The is the post to list any continuity errors or other consistency issues in The Hallmarked Man. I haven't caught a huge number on the first reading, but it often takes multiple reading to notice most of them. Spoilers ahead.
- The first one I saw was Strike and Nina's statement that they had slept together twice. Actually, it was three times, once after the party at Lucy's, once when he went to her apartment for dinner and once whne he went around to her house to distract himself after Charlotte's wedding.
- The age of "fortyish" for Marco Ricci is way too young. He was 12 in 1974, when Margot disappeared, so born in 1962. By 2017 he'd be pushing 55.
- They are back to calling the test Rokeby took when Strike was five a DNA test, when that kind of testing was not available until Strike was about 12.
- This is particularly annoying because in TB the testing was corrected to "paternity" (which would have been a blood antigen test in the 1970's) and even has Dr. Gupta explicitly state that DNA tests were not available in the 1970's.
- Ian Griffiths is supposed to be unusually short--- only about five feet tall. It does not seem likely that witnesses like Mandy and Gretchen who saw "Oz", even at a distance, would notice his curly hair but not his unusually short stature.
- At the end, they ask if anyone has "contacted Belgium for Jolanda's DNA" in order to ID "Chloe's" body. It would presumably be Reata's DNA that the Belgium authorities have.
- I hope Uncle Ted's priest did not get confiscated by the police as evidence.
- I also thought it odd that there was no mention of efforts to get Maes out of prison in light of this new information.
I'll be adding to the list if I spy any more; in the meantime, please add any you spot to the comments.
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After Strike is bitten by the dog, he goes to get a tetanus shot. Tetanus shots are for…tetanus, a bacteria that often is on metals. Dog bites from unknown, likely unvaccinated fighting dogs are a rabies risk, not tetanus. Rabies is 100% fatal once the onset of symptoms have begun. Strike would have accurately started a series of rabies vaccines - in the US, this is an injection of immunoglobulin along with an initial rabies vaccine at one visit, followed by subsequent rabies vaccines on days 3, 7, and 14 (no, they are not messing around!). The initial vaccine & immunoglobulin must be given within 7 days of exposure for post-rabies exposure. (Side comment: this is annoying to me because it seems so obvious/common knowledge re: dogs & rabies, how did no one catch it?!)
ReplyDeleteThanks. I had made a note for that for Plug, Jr. wondering if he had to get a rabies shot, but I didn't think about Strike, though. Duh!
DeleteAnimal bites are known to transmit tetanus so it is common to receive a shot if bitten. A rabies shot would have also been likely but was not mentioned.
DeleteAnd, in fairness, the dogs are more likely to have tetanus than rabies, which is extraordinarily rare in domestic animals. I have to assume that these dogs bred in the city don't get much contact with wild animals that would have it, and that the breeders of these dogs that are trained to bite everything at least take some precautions. They may be evil but they aren't stupid.
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