Criminal Minds: Scoop on the future of Reid's storyline from Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez

Here's some scoop on Criminal Minds from Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez's The Spoiler Room column, which was posted on 2/12/13.

Sandra, I am a late-comer to the gore-tastic psychofest that is Criminal Minds. Please throw me a spoiler bone? Anything about my boyfriend Dr. Spencer Reid, preferably. (What? It could happen.) Regards — Annie
It’s will be mildly quiet on the Reid front in the next few episodes as he deals with the aftermath of his girlfriend’s death — and that’s sort of a good thing when you consider the possibly devastating alternative route we could have seen him go down. According to executive producer Erica Messer, the writers had talked about whether Reid’s loss would send him spiraling into drugs once again, but she reports, “you won’t see that in the near future.” “You won’t see that in season 8 but the idea is that he fights that,” she says. “As an addict, the easier thing to do would be to fall back into what can numb him and comfort him in that way. But instead he’s really fighting the fight to stay clean and sober.”

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