If Season 27 has a headline, it’s one word: reunion. Here are the six returns lighting up fan timelines—and why each matters.
1) Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish)
The prodigal profiler comes home—full-time. Rollins’ arc was never emotionally finished: her bond with Benson, her marriage to Carisi, and motherhood all left dangling threads.
Bringing her back restores SVU’s heart-to-heart counterweight to Benson’s command—expect cases where psychology, not brute force, cracks open the truth.
2) Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni)
Stabler’s surprise set visit with Hargitay isn’t just a photo-op; it tees up story oxygen between the shows and pays off years of unresolved tension. Even one charged episode reframes Benson’s choices, the squad’s risk calculus, and New York’s organized-crime bleed-through.
3) Donald Cragen (Dann Florek)
The original captain’s presence is legacy fuel. As a mentor figure, Cragen grounds the unit’s ethics and gives Benson a sounding board who remembers the cost of doing the job
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