For one episode. For one scene.

CBS announced that the divalike Mandy will show up on the October 3rd episode to provide closure for his character, the FBI analyst Jason Gideon, who is suddenly disappearing from the series because Mandy decided last month to simply not show up for work on the first day of the third season without telling anyone why-- stopping production, throwing the storylines into disarray and generally pissing off everyone he worked with.

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The more TV-appropriate actor Joe Mantegna has signed to fill the Mandy-void on Minds after talks with the 67-year-old Mean Streets giant failed to turn him into the next James Caan (Cheapskates!).

Showrunner Ed Bernero confirms the Mantegna deal on the Criminal Minds Fanatic blog.

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Adam Arkin? Leonard Nimoy?

Well, the word this morning is that CBS is negotiating with the great actor Harvey Keitel. Which is even more astonishing than the great actor James Woods signing on to a by-the-numbers CBS drama Shark and sort of like the great actor Jack Nicholson stepping in for Jim Belushi on According to Jim (who's really not a bad actor, either)-- or the great actor Christopher Walken showing up on Dancing with The Stars (sort of).

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It's not over salary. It's not about the contract. It may be about "creative differences." It may be all in Mandy's mind.

Showrunner Ed Bernero writes on the Criminal Minds fan blog that the network and studio expected Mandy to show up to film the third season premiere-- since it was centered on his character, FBI profiler Jason Gideon. But he left them "in the proverbial lurch.

"Even to this moment, we have no word from him. He gave us no advance notice that anything was wrong, no opportunity to make the loss of the character work, no indication that we should be looking for someone else, no warning that we might have to rewrite the first seven scripts."

In the end, it comes down to press release today...

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