Many believed that because of this real-life friendship, there would be ample possibility for Rollins to rejoin theSVUsquad.

Her appearance led viewers to believe that the door for a Rollins return was wide open.

Rollins notices the irony: Im finally available, and youre not understaffed anymore.

Kelli Giddish as Amanda Rollins looks at someone off camera in Law & Order: SVU

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Benson is the only one Rollins lets herself be vulnerable with.

The worst of the worst cases.

For starters, she has so much history with the squad, having been there for ten years.

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She also has some very impactful relationships, not only with Benson, but also with Carisi.

Since shell likely be working with similar cases, we may get more crossovers orperhaps even a new spin-off.

Law and Order: SVUairs Thursdays at 9 pm on NBC and streams the next day on Peacock.

ADA Carisi and Amanda smile together at their son’s baptism in Law & Order: SVU

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This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

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