The Tribe (8 Mar. 2006)

The massacre of students using Native American rituals leads the team to consult the reservation policeman, who is also an activist.

Director:

Matt Earl Beesley

Writers:

Jeff Davis (creator), Andrew Wilder

Stars:

Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Mandy Patinkin	...	Jason Gideon
Thomas Gibson	...	Aaron Hotchner
Lola Glaudini	...	Elle Greenaway
Shemar Moore	...	Derek Morgan
Matthew Gray Gubler	...	Dr. Spencer Reid
A.J. Cook	...	Jennifer Jareau
Kirsten Vangsness	...	Penelope Garcia
Gregory Cruz	...	John Blackwolf (as Gregory Norman Cruz)
Chris Ellis	...	Sheriff Rhodes
Robert Curtis Brown	...	Peter Greisen
Eric Johnson	...	Sean Hotchner
Chad Allen	...	Jackson Cally
Skyler Shaye	...	Ingrid Greisen
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Josh Duhon	...	Rammy
Kallie Kerns	...	Cult Member #5

Storyline

Aaron 'Hotch' gets a visit from his brother Sean, who intends to abandon the plan to study law, like their late dad and Aaron. Five students aged 19 are found horribly murdered in a vacant house in Terra Mesa, New Mexico, unbound, skinned alive, one impaled alive: traditional Indian torture methods. The team quickly suspects it must be the collective work of a 'pack'. First they consider the local reservation policeman Benjamin Blackwood's son John, a teacher noted for Indian activism. His tracker skills on the murder site concludes it was not the work of real Indians, as no tribe practiced all these methods, he agrees to act as a consultant. As the killers were probably not Indian but wanted it to appear so, next suspects are the heavily armed ADU. They were founded by local businessman Roy Minton, mainly recruiting from construction, to fight the Indian land claims. A fingerprint belongs to a sixth student, Ingrid Greisen. Her parents say they didn't even know she was missing as she...

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Plot Keywords:

terra mesa new mexico | reservation police | break door in | attack at a school | 21 feet | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 March 2006 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Quixote Studios Griffith Park - 4585 Electronics Place, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min 42 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

In this episode it shows an Apache tribe who are dealing with murderers. During a part of the episode one of the men depicting an Apache man says that the Apache call themselves "The Dineh" which means "The People". Actually this is a Navajo word which means "The People" and the Navajo call refer to themselves as that. Furthermore, adding "The" to the beginning would be redundant because simply saying "Dineh" is more than sufficient as Dineh means "The People".

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Quotes

Dr. Spencer Reid: I notice you don't carry a gun.
John Blackwolf: Twenty-one feet.
Dr. Spencer Reid: What?
John Blackwolf: Ask Agent Hotchner there. He's the real gun hand.
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Why do you say that?
John Blackwolf: You carry two guns.
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: The maximum distance an attacker with a knife can close in the time it takes to react, draw your sidearm and fire is twenty-one feet.
John Blackwolf: Inside twenty-one feet, I win. Outside twenty-one, I have other options besides shooting a man.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Like negotiating.
John Blackwolf: Like running.
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Soundtracks

"Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida"
written by Doug Ingle
performed by Iron Butterfly

User Reviews

Intense Story, Even If Predictable In Spots

Five students in New Mexico are killed and the killings appear like those from a group not an individual.

The nature of the crimes - the victims skinned, one of them impaled while alive, not a lot of blood around, etc - all go back to violent history of the area Apache tribe. It's obviously a setup because (a) most of these crime shows (CSI always does this) have the bad guys as others than what it looks like in the first half of the show; (b) being another politically-correct TV show, you can guess who is innocent and who isn't.

In addition to the slaughter, the FBI - with the help of the local dude (who is portrayed 100 times smarter than Sherlock Holmes) - discovers a girl was kidnapped, and that at least eight people were in on the whole deal.

We then get a neat twist with the kidnappers releasing the girl and blaming the father. More interesting developments occur and winds up a fairly interesting show.