Overview

• The narrative unfolds in Vienna under emergency as aggressive protestors clash with police and student Jakob Volkmann dies from a head wound.
• Detectives Bibi Fellner and Moritz Eisner face conflicting leads pointing to both police violence and extremist agitators.
• Investigators uncover that Volkmann and his pregnant partner, Katja Ralko, were active in KAPO, a militant right-wing group aiming to overthrow the state.
• Reviewers praise the episode’s timely realism and exploration of blurred ideological divides while critiquing its heavy-handed storytelling and familiar character tropes.
• By dramatizing radicalization and institutional reactions, the thriller echoes wider European anxieties about populism and conspiracy movements.