Our favorite detectives of Law & Order: SVU will be back in January, but for its 25th season, the biggest question we were left with involves a character who is no longer part of the squad. (Sure, there’s always the will they/won’t they of Benson and Stabler, but considering how long that slow burn has been already — 25 years — and where they left off, we have a feeling that’s going to be going on for awhile still.

) Kelli Giddish, who plays detective-turned-professor Amanda Rollins, left in the middle of Season 24, but her guest spots in the SVU and Organized Crime crossovers in May revealed she seems to be missing her former job.

Organized Crime‘s Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) turned to Rollins for help on the case and, after observing her in her lecture, remarked she was more excited talking to him.

How long has she been bored, he asked. “I love the students, but I do miss the feeling of solving a good mystery,” she told him.

But she couldn’t tell her husband, ADA Sonny Carisi (Peter Scanavino), because “it’ll break his heart.

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