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Patinkin was absent from a table read for Criminal Minds and did not return for a third season.

The departure from the show was not due to contractual or salary matters, but over creative differences.

He left letters for his fellow cast members apologising explaining his reasons and wishing them luck.

Many weeks before his departure, in a videotaped interview carried in the online magazine Monaco Revue, Patinkin told journalists at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo that he loathed violence on television and was uncomfortable with certain scenes in Criminal Minds.

He called his choice to do Criminal Minds his " biggest public mistake ", and stated that he " thought it was something very different.

I never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year.

It was very destructive to my soul and my personality, and after that, I didn't think I would get to work in television again.