In an interview dated June 4, Joe Mantegna, who plays David Rossi on Criminal Minds, spoke about directing an episode for season 10 and what he had in mind for that.

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Speaking to Zap2It, the actor revealed that as he will be directing an episode in the next season mid-November and it would air sometime after the holidays this year.

"They asked me if I would do another one, and I agreed, so I'll do that around mid-November, and it will probably air sometime after the holidays," he said. "I have some ideas that I'm going to throw around with them."

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While he didn't give away too much he did allude to hoping for a generous budget again, like he did with the first episode he directed in season 9, which involved an expensive sequence featuring a "big crane."

"They gave me a little extra budget on the last one because it was leading into the 200th episode," he said. "I was like, "If I can get a big crane" -- which is a pretty expensive commodity -- "we can do a cool kind of shot at the end." And we were able to do that, which I was happy about."

The second and final part of the finale, Demons, aired on Wednesday, May 14 on CBS at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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