While filming an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in New York City, lead actress Mariska Hargitay was approached by a young girl.

If you didn’t know any better, you would think it was a part of the script. But it wasn’t.

According to People, while dressed in her SVU gear, the little girl mistook Hargitay for a real-life police officer. The little girl was accidentally separated from her mum and needed help.