I know there is a lot of pressure on the staff of a series such as this, but it really detracts from the audience's experience if the fourth wall is shattered by gross errors of language, making us step back from the story we have been absorbed in and say "Hey, what on earth did that line mean?". A few minutes in, Maura declares of the deceased: "He was a smithy... a blacksmith ". Surely, most of the English speaking world, particularly those in possession of a dictionary, knows that a blacksmith is one who works in iron (tick!) but that a smithy is his place of work - the premises in which he has his forge. It is almost unbelievable that such an incorrect line could have been written in the first place, then it got through the studio's proof-reading and Quality Control processes without anyone raising a flag, to be dumped on poor Sasha Alexander to deliver... ? After the Euler/Yooler gaffe she was dropped into in the previous season, I'm starting to wonder if someone is trying to undermine her. Either that or the studio's QA procedures just aren't working.
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