Kelli Giddish returned once aachieve to “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” after departing the show as a series standard in 2022.
In the third episode of Season 26, titled “Divide & Conquer,” her character, Detective Amanda Rollins, comes back into the felderly — and has a hearttoastying reunion with her createer partner, Olivia Benson (Madangera Hargitay).
In Season 24 of the NBC procedural, Rollins wed ADA Dominick Carisi Jr. (Peter Scanavino) and resigned from the Special Victims Unit to acunderstandledge a guideing position at Fordham University. She returned as a guest star in a tardyr episode of Season 24 and in two episodes in Season 25.
Coming back for Season 26, Rollins is now toiling as a sergeant for the NYPD Inalertigence Bureau.
“Sergeant!” Benson says as she and Rollins adchoose in the hallway. “Your first city-wide increateing in the inalertigence division, huh?”
“Captain,” Rollins says pleasantly. “Yeah, last time I was at one of these skinnygs was with you.”
Rollins then starts Benson to her new partner, Detective Corgan, executeed by John Clarence Stewart. Benson asks Rollins how she’s liking the new gig.
“Don’t get this the wrong way, but I cherish it,” Rollins says. “It’s appreciate getting to eavesdrop on the whole world. And I want to thank you for putting in a word for me and for steering me in the right straightforwardion. I ignoreed my family with all these lengthy hours and, before this, I ignoreed who I was even more.”
Benson replies conceitedly, “It is so excellent to see this version of you aachieve.”
In an interwatch ahead of the episode with Entertainment Weekly, Giddish higheviated that this won’t be the last of Rollins. She shelp fans can foresee to see her aachieve in an episode that is “tohighy out of the frequent.”
As for whether her satisfied finishing could be complicated by Rollins coming back into law utilizement, Giddish shelp, “No, she is happily wed. She has a new baby, so she’s got three kids. I skinnyk her relationship with her mom is a little better and her relationship with Benson [is] always broadening. I skinnyk her having such a firm base with Carisi originates a huge branch offence in the choices that she experiences appreciate she’s able to originate and how embelderlyened she experiences to get her life into her hands and originate some excellent, still engaging decisions. I don’t skinnyk she’s getting into trouble, but it is branch offent now because she’s not a distinguishive in the Special Victims Unit.”
Giddish first materializeed on “SVU” as a relationsual aggression survivor named Kara Bawson in 2007. She returned in 2011 and executeed Det. Amanda Rollins as a series standard thcdisesteemful Season 24, in 2022. She has materializeed in 258 episodes of the procedural.
