Season 1

10 episodes · 28th November 2024

The hair-raising cases of Philip Maloney. The private detective investigates with wit, charm and unmistakable roguishness.

Episodes

Episode 1

A lawyer rarely comes alone

Marco is shocked when his girlfriend shows up in a new Porsche. Not because of the material extravagance, but because he suspects an affair is behind the gift. During the investigation, Maloney crosses paths with the suspicious lawyer couple "Schimpf & Schimpf".

Episode 2

Sleeping Dogs

Sleepwalker Emilia Dobek wakes up in the middle of a park with a blood-stained wallet in her hand. She's convinced she's killed someone. Maloney investigates and, in a sleep lab, uncovers a number of nightmarish double lives.

Episode 3

Killer instinct

Maloney wakes up hungover under the wrong office desk. In his hands, he clutches a blood-stained knife. Yet he was the one assigned to provide personal protection for a businessman at the party the night before. The police officer, overcome with glee, has no doubt: Maloney is the murderer and arrests him.

Episode 4

The elevator

In his latest case, Maloney finds himself in a spooky apartment building. Bodies appear in the elevator, and then vanish just as quickly. Is Maloney's client mentally unstable, or are supernatural forces at work in the building?

Episode 5

The last day

Mrs. Thaler has joined the group "The Last Day," which is preparing for the apocalypse. This displeases her daughter, who suspects a scam. Maloney, who is supposed to rescue her mother from the clutches of the doomsday guru in the woods, soon stumbles upon a "wrecked" corpse.

Episode 6

The clinic

Maloney is working undercover at a luxury psychiatric clinic, where he's supposed to solve a murder disguised as a suicide. But instead of finding his client, who's supposed to provide him with information, he encounters aggressive patients, a neurotic clinic director and a dead body in the bushes.

Episode 7

Party night

Maloney's new case takes him to a retirement home, where he is supposed to solve a case of sabotage involving a walker. When, unexpectedly, not his paranoid client but the accused dies, Maloney uncovers jealous rivalries, vicious intrigues and eccentric personalities hidden beneath the surface of everyday life at the retirement home.

Episode 8

Gold rush

Maloney is hired as a bodyguard and night watchman for the Liebknecht couple. Their constantly malfunctioning alarm system robs them of sleep. But in the middle of the night, Maloney is awakened from a micro-sleep by a police officer: the client lies murdered in the villa Maloney was supposed to be guarding.

Episode 9

The cocoon

A routine assignment takes Philip Maloney to the countryside. But instead of fresh air, he encounters a mysterious theft, a quirky alien community and a shriveled corpse. Was someone really abducted by extraterrestrials, or is a very earthly murder being covered up?

Episode 10

A bad business

Maloney's arch-nemesis has disappeared. To find him, the detective needs the help of a cunning thief, a standoffish policewoman and a wife who throws everything into disarray. What could possibly go wrong?