Mandygate just gets weirder and weirder.

My moles at Criminal Minds have just confirmed for me exclusively that disgraced cranky-pants Mandy Patinkin will be returning to the show this fall after all — but only for one episode (airing Oct. 3), so as to provide some closure for his Gideon character. Strange as that may sound, though, that isn't the really odd part: He'll only be in one scene, and he'll essentially be the only one in it.

Why? Well, duh! My spies tell me that no one in the cast wanted to work opposite him again after he brought production to a standstill by pulling a no-show without even calling in (cough, cough) sick. What's more, Minds' producers were forced to use a special crew to shoot the pariah's scene because the show's regular staff refused to be on set with him.

Except possibly to Patinkin, who seems to live in his own world, the backlash against him isn't entirely a surprise. Last month, costar Shemar Moore raked him over the coals at press tour. "I don't like that he did this the way he did this," the former soap stud said. "I don't think it's right. He left us hanging... no warning, no nothing. We all showed up to work on Day 1, and he didn't.

"He needs to take responsibility for his actions," Moore continued, "[and] just acknowledge us, because it's an ensemble, it's a team.... We just want the courtesy and the respect that we deserve. And we felt like if he had given us that initially, this would be much easier to deal with. He essentially just slapped us in the face."

As such, what will transpire in Mandy's final scene on the show? The onetime Chicago Hope firestarter gets in a car and drives away, a new bridge burning in his rearview mirror.

i don't understand many things from this article so......... :D :D :D :D

Do not bring heart trouble to me!!!

I do not like Gideon.. <_< <_< <_<

that scene already aired.

I thought we waved and watched gideon ride of into the sunset!!.... :unsure:

and no hard feelings either... :(

I hope that this is a gossip simply all. Ross fits the team much better according to me.

Yeah, this is an old article. Not only did that driving away sound familiar, but they wouldn't have info on the fall schedule already. And I checked my calendar. October 3rd is a Friday this year. It was a Wednesday last year. This is old.

Gotta say though, it's nice that Shemar was being honest about what Mandy did. In that interview AJ gave over the strike she wouldn't touch it....it's nice to hear someone be real about it.

being real is hearing both sides of the story....as was...when lola g left.....we got the CBS spin....not necessarily the other side.

(sorry I sided with mandy on this one.....I think mr ed and cbs handled this really poorly) :(

That's interesting. Do tell. I'm not really clear on it, did Mandy just wake up one day and decide he didn't want to do the show anymore? There was no warning, right? What could Ed Bernero do about that?

Nope don't really want to get into that...but yes I do think CBS and Ed B handled it poorly.

I agree with you Jentzer. I think Ed B is handling a lot of things with with Criminal Minds very poorly these days.

And I'm still very disappointed in Mandy too. If he wanted out of the show (I can understand because I'm thinking he was feeling about the show the way I'm starting to) but the way he decided to leave.....very selfish and not fair to anyone else involved!! :angry:

when he gave up the series - quasi without a word - everybody got angry at him quasi.
The perfect successor was found in his Rossi person according to me, would be harm if Mandy would ruin this image