Max realizes the killer's talk of 'artistry in death' is because he paints corpses. The owner admits the rings are supplied by a morgue worker, sending Max and Oskar to Herr Schopp. Koppensteiner finds a connection between victims: Silver rings from the same second-hand stand. There's the hatpin to the neck, but her face is bruised as Max notes, it doesn't fit the pattern, though Valentin swears he saw a masked man. Selma is dead, though the murder is not quite the same. Katrina and her husband sleep together at the Vogl house as the murderer strikes again. The killer then calls, promising more victims. Therese shows up to thank Oskar with cake he eats while Max has the family over for dinner. Oskar's visit to the slums did good he scared the landlord into fixing it. But not everyone is happy Clara's editor spikes her article no one wants a puff piece when there's murder. Ever enterprising, Clara visits Max, pointing out how helpful she could be as a fashion industry expert and a female perspective on these women. Frau Vogl says she saw the killer that night - she thought it was a hallucination (she was on laudanum) he had no face, just a black mask. The faceless man stops by Max's office, dropping off a butterfly, referencing Max's comments about collecting dead women like pinning butterflies to a board. At a dead end, Max suggests making the case public to smoke the killer out and maybe get a witness. (It turns out he's into Max's celebrity.) At Brunner's slum apartment, her neighbor, Therese Thanhofer ( Maria Kostlinger), suggests Mathilda supplemented her flower sales with prostitution. Oskar takes the case to Von Bulow, who waves Oskar on to keep going, much to Max's bewilderment. The detective on the case, Tauber ( Rainer Egger), wrote off her death as just another slum disease, but upon getting the body, there's the same puncture wound. She turns up Mathilda Brunner, a flower market worker. In search of other victims, they ask Frau Linder to check the case files. However, Oskar notes the postmark was from before Adele's death. Max receives a note from the killer at his office, boasting of his crime. Leah and Mendel know Vogl Leah calls her corsetless caftan gowns 'very modern,' while Mendel insinuates Kristina's designs disguising a woman's femininity stem from being 'not normal.' Meanwhile, Max heads home to Mendel's clothing shop, where Leah is now the manager. The only other male employee is the studio photographer, Ludo Rainmayr ( Xaver Hutter) Oskar asks to talk to all three, though questioning leads nowhere. Keinz ( David Rott), live on the premises, as do Valentin and maid Selma Wirth ( Lara Mandoki). However, the two did not get re-engaged they decided never to see each other again if they could help it. We learn she's become a writer, doing articles on the fashion industry, as Max tells Oskar Clara called off her engagement to Jonas after Season 2's ending window incident. Max and Oskar head to the fashion house to ask questions and run into Clara.

Jaeger and his new assistant, Frau Koppensteiner ( Anne Kulbatzki), determine it was a hatpin to the back of the neck, and max realizes it must have been during sex.

However, when Oskar is called into the murder of Adele Zeiler ( Sara Schmidt), a seamstress at the exclusive Modesalon of Madame Vogl ( Lisa Marie Potthoff), he tracks down Max to his new digs and asks for help.Īdele had been left to lock up by the foreman, Valentin ( Nils Artzmann), though unbeknownst to him, she stayed to wear Vogl's latest designs for a boyfriend. Since viewers were last in Edwardian Vienna, Max has written a best seller on the subject of psychoanalysis and moved to a fancy new address and hired a housekeeper, Elena ( Victoria Nikolaevskaja). However, it's been a year since then, both in our time and theirs. As viewers may remember last time Vienna Blood was on the air, Season 2 left things on a cliffhanger.

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