 The segment explains how he teaches real-estate agents these techniques to use on unsuspecting buyers of property.In fiction "covert hypnosis" has been featured in television series such as "The Mentalist", although rather over-represented, the most notable representation of covert hypnosis was in the episode "Russet Potatoes" in which a perpetrator uses covert hypnosis to control characters in the episode and attempts to kill her employer.Another representation of covert hypnosis was in an episode of "The X-Files" in which a man with a tumor in his brain gains additional skill in hypnosis, and utilizes it to escape police captivity.