It looks like CBS' show "Criminal Minds" has a shocking surprise in store for its fans. The recent People's Choice Award winner will feature one of the show's main characters as they explore his (or her) backstory.

Entertainment Weekly has revealed that according to Erica Messer, the executive producer for "Criminal Minds," the show "will get really personal with one of its core characters and take him or her 'on a journey they have never been before.'" The character in question is being kept under wraps, but the show will reveal something "in the character's personal history that has a profound effect on his or her professional life."

Messer told Entertainment Weekly that this is going to be something new for the "Criminal Minds" team since the show is not a "serialized drama" but they have decided to make "the back nine of season 12" into a "heavily serialized" chapter in the "Criminal Minds" story. Viewers are warned that the show will now veer into uncharted territory and that fans who watch the show will not be able to predict what's coming.

The executive producer reassured viewers that while the show will be trying something new, "Criminal Minds" is still the procedural crime drama that they have come to love. The show will still "have a bad guy of the week. It's not like this show will suddenly become a soap opera. But there will be a storyline running through every episode of the back nine that will be unlike anything we have ever done." "Criminal Minds" airs every Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST on CBS.

According to TV Fanatics, in "Seek and Destroy," the eleventh episode of "Criminal Minds'" twelfth season, the theme of family was explored. In episode 11, Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) tries to "be the new Hotch," but her leadership style is different. Prentiss is "more touchy-feely, more approachable," which can be a good thing.