Overview
- The new Vienna installment, which aired Sunday on ARD, marks the second-to-last case for investigators Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner.
- The story probes a youth group home after its leader is found bludgeoned, with distrust of police shaping tense interviews and a missing teen named Cihan drawing early suspicion.
- Director Katharina Mückstein stages witness accounts as walk‑through flashbacks that place the detectives inside the recollections, breaking a straight timeline to show how people say events unfolded.
- Critics widely praise the somber mood, performances, and empathy for marginalized boys, while several reviews fault the case’s motive and wrap‑up as thin.
- Producers have confirmed a handover in Vienna, with Miriam Fussenegger and Laurence Rupp set to take over in 2027, closing a long run for the Eisner–Fellner team in a franchise that rotates city-based investigators.