David Rossi did not retire, however. It was beloved character Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) who left the team in the “Criminal Minds” series finale. The series’ Technical Analyst and Co-Communications Liaison was going off on her own to work for a nonprofit nearby. Vangsness, who co-wrote the finale episode with Erica Messer, would return for the Paramount+ follow-up series, “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” when her character is pulled back into the fold with an abduction case.
Nevertheless, Messer had a vision of what she wanted the ending to look like when the CBS version of the show came to a close. Messer said, “I wanted to end this series the way we were all feeling about the series ending, which was so thankful we’ve been here this whole time … that we got to work with our friends, who became family over the years.” She noted that a lot of the personal experiences the characters had in the show paralleled the lives of the actors — maybe not the gory crimes and investigations, but the marriages, births, deaths and all the life stuff in between. “Just a lot of respect and love and any way we could show that as the parting images for this series felt like it was the right way to go,” Messer concluded.
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