Criminal Minds: Scoop on Jeanne Tripplehorn’s character in season 8 from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on Criminal Minds from this week's (Posted on 9/18/12) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Any Criminal Minds scoop to speak of? —Rachel 
Ausiello: Though we knew that newcomer Jeanne Tripplehorn’s Agent Alex Blake has a checkered professional past with Strauss, it turns out she also has ties to a BAU favorite. “She and Reid knew each other, in academia, so they are very close friends,” Tripplehorn tells us. “He’s a bit more on the nerdy side than she is, but they are two brains that really get along. They have a beautiful friendship.”

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