History Series / ElCaso

* NiceGuy: Montenegro, especially when paired with Camacho. He's probably the WhiteSheep in the police force.

* RabidCop: Camacho is just the most notable example. This is the Francoist police, after all.

* SerialKiller: "The Rosary Killer" has five victims attributed.

* BatmanGambit: The Episode 5 case is one by [[spoiler:Clara's father and Camacho]]. [[spoiler:They let the ''El Caso'''s journalists discover the truth (the dead couple are a French Communist and his Cuban secretary) and publish it, only to seize the entire print run - to get the Americans to accept a commercial deal with the Spanish.]]

* BatmanGambit: The Episode 4 case is one by [[spoiler:Clara's father and Camacho]]. [[spoiler:They let the ''El Caso'''s journalists discover the truth (the dead couple are a French Communist and his Cuban secretary) and publish it, only to seize the entire print run - to get the Americans to accept a commercial deal with the Spanish.]]

The series is set in the 1960s Spain, and its main characters are the editors of weekly newspaper El Caso (which actually existed in RealLife from 1952 to 1997), who aside from reporting, also investigate on their own the crimes they cover (needless to say, this gets them in trouble more than once with the [[UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco Francoist]] censorship and police). The main duo is the one formed by veteran editor (and former policeman) Jesús Expósito and newcomer Clara López, the rebellious daughter of Fernando López-Dóriga, the right hand of the Minister of Information (that is, the closest associate to the man in charge of the aforementioned censorship).

* ShoutOut: Blanca Apiláñez's character, Margarita Moyano, is inspired on real-life El Caso journalist Margarita Landi.

* AscendedExtra: Cabrera has very brief appearances on the first two episodes [[spoiler:(in which we learn that he's Gerardo's lover)]] and gains relevance in the show from episode 3, when López-Dóriga designates him as the censor of El Caso.

* WomanScorned: Rodrigo's wife is furious to learn that he has an affair with the El Caso secretary, Paloma (who apparently used to be a maid at their house, as well). Since her family invested the money to open El Caso, it takes a few pleas from Jesús [[spoiler:and his word that he'll convince Rodrigo to fire Paloma]] to talk her out of shutting down the newspaper.

* WhiteSheep: Clara works as a journalist at a newspaper with a blatant disregard for the Francoist censorship. Her father, a close associate of the Minister of Information, is none too happy about it.

* LastNameBasis: Captain Cabrera gets promoted to this from NoNameGiven on episode 3 after being designated as the new censor of El Caso. Doubles as AscendedExtra, since his appearances on the previous two episodes were very short [[spoiler:(but long enough for the viewers to know that he's Gerardo's lover)]].

* AlliterativeName: '''M'''iguel '''M'''ontenegro.

** The official story that [[spoiler:Kerry killed herself, right after being arrested by police]] is an obvious coverup to everyone.

* RealityEnsues: Clara saves a young woman from an insane asylum that seems sane compared to the other inmates. Almost as soon as they are out, she has a mental episode [[spoiler: and kills herself.]]