The Dead Zone - Slip-Ups, Plot Holes and Nitpicks Guide
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Episode: Wheel Of Fortune
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Johnny's hairstyle changes
back and forth several times during this episode and the episode "What It Seems"
because of re-shoots that were done a year after the initial filming.
Episode: What It Seems.
· When Johnny comes to see Walt, Walt doesn't recognize him until he tells him who he is. But, we see in future episodes that Walt already saw Johnny with Sarah at the hospital while he was in a coma.
Episode: Quality Of Life.
· When Todd (the student/hockey star) handed Johnny his hockey stick after he scored the winning goal with it, the tape at the top revealed that the stick was obviously not used. (The white tape was far too clean to have been used.)
· When Johnny gets from his chair at the hospital to hear the doctor's findings, he did not use his cane to get up. Every other time that he got up in this episode; he relied on his cane to assist him to his feet.
Episode: Unreasonable Doubt.
· Are we supposed to believe that the defense let not one but two obviously biased jurors slip through the jury selection process? This seems highly unlikely even if the defense attorney were an incompetent public defender.
Episode: The House
· The Elvis costume that Johnny's father had on during the Halloween party was circa 1968. If the writers are continuing to follow the chronology that they set up in the pilot where Johnny and Sarah are born in 1970; then how was Herb Smith able to acquire that type of Elvis costume in 1969? Did costume designers begin manufacturing duplicates of Elvis's current outfit at that time for the public? Maybe Vera helped Herb make one of his own.
Episode: Here There Be Monsters.
· In the beginning of the episode the female police officer accused Johnny of the murders of all those women. But she should have known that Johnny was in a coma during the time that most of the murders had occurred. At least the article should have mentioned it, if it was talking about his powers.
Episode: Diner With Dana.
· About 20 min into the episode, when Johnny is drinking wine with Dana, with every camera angle switch, the amount of wine in each wine glass changes.
Episode: Decent.
· It doesn't seem to be raining when Walt and Sarah come out of the theater, but Walt holds up an umbrella anyway.
Episode: Misbegotten.
· Are we really supposed to believe that Rev. Purdy has never heard of The Blair Witch Project?
· Just after Johnny falls down the stairs, listen for a very strange, out of place "Beep".
· Walt and his pack of cops all drive over from Maine to New Hampshire where Johnny is being held - in such a situation they'd be out of their jurisdiction and would call the local New Hampshire cops.
Episode: Playing God.
· At the end Johnny tells Jason that he did everything he could to save Kate . Did he really? Why didn’t he just have Walt or one of the other officers wait on Patrick Hanchin to get in his truck and leave the bar? Once Patrick was caught driving drunk Kate would have been saved. Walt had already said that Patrick was on his last strike so he would have been safely behind bars for quit some time and Kate wouldn’t have died.
Episode: Zion.
· When Bruce and his father talk at the end of the episode; you can see people moving slightly even though they are supposed to be "frozen".
Episode: Plague.
· During the scene with the chalkboard, look for the word "doesn't". It's misspelled.
· During the scene with the character Jim Pratt, he talks to the four people in the bio-suits but only gets three of the four orders of where to take samples from. Where did the fourth go?
· Later, in the scene with Amy Grantford and her family, the actress playing Amy clearly looks into the camera for a second.
· At the end, after Johnny picks out the virus from the book, he goes into the background to write the name of the drug, Chloroquin, on the whiteboard. If you look, you'll notice that AMH actually writes "CHLORAQUIN" on the board (which is a mistake that can happen I suppose), but in subsequent shots it has suddenly changed to the correct spelling.
Episode: Deja Voodoo
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In
the scene when Johnny and Natalie are shooting pool. Natalie is shooting at the
solid balls and then misses. Johnny should start shooting at the stripes but
doesn’t. In fact the first ball he sinks is THE 8 BALL!
Also the balls seem to move around a bit without being hit. In the close up
shoot the 2 ball is next to Johnny's right hand in the long shot the 2 ball is
in the middle of the table.
Episode: The Hunt.
· If Government Agents are so big on security and not letting the psychics talk to each other, why do they let Johnny take his sketches back to the psychics' quarters?
· So why does Johnny have trouble psychically getting into the rigged room? Presumably it's a trap set by the bad guys in a random decoy operation, but...how are they blocking Johnny psychically? They don't seem to have a psychic or anything. But there's nobody actually in the room - why can't Johnny can't get in there until he gets a psychic boost?
Episode: Visions.
· Johnny tells Madeleine he was in a car accident seven years ago, but it was eight years ago in previous episodes.
Episode: Finding Rachel Pt.2
· When the two girls find Mike Kennedy dead in his car, If you look closely you will see a car parked next to the driver’s side with glass on it, which would make since because the driver’s side window was blown out when Kennedy was murdered. In the episode “Tipping point” Johnny has a vision of Sonny killing Kennedy and the car is not there. Hmmmm…. If the car pulled up after the murder how did the driver not see the blown out window and Kennedy dead? How did the Driver not hear all the glass they would have driven over to park? And how would the glass get on their car?
· The Authorities wouldn't let Reverend Purdy meet Johnny face to face in jail - they would use glass dividers and phones.
· Johnny was released way too easily. The amount of evidence against him is substantial, and the cops and the DA should suspect someone staged the whole suicide note to get Johnny out of prison. Next time they shouldn't wrap things up in the last minute.
· Why didn't Johnny just touch Rachel's body to see who killed her? How many times have we seen Johnny touch a body and see who or what killed them?
Episode: Collision.
· When Johnny falls down the hillside and goes into cardiac arrest. The Paramedic parked the ambulance on the road and followed Johnny down the hill. When Johnny finally sits up the ambulance is directly behind him in the grass. The only movement around Johnny was the driver going for a bag - he did not move the ambulance - nor was there anyway that it could have driven down the steep incline.
· When Rebecca and Johnny are being transported to the scene of his car accident, Rick the paramedic is questioned. Johnny asks him if the ambulance that they are riding in is the same one that he had used in responding to the call of the accident that night in 1995. Rick says yes and tells Johnny and Rebecca that he has been using the same emergency vehicle for about 8 years. This doesn't make sense since the accident was 9 years ago.
· Two episodes ago, Johnny incorrectly tells Rebecca he was in an accident 7 years ago. Now, it's suddenly 9 years ago again.
· The fire over Katie's dad's car is clearly not real and obviously computer generated.
Episode: The Cold Hard Truth.
· When Johnny and Bruce are riding in the truck, listening to the 'shock jock', Bruce turns off the radio by turning the volume control on the left side of the radio. Johnny says he wants to hear it and turns the radio back on by turning the knob on the right, which is the tuning dial. Later in the episode you see Johnny turn the radio on with the left knob and tune it with the right knob.
Episode: No Questions Asked.
· Johnny is supposed to have a high-tech security system and all, and he's paranoid, but when he goes down to let Sarah in, he just opens the unlocked door, the chain on the door isn't even fastened. In the episode "Finding Rachel" Johnny comes home the see the front door open and Walt inside. Does Walt have Johnny's door code? Why wasn't Walt's police cruiser out front in that episode?
· After Sarah comes inside, she tells Johnny she dropped J.J. off at his 6:30 am soccer practice (6:30 am ??) (later in the episode we will see a time and date on Johnny's phone, it will say it's Thursday) Why isen't J.J. in school instead of going to soccer practice? Then she says she went by Walt's place at 7:00 am, and The clock on the wall says it's 7:15 am (stay with me here) Johnny then complains it's awful early and he wouldn't wake up for another 2-3 hours. (must be nice to sleep til 9:00 or 10:00 am every day..lol) Sarah says "yea but it's really important" yadda, yadda, yadda and Johnny's says he'll go talk to Walt. Now look at the clock in the police station it says 10:10 am! Did Johnny really go back to sleep? I guess it wasn't as important to Johnny as it was to Sarah after all.
· After Johnny finishes his talk with Walt, Walt says he has to be in court in an hour. I guess an hour passes and Walt comes out and drives off. How did Walt, a police officer, not notice Johnny's car sitting right across the street? How did Walt not notice Johnny following him all over town? Johnny is now sitting across the street While Walt visits Alison. How did Walt again not see Johnny's car? It's 10-15 feet away?
· When Sarah Calls Johnny to see how it's going with Walt it shows a close up of Johnny's phone. The Date is 1/29 The day is (Thurs) That's the same date and day in the close up of Johnny's phone in the episode "Total Awareness". The time says it's 6:15 pm is it really? Main falls in the Eastern Standard time zone and in the Eastern Standard Time Zone on the date of 1/29 it's dark. Johnny and Walt do allot more running around (a minimum of 2 hours) before it finally gets dark.
Daylight time begins in the United States on the first Sunday in April and ends on the last Sunday in October. On the first Sunday in April, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the last Sunday in October, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. Not all states in the U.S. observe daylight time. In particular, Arizona, Hawaii, and most of Indiana do not use it.
Episode: Looking Glass.
· You can see one of the Todd twins move noticeably when he's supposedly "frozen" in Johnny's vision at the mask store.
· Why does Walt put Bruce in charge of following the twins instead of a certified police officer?
· The twins plan is flawed. Johnny could have easily seen their hoax, it was just luck that he only saw the "murder." It's as if the twins planned which particular visions Johnny got of them, but how would they be able to do that?
· Lenny's confession would never hold up in court because of the way it was obtained.
Episode: Speak Now.
· Johnny has taken the place of people in visions several times in the past - why is he so puzzled by it here, acting like he's never done it before?
Episode: Shadows.
· Johnny meets with the receiving nurse in the "present", and gets a vision of talking with her in the future, where she doesn't recognize him. Shouldn't the future-self version of the nurse recognize Johnny in the future as the weird guy two hours earlier who grabbed her in the "present" that she called security on?
· Also as in the goof above, while Tyler is giving Johnny a lap dance, he gets a vision of himself asking her about a guy in the future. She doesn't recognize him in that vision, even though she just met him. Then again, Johnny's visions work differently in this episode, showing him the night that would have happened had he not gotten any of the visions in the first place.
Episode: Broken Circle
· When Johnny jumps off off the bridge he gets soaking wet right? How was he able to call Rebecca a short time later with a cell phone that should have gotten soaking wet as well? Does Johnny have a water proof cell phone? If so, I gotta get me one of them!
· After coming out of the water Johnny buys some clothes from a old homeless man. Watch as the old man counts the money; it sure looks mighty crispy for just coming out of the river.
· In the scene when Johnny talks to Future Johnny, Walt is supposed to be frozen in the background but he blinks.
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It sure was a good thing Rebecca waited as long as she did to try to shoot Stillson.
She told Johnny that she didn't care if she died killing Stillson as long as
he was paid back for killing her sister and stopping Armageddon. She had numerous
opportunities to kill Stillson a close range with very little witnesses.
1. At the rally, as she pulls up in the limo, Stillson opens the door for her.
2. While they were in the elevator on the way to his room.
3. While he was opening the door to his room.
4. While they were on the couch in his room.
5. Why didn’t she come out of the bathroom blasting away? Instead she kisses
Stillson? Would you kiss someone you absolutely loathed? Why did she let it
start getting intimate at all?
Episode: The Collector
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Is Johnny
an accident just waiting to happen? Watch at the beginning of the episode when
he’s burning lunch. He’s cutting a tomato on a cutting board that’s hanging
half way off the counter AND there is a glass of orange juice on the cutting
board (I don’t know about you but I always leave my drinks on the cutting board
when I use it).
Then as he shuts the burner off he throws a hand towel on the edge of it. I
think Sarah is right, Johnny needs a house keeper.
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As in
the episode "No Questions Asked" Johnny just walks over and opens
an un-locked front door. Johnny knows how dangerous his town can be, he helps
solve have the crimes!
· Was it just me or did Johnny seem to have a weird Umpa Lumpa kinda orange skin tone at the beginning of the episode.
· In the scene where Mr. Suds Chastises Erika for not using a napkin, we hear music playing in the background. Mr. Suds slams his fist down on the table and you hear the music make the sound like a record scratching and then stopping. In a later scene we see that same music playing on a boom box across the room, so how did he stop the music by slamming his fist on the table?
· Watch as Walt, Johnny and Linda enter the restaurant. Walt spins his keys around his finger and then puts them in his top coat pocket. They don't make that familiar key jingling sound. First of all who puts their keys in their top coat pocket? Especially cops. They have that fancy cop/bat belt with a nifty little key holder on them. I would think one would want to have the keys to one’s police cruiser on their person at all times, wouldn’t you? I Guess we’re smarter than your average cop.
· In the restaurant scene watch as Johnny's gives Walt his coat and says we have to go. Walt's badge is missing. Did Linda steal it when she took his keys? He has it on when they leave the police station and has it on when the come back so where is it in the restaurant?
· How many times have we seen in Johnny's visions , Walt getting shot in the chest? So what he carries a bullet proof vest around in the trunk for special occations? Hey Walt put your damn chest protector on before I tell Sarah your not wearing one O.K.?
Episode: Double Vision
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When
Johnny touches the tree and sees Alex’s car, then says “I gotcha” how does he
have her? All he knows is that she drives a silver BMW with a yellow parking
ticket number 135 parked somewhere in Main. True the ticket did have name and
address on it (Le Soeil 229 Selano St. Bangor, Me 04401 207-555-0198) but that
information was under the windshield wiper, surly Johnny could not have read
it. I could barely read it with a high tech VCR in pause mode. BTW the Le Soleil
is in Vancouver B.C. Canada (That’s were the show is shot) the address is 567
Hornby Street if you watch real close when Johnny and Alex are walking on the
sidewalk they pass an address on the side of a building 535 Hornby St.
I know, I know I’m just being silly BUT it’s so much fun!! Heres a link http://lesoleilhotel.com/
Have fun!!!
Side
note: Kuddo's to the prop team beacuse the area code 207
and the zip code 04401 that we see on the
parking ticket belong to...you guessed it.... Penobscot County-Bangor, Me
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At
the end of the episode when Johnny is saying goodbye to Alex, watch the car
door as he opens it, the window is up but then Alex starts talking to Johnny
and the car window is suddenly down.
The Dead Zone Movie
· When Johnny is chatting with the doctor, the doctor puts his tea cup, his saucer and spoon on the table. Later on in the conversation, these items suddenly disappear. Nobody is shown moving or taking them. (the doctors hands are visible throughout...and Johnny has his hands on his cane the entire conversation.
· If you watch in slow-motion when the murderer "hits" the girl, you can tell that his fist does not come in contact with her.
· When the murderer's mother is shot, the outline of the blood pack under her clothes is visible.
· After seeing Johnny in the clinic, Sarah drives away and stops to cry. Lights and someone from the camera crew are reflected in the car door.
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The Dead Zone Novel
Married or Divorced?
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On page 147 ( Ch. 11, subchapter 2 ) it says that Weizak,
after the press conference, told his wife about how Johnny looked.
But on page 152 ( Ch. 11, subchapter 3 ), on the same day, Weizak tells Johnny
that he is divorced.
Janis Joplin
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Johnny went in to his coma in late October ( 30th to be precise ), in chapter 3,
page 46, but a little later on page 66, in chapter 5 subchapter 2, there is a
mention of Janis Joplin screaming the blues.
It would have been possible for Janis to scream the blues at that point, but
only from a recording, because she died on the 4th of October 1970.
The reason I mention this error is because you ( or maybe it is just me? ) get
the feeling that he is writing about her as if she was still alive.
Respirator
· In chapter 6, Johnny speaks, while he is still connected to the respirator. It would be impossible for him to speak, because when he got connected to the respirator, a tube was lead down his windpipe to his lungs. And with that tube placed inside his windpipe it would be virtually impossible for him to speak, because the tube blocks his vocal cords.
Tank
· In Chapter 7, Subchapter 1, when Johnny grabs Weizack's hand, he has memories of world war II invasion of Poland including a German Tiger tank in 1939 - the Tiger tank did not enter service until late 1942, over 2 years following the invasion of Poland.
Brain Waves
· In chapter 7 Sam Weizak asks Johnny to
imagine different objects, such as a rowboat lying at the foot of a street sign,
to give an example. What Weizak is doing there is what one would call a
cognitive test.
Depending on whether on not Johnny can imagine these objects, Weizak wants to
see if some parts of Johnny's brain has been damaged. Johnny is at the same time
connected to an EEG machine. If one should believe Weizak, then those graph's
from the EEG machine should, together with whether or not Johnny could imagine
the objects, determine if his brain has been damaged.
Alas, an EEG machine can only give an indication of brain waves (such as awake,
the types of sleep etc), not if the brain has been damaged.
Confused Dates
· In the very last line of chapter 15, it says that Johnny didn't see Sarah Hazlett for three years. At that time it was around the 18th of October 1975. But when Johnny's father marries Charlene Mackenzie in chapter 22 on the 2nd of Jan 1977 it says that Sarah attended the wedding. Johnny actually saw Sarah again one year and three months later, not three years later.
Which day is it
· In chapter 16 subchapter 4, when Johnny goes out into the shed to look for the newspaper that had the article of Frank Dodd, it is noted that the paper is Sunday's paper from three weeks ago. On the next page right after the line, "THE DO-NOTHING COPS IN OUR....." it is said that this Sunday supplement article in now nearly six weeks old while just a couple of minutes ago it was three.
Roger/Stuart Chatsworth
· In chapter 17-1 John Smith job, Roger is referred to as Stuart a few times, then he go back to being Roger! Not much of a mistake, but it was a bit confusing when I was reading it.
when I was reading it.
Gun Type
· In Chapter 21, subchapter 4 it says that it was a .357 magnum that Harry Callahan had used in the Dirty Harry movies, but it was in fact a .44 magnum that he used in the movies.
Small boy at Stillson rally
· The boy, that Stillson uses as a shield, is, when we meet him the first time, called Sean (Chapter 27, Subchapter 5), then a bit later he is called Tommy (Chapter 27, Subchapter 5), and finally at the Congressional Investigation he is called Matt Robeson (Part 3, Subchapter 8). (Irrelevant and very bizarre note: In the Danish translation of the book the boy is called Tommy Robeson every time he is mentioned)