<P> In "Twenty - Five Acts", Amaro asks temporary SVU commanding officer Captain Harris (Adam Baldwin) to let him work their rape case solo, telling Benson that she needed a partner she could trust . Benson ends up working the case with Detective Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish). </P> <P> In the episode, "Undercover Blue", Cassidy is put on trial for rape . Amaro is called to the stand by ADA Derek Strauss, who asks about his undercover work . When Cassidy's lawyer questions him, Amaro is forced to reveal that he had a romantic relationship with the sister of a drug lord he was investigating undercover . Munch then informs him that the NYPD brass is requesting he take a paternity test because the woman is claiming he has a son from the relationship . He goes to the woman's house to confront her, but is denied by her boyfriend . Later, while watching the boyfriend pick the boy up from school, he witnesses the man use the boy as a carrier during a drug deal . Amaro then meets the boy and tells the woman that her boyfriend is using their son to deal drugs . After Cassidy apologizes to Amaro for what his lawyer did, Cassidy helps Amaro bust the boyfriend for drug dealing . The episode concludes with Amaro knocking on the woman's door, and her reluctantly letting him in . </P> <P> In "Born Psychopath", he is shot by a 10 - year - old boy while apprehending him for abusing a young girl . </P> <P> Amaro begins to show great concern when Rollins, a recovering gambling addict, falls off the wagon, and they grow closer . In the episode "Reasonable Doubt", he comes out of a shower in Rollins' apartment, implying that they had been intimate . In "Holden's Manifesto", a murder suspect asks them if they are sleeping together; they do not answer the question, and change the subject . </P>

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