Goofs

Joubert's phone switches from dial to push button

When Turner pushes Atwood into his chair, the lid on the console stereo slams shut. The lid is then open again in two subsequent shots and closed after that.

Right after he arrives for the second time at Kathy's apartment, Turner hangs up the phone and sets a revolver on the counter. He only has an automatic 45 at this point.

The amount of stubble Turner has changes during the discussion about the oil fields.

Near the end when Turner confronts Atwood, his gun's hammer goes back and forth between cocked and not, and is not cocked when Jobert asks Turner to place his thumb in front of the hammer, which is then cocked.

The last Marine who opens the door for Higgins at Five Continents Imports has the rank of sergeant, but he looks far too old for such a low rank, instead he seems to be old enough to be retired. Also, his hair is much too long, even for the mid-70s.

While Kathy is on the phone with her boyfriend, Turner is instructing her what to say. He tells her to say there's a problem with the generator on her car. She drives a 1970 Ford Bronco. In 1960, all modern vehicles started switching from generators to alternators.

When Turner buys a pretzel from the street vendor, he bites into it, revealing that it is a small, hard pretzel, and not the sort of pretzel sold by a vendor.

Any ballistics analysis of the shootings in the alley would show that Sam was not shot by the "assailant" (Turner) who shot the CIA assassin.

However, ballistics analysis is irrelevant because the event is covered up rather than investigated.

When Turner gets the phone number from the mailman with no area code, he asks the operator for DC's area code-202. Then calling it, he gets the CIA. The CIA is in Langley, Virginia, outside of DC and is area code 703. Not only would Turner know the CIA is in Langley, when he dialed the number with a 202 area code, it shouldn't have gone through.

Turner's 202 call would have gone through to the CIA as dialed. Up until 1990, it was possible to dial any number in the Washington, DC metro local calling area which included southern Maryland (301) and northern Virginia (703) via long-distance services by dialing area code 202 instead of the home area code. Turner's 202 call would have been routed automatically to the corresponding 703 number in Virginia by the telephone company.

Turner tells the counter man that Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life. Van Gogh sold one painting in his life, the Red Vineyard.

In fact, van Gogh sold at least two paintings in his lifetime, the Red Vineyard and a self portrait, and also some drawings, to friends and family. This in no way mitigates the tragedy of his life.

It's hard to believe that Turner wouldn't know the area code for Washington, DC.

It's hard to believe that he'd remember it with all the chaos going on around him. Even if he did know it, he wanted to double-check with the operator.

Turner uses a CIA computer program to covert the dialing tones into numbers. The phone number provided by the computer has a 202 area code. Next, Turner requests a address for this phone number from the phone company. The address provided is for Leonard Atwood in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The area code for Chevy Chase was 301 at that time.

Joubert's 202 call would have gone through to Atwood as dialed. Up until 1990, it was possible to dial any number in the Washington DC metro local calling area which included southern Maryland (301) and northern Virginia (703) via long-distance services by dialing area code 202 instead of the home area code. The address lookup of the 202 number would have been converted automatically to the corresponding 301 number's address in Maryland.

In the CIA office scene where various clocks are displaying the time zone, Winnipeg is misspelled as Winipeg.

When Turner is in Kathy's apartment, they watch a news report about the shooting in the alley. The reporter has a Channel 7 microphone and identifies himself as being with Eyewitness News, the name of WABC-TV's news broadcast for decades. When the report is over, the logo for Channel 9 is seen instead of Channel 7.

When Turner has Higgins in the back of the Bronco, he pulls the trigger down all the way several times on the gun.

It doesn't make sense that the hit team, knowing how many people showed up at the cover office that morning, would leave that secured facility knowing they failed to take down one target. It would make better sense for them to have waited for Condor's return to the office.

When Turner leaves Atwood's house, a figure can be seen moving about through the glass door behind him.

When Turner is getting soaked by rain on his way to lunch, everyone immediately around him has umbrellas. There is a man in the distance to the right of the police officer, obviously oblivious to the rain and walks as if he is beyond the reach of the rain machines. There is no cop standing in the rain and no oblivious man, either.

During the opening credits Turner is biking downtown through the West Village. When he arrives at his destination, he's at 55 East 77th Street in Lenox Hill, on the opposite side of Manhattan and riding north instead of south.

When being fitted with his bulletproof vest, Sam asks about the earlier murders. The "hit" was known only to Higgins and Wicks, and a squad had been sent to "clean" the office. There is no way that Joe could have heard about the murders.

Early in the film some packages are delivered to the office in which Turner works. The security guard counts five of them, and says "Roger, fiver." The NATO phonetic alphabet uses "niner" for 9 in order to differentiate the sound from "fife" for 5. No retired military man, as the guard is supposed to be, should say "fiver."