2Shy

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“2Shy”
The X-Files episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 6
Guest stars Timothy Carhart as Virgil Incanto
Written by Jeff Vlaming
Directed by David Nutter
Production no. 3x06
Original airdate November 3, 1995 (Fox)
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"2Shy" is the sixth episode of the third season of The X-Files. Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, a serial killer seduces his prey with the right words.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 the fatty acids in flesh. The killer, Virgil Incanto, is a freelance writer who translates between Italian and English and specializes in classical Italian literature. After becoming desperate for nutrition, he attacks a local prostitute--only to be interrupted in the process. Using records of one of the victim's "online e-mails", the detectives note reproductions of rare Italian poetry, which helps them build a list of subjects. Text taken from the 2Shy summary [1].

[edit] 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.

[edit] References and external links

The X-Files Season 3
Episode List | Official Website
The Blessing Way | Paper Clip | D.P.O. | Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose | The List | 2Shy | The Walk | Oubliette | Nisei | 731 | Revelations | War of the Coprophages | Syzygy | Grotesque | Piper Maru | Apocrypha | Pusher | Teso Dos Bichos | Hell Money | Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" | Avatar | Quagmire | Wetwired | Talitha Cumi
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