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“ | You said you wished I was never born! That I was an ugly little girl, inside and out! Well, here I am, Mom. You were right. I'm a monster. | „ |
~ Gutierrez to her mother. |
Desi Gutierrez is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Dust and Bones". Having been abused and then forgotten about by her real estate agent mother after her sister was born, she sets out to take revenge on both of them by kidnapping and scarring the faces of women similar to her before going after her sister.
She was portrayed by Doris Morgado.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Desi was born in 1987 to her to her then 15 year-old mother Lara Gutierrez. Lara was physically and verbally abusive to her child, calling her ugly "inside and out" and saying that she wishing she never had her. She would lock her in a backyard shed on a nearly daily basis, a shed inhabited by various animals, including snakes. However since said snakes never bit her, she quickly became emotionally attached to them and they became a lifelong fixation for her. Desi eventually worked up the courage to report the abuse to the authorities and CPS made Lara take parenting classes as a result.
Lara eventually had another daughter, Tina. In stark contrast to her harsh upbringing, Tina was treated very well by her mother, causing Desi to develop extreme resentment towards them both. Desi became a juvenile delinquent who ended up in juvenile detention at one point, along with possibly developing a drug/alcohol problem. Eventually she was kicked out in 2014 and took up work at a tattoo parlor run by a Ryan Kash, whose work she liked. She proceeded to extensively modify her body out of her own self-loathing and hatred or her mom, making herself resemble a serpent complete with a forked tongue. Desi eventually left to found her own tattoo shop which her mother bought and paid the property for to apoligise for her past abuse. However the tattoo shop never ended up opening. After reading an article naming her mother "Austin Real Estate Person of the Year" in which her Mom extensively talked about her pride in her daughter Tina but made no mention of her, Desi snapped and formulated a plan to get revenge on her mother, which involved kidnapping successful women by having venomous snakes bite them in their cars and taking them back to her tattoo shop, disfiguring their faces, and leaving them in their cars outside her mom's real estate properties.
Dust and Bones[]
After abducting and disfiguring Hannah Accord, an accountant, Desi abducts Liz Meyers and disfigures her before leaving her outside yet another real estate property of her mother's. As the BAU is called in and investigates the abductions, she kidnaps a nurse named Tricia Smoots and disfigures her along with splitting her tongue. She also whispers "we are now the same" into her ear during the torture, giving the BAU a clue as to the kidnapper's identity.
Desi, having realized her mother will not notice her if she uses random women to lure her to her, lures her sister Tina by arranging a meeting and abducting her. She takes her sister to her tattoo shop and calls her mother, which causes her to rush there. Desi cuts Tina's arm with a scalpel and once her mother arrives, threatens to cut her face if Lara does not comply with her demands. She restrains her mother in a chair as her mother apoligises her her abuse of Desi. She does not accept this, and takes a snake and puts it on Tina. She states that if she is "worthy and honest", the snake won't bite her, as the snakes in the shed didn't bite Desi when she was locked in there as a child. The snake bites Tina, and she goes unconscious.
Despite apologizing once again, Desi once again doesn't listen to Lara's pleading and prepares the split her tongue with a scalpel, stating she is a monster just like her and so needs to look like one. However, before Desi can do anything the BAU burst in and tell her to put the knife down. Desi proceeds to push the snake habitat down, shattering it and releasing the snakes and flees the shop. She is confronted by Agent Matt Simmons outside however, and instead of complying with his demands to get down on her knees tightens her grip around the scalpel and lunges at him. This forces Simmons to shoot her dead.
External Links[]
- Desi Gutierrez on the Criminal Minds Wiki