'Vienna Blood' Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: "Queen of the Night, Part 1"

At the end of Vienna Blood's first mystery, Max did the sensible thing and asked Clara to marry him. It's now a few months later, 1907, and Clara is being fitted for gown and veil while Max ponders whether or not love is real. (The legend he recites, by the way, is the Greek myth of the Soulmate from Aristophanes.) As Max and Clara's engagement party gets underway, down in the Spittelberg Quarter, viewers meet Josefine (Elsia Afie Abgaglah), an escort at Borek's brothel.

Reinhardt: I was just inches from a clean getaway.

Det. Oskar Reinhardt is in attendance at the engagement, but the inspector can't stay long. There's been a murder, and Max stares longingly as he leaves. Clara, who is no fool, tells him to go. The victim is, naturally, Josefine, arranged in a Virgin Mary style display. The rest of Borek's girls have also been slaughtered. Worse, von Bulow is here, having raced to get there first, and insists he is in charge now.