‘Law & Order: SVU’ season 17 spoilers: Rollins’ complicated family reunion
It has been fairly-common knowledge for a little while now that Virginia Madsen is going to guest-star on an upcoming episode of “Law & Order: SVU” as the mother of Amanda Rollins, and now we are starting to understand just why she is there.
As many fans may have predicted, getting to see Rollins’ mom is tied to the character’s pregnancy, which will give us a little bit of lightness hopefully in the midst of what is a dark show at times. Even this lightness may be short-lived for Rollins, given that in this same episode entitled “Maternal Instincts” (airing on October 21), we are also going to see Rollins’ sister at the same time. She is far from a saint, and could complicate an important case based on the synopsis below:
“Rollins’ (Kelli Giddish) mother Beth (Madsen) throws her a baby shower while the SVU reports to a four-star hotel where a famous violinist was raped by her colleague, Anton Krasnikov (guest star Zach McGowan). With no memory of the crime, Anton claims a hired escort drugged and robbed him, and evidence leads to the shocking return of Rollins’ fugitive sister Kim (guest star Lindsay Pulsipher). Meanwhile, Sgt. Mike Dodds (guest star Andy Karl) arrives for his first day at SVU.”
We don’t want to gloss over the arrival of Mike Dodds in this synopsis, largely because we know that this character will be a particularly important part of the story to come. His presence adds another layer of intrigue to the Squad Room; it’s another person for Benson to work with, but given his connection to his father, will he end up undermining our new Lieutenant more than he ends up helping her?
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MorbidPet
October 14, 2015 @ 7:47 am
Can’t wait to see Madsen knock this role out of the park!! & I hope Kim goes to jail and stays there this time around. As for the baby daddy, we are getting a visit from Gotham in ep5 so I think we know who the father is now ;)
Michael Goldman
October 15, 2015 @ 3:36 am
If you knew it was Murphy, then good call by you. There was never any hint of anything going on between them. Leight really jumped the shark here. Now that we all know that Amanda cheated on Amaro, Can ROLLARO finally be over once and for all?
MorbidPet
October 15, 2015 @ 8:54 am
My no1 choice would’ve been Nick but when that was obviously not the case then I was torn between Doom and Murphy. When photos leaked of Kelli/Donal then my mind was pretty set up ;) I don’t think Amanda cheated on Amaro, perhaps they were over after that barfight after all?! WL certainly made it sound that way. The Rollaro elevator scene was cut so I guess it never happened in the SVU universe but was all in us Rollaro shippers universe.
I just wish they would’ve played that AR/Murphy scene out a ltl differently. AR sleeping with a boss (even if former), and one that had already pegged her ‘blindspot for men in power’, and with the whole Patton scenario in mind, it’s just wrong and I hoped this would lead to them finally dealing with her rape, but this just felt like they made the bed nicely so to speak. Murphy seems to have his head screwed back on and AR doesn’t seem to have a problem with sleeping with coworkers even after what she’s been through. I dunno, feels wrong to me. SVU not dealing with AR’s rape will always haunt me and make me disappointed in them :(
Michael Goldman
October 6, 2015 @ 12:25 am
This is the episode that will jump the shark because the first thing Amanda should do when she sees her sister is call the police and have her arrested. There is murder warrant out for Amanda’s sisters arrest. if the father of Amanda’s baby is her former boyfriend from Gamblers Anonymous, that would be really horrible. She said she was done with him, and how terrible She ended up back in bed with him after Amaro left. I thought that Amanda’s sister might end up causing Amanda to have a miscarriage or something, but I doubt that Warren Leight wants to go there. I know that Amanda will miss about 4 episodes when Kelli is due to have her baby. We’ll have to watch and see what happens.
danny
October 4, 2015 @ 3:53 am
the only two people i could only think would be the father by storyline is former Atlanta P.D. Deputy Chief Charles Patton and her cheating boyfriend Nate Davis