CIA's book of "Things to Look out for"
# I think it is possible for the red ray to be seen from Allison's rifle because the place is a dance hall and people tend to smoke there right?
# In Phase One, when Francie get's killed, the trail of blood from her head goes horizontally. In this episode, the trail of blood goes straight down.
51. Prelude
# Vaughn seems to have recovered from his near-fatal stabbing very well in less than three weeks...
52. Breaking Point
# How exactly would they retrieve memories from "neural stimulation" if Sydney was unconscious?
# Marshall leaves his computer terminal with the NSC information he was trying to hack into on Camp Williams when NSC agent Lauren enters the room. Isn't there some sort of CIA protocol for leaving classified information on one's screen when they leave their work station?
# In the shot where the helicopter carrying Lindsey and Lauren to Camp Williams flies overhead, you can see the clear blue sky. But in the shot inside the helicopter, it looks like they are flying through clouds. Everything is white when you look through the helicopter windows.
# When Arvin Sloan is shot, Jack Bristow attempts to operate on him and remove the bullet. We can clearly see that after the operation, Sloan's check has not been shaved. Isn't it standrad procedure in any operation to shave the selected area as to avoid the risk of infection from a skin hair that would fall inside the cut?
53. Conscious
# There's a rather large air bubble in the first injection that Brezzel gives Sydney.
# When Sydney is fighting against herself, she shoots herself six times, in two rows of 3, and each row of three bullets are completely parallel to each other, but when we get a new shot [excuse the pun], of the shot Sydney, the middle bullet hole in the lower row of bullets is below the other two, and not parallel like it was before.
# When Sydney is defibrilated the paddles are outside her cloathes and on the wrong side of the body. Possibly the least authentic defibrillation ever.
54. Remnants
# Sydney and Will have Allison and Sark unconscious or dead and, rather than finishing them off for good or calling Vaughn to have them picked up, they just leave them there to cause trouble on another day.
# The Hotel Verlustzeit is mentioned by Sydney and Sark, and each has trouble with the pronunciation. She says something like "Verluszit" and he says "Verlusteit."
# In this episode and the previous, the protagonists talk about exchanging Sydney for "the Rambaldi device". What Rambaldi device? All they say is "the Rambaldi device". Are they talking about "the Telling"? Why don't they just call it "the MacGuffin"?
# When Sark sits to interrogate his father, he crosses his left arm over his right, however in the next shot, it is his right over his left.
55. Full Disclosure
# In the scene where Sidney is struck with the dart, she is walking right to left. When we see the dart, it is squarely in her back and we see the apparent shooter at the rear of the scene. However, Sidney never turned her back in that direction.
# No one at all, at a funeral full of spies, asks why there is a van with blacked out windows parked just feet away from Vaughn's car watching?
# The ambulance Lazarey travels in parks yards away from the bay and offers the sniper a shot, surely it would've parked up tight denying this. Further, the security guards are hanging about out of sight of their charge to the side of the vehicle, instead of offering realistic cover. Finally, it's common protocol for some form of body amour to be worn by a potential gunshot victim and Lazarey had none. Some may argue he was receiving medical care but he wasn't in need of vital extraordinary means (i.e rib spreader!) and so a jacket c/should've been laid in place at the least.
# It's night time and Sydney's at her home studying papers on Rambaldi. Then she gets drugged and the show cuts to a shot of a plane lifting off into the sunset....which would have happened an hour or two earlier at the very least.
# If one of the Covenant members at Sydney's brainwashing test was McKenas Cole (Quentin Tarentino) wouldn't she mention that to Kendall before she had her memories wiped out? Seems like a pretty important piece of information to know Cole is around and a big-wig in the Covenant.
# According to Kendall, he got the video of Sydney saying she was going to have her memories wiped two days before she turned up in Hong Kong. On the video she has very short hair but when she was found in Hong Kong her hair was practically down to her waist - how'd it grow so fast, even if she made the video a week or two before Kendall got it and she was found?
# When the CIA operatives jump off a C-130 airplane they are in pairs. That is the one thing a sky diver NEVER does due to the extreme danger of the parashoots getting mixed up from two persons diving one next to another. Also in the next scene where we see the parashoots open, it is clear that they did not jump in pairs since every one of them is in a different altitude, indicating that the stuntmen that did the scene knew what they were doing while the director did not.
56. Crossings
# Jack and Irina were married for ten years, as established in several episodes. But Katya talks about how Jack was married to Irina for five years and never figured out she was a spy.
# In the scene where Vaughn sprays the area around the crashed plane with gasoline and, then throws a flare at it from further away where Sydney and he are standing. You can see through the smoke of the flare that he threw it over the plain. After which you can very clearly see the pyrotechnics igniting in front of the plane setting everything on fire. So the actual throwing of the flare had nothing to do with the events that they where trying to depict here.
# The pictures from the city of Zurich in this episode (and in 3x06, 3x13) are actually showing a hungarian square from Budapest, Hungary, called Astoria. By the way this square (with the house that has the big advertisement on the top) was the one where Brad Pitt and Robert Redford were talking in the movie Spy Game, in that movie Budapest was used instead of Berlin.
57. After Six
# How did Sydney and Vaughn get out past the electro-pit? The pipe was broken and the rope was frayed.
# The exterior establishing shot of Salzburg is actually a shot of Paris. You can clearly see the "Banque Hervet" agency located at 41 Raspail boulevard in the 7th district of Paris.
58. Blowback
# Syd and Vaughn hop right into the F-150 and start driving. No hotwiring needed?
# When Sydney and Vaughn are driving through the parking garage you can see the stunt man driving the F-150 in one of the shots and he doesn't look a thing like Vaughn.
# No airbag inflated in any of the four colliding cars.
# The guy in the data storage facility mentions data storage in units of teraflops. Flops are FLOating Point operations, which are units of processing power, not data storage space.
# Some of the dialogue between Lauren and Vaughn changes between the two different "perspectives" - there's a couple of missing lines of dialogue the second time around.
# Despite the fact the second perspective/narrative is supposed to be from Lauren's point of view, there are several scenes of things when she isn't present and in fact are things we saw the first time from Sydney's perspective.
# In the second take of Lauren and Sark speeding away, the back winscreen has already been shot at long before Sydney fires a shot, then when she does actually fire the shot the windscreen is perfect again.
59. Façade
# Daniel Ryan knew the bomb was going to go off in a matter of minutes, and he would be dead. Why was he willing to give the deactivation code over to Jack just because Jack "killed" him and then brought him back? Surely Jack wouldn't have time to "do it all over again" more than once.
# On the plane before takeoff, a stewardess asks Mr. Sark if he would like a glass of wine. The wine in the bottle is at that time red, but 3 seconds later, it is white.
60. Taken
# Dr Barnet runs after Dixon to offer him his 'hard copy' and offers him a CD. Hard Copy means a printed version, a copy on CD would be soft copy.
61. The Frame
# Lauren's last access date into her computer was in 3/26/04, but if the show jumped forward two years, this year should be 2007.
# When they have to swim out of the tunnel, Sydney asks Vaughn how long he can hold his breath. Vaughn questions her, but in the season premire of Season 2, Vaughn says that he was a very good swimmer and could hold his breath for a very long time, so why would he be worried?
62. Unveiled
# Initially in the Operations Center, and during the virus briefing, Sydney has no bangs. Then she and Vaughn go into Marshall's office and she has bangs. Apparently she stopped off at the bathroom with a curler to get them just right in the space of a minute or two.
# When Dixon visited Sloane earlier, Sloane was chained up for security. But when Jack visits him, Sloane is unchained. Shouldn't the security procedures be consistent?
# When Dr. Viadro shoves the coat aside to reveal the code panel, the actor inadvertently knocks the loosely-fastened prop loose, then shoves it back into place before entering the code.
# Dixon specifically says that the notes from Dr. Barnett's sessions with Sloane reveal that Sloane was sleeping with Irina. But...the only time Sloane and Barnett discussed that was when they were on a date, not in a session.
# Does Barnett as a psychologist have patient-doctor confidentiality? She promised Sloane she did. And she's had Sydney and Jack tell her deep dark secrets by promising it. But here, Dixon just goes through her notes and finds out everything about her sessions with Sloane. No wonder Jack doesn't want to talk to her.
# Why did Lauren tell Vaughn she got a call from her mother blaming her for what happened to her father? That obviously didn't happen, and unless she knew that Vaughn was hearing her conversation with Sark, her excuse is a little too convenient to cover that up.
# When Marshall gives Sydney and Vaughn the sun glasses he presses the button on the left side. When Sydney sends the hacker a message she presses on the right side.
63. Hourglass
# Vaughn scans the manuscript in the safe top to bottom, but when Marshall receives them at the other end, he gets them being scanned left-to-right.
# Sydney and Vaughn spend an absurdly long time galloping up to the convoy to rescue Conrad, yet nobody sees them, including Sark who seems to have at least a couple of minutes to clearly spot them in his rear view mirror. So...do Syd and Vaughn know that Sark doesn't like to check his mirror? Because otherwise they're counting on the fact he wont' see them, which seems odd.
64. Blood Ties
# Why would Talia's name be written in English when she was in Chechnya?
65. Legacy
# We learn in this episode that Irina gave birth to Nadia after faking her death. Irina "died" when Sydney was six and was pregnat with Nadia (Sloane's kid) then. So why does Slone believe Sydney is his child if evidently she was 5 or 6 when the affair took place?
# At the end when Vaughn is in Jacks Weapon-Champer he looks through a sniper-rifle with Scope. But he only opened the rear of the Scope and forgot the front. No wonder he always misses Lauren.
# Why does nobody in the hole CIA geets suspicious, because they must go on a mission to retrieve Sydneys sister from Sloane. The Sloane that was "execute" before.
# According to Brill, Bill Vaughn was killed by Irina after he rescued Nadia from the custody of the KGB. But now Katya says that Nadia was born after Irina faked her death, which means that Irina would have had to kill Bill Vaughn after she was supposedly dead; but all Jack, Devlin, and the various other CIA senior officers knew that Irina killed Bill Vaughn, so wouldn't they also have known that Irina was still alive? Of course, either Brill or Katya could be lying.
# How does Vaughn know there was acid in the beaker? He just picks up a glass rod and dips it in the acid, then puts it on Suit & Glasses. But the beaker is unmarked, and they didn't have a chance to see S&G use the acid.
# Going into someone's safehouse and putting your fingerprints all over their secret cache of untraceable weapons isn't really a good idea. If Jack were to use one of those weapons donw the road to kill someone, then Vaughn's fingerprints would be on them.
# Why did they give Toni a gun for the break-in mission? Given she's a prisoner out on parole and all, and she really only needs to get in to deactivate the security system, arming her seems like a real dumb idea.
# Why did Sloane let Lauren and Sark get anywhere close to his secret Japanese base with a rocket launcher?!? Didn't he bother to search their vehicle? All they had to do was fire at his house as they were leaving, once they had the Rimbaldi info. Sloane didn't anticipate something like that?
66. Resurrection
# When Sydney took the clip from Katya, their was no bullet chambered. Even if she left the clip in there would have been no bullet fired.
# If you remove a full ammunition cartridge from a gun and hand it to someone, the weight will give away that the gun is empty.
# Vaughn looks, behaves and moves really well for someone with a punctured lung...
# How does Vaughn get from the U.S to Palermo in seemingly about 5 minutes?
# When Lauren is telling Vaughn how she loves him and all, there are several bits of her story that contradict established information. She said the Covenant told her to get close to Vaughn two years ago to coax him into going back to the CIA. Two years ago was almost exactly when Sydney disappeared for two years, when Vaughn was still with the CIA. Then she says she decided to marry him after the two years were up. That would mean they were newlyweds when Syd reappeared at the beginning of this season, and that's clearly not the case.
# EMTs wouldn't move someone stabbed in the back and suffering from a punctured lung, on their back on a gurney. Yet that's how they move Vaughn when they bring him in.
# We have every reason to believe that Sark hacked into the CIA security feed when Lauren was infiltrating the rotunda. When on a view of the feed on Sark's laptop you can see the point where Lauren takes her Sydney mask off, meaning if the CIA has all of the feed there would be proof that it was Lauren and not Sydney who stole the equation.
# As Vaughn is escaping the hospital he pulls the folded firehose from its storage case. The next shot shows a nicely rolled hose falling down the stairwell.
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Season 4
67. Authorized Personnel Only (1)
# While discussing the files that Sydney recovered, the writers manage to ignore every piece of evidence from the finale of season 3. -Lauren's shouting "We're all pawns in the same game! The only difference is that I know who controls me." -It's dated 1975, whereas the events that Sydney describes would have happened sometime past season 2. -Sydney's NAME is on the cover, right next to "subject". They seem to have been heading in the direction that Jack was the one in charge of the Covenant, and was using them as part of some sinister project involving Sydney, but wrote themselves into a corner and changed it.
68. Authorized Personnel Only (2)
# When Sydney stabbed Tamusaki with the sword, it went through his body but didn't penetrate the shirt on his back. Surely a sword so sharp would cut easily through a thin cotton shirt.
# When Sydney is picked up by Jack after the robbery, he is driving a mid 1960s Ford Zodiac police car in full livery - similar to the type used in the polular '60s police drama "Z Cars". Why he should have access to a 40 year old police car, and why the real police arriving on the scene don't think it rather odd is never explained...
69. The Awful Truth
# While Vaughn speaks with Sydney through the laser microphone he sweeps over some windows. How can he still speak with Sydney when he isn't aiming at her?
# When Weiss and Nadia are talking at the party, Nadia takes a sip of her wine glass. You can clearly see that the glass is almost empty. When we see her the next time with her glass, it's almost full.
70. Ice
# In at least one scene, at the end, when Nadia shows the baby picture to Jack the baby is being held on the left side of the picture. A minute later when Nadia looks at the picture, the baby is back on the right side. Almost like the photo negative had been inverted.
# In the Montenegran hospital all the light switches are American. Only American light switches flick up to turn on. Montenegran ones would flick down to switch on.
# The language locals speek in the hospital in Montenegro is Russian, but the language spoken in Montenegro is Serbian.
# The second picture Nadia goes through is a B&W of Jennifer Garner in glasses with her real life sister, Susannah on the right. In the middle is suppose to be Irina
# Kiera/Meghan asks Vaughn if he works for MI-5, but MI-5 is Britain's counterintelligence service, and doesn't operate outside of Britain. MI-6 is foreign intelligence.
71. Welcome To Liberty Village
# When Vaugn puts down the ring in the end, he places it to the left of the laptop. He then moves his arm from left to right, as if he were replacing it. Later, when Sydney takes off her ring, she places it on top of Vaugn's, but his ring can be seen on the upper right hand of the screen.
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Season 1
1. Truth Be Told
# When at the track, Sydney is talking to Will and he tells her congratulations, she mouths "Thanks" but her voice comes in on delay.
# After Will reads Sydney's note and meets her on the roof he say: "Meet me on the roof" as if he was quoting what was written on the note. However the note just said: "I'm on the roof".
# After Sidney kicks her SD-6 assassin into the car window, he falls down, with his hands down. Jack's car shrieks and when Sidney reaches down to the ground to pick up the gun the assassins hands are up again, falling.
# After fighting the SD-6 assassin, Sydney hears Jack's car shrieking and looks to her left and you can see that she is holding something on her right hand and lowers it, however she wasn't holding anything when she kicked the assassin to the car's window. This shot is actually the same one when Sydney is pointing the gun at her father, says "daddy?" and hears other car shrieking and looks to the left.
# Sydney has been working for SD-6 for seven years and she never happened to run into Jack or hear someone mentioning his name?
# After handcuffing Suit & Glasses to the chair and knocking the two guards out, Sydney picks up one gun, but in the next shot she is holding two.
# When Sydney handcuffs Suit & Glasses to the chair and knocks the two guards out, she runs into the lab and is seen by a security guard on the surveillance camera. If you look closely she is holding something wrapped up on her right arm. This shot is in fact the one after she steals the Mueller device and blows up the lab.
# When Sydney is telling Danny how she came into the CIA, it shows her talking on a pay phone. After she says, "So I met with him," you can see a camera man's reflection in the pay phone on the far left. The camera is not a video camera, but a still photo camera and is pointed down.
2. So It Begins
# When Sydney is digging Ivanov's gravesite, you can tell when the shot switches from on-location to lot shooting. If you look at the "dirt walls" you can see the actual hole in the ground has rough walls that stick out a few inches, but when it switches to lot shooting, the walls go to brown, sorta-smooth (i.e. just look at the walls, they're too perfectly square and straight).
3. Parity
# When Syd tracks down her Dad to talk to him, he gets out of his car without anything in his hands. He and Syd talk and he walks away from her with a briefcase in his left hand.
# Two things about the ball of plutonium: First, wouldn't the CIA be worried about Sydney's health if she is directly exposed to plutonium? Even if a couple of minutes can't do serious damage they should still be cautious. Second, why is Sydney scared of dropping the plutonium? There's not going to be a nuclear explosion if it hits the floor.
4. A Broken Heart
# The picture from Malaga, Spain is actually from Stockholm, Sweden. The building with the clock tower is The City Hall, where the Nobel Prize Banquet takes place.
5. Doppelgänger
# Sydney and Dixon find out that the bomb inside Patel is controlled by a remote detonator whose range is about 15 meters judging by the distance between the cars during the chase before Jacqnoud can trigger it. As the bomb also equals 300 pounds of TNT how did he plan to survive the UCO bombing if he has to be that close to detonate it and the bomb is that powerful
# When Sidney steals the ambulance, the original driver is visible through the passenger side window. As Sidney pulls away, the driver remains visible while the van moves off frame. Instead of Garner driving the vehicle out of the shot, the camera crew just rolled right to get the appearance of the van taking off and the foley artists inserted a peal-out sound.
# When the car with the bad guys blows up, there is no engine.
# In the Scene in Berlin with Sidney walking, we see a blacked out building (Lower Right Hand Corner), and an American flag.
# The first part of this episode supposedly takes place in São Paulo, however the kid that finds her does not speak the Portuguese spoken in Brazil. It sounds like a crossover between Portuguese standard and Spanish, which is understandable since the young boy is actually Mexican in real life. Besides, the ambulance driver says "señorita," which means 'miss' in Spanish – the Portuguese (Brazil) work for it is 'moça' or 'senhora'.
# If the "terrorists" were planing to detonate the bomb in the middle of an important meeting, why do they try to detonate it, when the bomb is nowhere near the meeting. Seems if they wanted to kill the bomb-carrier, they would have done it already, instead of implanting a boomb into his body.
7. Color-Blind
# When Shepard is having a black and white flashback to when he killed Danny, you can see the shadow of the camera operator on the wall right before the bathroom is entered.
8. Time Will Tell
# When Sydney is escaping from the building and about to jump off the roof you can clearly see her high heels she is wearing as she attaches the roap. She then jumps with the same shoes on, but at the bottom we see a different pair of shoes on her as she swings to safety. Then at the bottom she runs off in the original pair once again!
# When Sidney has to collect the Rimbaldi-artifact before Anna Espinoza does, they have to get into a secured room where only security cards give access to. When she is in she escapes out of that severe secured room through a simple unsecured window.
9. Mea Culpa
# In the scene in a patio where she is discussing her situation, each time the camera flashes back to her, a different ear is uncovered or neither ear is uncovered. First right ear, then left ear, then neither ear then right.
# Will takes two beer bottles out of the fridge when he is talking with Francie about half way through the episode. Both beer bottles are most definitely open.
# If Sydney's fall was stopped by her leg catching on the ladder, then the sudden catch from that height and speed would have done some damage to her leg (like her ankle, or calf, etc), but there is no telltale sign or even a reference that she's sustained such an injury.
# After Sydney was shot, you can see has three bullets stuck in her vest, but later after climbing out of the pit and collapsing on the ground, her vest is clean.
11. The Confession
# The exterior establishing shot of the port during the "Athens" segment is completely wrong. This port is clearly of a small Aegean island; not of a city with 4 million residents.
# The bodyguard mentions to the club owner that he has an "11 o'clock." Of course there is no way any club in Greece would be open at 11pm let alone be so packed. It's interesting how California based shows + movies (ie. 99% of TV shows and movies) assume the entire world is as boring as California is, where everything is dead by 2am.
12. The Box (1)
# In the corridor with all those red lasers you don't see a single hole or mirror in the walls where the light could come from or where it would be reflected.
# The failed mission that Cole was on was in 1996. Cole said that the KGB contacted the CIA through various channels to confirm whether or not he was a CIA operative, but the KGB was disbanded in 1991.
13. The Box (2)
# Dixon manages to enter a perfectly spelled and punctuated message in his PDA, with his hands tied and using the end of a plastic handcuff, while being watched by armed terrorists. Uh-huh.
# Sydney takes out one of the terrorists, and Cole can hear him getting beat-up over the walkie-talkie. If the terrorist is getting beat up, who is holding down the button to transmit?
# When Syd is lead into Sloane's office to meet Cole, her tools and everything are scattered on Sloane's desk. A few minutes later, when she's tied up with the hostages, all of her tools and everything (including the earring she needs to escape) are now scattered on the floor around her.
14. The Coup
# McNeil has been in prison for 8 years; in all that time, shouldn't his former employers have changed the computer room passcode and the other passwords at least once?
15. Page 47
# In Tunisia, Dixon says "...and if you happen to see a sandwich..." Sydney says "You got it" but mouths something different.
# When Sydney is talking to the man on the boat, she actually speaks swedish, but the subtitle says [Speaking russian].
16. The Prophecy
# After Poole open the laptop on Sloane's desk you can see it closed when Sloane is looking at the picture, but in the next scene it is still open.
17. Q & A
# In "Truth be told" the SD-6 set appears different. When she returns 3 months later in "So it begins," the SD-6 set is different. But in this episode, when Sidney flashes back to when she first started working for SD-6, the set appears as it did in "So it begins," not "Truth be told".
# In "Truth Be Told" Sidney tells Danny she worked for SD-6 for 1 month before being upgraded to agent. In this episode, she says she worked for the bank for 6 months before being working for SD-6.
# The flashback to "Spirit" uses an alternate scene than in the original episode (Sidney doesn't accentuate the "Thank" in this episode).
# When the car first begins to sink in the first underwater shot, you can see the green tank walls.
# Just before the car goes over the dock, you can notice that the front wheels of the car are completely at a 45 degree angle as if you were turning left, in other words would technically not be able to go straight. Also, if you look carefully at almost any camera view, you can see a cord guiding the car into the water.
# Why did none of the police officers at the scene attempt to rescue Sidney from the sunken car?
# In order to suck air through a tire nozzle, Sidney would have to push in the pin with her tongue. No one has a tongue strong or flexible enough to do that.
# Sydney is brought in a hearing room where the FBI team will be asking her questions. A man walks in and offers her a vanilla milkshake placing it right in front of her. When the FBI staff enters the room, we get a straight shot at Sydney and notice that the milkshake has been moved to the left of the screen (Sydney's right arm). Then after one or two shots (aprox. 1-2 seconds total) to the FBI committee and back we can see that the milkshake is now located in from of Sydney's left arm (to the right side of the screen) in from of the microphone. Given that she has been cuffed to the chair all this time, how could she possibly have moved it?
# The first time Sydney mention Rambaldi's name to Kendall, she pronounces it "Meelo", then in the next scene she says is correctly "Milo."
18. Masquerade
# When Sydney retrieves the 'slightly chilled' data core, she falls, and the glass in her helmet starts to crack. Few seconds later, Noah Hicks carries her out to safety, but now there are no cracks in the glass anymore.
19. Snowman
# Both Sloane and Vaughn mispronounce Mackay, the town in Queensland, Australia where Sydney is sent to find Calder. They pronounce it "Mack-ay", the end rhyming with the letter A, when it's actually pronounced "Mack-ye", rhyming with the letter I.
21. Rendezvous
# In Indonesia, they should be speaking Bahasa Indonesia, and not Bahasa Malaysia, the national language of Malaysia.
# Sydney must have amazing healing powers. During her fight with Nixon in Indonesia, he slashes her upper arm with a knife, deep enough to immediately draw blood through her shirt. Upon her return to SD-6 in Los Angeles, someone bumps into her arm, and apparently the wound is still healing, since she gasps and winces in pain. A day or two later, when she appears in the Paris nightclub, she's wearing a sleeveless outfit, and though both arms are clearly visible, there is no trace of the wound.
# Sloane says Sark is "on a trans-Atlantic flight" after escaping from the nightclub with Khasinau. So, Sark flew from Paris, to the Americas... then back to Geneva? Wouldn't it have been easier to just fly from Paris to Geneva?
# Sodium pentothal, a.k.a. the "Truth Serum," is commonly used to extract information form prisoners in this kind of shows. However, while under the effect of the drug, the patient may lose his inhibitions, but he does not lose self-control, which means that Will would not have told anything he did not want to.
22. Almost Thirty Years
# Emily's wine glass goes from half full to 3/4 full from the point Arvin gives it to her, and the point at which she drinks it.
# When Sydney is talking to Jack on the docks about the page and the liquid, she mistakenly reverses who has each. She states that the CIA has the page and that SD-6 has the liquid.
# When the water "ballon" bursts the water it contained is enough to fill the entire corridor to the roof in addition to at least that high in the warehouse. Compressed water?
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Season 2
23. The Enemy Walks In
# Dixon goes to Sloane to accuse Sydney of being a double agent, citing two incidents: Using a different call sign than the one SD-6 had given her, and that he had followed Sydney and witnessed her breaking into an SD-6 underground vault. Jack enacts a cover-up: He tells Sloane that he gave Sydney the "Freelancer" call sign because he didn't trust Sloane, but nothing is done to explain why Sydney was breaking into the SD-6 vault!! Sloane doesn't question further, even though he knows something was stolen from the SD-6 vault.
# In the first 5 minutes when Sydney is talking with her mom and they cut from Irina to Sydney you can tell they used shots from last season and new shots from this season because Sydney's blue wig is styled differently between shots. In some shots the hair is brushed under in other shots it hangs perfectly straight.
24. Trust Me
# Despite the fact we see Sydney putting on a big bandage on her shoulder gunshot wound, later in the episode when she's wearing the zebra-dress to get into the hotel in Rabat, it's nowhere in sight.
# When entering the CIA headquarters, Vaughn instructs Sydney to turn left after passing the intersection cameras. When they cut to the surveillance footage, you see Sydney arching to her right to cross the street.
# When Sydney is in Helsinki, there are visible skyscrapers in the background. However, there are no skyscrapers in Helsinki.
# When Sydney is talking to her mother through the glass wall of the cell, when the camera goes back and forth between Irina and Sydney, continuity errors are shown, as Sydney's hair is in front of her right ear, then behind, then in front of and so on.
# When getting a long shot giving an introduction to Rabat, it actually is the well-known marketplace in Marrakech, Marocco.
25. Cipher
# When sitting outside the launch facility, Dixon is dressed in full camouflage, right down to the face paint, & sitting next to a tree, to further "blend in"... Then he open his laptop, to gain access to the Launch Site's security camera's... He uses a Mac Powerbook because amidst all that Blending he opened a Bright silver laptop, with a Glowing Apple logo on the outer side of the screen!
# In the scene right after Sydney comes out of the launch tubes and fire behind her, you can see the wire for the luge pulling her.
26. Dead Drop
# At the end of the last episode, Dixon warned that the ice could freeze over in 4 seconds. Sydney proved this after her confrontation with Stark, by falling through the broken ice, & being frozen beneath it. However, in this episode, after she shoots her way out, the ice manages to keep itself from freezing for a good 20 seconds while she tries to climb out and eventually is pulled out by Dixon.
27. The Indicator
# The IP address that Sydney gives to SD-6 in not possible. The maximum number for IP addresses is 255, while Sydney gives an address containing 256. This would not connect to any computer.
# It is understandable the show uses stock footage when Sydney zips around the world as easily as going to the supermarket, but producers should bear in mind the show is seen everywhere. When Sydney goes to Buenos Aires, some vegetation covered hills are seen, like something in the Brazilian jungle. Buenos Aires is flat as flat can be - no hills closer than 300 miles.
# When Sydney cuts the power at the Triad research leader's place, in the first shot everything blacks out including the rope-lights, but in the next shot, the rope lights are on.
# When Sidney traveled to Budapest, she traveled left her car in front of the Parliament. In this episode there is the red star on the Parliament. The red star hasn't been on the Parliament since 1989, when the communism failed in Hungary, and the building has been renovated. So that scene is a bad montage with Sidney (in 2002) and with the Parliament (before 1989).
28. Salvation
# At the very end of the episode when Vaughn is shaving, the area he just shaved is still full of stubble.
29. The Counteragent
# Japanese ambulances are solid white with minimal red markings. The ambulance depicted in the Tokyo scene was not Japanese (nor Japanese made) - it was solid red on the lower half. There are non-Japanese made ambulances, such as made by Merecedes-Benz, however they are rare.
# In the hospital just after the monitors around Vaughn start beeping a doctor states "He's bleeding internally". Yet another doc wants to do a peritoneal lavage. You only do such a lavage to determine if there's a bleeding at all. So why do one when they know what's going on already?
30. Passage (1)
# Kendall says that "the Uzbeks have admitted and Defence Intelligence has confirmed" that the six suitcase bombs went missing six months earlier. Why would the DIA need to confirm something the Uzbeks had admitted?
31. Passage (2)
# When Jack arrives at the helicopter, he asks Vaugn to call off the airstrikes. Vaugn calls in the request. Who was he asking? The Indians? Why would they suddenly honor his request?
33. A Higher Echelon
# What's the point of putting Jack's fingerprints on the wheel of the rental car he rented in Taipei? First of all...where's the car itself? Did they detach the wheel and bring it to L.A. by itself? And secondly, that was months ago that Jack rented the car - it would be more suspicious if there were clean copies of his fingerprints on the wheel - rental companies clean their cars, and rent them out to other people. There should be dozens of other customers' prints on the wheel, assuming there were any prints at all.
# Why did Marshall turn back on Suit and Glasses at the end? It didn't seem to know that Sydney was about to rescue him. How could he put her mother's life at risk so blatantly? He knew that they would kill him and her.
# An easily recognizable corridor has been used in at least 3 episodes which supposedly occur at different locations:
2x01 - The Enemy Walks In : Time: 30:56
2x06 - Salvation : Time: 22:20
2x11 - A Higher Echelon : Time: 37:59.
34. The Getaway
# Sydney is called into SD-6 while with her father at the CIA headquarters. The bottom of her hair is curled. Sydney heads straight to SD-6. She walks through the identification room at SD-6 and her hair is now straight. Moments later she is in Sloan's office and Marshall gives her roses. Her hair is now curled again.
# You can see the skidmarks from Sydney's car on the pavement from previous takes of them skidding the car around the corner and into the truck.
# Shouldn't Vaughn's cover be a little more cover-y than "Department of State"? Even most of the audience knows that's a pretty common cover for CIA agents.
# When Jack is reading Sloane's e-mail, the voice over says "Jack, I'm sending this via a secure server. I'm sorry..." but the text on the computer screen just reads "Jack, I'm sorry..."
# Twice during the show, characters say the Boy Scout Motto is "Always Be Prepared". In actuality, the motto is simply "Be Prepared".
# Sodium pentothal, a.k.a. the "Truth Serum," is commonly used to extract information form prisoners in this kind of shows. However, while under the effect of the drug, the patient may lose his inhibitions, but he does not lose self-control, which means that Jack would not have told the truth if he chose not to.
# Marshall demonstrates a ring with a concealed blade, which he says, "will cut through anything". He accidentally cuts his tie, but the ring isn't near the tear, and you can actually see Marshall pull down the other half of the tie as he "cuts" it.
35. Phase One
# Kendall says that they found seven SD cells, and there is a screen behind him that beeps as it changes spots on the map. You don't get to see all seven places because the camera goes into a close-up of Kendall's face, but you should hear the beeps. But you only hear five beeps, not seven.
# At the console connected to server 47, Sydney connects a Palm Pilot via a USB-connector, but the command she types would've sent the data to the COM(1)-port, not the USB.
36. Double Agent
# The german police car shown in the scenes is white. However german police cars are usually green-white.
37. A Free Agent
# Sydney and Michael are in a bank trying to get to Sloane, aiming their guns at him while his bodyguards are aiming their guns at Sydney and Michael. But Sydney's finger isn't even on the trigger, which is odd, given the circumstances.
# A few things to Zurich/Switzerland: 1. In Switzerland vehicles have license number on the front, but the one shown in the episode are on the back of a car. In front are only the number and the two letters for the "state" without the flags. 2. The interior of the bank looks not like a typical Swiss bank, more like a American bank! 3. The streets shown during the car chase look not like Swiss streets. In Switzerland is the line white now yellow/black. The traffic sign shown are no "Swiss" one! Except the skyline is obviously nothing shot in Switzerland!
38. Firebomb
# When Sydney is in the bathtub, Vaughn comes in and hands her a glass of wine that's about half full. Camera switch to her... she takes the glass, that's now less than a quarter full, then hands it back to Vaughn. Camera switch back to Vaughn... he takes back the glass that's again about half full.
# When Sydney is running down the stairs in Kabir's base, she radios Vaughn and he tells her to turn right at the bottom of the stairs. When she reaches the bottom, she turns left (not right) and says there's no door, something must have changed.
39. A Dark Turn
# What Irina said while she was in Bangkok it's definitely not Thai.
# When Irina walks out of the room she slit Stuka's throat, there isn't any blood on her hands or clothing. If she slit his throat, blood would be everywhere, or at least on her hands.
# When in Panama, Irina looks out of the Limo's window and a sign on something says "Los Angeles Airfield"
40. Truth Takes Time
# Why does Sark have an electro-shock heart unit (or whatever the complete technical term for it is) in his briefcase at Brucker Biotech?
# It sure seems as if Emily has all of her fingers in several shots of both her hands throughout the episode. Did they find a new one to sew back on the one her and Arvin cut off to make her disappearance look convincing?
# About shooting and ear protection: No immediate harm is done to the ears, but the repetitive shock to the ear drum can cause permanent damage if done without protection for long periods of time.
# When Sark used the defib unit to take out Irina's transmitter, wouldn't that have stopped her heart as well? He would then need to use it on her again, but this is not seen (unless it happened quickly when they cut between scenes).
# When Irina is copying the files onto the disc the message on the screen 'Das Bringen ordnet...ein' makes no sense whatsoever - it translate to 'The acquiring is arranging...on'
42. Countdown
# How did they turn the electricity back on in Di Regno's apartment?
# So, Jack recruited Dixon, yet Dixon never bothered to mention to Sydney that he knew her father was an agent, before she learned he worked for SD-6?
43. Second Double
# Why are no guards around when Dixon is almost killing Will? Will is an important prisoner at that time, too important to die and nevertheless it could have been the other way around...
44. The Telling
# When Francie hands Will the ice cream, she mouths, "I got you your favorite", but you don't hear the audio. You can also see the line if closed captioning is on.
# Instead of Dixon telling Sydney over their headsets that they've found her father, he tells someone else to tell her, which doesn't make much sense when he's communicating directly with her.
# Irina plans to buy the plans for the NSA's Rambaldi storage facility, however, later, she tells Sydney that the facility was raided a month ago. Dialogue in the second part would indicate that the two episodes take place immediately after one another.
# When the CIA learns the NSA storage facility has been raided, Kendall is furious. However, since he is part of the NSA Rambaldi research team, shouldn't he have known already?
# The shot showing the change of scene to Stockholm, isn't of Stockholm but of Amsterdam: the Doelensluis bridge and part of the Rokin street is shown.
# When CIA acquired DNA of the second double, they compared it to Tippin's to verify he's not the one. Shouldn't they see from DNA right away that person is female?
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Season 3
45. The Two
# If Sydney was on the DOJ "Enemy of the State" list, why was it that she was able to walk into the CIA and Dixon's office without any problems?
# During the operation CIA headquarters had satellite images of the area showing agents and enemies as dots. When Sydney is talking to Eric she says "We never had this conversation, after the gunfight I disappeared". She obviously doesn't want Eric to report the conversation to CIA headquarters telling them they had talked after the gunfight, but wouldn't they have seen all along via the satellite images that they had been standing next to each other for minutes after the gunfight?
# The establishing shot for Paris with the Eiffel Tower shows the tower with a giant, light-up number screen--This screen represents a publicity move in the late 1990s to make a countdown (in days) to the year 2000. In the footage, it's at 821 days. In Season 1 they mention the Patriot Act, dating the show to post 9-11-2001.
47. Reunion
# When Jack goes into Dixon's office (to distort Sidney's face) his badge jumps form the right side to the left.
# Marshall mispronounces the words "Bayesian" and "eigenvalue" while discussing image enhancement of the murder video. The correct pronunciation would be familiar to anyone knowledgeable about mathematics.
48. A Missing Link
# When Sidney steals the diamond necklace out of the hotel she jumps off the balcony into the pool and returns to the van where she shows the necklace which is around her ankle. However, in the shot where she jumps off the balcony there is no necklace around her ankle. In the first shot in the pool it isn't there either, but in the second shot in the pool the necklace suddenly appears around her ankle. However in the pool it was around her left ankle, in the van it is around her right ankle.
# Again in the scene where Sidney jumps from a high floor into a pool we expect to see two things happening, but they don't. First of all such a jump would force a lot of the pool's water to jump out as if a bomb exploded. That does not happen and we can only see the water's reaction as if someone from the ground level had just taken a plain dive. Also such jump with the above consequences should have first all of all wet all the surrounding guests and even if that did not happen, it should have made them curious about the strange woman that has just jumped from a building floor inside the pool, half-naked, in the middle of a party. Yet we see no reaction and a man just gives her a towel as if everything is all right.
49. Repercussions
# When Sark hands off the money for the bio-weapons, the top bills flutter in the wind and you can see the plain white paper underneath them making up the rest of the stack, even though the payoff is supposed to be authentic. In other words, the prop department didn't bother to use real money for all the stacks.
# During the car chase you can see Lauren in the car steering to the right to make a tight turn, but in the next shot out of the car you can see all vehicles making a left turn.
# The code Marshall is working on in Osaka isn't really program code, it's a "makefile" - a description on how to compile the actual code. This particular makefile was generated by "GNU Automake."
50. The Nemesis
# In the office that is supposed to be in London there is a lamp that clearly uses an American plug.
# The beam from Allison's laser sight should not have been visible (unless the air was filled with aerosol particles).
# It seems pretty odd that Sydney, with all her training as super agent, could have just walked towards the lift and looking at the body without even checking the surrounding to see if Alison was nearby to knock her unconsious from the back! That precaution would have been rule no. 1 in the CIA's book of "Things to Look out for"
# I think it is possible for the red ray to be seen from Allison's rifle because the place is a dance hall and people tend to smoke there right?
# In Phase One, when Francie get's killed, the trail of blood from her head goes horizontally. In this episode, the trail of blood goes straight down.
51. Prelude
# Vaughn seems to have recovered from his near-fatal stabbing very well in less than three weeks...
52. Breaking Point
# How exactly would they retrieve memories from "neural stimulation" if Sydney was unconscious?
# Marshall leaves his computer terminal with the NSC information he was trying to hack into on Camp Williams when NSC agent Lauren enters the room. Isn't there some sort of CIA protocol for leaving classified information on one's screen when they leave their work station?
# In the shot where the helicopter carrying Lindsey and Lauren to Camp Williams flies overhead, you can see the clear blue sky. But in the shot inside the helicopter, it looks like they are flying through clouds. Everything is white when you look through the helicopter windows.
# When Arvin Sloan is shot, Jack Bristow attempts to operate on him and remove the bullet. We can clearly see that after the operation, Sloan's check has not been shaved. Isn't it standrad procedure in any operation to shave the selected area as to avoid the risk of infection from a skin hair that would fall inside the cut?
53. Conscious
# There's a rather large air bubble in the first injection that Brezzel gives Sydney.
# When Sydney is fighting against herself, she shoots herself six times, in two rows of 3, and each row of three bullets are completely parallel to each other, but when we get a new shot [excuse the pun], of the shot Sydney, the middle bullet hole in the lower row of bullets is below the other two, and not parallel like it was before.
# When Sydney is defibrilated the paddles are outside her cloathes and on the wrong side of the body. Possibly the least authentic defibrillation ever.
54. Remnants
# Sydney and Will have Allison and Sark unconscious or dead and, rather than finishing them off for good or calling Vaughn to have them picked up, they just leave them there to cause trouble on another day.
# The Hotel Verlustzeit is mentioned by Sydney and Sark, and each has trouble with the pronunciation. She says something like "Verluszit" and he says "Verlusteit."
# In this episode and the previous, the protagonists talk about exchanging Sydney for "the Rambaldi device". What Rambaldi device? All they say is "the Rambaldi device". Are they talking about "the Telling"? Why don't they just call it "the MacGuffin"?
# When Sark sits to interrogate his father, he crosses his left arm over his right, however in the next shot, it is his right over his left.
55. Full Disclosure
# In the scene where Sidney is struck with the dart, she is walking right to left. When we see the dart, it is squarely in her back and we see the apparent shooter at the rear of the scene. However, Sidney never turned her back in that direction.
# No one at all, at a funeral full of spies, asks why there is a van with blacked out windows parked just feet away from Vaughn's car watching?
# The ambulance Lazarey travels in parks yards away from the bay and offers the sniper a shot, surely it would've parked up tight denying this. Further, the security guards are hanging about out of sight of their charge to the side of the vehicle, instead of offering realistic cover. Finally, it's common protocol for some form of body amour to be worn by a potential gunshot victim and Lazarey had none. Some may argue he was receiving medical care but he wasn't in need of vital extraordinary means (i.e rib spreader!) and so a jacket c/should've been laid in place at the least.
# It's night time and Sydney's at her home studying papers on Rambaldi. Then she gets drugged and the show cuts to a shot of a plane lifting off into the sunset....which would have happened an hour or two earlier at the very least.
# If one of the Covenant members at Sydney's brainwashing test was McKenas Cole (Quentin Tarentino) wouldn't she mention that to Kendall before she had her memories wiped out? Seems like a pretty important piece of information to know Cole is around and a big-wig in the Covenant.
# According to Kendall, he got the video of Sydney saying she was going to have her memories wiped two days before she turned up in Hong Kong. On the video she has very short hair but when she was found in Hong Kong her hair was practically down to her waist - how'd it grow so fast, even if she made the video a week or two before Kendall got it and she was found?
# When the CIA operatives jump off a C-130 airplane they are in pairs. That is the one thing a sky diver NEVER does due to the extreme danger of the parashoots getting mixed up from two persons diving one next to another. Also in the next scene where we see the parashoots open, it is clear that they did not jump in pairs since every one of them is in a different altitude, indicating that the stuntmen that did the scene knew what they were doing while the director did not.
56. Crossings
# Jack and Irina were married for ten years, as established in several episodes. But Katya talks about how Jack was married to Irina for five years and never figured out she was a spy.
# In the scene where Vaughn sprays the area around the crashed plane with gasoline and, then throws a flare at it from further away where Sydney and he are standing. You can see through the smoke of the flare that he threw it over the plain. After which you can very clearly see the pyrotechnics igniting in front of the plane setting everything on fire. So the actual throwing of the flare had nothing to do with the events that they where trying to depict here.
# The pictures from the city of Zurich in this episode (and in 3x06, 3x13) are actually showing a hungarian square from Budapest, Hungary, called Astoria. By the way this square (with the house that has the big advertisement on the top) was the one where Brad Pitt and Robert Redford were talking in the movie Spy Game, in that movie Budapest was used instead of Berlin.
57. After Six
# How did Sydney and Vaughn get out past the electro-pit? The pipe was broken and the rope was frayed.
# The exterior establishing shot of Salzburg is actually a shot of Paris. You can clearly see the "Banque Hervet" agency located at 41 Raspail boulevard in the 7th district of Paris.
58. Blowback
# Syd and Vaughn hop right into the F-150 and start driving. No hotwiring needed?
# When Sydney and Vaughn are driving through the parking garage you can see the stunt man driving the F-150 in one of the shots and he doesn't look a thing like Vaughn.
# No airbag inflated in any of the four colliding cars.
# The guy in the data storage facility mentions data storage in units of teraflops. Flops are FLOating Point operations, which are units of processing power, not data storage space.
# Some of the dialogue between Lauren and Vaughn changes between the two different "perspectives" - there's a couple of missing lines of dialogue the second time around.
# Despite the fact the second perspective/narrative is supposed to be from Lauren's point of view, there are several scenes of things when she isn't present and in fact are things we saw the first time from Sydney's perspective.
# In the second take of Lauren and Sark speeding away, the back winscreen has already been shot at long before Sydney fires a shot, then when she does actually fire the shot the windscreen is perfect again.
59. Façade
# Daniel Ryan knew the bomb was going to go off in a matter of minutes, and he would be dead. Why was he willing to give the deactivation code over to Jack just because Jack "killed" him and then brought him back? Surely Jack wouldn't have time to "do it all over again" more than once.
# On the plane before takeoff, a stewardess asks Mr. Sark if he would like a glass of wine. The wine in the bottle is at that time red, but 3 seconds later, it is white.
60. Taken
# Dr Barnet runs after Dixon to offer him his 'hard copy' and offers him a CD. Hard Copy means a printed version, a copy on CD would be soft copy.
61. The Frame
# Lauren's last access date into her computer was in 3/26/04, but if the show jumped forward two years, this year should be 2007.
# When they have to swim out of the tunnel, Sydney asks Vaughn how long he can hold his breath. Vaughn questions her, but in the season premire of Season 2, Vaughn says that he was a very good swimmer and could hold his breath for a very long time, so why would he be worried?
62. Unveiled
# Initially in the Operations Center, and during the virus briefing, Sydney has no bangs. Then she and Vaughn go into Marshall's office and she has bangs. Apparently she stopped off at the bathroom with a curler to get them just right in the space of a minute or two.
# When Dixon visited Sloane earlier, Sloane was chained up for security. But when Jack visits him, Sloane is unchained. Shouldn't the security procedures be consistent?
# When Dr. Viadro shoves the coat aside to reveal the code panel, the actor inadvertently knocks the loosely-fastened prop loose, then shoves it back into place before entering the code.
# Dixon specifically says that the notes from Dr. Barnett's sessions with Sloane reveal that Sloane was sleeping with Irina. But...the only time Sloane and Barnett discussed that was when they were on a date, not in a session.
# Does Barnett as a psychologist have patient-doctor confidentiality? She promised Sloane she did. And she's had Sydney and Jack tell her deep dark secrets by promising it. But here, Dixon just goes through her notes and finds out everything about her sessions with Sloane. No wonder Jack doesn't want to talk to her.
# Why did Lauren tell Vaughn she got a call from her mother blaming her for what happened to her father? That obviously didn't happen, and unless she knew that Vaughn was hearing her conversation with Sark, her excuse is a little too convenient to cover that up.
# When Marshall gives Sydney and Vaughn the sun glasses he presses the button on the left side. When Sydney sends the hacker a message she presses on the right side.
63. Hourglass
# Vaughn scans the manuscript in the safe top to bottom, but when Marshall receives them at the other end, he gets them being scanned left-to-right.
# Sydney and Vaughn spend an absurdly long time galloping up to the convoy to rescue Conrad, yet nobody sees them, including Sark who seems to have at least a couple of minutes to clearly spot them in his rear view mirror. So...do Syd and Vaughn know that Sark doesn't like to check his mirror? Because otherwise they're counting on the fact he wont' see them, which seems odd.
64. Blood Ties
# Why would Talia's name be written in English when she was in Chechnya?
65. Legacy
# We learn in this episode that Irina gave birth to Nadia after faking her death. Irina "died" when Sydney was six and was pregnat with Nadia (Sloane's kid) then. So why does Slone believe Sydney is his child if evidently she was 5 or 6 when the affair took place?
# At the end when Vaughn is in Jacks Weapon-Champer he looks through a sniper-rifle with Scope. But he only opened the rear of the Scope and forgot the front. No wonder he always misses Lauren.
# Why does nobody in the hole CIA geets suspicious, because they must go on a mission to retrieve Sydneys sister from Sloane. The Sloane that was "execute" before.
# According to Brill, Bill Vaughn was killed by Irina after he rescued Nadia from the custody of the KGB. But now Katya says that Nadia was born after Irina faked her death, which means that Irina would have had to kill Bill Vaughn after she was supposedly dead; but all Jack, Devlin, and the various other CIA senior officers knew that Irina killed Bill Vaughn, so wouldn't they also have known that Irina was still alive? Of course, either Brill or Katya could be lying.
# How does Vaughn know there was acid in the beaker? He just picks up a glass rod and dips it in the acid, then puts it on Suit & Glasses. But the beaker is unmarked, and they didn't have a chance to see S&G use the acid.
# Going into someone's safehouse and putting your fingerprints all over their secret cache of untraceable weapons isn't really a good idea. If Jack were to use one of those weapons donw the road to kill someone, then Vaughn's fingerprints would be on them.
# Why did they give Toni a gun for the break-in mission? Given she's a prisoner out on parole and all, and she really only needs to get in to deactivate the security system, arming her seems like a real dumb idea.
# Why did Sloane let Lauren and Sark get anywhere close to his secret Japanese base with a rocket launcher?!? Didn't he bother to search their vehicle? All they had to do was fire at his house as they were leaving, once they had the Rimbaldi info. Sloane didn't anticipate something like that?
66. Resurrection
# When Sydney took the clip from Katya, their was no bullet chambered. Even if she left the clip in there would have been no bullet fired.
# If you remove a full ammunition cartridge from a gun and hand it to someone, the weight will give away that the gun is empty.
# Vaughn looks, behaves and moves really well for someone with a punctured lung...
# How does Vaughn get from the U.S to Palermo in seemingly about 5 minutes?
# When Lauren is telling Vaughn how she loves him and all, there are several bits of her story that contradict established information. She said the Covenant told her to get close to Vaughn two years ago to coax him into going back to the CIA. Two years ago was almost exactly when Sydney disappeared for two years, when Vaughn was still with the CIA. Then she says she decided to marry him after the two years were up. That would mean they were newlyweds when Syd reappeared at the beginning of this season, and that's clearly not the case.
# EMTs wouldn't move someone stabbed in the back and suffering from a punctured lung, on their back on a gurney. Yet that's how they move Vaughn when they bring him in.
# We have every reason to believe that Sark hacked into the CIA security feed when Lauren was infiltrating the rotunda. When on a view of the feed on Sark's laptop you can see the point where Lauren takes her Sydney mask off, meaning if the CIA has all of the feed there would be proof that it was Lauren and not Sydney who stole the equation.
# As Vaughn is escaping the hospital he pulls the folded firehose from its storage case. The next shot shows a nicely rolled hose falling down the stairwell.
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Season 4
67. Authorized Personnel Only (1)
# While discussing the files that Sydney recovered, the writers manage to ignore every piece of evidence from the finale of season 3. -Lauren's shouting "We're all pawns in the same game! The only difference is that I know who controls me." -It's dated 1975, whereas the events that Sydney describes would have happened sometime past season 2. -Sydney's NAME is on the cover, right next to "subject". They seem to have been heading in the direction that Jack was the one in charge of the Covenant, and was using them as part of some sinister project involving Sydney, but wrote themselves into a corner and changed it.
68. Authorized Personnel Only (2)
# When Sydney stabbed Tamusaki with the sword, it went through his body but didn't penetrate the shirt on his back. Surely a sword so sharp would cut easily through a thin cotton shirt.
# When Sydney is picked up by Jack after the robbery, he is driving a mid 1960s Ford Zodiac police car in full livery - similar to the type used in the polular '60s police drama "Z Cars". Why he should have access to a 40 year old police car, and why the real police arriving on the scene don't think it rather odd is never explained...
69. The Awful Truth
# While Vaughn speaks with Sydney through the laser microphone he sweeps over some windows. How can he still speak with Sydney when he isn't aiming at her?
# When Weiss and Nadia are talking at the party, Nadia takes a sip of her wine glass. You can clearly see that the glass is almost empty. When we see her the next time with her glass, it's almost full.
70. Ice
# In at least one scene, at the end, when Nadia shows the baby picture to Jack the baby is being held on the left side of the picture. A minute later when Nadia looks at the picture, the baby is back on the right side. Almost like the photo negative had been inverted.
# In the Montenegran hospital all the light switches are American. Only American light switches flick up to turn on. Montenegran ones would flick down to switch on.
# The language locals speek in the hospital in Montenegro is Russian, but the language spoken in Montenegro is Serbian.
# The second picture Nadia goes through is a B&W of Jennifer Garner in glasses with her real life sister, Susannah on the right. In the middle is suppose to be Irina
# Kiera/Meghan asks Vaughn if he works for MI-5, but MI-5 is Britain's counterintelligence service, and doesn't operate outside of Britain. MI-6 is foreign intelligence.
71. Welcome To Liberty Village
# When Vaugn puts down the ring in the end, he places it to the left of the laptop. He then moves his arm from left to right, as if he were replacing it. Later, when Sydney takes off her ring, she places it on top of Vaugn's, but his ring can be seen on the upper right hand of the screen.
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