Goofs

When Jedburgh is visiting Craven and having a whiskey, he takes a pill and clearly drinks only about a half of his drink. After this he immediately stands up and puts his glass on the table. However his glass is strangely empty.

When Bennett reaches into the cupboard during the final fight scene, he leaves a bloody hand-print on the cupboard. The amount of blood changes between shots.

When Craven stops Bennett's Bentley, gets into the back, and points the gun at Bennett, the door behind Bennett is closed. In a close-up, it's open.

When Det. Craven is at the shore with Emma's ashes, he approaches the edge of the water with his pants rolled up, but they're already wet.

When Craven is sick at the sink, the microwave in the background is in the corner of the counter with a yellow bowl on top of it. A few shots later when Craven is back at the sink, the microwave is about 5 feet from the corner with the yellow bowl to its right.

When Tom Craven questions Burnham about the gun he loaned to Emma, Gibson says the gun is licensed in Vermont, and therefore illegal in Massachusetts. Aside from federal requirements, Vermont does not have firearm licensing or registration. Tom Craven couldn't have accessed a Vermont firearms database; it doesn't exist.

As a cop, Craven would know that frisking someone for a weapon includes checking their legs for an ankle holster. That's elementary.

When Craven goes to Identify his daughter's body, there is no visible evidence of autopsy (assume it was done because the coroner rattles off causes of death). Being the victim of a shotgun wound to the torso, she would have had a standard Y-incision, the top part of which should be visible on her exposed upper chest.

On Inside Washington (1988), panelists discuss issues while Gordon Peterson moderates. Peterson never does interviews on his show.

Tom Craven says his daughter was poisoned with thallium, which he finds using a Geiger counter. While normal non-radioactive thallium causes heavy metal poisoning but not radiation sickness, there are radioactive forms of thallium which are normal byproducts of nuclear decay. The radioactive form would be more likely available from a nuclear facility than the non-radioactive form.

In the scene where Craven is driving in the rain, right before he enters the tunnel, the Berkeley Building in behind him - with a steady blue light. The Berkeley Building is topped by a weather beacon, with different patterns: Steady blue, clear view. Flashing blue, clouds due. Steady red, rain ahead. Flashing red, snow. If it was really raining, the light pattern would have been a steady Red, instead of Blue in the movie.

When they are driving in the rain, the rain is rolling down the windows. If they were driving, the wind would push the rain drops along the windows, not down them.

When craven enters the boyfriend's house, he extends his gun through the partially opened doorway first, without seeing what's inside the room. Cops for decades have been trained specifically not to do that, for the obvious and common sense officer-safety and weapons-retention reasons that are revealed in the scene.

If Craven's car just had its passenger side door smashed off, then why does he leave his laptop lying on the passenger seat while he's in the hospital?

Darius Jedburgh is British, and would therefore pronounce his own surname in the same manner as the town in South-Eastern Scotland, similar to Edinburgh, not with a hard 'g', similar to Hamburg-and he would have corrected others who mispronounced his name as well...

When Craven is talking to his daughter's friend in the car, when she gives him the disc, you hear a bird call. It is the sound a Western Scrub Jay makes. There aren't any Western Scrub Jays in Massachusetts. There's also another point in the movie where you hear a Western Scrub Jay, a scene that also occurs in Massachusetts. I'm guessing the movie was sound edited in California, where Western Scrub Jays are common.

When Craven is following Bennett into Boston's Central Artery Tunnel the scene show them getting off at exit 24, Government Center, which exits to Faneuil Hall. The next scene however show Craven pulling Bennett's car over on Rutherford Avenue which is North of Boston.

When Craven intentionally backs into his two pursuers in the SUV he is on Washington street between West Dartmouth and Union park - directly in front of the Boston Cathedral. But on the subsequent news report, the incident is reported as taking place on Arlington Street.

When Craven is traveling to Union Street in Northampton, he is seen turning right off of Market Street onto Bridge Street. This is in fact the wrong direction. Union Street is off of Market Street, two blocks back. e is traveling in the wrong direction.

Supposed to be in the USA, but when Mel washes blood off his hands near the beginning, the water goes down the plug hole the wrong way so obviously somewhere south of the Equator, maybe Australia.

The scene in which Jedburgh sees the Dr. One of the chest X-rays (lateral view) is hung upside down.

Craven makes the statement that his daughter was poisoned by thallium, pronouncing it "thay-li-um". The first syllable is correctly pronounced to rhyme with the first syllable in "California".