The team goes to Mexico to hunt down a possible serial killer who targets senior women. They have to contend with poor police resources and a bigwig who doesn't want to acknowledge it is a serial killer because it will scare off the tourists.
Going to Mexico and actually having conversations with the locals in their native tongue is a bit of a change, and revealing significant cultural attitudes adds a twist, but in the end it took the team and the local police ages to discover the clue that leads them to the killer. They had it before their eyes but they could not see! Elle's character plays a large role in this one (because she can speak Spanish fluently) but I find her so cold that I don't understand why the writers insist she be portrayed as the sympathetic female character left to interview female victims and the like. It just doesn't work. Gideon plays such a large role in the beginning of the show and then disappears near the end, and there is some family stuff concerning Hotchner but then he takes a back seat role. Just too many cooks in this show - they need to drop a couple of major characters.
I'm beginning to think Australian TV is cutting 5 minutes off this show - it doesn't run a full hour here, but 55 mins (with ads). This could account for some of the clunky plot lines if true.
Going to Mexico and actually having conversations with the locals in their native tongue is a bit of a change, and revealing significant cultural attitudes adds a twist, but in the end it took the team and the local police ages to discover the clue that leads them to the killer. They had it before their eyes but they could not see! Elle's character plays a large role in this one (because she can speak Spanish fluently) but I find her so cold that I don't understand why the writers insist she be portrayed as the sympathetic female character left to interview female victims and the like. It just doesn't work. Gideon plays such a large role in the beginning of the show and then disappears near the end, and there is some family stuff concerning Hotchner but then he takes a back seat role. Just too many cooks in this show - they need to drop a couple of major characters.
I'm beginning to think Australian TV is cutting 5 minutes off this show - it doesn't run a full hour here, but 55 mins (with ads). This could account for some of the clunky plot lines if true.