Although 'Stone Cold' was filmed first (2005), you might like to watch 'Night Passage' (2006) first as it is the prequel and shows Jesse's arrival in Paradise. It also makes more sense plot-wise that way around.

This is the fourth book in Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series, which exists in the same universe as Spenser: For Hire (1985), whose pilot episode was an adaptation of the fourth book in that series.

Paradise, Massachusetts is supposedly a caricature of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

5 years after this movie was made, Selleck would play NYC police commissioner Frank Reagan in the series Blue Bloods where one of his taglines is "I'm the police commissioner, I know everything.", a line introduced here. Chief Stone also confers with D.A. Reagan in this movie, the office held by his fictional daughter in Blue Bloods.

In the beginning before the credits the Latitude and Longitude are given which are actually in the Massachusetts Bay off Boston and south of Marblehead. Additionally a zip code is given that is for Scituate. Not Scituate, Massachusetts, however, but Scituate, Rhode Island. Some 90 miles or so southwest.

Continuity

The first time we see Jesse at his home, he takes his gun out of his holster and puts it on the kitchen table. He walks over to the answering machine in the living room and his holster is visible and still no gun. When he rewinds the tape to play back the message, his gun is suddenly in his holster.

As Abby is walking down the path after getting a busy signal at Jesse's place, there is a frontal shot as she starts to put her phone away and behind her, facing her, are two other people. She is murdered just as she finishes putting her phone away. At the scene there is no mention of witnesses, and in fact later Jesse indicates there are no witnesses to any of the killings. What happened to the people walking behind Abby?

During the credits, Jesse's police cruiser is seen first turning a corner with its blue bubblegum lights spinning and later arriving at the harbor with the same lights. All travel shots in between show only reflections of the head or amber lights without blue lights.



Revealing mistakes

The bathroom Bo is cornered in is clearly a women's bathroom. There are no urinals and as he knocks open the doors to the stalls, a tampon dispenser can clearly be seen on the wall.

Close up on medical monitor for Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson shows it?s in 'Simulating' mode. An attempt to cover the word 'Simulating' with tape was done, yet it can still be clearly seen.

The dead body of the first male victim (found at the sea front) in the medical examining room shows that he is still breathing in its last scene.

The dead body of the first male victim (found at the sea front), in the medical examining room, blinks as the camera shows his face up close.