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Kelli Giddish returned as soon as once more to “Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit” after departing the present as a collection common in 2022.
Within the third episode of Season 26, titled “Divide & Conquer,” her character, Detective Amanda Rollins, comes again into the fold — and has a heartwarming reunion along with her former associate, Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay).
In Season 24 of the NBC procedural, Rollins married ADA Dominick Carisi Jr. (Peter Scanavino) and resigned from the Particular Victims Unit to simply accept a educating place at Fordham College. She returned as a visitor star in a later episode of Season 24 and in two episodes in Season 25.
Coming again for Season 26, Rollins is now working as a sergeant for the NYPD Intelligence Bureau.
“Sergeant!” Benson says as she and Rollins embrace within the hallway. “Your first city-wide briefing within the intelligence division, huh?”
“Captain,” Rollins says sweetly. “Yeah, final time I used to be at certainly one of these items was with you.”
Rollins then introduces Benson to her new associate, Detective Corgan, performed by John Clarence Stewart. Benson asks Rollins how she’s liking the brand new gig.
“Do not take this the flawed method, however I adore it,” Rollins says. “It is like attending to snoop on the entire world. And I wish to thanks for placing in a phrase for me and for steering me in the proper route. I missed my household with all these lengthy hours and, earlier than this, I missed who I used to be much more.”
Benson replies proudly, “It’s so good to see this model of you once more.”
In an interview forward of the episode with Leisure Weekly, Giddish teased that this may not be the final of Rollins. She mentioned followers can count on to see her once more in an episode that’s “completely out of the strange.”
As for whether or not her blissful ending may very well be difficult by Rollins coming again into legislation enforcement, Giddish mentioned, “No, she is fortunately married. She has a brand new child, so she’s bought three children. I feel her relationship along with her mother is a little bit higher and her relationship with Benson (is) all the time creating. I feel her having such a stable base with Carisi makes an enormous distinction within the selections that she seems like she’s in a position to make and the way emboldened she feels to take her life into her fingers and make some good, nonetheless attention-grabbing choices. I do not suppose she’s entering into hassle, however it’s completely different now as a result of she’s not a detective within the Particular Victims Unit.”
Giddish first appeared on “SVU” as a sexual assault survivor named Kara Bawson in 2007. She returned in 2011 and performed Det. Amanda Rollins as a collection common via Season 24, in 2022. She has appeared in 258 episodes of the procedural.
