Is the Machiavellian Elias Voit dead? The head writer of the series responds!

Erica Wesser, the writer and showrunner of the series Criminal mindswhose 17th season ends this Wednesday, December 18, 2024 on TF1, revealed if the Machiavellian Elias Voit would be back next year…

The violent and dark season 17 ofCriminal minds ends this Wednesday, December 18, 2024 with the broadcast, from 9:10 p.m. on TF1, of the final chapter. Fans already well tested by the 9 previous episodes be warned: this conclusion will not spare them between twists and turns, tension, danger of death and cliffhanger. A word of advice: don’t miss the last minutes…

Criminal minds : Is the Machiavellian Elias Voit dead? The head writer of the series responds!

ATTENTION SPOILERS ! Present in Criminal minds Since the return to the screen of the series in 2022, Elias Voit, played by Zach Gilford, has become a central figure of the show, a true personification of Evil that the profilers of the Department of Behavioral Sciences have been analyzing and fighting for so many years. years. And, at the very end of the last episode of season 17, after having once again played a trick on the profilers, this key character finds himself in a very bad position. In the laundry room of the prison where he is locked up, he is in fact attacked by two inmates, who beat him up before stabbing him… Does this mean that Voit has passed away? Questioned by our American colleagues from The Wrap, Erica Wesser, the screenwriter and showrunner of the series, revealed what her destiny was: “We thought we were creatively done with Elias Voit at the end of the first season. And that wasn’t the case. We thought we were done with him at the end of the second season. and it turns out not. So we’re going to see him again next year.” And there it is said: Voit will be in the 18th season!

Criminal minds : Spencer Reid back for season 18!

In filming since August 2024, the 18th season should, like the two previous ones, have around ten episodes. Casting department, the distribution remains unchanged. But good news fell recently: Spencer Reid, the iconic and brilliant profiler played by the no less brilliant Matthew Gray Gubler will make his comeback. He is expected to appear in at least one episode. Enough to wait with even more impatience for this new chapter ofCriminal minds !