1 | [[foldercontrol]] |
2 | |
3 | !El Caso staff |
4 | [[folder:Jesús]] |
5 | !!Jesús Expósito |
6 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/exposito.jpg]] |
7 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Anything for a good headline, but also for justice."'']] |
8 | ->'''Played by:''' Fernando Guillén Cuervo |
9 | |
10 | A policeman turned journalist, he is the most veteran editor of El Caso. He is still haunted by the murder of his girlfriend Asun (also Miguel Montenegro's sister) at the hands of "The Rosary Killer" a long time ago. |
11 | |
12 | ---- |
13 | |
14 | * [[CigarChomper Cigarette Chomper]]: Rarely seen without one in his mouth. |
15 | * CowboyCop: It's implied that he was this during his days in the police force. |
16 | * HardboiledDetective: He tenaciously investigates the cases he later reports about in the newspaper. |
17 | * ThatOneCase: He never caught the man who killed his girlfriend and other four girls, which still haunts him, and is entirely sure that Pepe Garcés, the man convicted for the crimes, wasn't guilty. |
18 | * TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Episode 2 features one about Asun's murder. |
19 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: The friendship between Camacho and him went sour when Jesús doubted over Pepe Garcés being "The Rosary Killer", eventually leaving the police. |
20 | [[/folder]] |
21 | |
22 | [[folder:Clara]] |
23 | !!Clara López(-Dóriga) |
24 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clara_elcaso.jpg]] |
25 | ->'''Played by:''' Verónica Sánchez |
26 | |
27 | --->''This girl is pure gold.'' |
28 | ---->--Rodrigo Sánchez |
29 | |
30 | The new girl at the office. She defends freedom of press, which is not easy in the Francoist Spain... especially considering she is the daughter of Fernando López-Dóriga, the closest associate of Minister of Information Manuel Fraga. |
31 | |
32 | ---- |
33 | |
34 | * AscendedFangirl: She claims that she was a compulsive El Caso reader and received it by mail every week while she studied abroad. Now she works in El Caso. |
35 | * CunningLinguist: She speaks English fluently and has studied Latin as well. |
36 | * EmbarrassingLastName: She only signs articles as Clara López since she's aware that her father does not like El Caso... and the fact that she is now working there doesn't help matters. |
37 | * InSeriesNickname: "Massiel", after the singer. |
38 | * IntrepidReporter |
39 | * NaiveNewcomer |
40 | * SexlessMarriage: With Gerardo. [[spoiler:Because he's actually gay.]] |
41 | * WhiteSheep: She works as a journalist at a newspaper with a blatant disregard for the Francoist censorship. As mentioned above, her father's not quite happy about it. |
42 | [[/folder]] |
43 | |
44 | [[folder:Rodrigo]] |
45 | !!Rodrigo Sánchez |
46 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rodrigo_elcaso.jpg]] |
47 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I love the smell of a good headline."'']] |
48 | ->'''Played by:''' Fernando Cayo |
49 | |
50 | The founder and director of El Caso. |
51 | |
52 | ---- |
53 | |
54 | * CatchPhrase: "Those typewriters, I don't hear them!", his usual way to tell everyone to get back to work. |
55 | ** CatchphraseInterruptus: [[RunningGag Happens several times:]] |
56 | -->'''Rodrigo:''' Having the presses stopped costs me...! |
57 | -->'''Everyone else:''' A fortune! |
58 | -->'''Rodrigo:''' Yes, fuck, a fortune. |
59 | * DaEditor: He'll scold his reporters when they screw up, but also deal with the censorship to ensure they can publish their news. |
60 | * HotBlooded: He's a bit temperamental. |
61 | * IfItBleedsItLeads: He invokes it during an argument with Clara in episode 4, ordering her to take photos of a woman who got burnt in a fire for the newspaper. |
62 | * LovableCoward: You can see him cower each time he has to face an autority figure, but he tries to do what's right. |
63 | [[/folder]] |
64 | |
65 | [[folder:Margarita]] |
66 | !!Margarita Moyano |
67 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/margarita_elcaso.jpg]] |
68 | ->'''Played by:''' Blanca Apilánez |
69 | |
70 | A veteran and independent journalist, who walks freely around the office. She spends much time at Bar Lido, which is almost like a second office to her. |
71 | |
72 | ---- |
73 | |
74 | * AlliterativeName |
75 | * [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe Distinguished Lady's Pipe]]: A rare female example. |
76 | * HatesBeingTouched: Less exaggerated than most examples, but she moans or complains every time someone touches or hugs her ([[TrueCompanions which is quite often]]). |
77 | * {{Homage}}: The character is based on real El Caso journalist Margarita Landi. |
78 | * TeamMom: She adopts this role from time to time, especially with Germán and Clara. |
79 | [[/folder]] |
80 | |
81 | [[folder:Germán]] |
82 | !!Germán Castro |
83 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/german_elcaso.jpg]] |
84 | ->'''Played by:''' Gorka Lasaosa |
85 | |
86 | --->''That's Germán, our particular [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Carrasco Pedro Carrasco]].'' |
87 | ---->--Paloma García |
88 | |
89 | Journalist and semi-professional boxer. He has dangerous contacts in the Madrid underworld. |
90 | |
91 | ---- |
92 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: Despite his boxing prowess and intimidating appearance, he deeply cares about his friends. |
93 | * FriendToAllChildren: He was very warm and caring to little Blas, even taking him to his boxing matches. |
94 | * LivingADoubleLife: He is also used from time to time as a hired muscle receiving on his gym locker money and the name of his next target. [[spoiler: He was once tasked with stealing documents from the El Caso office, and it's hinted that one of his gym partners killed Pepe Garcés.]] |
95 | * SpeechImpediment: He often stammers. |
96 | [[/folder]] |
97 | |
98 | [[folder:Aníbal]] |
99 | !!Aníbal de Vicente |
100 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anibal_elcaso.jpg]] |
101 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I'll Cervantes that up for you. Four pages. With its epithets and dingbats."'']] |
102 | ->'''Played by:''' Daniel Pérez-Prada |
103 | |
104 | Naïve and trustful, he lives in an Opus Dei residence and believes in the existence of aliens. From time to time he tries to insert UFO sighting reports into the newspaper during the briefings. |
105 | |
106 | ---- |
107 | |
108 | * AgentMulder: He is convinced that aliens do exist. |
109 | * ICanChangeMyBeloved: His reasoning for trying to help [[spoiler: Reme]] out. |
110 | * {{Pseudonym}}: He signs as Antonio Pemán when he reports about something that might upset his Opus Dei roommates. |
111 | * WideEyedIdealist: Which leads to conflict with Germán. |
112 | \ |
113 | [[/folder]] |
114 | |
115 | [[folder:Aparicio]] |
116 | !!Aparicio Sierra |
117 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aparicio_elcaso.jpg]] |
118 | ->'''Played by:''' Ignacio Mateos |
119 | |
120 | The newspaper's layout designer. |
121 | |
122 | ---- |
123 | |
124 | * FanBoy: Of Music/TheBeatles, as you can guess from one of his conversations with Clara about her days in London. |
125 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Often seen with Aníbal. He seems to be his best friend in the office. |
126 | [[/folder]] |
127 | |
128 | |
129 | [[folder:Paloma]] |
130 | !!Paloma García |
131 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paloma_elcaso.jpg]] |
132 | ->'''Played by:''' Teresa Hurtado de Ory |
133 | |
134 | The El Caso secretary, who also has her own section at the paper as a love advisor. |
135 | |
136 | ---- |
137 | |
138 | * TheDogBitesBack: She lashes out at Rodrigo for letting his wife coerce him into firing her. |
139 | * NerdGlasses: As seen in the picture. |
140 | * {{Pseudonym}}: Her section in the paper is called "Letters to Peggy".She's Peggy. |
141 | * SexySecretary: Rodrigo is crazy over her bones. |
142 | * SleepingWithTheBoss: She has an affair with Rodrigo. As mentioned, his wife is furious when she finds out. |
143 | [[/folder]] |
144 | |
145 | !Authorities |
146 | [[folder:Montenegro]] |
147 | !!Miguel Montenegro |
148 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/montenegro_elcaso.jpg]] |
149 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"It's not that I respect the rules. It's that I think one needs a good reason to break them."'']] |
150 | ->'''Played by:''' Francisco Ortiz |
151 | |
152 | --->''Hey, it's our man in the CIB!'' |
153 | ---->--Jesús Expósito |
154 | |
155 | A longtime friend of Jesús, newly promoted to commissioner of the Criminal Investigation Brigade. |
156 | |
157 | ---- |
158 | |
159 | * AffectionateNickname: Jesús calls him "Peluso". |
160 | * AlliterativeName |
161 | * FriendOnTheForce: An old friend of Jesús who is a policeman. |
162 | * GoodCopBadCop: The Good Cop to Camacho's Bad Cop. |
163 | * TokenGoodCop: Probably the WhiteSheep of the police force. It's 1966 and the Francoist regime is still in full effect. |
164 | [[/folder]] |
165 | |
166 | [[folder:Camacho]] |
167 | !!Antonio "Toño" Camacho |
168 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/camacho_elcaso.jpg]] |
169 | ->'''Played by:''' Antonio Garrido |
170 | |
171 | The Commissioner in Chief of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, and a former friend of Jesús. He actively supports the regime, and won't mind putting his morals aside in order to move up. |
172 | |
173 | ---- |
174 | |
175 | * DirtyCop: He's all too willing to force a confession out of a suspect by any means necessary. Case in point: he once hit a procurer [[spoiler:who eventually turned out to be not guilty]] with a [[ThrowTheBookAtThem phone book]]. |
176 | * GoodCopBadCop: The Bad Cop to Montenegro's Good Cop. |
177 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He really is in love with Rebeca and becomes notably distraught when she's kidnapped. |
178 | * RabidCop |
179 | [[/folder]] |
180 | |
181 | [[folder:López-Dóriga]] |
182 | !!Fernando López-Dóriga |
183 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lopezdoriga_elcaso.jpg]] |
184 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I won't always be here to get you out of trouble. And if you stay in that two-bit rag you will get in it, and deep!"'']] |
185 | ->'''Played by:''' Carlos Manuel Díaz |
186 | |
187 | A senior officer at the Ministry of Information, being the Minister's right hand. He is Clara's father... and absolutely loathes the newspaper she works in. |
188 | |
189 | ---- |
190 | |
191 | * IWantGrandkids: Actually, he uses this as a way to try and retire Clara from journalism. He tells Gerardo to "do his job and form a family", but promptly adding that it should stop Clara from wanting to "play [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_reporter_Tribulete Reporter Tribulete]]". |
192 | * MediaWatchdog: As the second-in-command in the Ministry of Information, he's the second most powerful MediaWatchdog in Spain; and apparently he's allowed to personally name censors (he does so when assigning Cabrera to El Caso). |
193 | * NumberTwo: To the Minister of Information himself. |
194 | [[/folder]] |
195 | |
196 | [[folder:Cabrera]] |
197 | !!Manuel Cabrera |
198 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cabrera_elcaso.jpg]] |
199 | ->'''Played by:''' Raúl Tejón |
200 | |
201 | An army captain and member of the Ministry of Information, whom López-Dóriga designates as censor of El Caso. |
202 | |
203 | ---- |
204 | |
205 | * ArmouredClosetGay: [[spoiler:He's Gerardo's lover.]] |
206 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Tells Jesús not to "justify degenerates" when writing about homosexual relationships. |
207 | * InsistentTerminology: He insists to be called "supervisor" instead of "censor". |
208 | * MediaWatchdog |
209 | * StraightGay: Other than Clara, [[spoiler:who saw him with Gerardo]], no one in the El Caso office seems to even suspect that he is homosexual. |
210 | [[/folder]] |
211 | |
212 | [[folder:Father Sanchís]] |
213 | !!Manuel Sanchís |
214 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sanchis_elcaso.jpg]] |
215 | ->'''Played by:''' Jorge Roelas |
216 | |
217 | A priest and exorcist sent to the El Caso office when they request ecclesiastical censorship to get rid of Cabrera. |
218 | |
219 | ---- |
220 | |
221 | * MediaWatchdog: Takes more of a MoralGuardian-like approach to it than Cabrera, since he is a representative of the Church. |
222 | * SmarterThanYouLook: When El Caso looks for an ecclesiastical censor, they do it thinking that they'll be able to publish practically anything. They were wrong. |
223 | --> '''Father Sanchís:''' So you brought me here to be able to publish this about these individuals' "Last Tango".\ |
224 | '''Rodrigo:''' Father, I won't lie to you. Two people are dead. Their families have the right to know what happened to them, publishing this article is of human interest.\ |
225 | '''Father Sanchís:''' Don't come to me with this "human" poppycock! What you want is to sell newspapers. So don't try to fool me as if I were a simple military censor. |
226 | [[/folder]] |
227 | |
228 | !Others |
229 | |
230 | [[folder:Laura]] |
231 | !!Laura López-Dóriga |
232 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/laura_elcaso.jpg]] |
233 | ->'''Played by:''' María Casal |
234 | |
235 | Clara's aunt and main confidant. She's a renowned theater actress with an ahead-of-her-time mindset. |
236 | |
237 | ---- |
238 | |
239 | * ConsummateLiar: She fools everyone [[spoiler:with the whole Satanic rite thing]] on Episode 3. [[spoiler:It turns out that she borrowed an animal skull from a fan of hers (a butcher) to set up the ruse. It was a strategy to get people talking about her, since [[BatmanGambit she knew El Caso would publish it]] [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity and her latest play was not going too well.]]]] But then again, you don't get to be called a "theater diva" without knowing some acting, right? |
240 | * CoolOldLady |
241 | * LoonyFan: It's implied she's had to deal with a few of these. |
242 | * {{Pseudonym}}: She's more often referred to by her stage name, Laura Pontón. |
243 | [[/folder]] |
244 | |
245 | [[folder:Rebeca]] |
246 | !!Rebeca Martín |
247 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rebeca_elcaso.jpg]] |
248 | ->'''Played by:''' Natalia Verbeke |
249 | |
250 | A childhood friend of Jesús and Camacho, whose broken friendship she keeps (fruitlessly) trying to mend. She's a doctor who works with the police both in the identification of victims and with alive witnesses involved. |
251 | |
252 | ---- |
253 | |
254 | * TheCoroner |
255 | * LoveTriangle: With Camacho and Jesús. |
256 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: It's hinted that she's the only female doctor in her hospital. Justified since female doctors really were a rarity in the 1960s Spain. |
257 | [[/folder]] |
258 | |
259 | [[folder:Gerardo]] |
260 | !!Gerardo de Zabaleta |
261 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gerardo_elcaso.jpg]] |
262 | ->'''Played by:''' Marc Clotet |
263 | |
264 | Clara's husband, a diplomatic who hides a big secret. |
265 | |
266 | ---- |
267 | |
268 | * ArmouredClosetGay: Yes, that's his big secret. |
269 | * BusCrash: He disappears in the third-to-last episode, and isn't heard of again until the series finale... when he dies in a train crash. |
270 | * {{Gayngst}}: He is ashamed of his homosexuality and visits a psychiatrist who offers him a 'cure' for it. |
271 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Five episodes into the series, he had already been reassigned twice: on episode 2 he was [[PutOnABus sent to the Spanish embassy in Rabat]], [[TheBusCameBack returning three episodes later]] to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
272 | * NiceGuy: It's hinted that he actually loves Clara his own way, and puts serious effort into salvaging their marriage. |
273 | * StraightGay: He passes off as a straight man the first time he is introduced... although one of the El Caso journalists claims that he walks like "[[{{Foreshadowing}} he got a stick up his ass]]". |
274 | [[/folder]] |
275 | |
276 | [[folder:Asun]] |
277 | !!Asunción Montenegro |
278 | |
279 | Miguel Montenegro's sister and Jesús's girlfriend, who was murdered by "The Rosary Killer" years ago. |
280 | |
281 | ---- |
282 | |
283 | * TheLostLenore: She was Jesús's first love and she was murdered by a SerialKiller whom he is still trying to catch. |
284 | * PosthumousCharacter: She's been long dead by the start of the series; all we see of her is in flashbacks, dreams and pictures. |
285 | [[/folder]] |
286 | |
287 | [[folder:The Rosary Killer]] |
288 | The mysterious lead villain of the show. He killed Jesús' girlfriend (and at least four other girls) many years ago. He is currently in the San José mental asylum, but he can easily go in and out of it when he pleases because he has the key to the back door (and the doctors don't know it). |
289 | |
290 | ---- |
291 | |
292 | * BigBad: He has started again to play mind games with Jesús. |
293 | * TheFaceless: He doesn't really cover his face, but it's not shown on screen. He is identified by a tattoo of the Virgin Mary in his forearm. |
294 | * OminousLatinChanting: His motif. |
295 | * SerialKiller: He has five victims attributed. |
296 | * TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: On episode 2, Clara has to give him a necklace so that he opens the back door for her. Two episodes later, he goes to her house and gives it back. |
297 | * TheVoiceless: He has not uttered a word yet as of episode 4. |
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