High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Manhattan Vigil" is the fifth episode of the fourteenth season of the police procedural television series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, it is the series` 300th episode overall. It originally aired on National Broadcasting Company (NBC) on October 24, 2012 at 9:00PM (Eastern Standard Time). Law & Order: SVU`s milestone 300th episode dealt with an incredible kidnapping case that was thirteen years in the making, taking Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) back to her very first year.