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  • The way Anna exposes the murderer in the conclusion of Deadly Snowstorm. She begins by revealing to everyone Giovanni and Professor Clark's enmity towards Mr. Petersen and Professor Kinsky, respectively, as well as the smuggling operation run by Otto and Father Lenz which Dr. Hartmann discovered. Claudia congratulates Anna for supposedly exposing the murderers and tries to go back her bags… only for Anna to explain in great detail Claudia's actions and the reasons behind them right from the start. By the time she's finished, Claudia can only sullenly declare that she won't say anything without her lawyer, just as the police finally arrive.
  • Atlantic Connection: Gerhard attempts to shoot Anna with a rifle, but Otto shields her with his body. Reacting quickly, Anna picks up a vase and throws it at Gerhard, knocking him unconscious.
  • The Heir:
    • Osvald's plan to claim Molinelli Industries through murder and incrimination is so carefully planned that it would have been a success if not for Anna's interference.
    • Despite having been locked up for a while and told to stay out of the apparently solved case, Anna persists and discovers who the true murderer is before using an Engineered Public Confession to expose them.
    • Luigi gets one when he saves Anna from being crushed under the boulder Osvald drops on her.
  • The Dada Killer:
    • When Judit is revealed to have been murdered, Oskar is being harsh and insulting towards Ulli (whom he calls a stuttering lapdog) and Anna whom he doesn't want to check Judit's office to test his theory that Ruben was the Dada Killer and committed a Murder-Suicide. Ulli starts to stick up for himself and defends Anna, knowing Judit would want her there.
      Ulli: I'll escort her up. It's what Judit would've wanted.
      Oskar: You're taking her?
      Ulli: [sternly] Did I stutter?
    • When Oskar is holding Anna and Iris at gunpoint, Anna manages to hang a plate in Ruben's Korogonza mechanism while Oskar's attention is on Iris. As Ulli is waking up and Oskar intends to shoot him, the plate falls on his head and causes him to drop his gun. Ulli manages to snatch the gun before Oskar and force him to escape.
    • Anna and Ulli chase Oskar in her car through the streets of Zürich until the Dada Killer crashes and injures himself. As Anna holds him at gunpoint, he tries to goad her into shooting him while bragging that he will be remembered as an artistic genius. Following a moment of intense silence, Anna lowers her gun and tells him that she refuses to give him the satisfaction, which is the same she told Sven while refusing to publish the poems Oskar sent her.
  • Ladies of the Night: Three men start harassing Anna sexually, but she has none of that, first telling them to keep away and slapping the one who grabs her. When Max appears to back her up, she stomps with her high heel on one jerk's leg and groins another one as Max decks the last one so hard a tooth flies out. The perverts then wisely bolt and Max is smitten with Anna.
  • Gray Nature: When Dr. Sachs thinks he's off the hook after Anna acquits him of murdering Dr. Brüner by revealing the latter killed himself to frame Dr. Sachs, he thanks her on his knees. Anna is completely disgusted by him because of the crimes he still committed and pushes Dr. Sachs back, saying "I wasn't doing it for you".
  • Forgotten Memento: When Oskar walks into Anna's cell and tries to give her a newspaper, Anna is right behind Oskar and whams him in the back of the head again, this time with a chair.
    Oskar: Present for Miss Myers… [gets knocked out by Anna]
    Anna: Go to hell, psycho.
  • No Quarter: A lot of Just in Time moments.
    • Sven walks in the Cabaret Rousseau on time to hear Martha confess incriminating Hilda for falsely cheating on Sven.
    • Manu approaches and threatens Anna's robber on time before he could rob Anna.
    • Ulli shoots Leon on time before Leon could shoot at Anna and Manu.

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