Machismo (12 Apr. 2006)

The BAU is requested to assist on a case in Mexico to determine if there is a serial killer in the town of a police captain who attended one of Gideon's seminars.

Director:

Guy Norman Bee

Writers:

Jeff Davis (creator), Aaron Zelman

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
Meredith Monroe	...	Haley Hotchner
Carlos Gómez	...	Captain Navarro (as Carlos Gomez)
Carlos Sanz	...	Deputy Borquez
Darlene Tejeiro	...	Rosa Trejo (as Darlena Tejeiro)
Andres Hudson	...	Roberto Gonzalez (as Andres Saenz-Hudson)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Molly Baker	...	Jessica Brooks
Juan Carlos Cantu	...	Diego Trejo
Margarita Cordova	...	Nina Villanueva

Storyline

In Allende del Sol, a Mexican factory and tourist town, the papers write about a serial killer. The government wants that theory squashed by the profilers after the twelfth rape-murder in two years on 62-year old Lupe, whose son Miguel Trejo was arrested as a suspect. Gideon knows from a seminar the local police captain, Victor Navarro, who claims Mexican cultural emphasis on family and machismo won't permit Gideon's profiling method to work there. The Trejo murder site shows Gideon that Lupe discovered Miguel is a closet homosexual, unspeakable in the macho town. To save Miguel from killing in prison, his sister Rosa tells his younger boy-friend Roberto Gonzalez was outside the house; he noticed a social worker, female or cross-dressing. Atypically, the next victim Isabella Santiago is stabbed the following day. The team believes it's a rapist -rarely reported, let alone prosecuted- who became impotent, probably after being ridiculed by Milagros Villanueva a month before the first ...

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Plot Keywords:

transvestite | rape victim | man holding a baby | hitting a woman | newspaper headline | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

12 April 2006 (USA)

Filming Locations:

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?

Trivia

Machismo is a Spanish word derived from macho, meaning a strong sense of masculine pride.

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Goofs

Gideon states that Andrei Chaktilo lived in the "Soviet Ukraine." He actually lived in Rostov, which was and is solidly inside Russia, in fact it is one of Russia's oldest cities. Chaktilo was from the Ukraine.

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Quotes

Aaron Hotchner: Mexican proverb, "The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman."

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Connections

References Psycho (1960)

User Reviews

Too Much Bias Mars The Story

A Mexican proverb: A house does not rest upon the ground it sit, but upon a woman."

That's the ending line in this overly-feminist-slanted episode where women are all victims of the "machimso" mentality that pervades Mexico, according to this program. (If I was a Mexican male watching this propaganda piece, I would quite a bit offended. Imagine them saying the opposite. It wouldn't be "tolerated.")

Anway, in the small town (pop. 20,000) of Allende del Sol, Mexico, we see murdered the 11th victim of a Mexican serial killer, something the government does not acknowledge as existing in Mexico, according to this program. Whatever. The fact is, as Gideon points, serial killers are a human problem, not a cultural one.

The killer here, who has more problems than 20 counselors could solve in a lifetime according to the BAU's profile, is a tough one to find: another of those anonymous-looking and meek guys who has big-time rage problems inside of him (or her).

The show could have been a good one without all the heavy-handed gender bias thrown into the mix.