Goofs

When Tom "steals" the government car getting repaired he tears the rear bumper off as it drops off the lift. When you see the car again on the highway the bumper is back on the car.

Farrell is in a completely different pose in the Polaroid picture to the one we saw him in when the picture was taken.

When running away from the assassins, Tom slides down the handrail of an escalator, which gets dirt on the seat of his pants. As he turns to run further, the dirt has suddenly disappeared.

When Farrell's arm is sliced by the "goon" at the end it is much lower on the arm than where the band-aid shows it wrapped up in the last shots.

Farrell is wearing the Navy Cross medal at the inauguration party, and wearing the ribbon for the Navy Cross medal when he gets out of the cab at the airport on his way to his deployment. So he has the Navy Cross before he was awarded it. It may also be said that he appears to have received it twice, but no gold star (one attached gold star equals second award) is attached to his ribbon and the newspaper article doesn't reflect the second award.

Farrell is awarded the Navy Cross for saving a sailor during a storm. The Navy Cross is only awarded for gallantry in combat.

While on the ship's bridge the crew is wearing caps that identify the ship as "BB 1649", later identified as the Billings. "BB" would be a battleship, far larger than the ship shown. Battleships (with the exception of the USS Kearsarge, BB-5, whose name originated from Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire) were always name for states, not cities.

When Sam is demonstrating the experimental photo enhancement process he describes a pixel as, "the smallest element on the emulsion". This is inaccurate: a pixel (short for picture element) refers to the smallest element in an electronic or digital representation of the image. Actual film doesn't have pixels.

Tom asks Pritchard, "What do the Washington police know?" The crime takes place in Alexandria, on the other side of the Potomac River in Virginia, and so is outside the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police in Washington.

At the inauguration party, the band sounds three "Ruffles and Flourishes" and then "Hail to the Chief" for the departure of the President. The President should receive four "Ruffles and Flourishes" prior to "Hail to the Chief", and both are sounded only at his entrance, not his departure.

The newspaper that describes Lt. Commander Thomas Farrell's 'heroic' rescue of a fellow seaman contains the sentence "A suggestion that public hearings on applications be limited to one every six months was taken under advisement by the commission" three times in the previous article.

When they're first viewing Sean Young's character's body on the floor, you can see her left blouse collar rising and lowering with her heartbeat.

There are many, many sailboat rental places in the Chesapeake Bay area. They didn't know that Susan Atwell had been sailing to begin with. All they knew was that she had been in Annapolis from the gas station receipt. So the idea that they found the one person who rented them a sailboat is pretty far-fetched.

When the man who Farrell rented the boat from is brought in to the Pentagon, he identifies Farrell in the corridor. As he saw him in his navy whites, the later room-to-room search could have been narrowed down to anyone in whites, instead of going through everyone in the building.

Sam wears his dress summer whites, or parade whites. At the Pentagon, nearly all military personnel wear their "working" whites or camouflages during the week, as the cost of cleaning and replacement of parade summer whites is expensive.

Near the end, Brice tells Pritchard to give him the gun and that he'll do everything he can to help him out. Brice's hands are on Pritchard's neck and shoulders during this scene. When Brice takes his hands away, you can see there is nothing on Pritchard's shirt collar yet a moment later, you can clearly see a blood stain there.

The Polaroid camera used by Susan to take Tom's picture makes the sound of an SX-70 model's auto eject, but is an older model with a manual film extract.

The goons chase Farrell to a Metro station in Georgetown, but there is no such station. Furthermore, the train in the Metro station belongs to the Baltimore Metro, not the Washington Metro.

After stealing the car from the Pentagon garage and leaving it to chase down the two contras, LCDR Farrell appears on the Whitehurst Freeway in D.C. heading east, as the Key Bridge connecting Rosslyn, Virginia and Georgetown is clearly seen in the background. However, by driving East on the Whitehurst Freeway, LCDR Farrell and the two contras are heading back towards the Pentagon, not away from it.

While Pritchard on first meeting with Bryce holds a menu that says "Hay-Adams Hotel" on its cover - & from which on 16th Street NW they leave, to the north right across Lafayette Park from the front elevation of the White House - the rooftop encounter is actually at the Hotel Washington on 15th Street, around 3 blocks southeast of the Hay-Adams, just east of the WH on the other side of the Treasury Building. That street, in the background of their tabletop confab, runs along the east elevation of the Washington Monument (hence the slight SW angle towards it) while a view from the Hay-Adams would be more towards its north elevation, directly beyond the White House.

The Pentagon is one of the largest buildings in the world, with 17 miles of corridors alone. For a single group to search it in two hours is preposterous.

(at around 1h 40 mins) Reflection of boom mic (in window) when Tom is talking to Sam in Sam's office.

When the gift list is printing, one item is misspelled as "Gold Brooch/Diamonmd". (at around 1h 30 mins)

LCDR Farrell wears the rifle and pistol marksman ribbons, but when he's wearing his dress uniform, he wears the medals for expert rifle and expert pistol. Either he's an expert with a rifle and a pistol and he is incorrectly wearing the rifle and pistol ribbon without the "E" device on each ribbon or he's a rifle and pistol marksman who shouldn't be wearing the rifle and pistol medals on his dress uniform.