Vienna Blood (2019-2024) is a British Austrian police procedural. It is set in Vienna, Austria in the early 1900s and is based on the Liebermann novels by English clinical psychologist and writer, Frank Tallis.

The series follows Police Detective Oskar Rheinhardt (Jurgen Maurer) as he teams up with a student of Sigmund Freud, Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard). The pair use Max’s skills to explore the psychology behind several murders.

In Series 2, Episodes 1 & 2 of “The Melancholy Countess”, we find out that a wealthy countess had her 9-year-old son sent away to a mental asylum because she was embarrassed by his behaviour. The boy was taken to another hospital at the age of 16.

**Spoiler Alert** The abandoned son is not the killer.