2Shy

Infobox Television episode | Title = 2Shy


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Series = The X-Files
Season = 3
Episode = 6
Airdate = November 3, 1995 (Fox)
Production = 3x06
Guests = Timothy Carhart as Virgil Incanto
Writer = Jeff Vlaming
Director = David Nutter

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Prev = The List
Next = The Walk"2Shy" is the sixth episode of the third season of television series "The X-Files". Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, a serial killer seduces his prey with the right words.

Plot

The killer, Virgil Incanto, is a freelance writer who translates between Italian and English and is extremely knowledgeable in classical Italian literature. In addition to meeting victims through the internet, he also kills his landlady (whose blind daughter is able to sense this and report to 911,) a prostitute after a failed date, one of the local policemen, and attempts to kill Scully. Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest most body tissue other than fats. Text taken from the "2Shy" summary .

Trivia

While every episode at the time was filmed in the Vancouver area, the episode is set in Cleveland, Ohio. The filming accurately simulated the lakefront and downtown Flats; one of the apartments has a Cleveland Indians pennant; and in a map of northeast Ohio in the local field office which is used in finding whether Virgil Incanto is a professor of Italian, it appears that lines are traced around the area of Case Western Reserve University, the fairly selective private college on the eastern edge of town.

External links

*imdb title|0751065|2Shy
* [http://www.tv.com/the-x-files/2shy/episode/545/summary.html 2Shy] at TV.com
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