Mantegna’s Role On Criminal Minds, Patinkin Returning

TV Guide is reporting on news of what role Joe Mantegna will play in the revamped Criminal Mind. He will play Special Agent Rossi, an original member of the Behavioral Analysis Unit who took early retirement to go on book tours, and has now volunteered to return.

Mandy Patinkin will also be returning to the show this fall — but only for one episode (airing October 3), so as to provide some closure for his Gideon character. He’ll only be in one scene, and he’ll essentially be the only one in it. No one in the cast wanted to work opposite him again after he brought production to a standstill by not showing up.