• Anachronisms: In an early scene, a bank office in 1945 has a 50-star U.S. flag. At that time the U.S. flag had only 48 stars.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The map in Crawford's Groom Lake office shows a post-Cold War world, while the scene took place in early 1959.
  
  
• Continuity: In the episode "God's Equation", Lisa is seen with an "alien head" tattoo on the back of her right shoulder. This completely disappears during her talk with Allie during the hostage situation at the encounter meeting.
  
  

• Continuity: In the episode "Jacob and Jessie" there is a great deal of snow on the ground around Jessie's home, but when getting on the freight train with his father just a few mile away there is no evidence of snow anywhere.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: As Lisa tries to protect Allie from Mary and Dr. Wakeman outside the university building (after the hostage situation), her position changes repeatedly between shots.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the Episode "The Acid Test", some children are shown playing with a type of football (soccer ball) not available until the mid-'90s.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The convenience store sells copies of the Vancouver Province newspaper. Also, there is a "British Columbia Surgeon General's Tobacco Warning" on the wall.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The government headquarters in "Ellsworth, Maine" has a Canadian flag flying in the background.
  
  
• Errors in geography: A Canada Post mail box is seen outside the car dealership.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Cars with "Beautiful British Columbia" plates are seen frequently at various locations, no matter where the scene is supposed to take place.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the episode "Maintenance," Jesse looks at a newspaper that has a headline "Ambassador to El Salvador disagrees with Pentagon". However, the story carries a byline of "New Delhi" and talks about a meeting between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan. It also mentions "Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee", even though the scene takes place in 1980 and Vajpayee would not become PM of India until 20 years later.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Dr. Wakeman is describing the reports of UFO sightings, he mentions one in Zanzibar. However, the light that shows up is on Madagascar.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Lubbock, Texas is portrayed as being hilly and wooded with lush meadows. Lubbock is very flat and has no indigenous trees, only shrubs (grassland is also scarce due to the small amounts of rain the region receives).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In "Jacob and Jesse", when Major Crawford is shown photos of the "contacters", one of his assistants walks back and forth through the light beam of the slide projector without the picture on the screen being disturbed.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the opening credits of each of the ten episodes, Allie is seen writing left-handed. However, in the close-up of her hand, she is writing right-handed.
  
  
• Continuity: The episode "Acid Tests" is set in 1970, and it involves two alien hybrid twins who were born in 1959; yet, the corpse of "Larry" is at least sixteen years old because the sheriff makes reference to the fact that Larry started using his powers at that age.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: At the beginning of the episode "Maintenance," during the recap, a scene between Captain Marty Erickson and the adult Eric Crawford is shown which was not shown before in the mini-series. Either it was intended to be shown after the recap during the new episode, or was a deleted scene from a previous episode.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of "Maintenance", the last day shown is November 8th, 1980. When that date first appears on the screen, it is daylight. Then we see Eric waiting for Becky to get out of her house (in order to live with her to Maine), it is then night time. When she doesn't go out he decides to hit the road back to his military base and finish packing up. When he enters the base, it is daylight again. However, when he finally takes off to Maine, while he is on the road, it is night time again and the date shown is still November 8th, 1980. It should be November 9th (or later) since at least one day and a half separates the scene when that date first appeared and the last scene it appears in.
  
  My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky. She liked to watch the clouds in the day, and the stars at night... especially the stars. We would play a game sometimes, a game called, what's beyond the sky. We would imagine darkness, or a blinding light, or something else that we didn't know how to name. But of course, that was just a game. There's nothing beyond the sky. The sky just is, and it goes on and on, and we'll play all of our games beneath it.

Memorable Quotes from "Taken" (2002/I) (mini) [Repeated Line] Capt. Owen Crawford: You're the sun and the moon to me. The sun and the moon. Allie Keys: My mom told me once that when you're afraid of something, what you want more than anything else is to make it go away. You want your life back to the way it was before you found out that there was something to be afraid of. You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it. But nothing ever stays the same. That's not your old life at all. That's your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were. Your choice is about hiding, or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you. Sally Clarke: I love you. Everyday of the week and twice on Sundays. [discussing Apollo 13] Eric Crawford: Do you think our friends had anything to do with it? Maj. Owen Crawford: Between their preponderancy to intervene in our affairs, and the growing incompetence of NASA, I'd choose NASA... what? Eric Crawford: If you were still in charge of the project, you'd use this as evidence of an imminent alien threat. Maj. Owen Crawford: Probably. Dr. Chet Wakeman: I don't watch daytime TV. It weirds me out. Maj. Owen Crawford: Can you imagine what would have happened to people if, in 1947, they thought that we were going to be invaded by aliens? Sam Crawford: Gee, I don't know... growth of the military-industrial complex? Trials to see if you were an alien sympathizer? Charlie Keys: No. You're not going to take me. Allie Keys: Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new, all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small familiar steps, and you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed but still to go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be. Dr. Chet Wakeman: What's a five-letter word for idiot? Mary Crawford: I know what you're thinking. You're saying to yourself, "I can get the girl by myself. Why do I need this bitch in the mix?" General Beers: I prefer not to use the term "in the mix." Allie Keys: When you're little, you like to think you know everything, but the last thing you really want is to know too much. What you really want is for grown-ups to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem like a lot to ask. Allie Keys: I didn't ask for any of this. I want to be a little girl. I just want to be a little girl. [Mary is using her laptop, when a video file of Chet appears] Dr. Chet Wakeman: Hiya, Tootz. I programmed this video file to send itself in twenty-four hours if I didn't delete it. I didn't delete it, so I guess you must've deleted me... Yeah, I sorta saw that one coming. Dr. Chet Wakeman: [to Allie Keys] Little girl, I love the way your mind works. Allie Keys: Even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking questions. Allie Keys: Can I ask you something? Captain Walker: Sure. Allie Keys: Are you mad at them? [Captain Walker shakes his head] Allie Keys: But you'll fight with them just the same. Captain Walker: That's our job. Allie Keys: ...Grown-ups are weird. [Col Crawford's two closest men talks about their boss] Howard Bowen: I've said this before Marty, but that is one nasty bastard. Charlie Keys: [to Chet Wakeman] When this is over, I'd like a moment to knock you on your ass. Allie Keys: My grandfather used to tell my mom that kids should never have to worry about anything more serious than baseball. Everything you need to know is there. It has success and failure, moments when you come together and moments where you stand alone. And it has an ending. Not a clock, like in other sports, but an ending. And that, my grandfather said to my mom, is as close as a kid should have to come to that sort of thing. Charlie Keys: You got a nice move to the post. That kid yesterday thought he could get one past you, but you were right there. Allie Keys: What I do is I fool myself. I make myself believe that I'm really going to cover. Because *I* believe it, he believes it. Charlie Keys: Then, how do you get yourself over to the post? Allie Keys: I don't know. I'm afraid if I ever stop to think about it, it won't work anymore. [two simultaneous, different conversations] John, Alien Visitor: I'll try to put this in terms that you commonly use. I'm a scientist. We were all scientists. We came here to learn about your world. Our idea was to find out everything: your history, your biology, everything. We came here to learn. We're not that different from you, genetically, biologically. But what you call evolution has changed us. We see things in you that we no longer recognize in ourselves. Dr. Chet Wakeman: What do we know? They're this energy that can manifest itself in different ways: as the beings we've seen, as their crafts, as our thoughts. There's no right or wrong about them. John, Alien Visitor: The whole concept of right and wrong was... alien to us. The idea that the things we were doing were cruel... Dr. Chet Wakeman: They have no concept of kindness or cruelty. No way of seeing beyond the 'oneness' of all that energy... John, Alien Visitor: ...to the separateness, the uniqueness, your ability to hate, to love, to feel. You have compassion, as well as cruelty. We-we lack both. Or that is, the traits lie dormant... Dr. Chet Wakeman: ...in their brains. Like the animal that lives far back inside all of us. But an experience of something basic can awaken that primitive thing. John, Alien Visitor: And that's what happened. Your grandmother, Sally. She took me in and showed me a great kindness. Mary Crawford: Something could've touched one of them, something small and simple, and awakened this sense of what was missing. Something gone and half-remembered. John, Alien Visitor: And so our greatest experiment began. Mary Crawford: Could they put it back, this thing that had been bred out of them for eons and eons? John, Alien Visitor: Your emotional core, your strength, your feeling, and our more evolved consciousness. Could we bring these two together? If we could do this, we would have the next... Mary Crawford: ...step in the evolution of life. John, Alien Visitor: [Looking at Allie] The experiment was an unqualified success. Allie Keys: People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do, every plan we make, is kind of a lie. We're closing our eyes and pretending that the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans. Hope is the biggest lie there is, and it is the best. We have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn't keep going at all. Allie Keys: People say that when we grow up, we kick at everything we've been told, we rebel against the world our parents worked so hard to bring us into, that part of growing of is kicking at the ties that bind. But I don't think that's why we kick at all. I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along, that there isn't any Santa Claus at all. Dr. Chet Wakeman: [to Mary, after his death] There's something I wanted to share with you. We're all so desperate for meaning, aren't we? All of us. You too, Mary, even if you think you're not. You want answers, and in that way, I think the aliens are gonna disappoint you. Here's the stone truth of it: They're still asking the same questions we are. No one is God here. We're all in the same boat. Allie Keys: Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does that make us less responsible for the things we do? Or is the responsibility built in too? After you hit the ball, do you stand and wait to see if it goes out, or do you start running and let nature take its course? Allie Keys: The hardest thing you'll ever learn is how to say goodbye. Allie Keys: What makes a man who he is? Is it the worst things he's ever done, or the best things he wants to be? When you find yourself in the middle of your life and you're nowhere near of where you were going, how do you find the way from the person you've become to the one you know you could have been? Allie Keys: When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason; it's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder whose reasons these things happen for. Allie Keys: My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky. She liked to watch the clouds in the day, and the stars at night... especially the stars. We would play a game sometimes, a game called, what's beyond the sky. We would imagine darkness, or a blinding light, or something else that we didn't know how to name. But of course, that was just a game. There's nothing beyond the sky. The sky just is, and it goes on and on, and we'll play all of our games beneath it. Eric Crawford: What did you expect? you wouldn't let me be someone else