The
paranoid, truth-seeking editors of The Lone Gunman and
Magic Bullet underground newsletters, whom Mulder once
described as "an extreme government watchdog group".
They have contacts and inside knowledge in a diversity of fields
and aupply Mulder with often unreliable but sometimes first-rate
information regarding political conspiracies, UFO sightings,
and goverment agencies and their covert operations. They
have also displayed their expertise on various fly species and
expertimental insecticides, human DNA, the mating habits of zoo
animals, Nazi war criminals, Japanese shipping routs, package
retrieval and the technology used to heighten the impression
left by writing on paper, sophisticated television emitting signals
used for mind control, and the cover infiltration of research
facility via subterranean tunnels.
The Lone Gunmen are:
Byers - Played
by Bruce Harwood
The neatly bearded, dapperly dressed, military and information
systems expert of the Lone Gunmen. He is the no-nonsense "mole"
of the trio, spending all his time gathering bits of information
about government activities.
He was once a member of the Federal Communications Commisson.
During a convention for computer and tech owners he met a women
that told him about a government plan to spread a paranoid-inhancing
drug on a control group. Using his government access he helped
the women to find the shipment. This is where he first met Langly
and Frohike. He also met Mulder later, since Mulder was assigned
to find the women, believing that she had murdered several of
her co-workers.
They found the shipment, but only to be stopped by government
henchmen that shot at them and in the process exposed Mulder
to the drug. The woman ran away and Mulder cringed on the floor
yelling about aliens. When Mr. X came to clean up the mess, Byers
yelled at him that there was a conspiracy and that the public
should know the truth, about everything, including the JFK assisnation.
In turn, X replied "JFK? I heard it was a Lone Gunman".
After being let go by the police that came and took them to jail,
Byers and the other two men tracked down the woman at a local
news station. They didn't believe her. She told the men to go
and that "no matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid
enough". She was then taken away but secret government officials
and never seen again.
Frohike - Played by Tom Braidwood
The short, perpetually unshaven and combat boot-clad photographic
and surveillance specialist of the Lone Gunmen. He is the hands-on
technical member of the group, a master of hard sciences with
a special interest in military hardware. Frohike typically represents
someone even more extreme than Mulder in his belief in conspiracies,
a fringe personality who has taken the agent's convictions to
the far edges and makes him look positively sane and staid by
comparison.
One day, Frohike called Mulder and Scully to his office and revealed
to the agents his version of Cigarette-Smoking Man's secret past.
Given the dossier's incredible arch, near-satiric tone and absured
allegations, one had to wonder if Frohike's enthusiasm led him
to accept parcels of disinformation.
At this same time, Cigarette-Smoking Man eavesdropped electronically
on the entire conversation from inside a building across the
street, his sniper's rifle trained on teh fron door of the office.
Frohike believed that CSM was trying to kill him. At the last
moment, CSM put his weapon aside, muttering to himself, "I
can kill you whenever I please. . . but not today".
Langley - Played by Dean Haglund
Ringo Langly(Dean Haglund) is an expert computer hacker, he has
long blond hair and thick black-rimmed glasses. He has invited
Mulder to "hop on the Internet to nitpick the scientific
inaccuracies" of a new science-fiction show. In 1989 he
and his friend Frohike met Byers at a Baltimore computer show.
He and his compadres first appeared in the first season episode
"E.B.E." and he told Mulder and Scully what he believed
to be the most evil, heinous force of the 20th century: The CIA.
He always records every incoming phone call, and when Mulder
asked him to turn off the recording he didn't hesitate to lie
and keep it on. In "Anasazi" he and fellow Lone Gunmen
appeared in Mulder's apartment and gave him information on a
computer hacker who had broken into classified UFO documents.
In the Season 4 episode "Memento Mori", Langly and
Frohike electronically dismantled the security system of a medical
center which Mulder broke into to look for more information on
Scully's cancer. In the fifth season episodes "Redux"
and "Redux II" he, Frohike, and Byers helped Mulder
look for a cure for Scully's cancer. In the Season 5 episode
"Kill Switch", Langly and his friends helped Mulder
and Scully investigate the murder of a computer genius.
In the X-Files movie, the Lone Gunmen helped Mulder sneak out of a hospital so he could save Scully from being used as a host for the black oil alien.
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