The Lone Gunmen

The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off of the popular series The X-Files, was a television show that aired on FOX. The show first aired in March 2001, and it was soon cancelled with its last episode airing in June 2001. The show revolved around a trio of computer nerds and conspiracy theory aficionados named Melvin Frohike, Richard "Ringo" Langly and John Fitzgerald Byers, who published a magazine that was entitled The Lone Gunman (which was previously titled The Magic Bullet in earlier episodes of The X-Files, notably so in the episode Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man) in the X-Files series. The name was derived from the lone gunman theory.

The Lone Gunmen in The X-Files

The Lone Gunmen have appeared and played important roles in many episodes of The X-Files, the show on which they originally appeared. They also had a brief appearance on the X-Files movie.

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The episode Unusual Suspects, which takes place in 1989, is about how the group formed.

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Appearences

The Lone Gunmen have appeared on the following episodes of The X-Files (not in order):

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• 1x16 E.B.E (first appearance)
• 2x03 Blood
• 2x08 One Breath
• 2x18 Fearful Symmetry
• 2x25 The Anasazi
• 3x01 The Blessing Way
• 3x02 Paper Clip
• 3x09 Nisei
• 3x16 Apocrypha
• 3x23 Wetwired
• 4x07 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
• 4x15 Memento Mori
• 4x20 Small Potatoes (The Lone Gunmen never physically appeared on this episode, but there is a message left by Langly on Mulder's answering machine.)
• 5x01 Unusual Suspects
• 5x02 Redux I
• 5x03 Redux II
• 5x07 Emily
• 5x11 Kill Switch
• 5x20 The End
• 6x03 Triangle
• 6x05 Dreamland II
• 6x12 One Son
• 6x19 Three of a Kind
• 6x21 Field Trip
• 7x13 First Person Shooter
• 7x15 En Ami
• 7x22 Requiem
• 8x01 Within
• 8x07 Via Negativa
• 8x11 The Gift
• 9x15 Jump the Shark
• 9x19/9x20 The Truth (the final episode of The X-Files. The Lone Gunmen appear as ghosts on this episode.)