When Detective Lassiter is first shown holding the bomb schematic in Juan Lava's apartment, he is holding it with a handkerchief, but in the close-up of the schematic, there is no handkerchief.
When Shawn calls the number in Miami, the other person speaks Spanish and Shawn answers in gibberish as if he can't speak Spanish, but in Lights, Camera... Homicidio (2008) Shawn went undercover as an actor in a telenovela and spoke fluent Spanish.
All of the earlier "fluency" came from memorizing lines from a script and reading off of cue cards. Once events got away from him he switched to English, as he didn't know Spanish that wasn't already in the script. He just added a bunch of Hispanic-adjacent cadences and "-o's" to the ends of random words in a futile attempt to maintain character.
All of the earlier "fluency" came from memorizing lines from a script and reading off of cue cards. Once events got away from him he switched to English, as he didn't know Spanish that wasn't already in the script. He just added a bunch of Hispanic-adjacent cadences and "-o's" to the ends of random words in a futile attempt to maintain character.
When Shawn wakes from his dream he realizes there were no cameras in the office he was searching and he says, "That surveillage footage was shot from the outside" when he should have said "surveillance".
This is within character. Shawn regularly mispronounces words when speaking, even when only to himself. Sometimes because he genuinely misspeaks, and other times just for fun.
This is within character. Shawn regularly mispronounces words when speaking, even when only to himself. Sometimes because he genuinely misspeaks, and other times just for fun.
When Karen Vick, dressed as the German version of herself in Shawn's dream sequence for Lassiter, she puts a bullhorn to her mouth to get everyone's attention. As she speaks into it, the red piece is hanging off on the bottom, revealing it to clearly be a prop, and not working even though her voice is dubbed in amplified.