Summary
Over the past twenty-five seasons, NBC’sLaw & Order: SVUhas introduced audiences to exceptional characters.
Mega fan-favorite Detective Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) has had her fair share of ups and downs.
In the Season 16 episode “Poisoned Motive,” Rollins is shot by a sniper.
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Amanda Rollins, like allSVUcharacters,is flawed and conflicted.
She has a traumatizing past.
Her father had alcoholism, and he frequently abused her mother.
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.
Her sister is addicted to cocaine and has frequent run-ins with the law.
Detective Taymor is reluctant to admit the truth, fearing retaliation at work.
The truth, however, is that Detective Taymor’s situation is just history repeating itself.
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Giddish reveals Rollins’feelings of regret and shameasshe continues to hide the truth about her past from her colleagues.
Giddish shows her emotional range as Rollinsrecounts her story in her practice testimony.
Detective Taymor is vindicated, and Patton’s predatory tendencies are put to an end.
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OnSVU, Amanda Rollins regularly struggles to empathize with victims of domestic abuse.
Her mother was a victim of abuse, but she refused to speak up or leave Amanda’s father.
Rollins came to view her mother as being responsible for her abuse rather than a victim.
Rollins blamed herself for her rape.
She tells Captain Benson that she knows better and shouldn’t have gone to the motel.
Law & Order: SVUis available to stream on Hulu in the U.S.
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