The once terrifying teenager now feels like a weak, wannabe psychopath who realizes he is stuck inside forever and has no way out. Even though he accidentally helps the team when Rollins visits him, his presence adds absolutely nothing to the storyline.

Nevertheless, something tells us this isn’t the last we will see of him. While Benson hopes he never returns, the fact that Rollins promised to visit him but fails to do so pushes us to believe that he will try to get her attention once more.

Before diving into the tension between Benson and Rollins, we must talk about the fact that, suddenly, everyone is talking about Rollins being unable to stay put for too long. They focus on the time she spent as a teacher and then in the unit before returning to SVU, as if she were known for jumping from job to job.

When she talks to Carisi about SVU, she says she is happy to be back but adds that this feels too permanent. And here is when we begin to wonder exactly where this is coming from, and where Wong’s assessment comes from.

Prior to leaving SVU to be a teacher, Rollins spent over a decade working alongside Benson. Spending more than ten years on a job makes it permanent, and there were never indications that Rollins was the kind of person who did things only for a short period of time. On the contrary, her departure seemed abrupt.

While viewers can understand the decision to become a teacher was tied to Kelli Giddish leaving the show, and then leaving her unit was tied to her return as a series regular, it makes no sense at all to tie this to a character who had been stable in the squad for a long time. It doesn’t even make sense to tie this idea to the case presented on “Career Psychopath.”

The episode could have simply focused on the attack on her family and the return of Henry Mesner, without bringing this random analysis of Rollins’s character that doesn’t add up.

What does make sense and is very much in character for Rollins is her behavior and the way she lashes out against Benson. History tells us that Amanda Rollins does not like playing by the rules when she feels very personally about the case at hand. And of course, her family being under attack is personal.

About ten years ago, Rollins did the same thing she does on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode 11, “Career Psychopath,” when she agreed to visit Greg Yates in prison. She went against Benson’s wishes then, and she does so again this time.

On the one hand, we have a captain who knows exactly how to behave around Henry and how to treat him. Benson understands which buttons to push and how to play Henry in order to find out how much he knows about the case. At that exact moment, even the viewers can tell that Henry’s presence is completely irrelevant to solving the case.

On the other hand, we have a sergeant who doesn’t like to be sidelined. Even if Rollins believed what Benson told her, she needed to see it for herself. That is exactly why she visits Henry and disobeys a direct order. While it does lead to finding the real perp, it isn’t justifiable.

Rollins’s behavior throughout the episode is understandable because that is how we’ve seen her behave in the past. Nevertheless, it is unacceptable for her to treat Ruby the way she does or to suggest that Benson’s empathy is a waste of time.

But if there is one thing we have learned from watching Rollins all these years, it’s that she won’t change. This behavior will return, and we will be at this exact same place.

If we want to look at the behavior of these characters and see who is out of character, Tynan will be the first on the list. Yes, we understand she is putting the entire department on alert because one of their own has been attacked, but the way she acts towards Benson is uncharacteristic.

She doesn’t argue with Olivia. She agrees to all of her requests and even encourages her to make her look like the bad guy if Rollins refuses the psych evaluation. Tynan is uncharacteristically charming with Olivia Benson in a way we haven’t seen since Benson rejected her offer.

Since we know she is planning to come after Benson by using Griffin, we can only connect this behavior to that. It truly is only a matter of time until Tynan shoots to kill.