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 new found 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.
In this first episode, Frohike and Byers attempt to steal the Octium IV chip, but are beaten too it. Later while investigating the death of Byer's father, the gunmen stumble onto a sinister government plot to ignite hostilities worldwide and increase arms sales dramatically.
A million-dollar check from a possible drug deal leads the Gunmen to a charity organization run by a CEO named Bond. There the Gunmen find the fourth member of the Lone Gunmen team and together they work to find out what's really going on when Langly is kidnapped.
Frohike goes deep undercover after the gunmen receive a tip which could possibly lead them to a baker who used to poison members of the French Resistance back in World War II. Frohike must pretend that he is the baker's long lost son, who she has not seen in fifty years and somehow get the truth from her.
The gunmen search for an automobile that runs on water and whose creator disappeared years ago on a trip to Detroit to show his invention to the Big Three automakers.
The Lone Gunmen find a link between a popular Senator running a campaign for re-election, who appeared to be involved with one of his campaign workers who died in a very suspicious accident. But the Gunmen get more than they bargained for when they get stuck with the Senator's lovechild.
The Gunmen try to help a man who claims his whole life, including his house and his wife, has been stolen from him because he was transported by aliens from a parallel universe. But the Gunmen soon find out that there is a more logical explanation...
The Lone Gunmen receive an email from a monkey that has been subjected to secret government tests. The gunmen are shocked to find out that their contact is in fact a genetically altered, super monkey, who requires their help.
Byers and Jimmy become inmates at the Texas Department of Corrections and help an innocent man facing an execution on death row. Will our boys be able to free the innocent man before it's too late?
As Frohike, Langly and Byers try to catch a poacher dealing in grizzly bear gallbladders somewhere in a forest, a hospitalized Jimmy from a skiing accident begins to suspect his surgeon is a wanted killer after seeing America's Most Wanted. Can Jimmy get to the truth in his injured state?
The Gunmen keep blowing Yves' cover as she tries to prevent a tango-dancing smuggler from passing on information about new top-secret military cloaking material. The only way she can stop him is by becoming his tango-dancing partner.
The Lone Gunmen follow Morris Fletcher and find a link to Romeo 61 (one of the biggest conspiracies ever). The gunmen team up with Fletcher and the trail not surprisingly leads the Gunmen to Yves and they uncover a secret government terrorist organization responsible for decades of major crimes.
When two stagehands of the 'Cap'n Toby Show' die on the same day, the Gunmen investigate only to discover the men were FBI agents working in a Chinese intelligence unit. Then the Gunmen find out that kid's show host Cap'n Toby is accused of being a spy, can they clear his name in time?
The gunmen team up with 'Man in Black' Fletcher to find Yves. What they uncover is a secret government terrorist organization responsible for decades of major crimes. Or is it?
Wartorn
May 4 2009, 08:36 PM
I can recommend this for any X-files fanatic, but its not *that* good of a show.
chaingang
May 5 2009, 12:46 PM
series complete
sketcher
May 7 2009, 08:24 PM
Thanks! I've missed these guys...
isarah
Jun 27 2009, 12:11 AM
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