I'm pretty sure this hasn't been posted yet, but
TV Guide has some more news on next season. Mild spoilers.
Mega Buzz: Bones' TV Gig, The Good Wife's Triangle and Criminal Minds' Hostages
How will Criminal Minds resolve last season's cliff-hanger? - Marcus
ADAM: The season premiere finds the team in what executive producer Ed Bernero calls a "rolling hostage situation," during which an unexpected member of the team will be called upon to make contact with Tim Curry's creepy killer in an unorthodox way. "The solution rests on whether or not that team member can convince this psychopath to spare the little girl he's taken," Bernero says, adding that "another team member will be affected for a long, long time by what happens."
The same article more or less on
DigitalSpy. Does anyone else think that the other team member is possibly JJ? I have a feeling they're going to be using the fact that she's a mother witnessing a child being taken hostage as a way to write her out of the show.