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''Signora Volpe'' (or Ms. Fox in English) is a 2022 AmateurSleuth drama series produced/distributed by Acorn TV and AMC in a joint production for three episodes. It stars Emilia Fox, Jamie Bamber, Tara Fitzgerald and Issy Knopfler.

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''Signora Volpe'' (or Ms. Fox in English) is a 2022 AmateurSleuth drama series produced/distributed by Acorn TV and AMC in a joint production for three episodes. It stars Emilia Fox, Jamie Bamber, Tara Fitzgerald Creator/EmiliaFox, Creator/JamieBamber, Creator/TaraFitzgerald and Issy Knopfler.
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* ShoutOut: When Sylvia tests her gun in an Italian meadow it mirrors the famous scene in Film/TheDayOfTheJackal which stars Emilia Fox's father, Edward Fox as a professional assassin.

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* ShoutOut: When Sylvia tests her gun suppressed pistol in an Italian meadow meadow, it mirrors the famous scene in Film/TheDayOfTheJackal which stars Emilia Fox's father, Edward Fox as a professional assassin.

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Sylvia Fox is [[ExperiencedProtagonist veteran MI6 agent]] who decided to take an initial leave of absence in order to take a career break after her superiors decides to pull the plug on maintain a pro-British intelligence network in Hezrah since the Hezrahnis are due to enter into diplomatic talks with London. She later travels to Panicale in Umbria in Italy in order to attend a wedding for her niece, Alice. She's due to marry Tomasso.

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Sylvia Fox is [[ExperiencedProtagonist veteran MI6 agent]] who decided to take an initial leave of absence in order to take a career break after her superiors decides decide to pull the plug on maintain maintaining a pro-British intelligence network in Hezrah since the Hezrahnis are due to enter into diplomatic talks with London. She later travels to Panicale in Umbria in Italy in order to attend a wedding for her niece, Alice. She's due to marry Tomasso.



* {{Qurac}}: "Anxious Aunt" mentions the presence of Hezrah. There's no specific location as to where it's locate.
* PoliceAreUseless: The Carabinieri are good at their job. It just happens that when they try to do their job, they sometimes encounter ambigious evidence or obstructive suspects when they make an arrest that it's sometime impossible to crack a case. However, Samir and Riva become reasonable to talk to once they're shown with the ''proper evidence'' neeeded to close the case.
* SceneryPorn: The camera angle does a good off to show off Panicale and the other towns in Umbria.

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* {{Qurac}}: "Anxious Aunt" mentions the presence of Hezrah. There's no specific location as to where it's locate.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The Carabinieri are good at their job. It just happens that when they try to do their job, they sometimes encounter ambigious evidence or obstructive suspects when they make an arrest that it's sometime sometimes impossible to crack a case. However, Samir and Riva become reasonable to talk to once they're shown with the ''proper evidence'' neeeded to close the case.
* SceneryPorn: The camera angle does a good off to show job showing off Panicale and the other towns in Umbria.Umbria.
* ShoutOut: When Sylvia tests her gun in an Italian meadow it mirrors the famous scene in Film/TheDayOfTheJackal which stars Emilia Fox's father, Edward Fox as a professional assassin.
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''Signora Volpe'' (or Ms. Fox in English) is a 2022 AmateurSleuth drama series produced/distributed by Acorn TV and AMC in a joint production for three episodes. It stars Emilia Fox, Jamie Bamber, Tara Fitzgerald and Issy Knopfler.

Sylvia Fox is [[ExperiencedProtagonist veteran MI6 agent]] who decided to take an initial leave of absence in order to take a career break after her superiors decides to pull the plug on maintain a pro-British intelligence network in Hezrah since the Hezrahnis are due to enter into diplomatic talks with London. She later travels to Panicale in Umbria in Italy in order to attend a wedding for her niece, Alice. She's due to marry Tomasso.

Following Tomasso going missing from the wedding, Sylvia uses her skills and experience as a [=MI6=] agent to investigate what happened to him. From there, she decides to settle permanently in the commune. Sylvia sometimes works with Captain Giovanni Riva of the Carabinieri in investigating cases throughout Panicale that seem to be a dead end at first.

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* AmateurSleuth: Sylvia turns herself into an amateur detective by using her experience as a black ops agent with [=MI6=] to solve cases in Panicale.
* DarkSecret: In "Truffles and Treachery", Sylvia finds out that the death of a university student, Mario, is (seemingly) linked to a video where he's involved with another man, who happens to be the son of a Russian oligarch. [[spoiler:It turns out her [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] Italian contact, Ercole, was being turned to a Russian double agent and there's video shot by Mario on a smartphone that exposes him taking money from a GRU agent posing as a diplomat.]]
* {{Qurac}}: "Anxious Aunt" mentions the presence of Hezrah. There's no specific location as to where it's locate.
* PoliceAreUseless: The Carabinieri are good at their job. It just happens that when they try to do their job, they sometimes encounter ambigious evidence or obstructive suspects when they make an arrest that it's sometime impossible to crack a case. However, Samir and Riva become reasonable to talk to once they're shown with the ''proper evidence'' neeeded to close the case.
* SceneryPorn: The camera angle does a good off to show off Panicale and the other towns in Umbria.
* ShownTheirWork: The Carabinieri is in charge of policing the communes like Panicale. For cities/big towns, the Polizia di Stato is in charge.
* TitleDrop: The locals of Panicale sometimes address Sylvia as ''Signora Volpe'' in Italian. Doubles as a MeaningfulName.
* WouldHurtAChild: In "Secrets and Sacrifices", Sylvia stumbles on a case where a young girl went missing near the end of World War II with the partisans fighting pro-fascists Italian troops. The locals assumed that someone killed her since she was never found. [[spoiler:This assumption was wrong in the end.]]

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