The Lone Gunmen
Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome of John Byers, Melvin Frohike, and Richard Langly play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude. While their newfound independence inspires them to investigate even the most shadowy of conspiracies, their social skills remain stagnant, which only makes their lives more difficult when they learn their chief competitor in the "information business" is the brilliant and beautiful Yves Adele Harlow. Perpetually short of funds to publish The Lone Gunmen newspaper, Byers, Frohike and Langly begrudgingly take on Jimmy Bond as an unlikely benefactor who bankrolls their missions and joins them in their investigations to uncover the truth.
- 2001-2001
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Comedy, Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-MA
Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome of John Byers, Melvin Frohike, and Richard Langly play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude. While their newfound independence inspires them to investigate even the most shadowy of conspiracies, their social skills remain stagnant, which only makes their lives more difficult when they learn their chief competitor in the "information business" is the brilliant and beautiful Yves Adele Harlow. Perpetually short of funds to publish The Lone Gunmen newspaper, Byers, Frohike and Langly begrudgingly take on Jimmy Bond as an unlikely benefactor who bankrolls their missions and joins them in their investigations to uncover the truth.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2001
Episode 1
Pilot
Sun, Mar 4, 2001 43 mins
The 3 Lone Gunmen attempt to steal the powerful Octium IV computer chip from the shady E-Com-Con tech company's top security room. However, a professional thief called Yves Adele Harlow is watching them, waiting for the right time to use the Gunmen as a distraction and steal the chip for herself. After the fiasco that ensues, the Gunmen get more bad news - Byers' father Bertram, a top tier government agent, has died in a car crash. After the touching funeral involving the launch of a rocket ship model, another government agent who knew Byers' father warns them that whatever happened to Bertram Byers was no accident. After their thorough investigation and a plot twist, The Gunmen conclude that something is very wrong and try to hack into the government files in other to discover what Byers' father was working on at the time of his "accident". What they find turns out to unintentionally be highly prophetic, since this pilot was aired just 6 months before the 9/11 happened.
Episode 2
Bond, Jimmy Bond
45 mins
The Lone Gunmen are trying to find out who killed a fellow hacker. In the midst of their adventures they meet a not-so-bright football player named Jimmy Bond.
Episode 3
Eine Kleine Frohike
45 mins
Frohike goes deep undercover as a long lost son, after the Gunmen receive a tip which could lead them to a female baker who poisoned members of the French Resistance back in the second World War.
Episode 4
Like Water for Octane
45 mins
The Lone Gunmen and Jimmy are trying to find the long lost "water powered" car that Frohike saw with his own eyes back in 1962. Only, they are not the only ones who are after it.
Episode 5
Three Men and a Smoking Diaper
45 mins
A baby is introduced in the lives of the Lone Gunmen as a link between a popular senator running a campaign for re-election who was involved with one of his campaign workers who died in a very suspicious accident.
Episode 6
Madam, I'm Adam
45 mins
The guys are approached by a desperate man in need of help who claims to have apparently been erased from existence. The Gunmen's only clue to this mystery is the man's inexplicable hate for a specific late midget wrestler.
Episode 7
Planet of the Frohikes
45 mins
The Gunmen receive an email for help from a 'slave' subjected to secret government tests. The slave turns out to be a superintelligent chimp called Peanuts, who escapes supposedly to stop a Soviet chimp spy turned assassin for hire, Bobo.
Episode 8
Maximum Byers
45 mins
Jimmy and Byers are jailing themselves into a high security jail so they can get access to a death row inmate who is potentially innocent.
Episode 9
Diagnosis: Jimmy
45 mins
While the Lone Gunmen stalk an illegal grizzly-bear trader in a snowy forest, an injured Jimmy believes his doctor is a serial killer.
Episode 10
Tango de los Pistoleros
45 mins
Yves becomes a smuggler's partner in a tango competition in Miami while the Lone Gunmen are afoot to uncover what Yves is after.
Episode 11
The Lying Game
45 mins
The Lone Gunmen are surprised to find that FBI's Walter Skinner is somehow involved in the murder of Byers' old college roommate who tried to blackmail a gangster with ties to Russian mafia.
Episode 12
The 'Cap'n Toby' Show
45 mins
Cap'n Toby, the host of a long-running children's show and Langly's childhood hero, is accused of spying for the Chinese. The gang investigates the so-called Rose-Colored Glasses Lady, a dangerous operative who may know more.
Episode 13
All About Yves
45 mins
In the series finale, the Gunmen team up with Morris Fletcher, the sleazy Man in Black from Dreamland (1998), to find the person who stole the list of false flag operations. The cliffhanger ending is resolved in Jump the Shark (2002).
