| EBE |
Their first appearance. The story goes that the three
were patterned after a trio that James Wong and Glen Morgan
had seen tearing up $20 bills to expose the metal strip,
which they had Byers recreate. We learn they tape all phone
conversations, even ones with Mulder, which will prove useful in years to come.
Byers: That's why we like you,
Mulder; your ideas are weirder than ours. |
| Blood |
When Mulder comes across a bunch of flies that have
been dumped on the ground from a government truck, of course
the first thing he's going to do is take one to the Gunmen.
They give him a history lesson in chemicals that makes those
of us who grew up on military installations and endured the
bi-monthly mosquito spraying think twice.
Langly: LSDM. Obviously, you haven't read our August
edition of TLG. |
| One Breath |
Frohike in a suit and bow tie brings flowers to
a dying Scully and notices something wrong with her chart.
After examining the data back at their headquarters, Byers -
with some hesitation and sadness - tells Mulder that there
is nothing that he can do to save his partner.
Langly: You look down, Mulder. Tell you what, you're
welcome to come over Saturday night. We're all hopping on
the internet to nitpick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth
2. |
| Fearful Symmetry |
Byers and Frohike only appear - Langly
has philosophical issues with his image being bounced around
by satellite. Byers clues Mulder in on the zoo animals'
reproduction capabilities while Frohike proclaims his
buffness.
Byers: They got a little zoo there. Lots of strange lore -
animals escaping, disappearing without a trace. |
| Anasazi |
The arrival of the `three stooges' at Mulder's
apartment is followed shortly by a shooting at a neighbor's.
They've come to bring news of a secret government file that
has been hacked by a colleague who now wants to meet
Mulder.
Frohike: Weirdness.
|
| The Blessing Way |
Frohike appears at Scully's door in the
middle of the night, drunk but still eco-conscious, to commiserate Mulder's apparent death.
Frohike: "Do you recycle?"
|
| Paper Clip
|
Mulder returns to discover that his father may
have been associating with Nazi war criminals. The Gunmen
give him the background on one in particular while Frohike
breaks the news that Scully's sister has been shot.
Frohike: Unbelievable. We thought you were history.
|
| Nisei |
- Got a picture you need identified? The Gunmen are
more than happy to tap into satellites to bring you up to
date. The vest that Frohike sports in this episode has got
to be the most frightening one of all the vest appearances.
Byers: No, the optics are German. The technology is
probably ours, but the satellite is most likely Japanese.
|
| Apocrypha
|
Often referred to as `Gunmen on Ice', it dispels
the notion that all Canadians can skate - what you see onscreen is not acting. Well, okay, Harwood can skate and
Braidwood needed some practicing to get into form, but Haglund was a lost cause. The Gunmen discretely (yeah, right) recover a package for Mulder, only to find the
contents are missing. Side note: the skating rink where
this scene was filmed was recently shut down.
Langly: We show a talent for these G-man activities.
|
| Wetwired |
Subliminal brainwashing episode where the boys
learn that Mulder is red/green colorblind. Working with all
that equipment does make you think that they all *were* officers in their audio-visual clubs back in high school.
Mulder: The naked lady in the ice cube.
Frohike: Ah, one of my personal favorites.
|
| Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man |
Vocals by Byers and
Frohike (mainly Frohike) as they tell the possible background story of CSM. Frohike does make a visual
appearance at the end leaving the headquarters and nearly
being killed by CSM. Side note: The original script by Glen
Morgan *did* have Frohike being killed. Chris Carter would
override that notion during production but not before a scene with a mock-up of Frohike's head being blown up was
filmed.
Frohike: Don't use my name. What the hell's wrong with you?
Now I'll have to kill you.
|
| Memento Mori |
The funky poaching episode. Langly and
Frohike help Mulder and Byers break into a fertility clinic
that might hold some answers to Scully's illness. Byers has
a hell of time trying to get out of the building while the
others race against the clock and an assassin's bullets to
break security codes for Mulder's escape.
Frohike: Smile, Byers, you're on candid camera.
|
| Small Potatoes |
Langly reaches out to get in touch with
Mulder via the answering machine and invites him out for
cheesesteaks. Sometimes, geeks for friends can be a good
thing.
Langly: Um, erase this when you hear it.
|
| Redux I
|
- All that work and worry and fancy equipment and
they've got nothing to help a dying Scully.
Byers: It's deionized water. It's nothing more than that.
|
| Redux II |
All that fancy equipment is worth nothing if you
can't empty the contents of a vial completely. They
discover the chip that may help Scully.
Frohike: This is a cure for cancer?
|
| Unusual Suspects
|
The first of the XF Gunmen episodes that
takes us back to 1989 and their first meeting with each other and with Mulder. Langly and Frohike are cable
bootleggers and Byers is an FCC guy who can't resist a damsel in distress - Susanne Modeski. She needs them to
find the location of a compound scheduled to be unleashed
onto an unsuspecting public and then finds out that she herself has been bugged. Before they destroy the compound
at a warehouse, Mulder is inadvertently sprayed with it,
Susanne kills two would-be attackers and flees, and X cleans
up the damage and sends the boys on an adventure with a new
name for their group.
Byers: You're talking about a premeditated crime against the
United States government.
Frohike: Hey, your second one today. Welcome to the Dark
Side.
|
| Emily
|
Another Frohike solo effort as he hacks into
adoption records for Mulder.
Frohike: Medicinal or recreational?
|
| Kill Switch
|
Suitably impressed when introduced to Esther
Nairn, they take notes while she traces down a rogue AI.
She escapes while they sack out in a back room and give them
a tweak at the end just to let them know she is still around.
Langly: You programmed the autonomous bots in Ninjitsu
Princess, the most gnarliest piece of entertainment software
ever.
|
| The End |
Yep, they really *do* sleep at their headquarters.
To no one's surprise, Byers prefers the pajama and robe set
while Langly sports a t-shirt and sweatpants look.
Frohike, however, takes protection in the bedroom just one step too
far with the kevlar over the pajamas. Scully pays the boys
a nighttime visit for help on Gibson Praise where they fill
her in a bit on Mulder's past with Diana Fowley.
Langly: She was there when he discovered the X-Files. She
has some kind of background in para-science.
|
| Triangle |
The boys invade the Hoover building to notify
Scully that Mulder has gone missing in the Bermuda
Triangle. We also get the appearance of the VW bus as the boys whisk Scully away to
search for the Queen Anne. Side note: If you are ever in
Long Beach, California, take the Queen Mary tour, and you
too can roam the hallways like the Gunmen and visit the ballroom and the bridge. Just don't jump over the side, ala
Mulder. There's also a spa onboard called The Blessing Way.
Would I lie to you about something like that?
Frohike: What kind of drugs is he on?
Langly: I want some.
|
| Dreamland II |
Chef!Frohike is in the kitchen when Scully
and Mulder pay them a visit. Only it's Morris Fletcher who
appears as Mulder and compliments them on falling for his
planted stories. They dig the data out of a flight recorder
in the hopes that it will help to reverse the Mulder/Morris
switch, but we are still left to wonder if the Gunmen remember this exchange when time snaps back.
Byers: We uncover the *Truth*. |
| One Son |
Scully once again enlists the Gunmen's help in
discovering who Diana Fowley really is and, when she confronts Mulder with the information, they have a front row
seat to their argument.
Frohike: Hey,
you get through this, you got to come through me. |
| Three of a Kind |
The second of the XF Gunmen episodes.
Byers has been pining for Susanne Modeski for the past ten
years and is a so-so poker player, Langly gets squeamish at
autopsies, and Frohike likes to drop out of ceilings and
once again proves that chivalry is not dead. Luring Scully
out to Las Vegas to help them `rescue' Susanne, they get
caught in a double cross with a conspiracy colleague. Susanne is sent on her way to a new life while Byers opts to
stay with his friends. Someday, they promise each other.
Byers: Ten years ago, I saw you thrown into a car, kidnapped
right in front of me. Did that not happen? Did I just dream all of that? |
| Field Trip |
The Gunmen make an appearance at Mulder's wake
and vow to find his killer but nothing is as it seems.
Frohike: I need a drink. |
| First Person Shooter |
This should just about teach them
that even though it involves computers, gaming, and virtual
realities, corporate greed is still corporate greed.
Byers: I'm okay. It's a flesh wound. |
| En Ami |
We learn that disguises are not *really* their
forte. Byers dresses down, Frohike dons a hairpiece, and
Langly grows attached to Frohike's gloves as they attempt to
track down Scully and later visit Skinner's office.
Langly: Is this place secure? |
| Requiem |
Pulling data off of satellite feeds must be a
routine thing by now as they keep tabs on a downed UFO. Luckily, they are also on hand when Scully faints.
Frohike: In other words, you'd never know it was a UFO. |
| Within |
Again with the satellites but this time they pay a
visit to an actual site and hook up from there. Convincing
Skinner was peanuts next to trying to get Scully to see the
pattern.
Byers: We're only trying to find Mulder. |
| Via Negativa |
The Lone Gunmen and John Doggett meet for the
first time in the FBI basement office. And again, the boys
have found a way to get into the Hoover building without
alerting security. The big surprise here is that Doggett
doesn't find it odd that they are there and leaves them in
the office while he goes on to follow other leads. Check
out the Rose Bowl Princess wave, as Sally calls it, from
Frohike and Langly.
Langly: Yeah, Byers, quit your whining. Nobody likes a cry
baby. |
| The Gift |
Some people don't take too kindly to being woken
up in the middle of the night. Some people also are so cranky about this that they forget to put on their pants for
a video-conference. The boys help out Skinner and Doggett
via their laptops, modems, and cameras.
Langly: Well, that's the part that takes some conjecture
there, Agent Dogbert. |
