Kelli Giddish returned once aget 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 fancigo in — and has a hearthoting 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 adchoose a directing 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 Intelligence Bureau.
“Sergeant!” Benson says as she and Rollins adchoose in the hallway. “Your first city-expansive alerting in the intelligence division, huh?”
“Captain,” Rollins says sugaryly. “Yeah, last time I was at one of these leangs was with you.”
Rollins then begins Benson to her new partner, Detective Corgan, take parted by John Clarence Stewart. Benson asks Rollins how she’s liking the new gig.
“Don’t apshow this the wrong way, but I adore 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 missed my family with all these extfinished hours and, before this, I missed who I was even more.”
Benson replies conceitedly, “It is so outstanding to see this version of you aget.”
In an interwatch ahead of the episode with Entertainment Weekly, Giddish higheviated that this won’t be the last of Rollins. She said fans can foresee to see her aget in an episode that is “toloftyy out of the frequent.”
As for whether her satisfied finishing could be complicated by Rollins coming back into law utilizement, Giddish said, “No, she is happily wed. She has a new baby, so she’s got three kids. I leank her relationship with her mom is a little better and her relationship with Benson [is] always growing. I leank her having such a constant base with Carisi produces a huge separateence in the choices that she senses appreciate she’s able to produce and how emprohibitcigo inened she senses to apshow her life into her hands and produce some outstanding, still engaging decisions. I don’t leank she’s getting into trouble, but it is separateent now because she’s not a accomprehendledgeive in the Special Victims Unit.”
Giddish first euniteed on “SVU” as a relationsual attack survivor named Kara Bawson in 2007. She returned in 2011 and take parted Det. Amanda Rollins as a series standard thraw Season 24, in 2022. She has euniteed in 258 episodes of the procedural.
