Criminal Minds Season 7 Gets Ex Love

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Criminal Minds’ Agent Rossi (Joe Mantegna) will be taking a (likely painful) trip down memory lane in the upcoming seventh season when one of his three ex-wives comes back in to his life. Isabella Hofmann (Homicide Life on the Street) will play Rossi’s first wife (sorry, no name) in a two-episode arc where she needs his help. How typical of women. They only pay you any attention when they want something.

My wife would kill me if she saw I wrote that.

The new Criminal Minds showrunner, Erica Messer, confirmed the casting to TVLine while saying, “She’s the love of his life,” and “We’ll meet her in Episode 5.” Seems to me if Rossi is still in love with her that would explain the failure of subsequent marriages. How can you have a successful marriage when your heart yearns for someone else? More importantly, why would he let the love of his life go? You’d think that would be something he would fight for, and maybe he would have if he’d known he’d never find someone who could replace her. And what does she need from Rossi? In seven seasons we haven’t seen her and suddenly she needs something? It had better be important, especially if it’s going to last two episodes.

Aside from Hofmann, the only other guest star we know about so far for Season 7 is Mark Moses (Mad Men). He’s playin a senator leading a committee investigating a case the team messed up. The season premieres Wednesday, Sept. 21.