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], the creator of ''The Lone Gunmen'' and ''The X-Files'', was questioned about the pilot episode at ] 2008 in San Diego.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVasWIyFKQ</ref> He passed the question to one of the show's producers, ]. Spotnitz's response was critical of the government, asking why the show's creators had been able to predict such an event while the government could not. Spotnitz then dismissed the rest as merely a coincidence. Spotnitz also admitted initial remorse as to having possibly given the terrorists the idea to commit the attacks.<ref>http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20080225_gunmen_911.htm</ref>{{unreliable source|failed=y|date=December 2013}} Later, Spotnitz and other producers of the pilot episode participated in an interview concerning the similarities between the show's script and the later events of September 11th.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSkQ0x1KVjM</ref> ], part of the show's cast, was later interviewed by conspiracy theorist ] regarding the pilot episode.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9KMg4zU-o</ref> Haglund stated during the interview that the show's creative team would listen to shows like Jones's to develop plots for the initial episodes of the series.<ref>http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/haglund_on_cia_hollywood_911.htm</ref> ], the creator of ''The Lone Gunmen'' and ''The X-Files'', was questioned about the pilot episode at ] 2008 in San Diego.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVasWIyFKQ</ref> He passed the question to one of the show's producers, ]. Spotnitz's response was critical of the government, asking why the show's creators had been able to predict such an event while the government could not. Spotnitz then dismissed the rest as merely a coincidence. Spotnitz also admitted initial remorse as to having possibly given the terrorists the idea to commit the attacks.<ref>http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20080225_gunmen_911.htm</ref>{{unreliable source|failed=y|date=December 2013}} Later, Spotnitz and other producers of the pilot episode participated in an interview concerning the similarities between the show's script and the later events of September 11th.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSkQ0x1KVjM</ref> ], part of the show's cast, was later interviewed by conspiracy theorist ] regarding the pilot episode.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9KMg4zU-o</ref> Haglund stated during the interview that the show's creative team would listen to shows like Jones's to develop plots for the initial episodes of the series.<ref>http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/haglund_on_cia_hollywood_911.htm</ref>

== E-com-con Corporation ==
E-com-con is the fictional computer company whose branding is similar to the ] branding by ] Corporation the American ] ] chip maker.<ref>http://everything2.com/title/E-com-con+Corporation</ref> They are the producers of the fictional Octium computer chip and other hardware and software products such as the eXtreme Operating System. They are most likely a fictional hybrid of ] and ] Corporations and emply over 14000 employees.<ref>http://e-comcon.com/profiles_frame.htm</ref> The series creators did originally host a website by ] for the fictional computer company at the address "http://www.e-com-con.com/" which has since been bought by a fan of the series and turned into a blog, but the original site is still available at "http://e-comcon.com/" as a cache of the site hosted by ]. The CEO of the company was at the time Dr. Daniel Pendrell a lecturer, businessman, presidential advisor, author and amateur hang-gliding champion.<ref>http://e-comcon.com/history.htm</ref> Dr. Pendrell is the author of ''Machines and their Message'' (Iridium Press: 1992) and has also given a lecture ''Machines and their Message'' (Iridium Audio: 1991).

=== eXtreme Operating System ===
The X-OS: eXtreme Operating System is featured in the initial pilot episode as the computer that is optimized for the Octium computer chip.<ref>http://e-comcon.com/products.htm</ref><ref>http://everything2.com/title/X-OS%253A+eXtreme+operating+system</ref> Its parent company and creator is also known to "inflate its features and ignore bugs" and according to one of the shows cast who have hacked the website can and did crash his machine. The operating system also boasts that it will destroy ] ].

{| class="wikitable"
! Features
|-
| XUI (eXtreme (tm) user interface), built on advanced microkernel architecture
|-
| Pre-emptive, pro-constructive, digitally-enhanced multitasking
|-
| Individually threaded, integrated QRT support via the H-Bomb (tm) digital streaming protocol
|-
| Watson 8.0 specialized multimedia search protocol
|-
| Spelunker (tm) native web browser
|-
| Exclusive Houdini (tm) DUN SSL ultra-secure file encryption
|}

=== Octium Inside ===
The website hosted for the Octium IV chip is still hosted today in its original form at "http://www.octiumchip.com/" The slogan for the chip was "We do speed!" despite being an obvious play on the ] processor and its vulnerabilities.<ref>http://everything2.com/title/Octium+IV</ref> The Octium IV is also boasted as being able to run on both a ] and ].<ref>http://www.octiumchip.com/</ref><ref>http://e-comcon.com/products.htm</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto;"
! Specifications
|-
|Ni-Cad Hydrogen (tm) enhanced, Ductless Cooling System (tm) (DCS)
|-
|88,368KB total system cache
|-
|6.8GB L2 cache and 98.5GB L3 cache, in addition to the 384MB L1 cache.
|-
|6.3GHz frontside bus, expandable to a Level 7 gigaflop trans-converter
|-
|9000 parallel intensive specialized execution speed optimization units.
|-
|6.8GFLOPS
|-
|Seventy-level branch Nostradamus (tm) prediction algorithm
|-
|Full out-of-order and back-in-order execution
|-
|Up to ninety RISC866 instructions per clock
|-
|Multiport internal cache structure enabling simultaneous, bi-synchronous, 864-bit reads/writes of L1/L2 cache deployment modules
|}

Pictures of the "Octium inside!" branding can be seen throughout various clips of the pilot episode where the opening scene starts with the Octium 4 keeping tabs on computer users which they want to obtain and write an article about, the Octium 4 is later used to break the encryption of the remote controlled jet airliner and stop it from crashing into the ].<ref>http://prisonplanet.com/The_Lone_Gunmen_Realm_Pilot_Episode.htm</ref><ref>http://www.insidethex.co.uk/transcrp/tlg179.htm</ref> The second episode of the series brings the fictional computer company to the central plot involving a stolen Octium computer chip which they need to hunt down.<ref>http://x-files.wikia.com/Pilot_%28The_Lone_Gunmen%29</ref>

Due to the timing of the series and real life events, the Octium 4 may actually be based on the ] processor.

=== Biometric Detection Spheres ===
The E-com-con corporation was also producing a device which could detect human illness and automatically alert emergency services, the launch date is yet to be announced.<ref>http://e-comcon.com/products.htm</ref>

=== Zero-Gravity Automobile Initiative ===
The E-com-con corporation was also producing an automobile which utilizes anti-gravity mechanisms, the project was founded in 2005.<ref>http://e-comcon.com/products.htm</ref>
{|class="wikitable"
! Features
|-
| 17-hours of "fly time" per complete charge.
|-
| 500 ft. maximum attainable altitude.
|-
| 300 mph top speed (0-60 in approx. 1.4 sec.). Ha!
|-
| Built-in Head-mounted Open-Velocity Engine Rotation/Correction and RevitalizationTM unit.
|-
| 10000-disc CD changer.
|-
| Internal x-OS (extreme ("little x"TM) operating system)
|}


==Episodes== ==Episodes==

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2025 multi-national TV series or program
The Lone Gunmen
File:The Lone Gunmen logo.jpg
GenreDrama
Satire
Created byChris Carter
Vince Gilligan
John Shiban
Frank Spotnitz
StarringBruce Harwood
Tom Braidwood
Dean Haglund
Stephen Snedden
Zuleikha Robinson
Country of originUnited States and Canada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time43 minutes
Production companiesMillennium Canadian Productions Ltd.
Ten Thirteen Productions
20th Century Fox Television
Original release
NetworkFox
ReleaseMarch 4 –
June 1, 2001 (2001-06-01)
Related
The X-Files
Millennium

The Lone Gunmen is an American thriller dramatic television series created by Chris Carter and broadcast on Fox. It was a spin-off of Carter's science fiction television series The X-Files and a part of The X-Files franchise, starring several of the show's characters. The Lone Gunmen was first broadcast in March 2001 and, despite positive reviews, its ratings dropped. The program was canceled after thirteen episodes. The last episode was broadcast in June 2001 and ended on a cliffhanger which was partially resolved in a ninth-season episode of The X-Files entitled "Jump the Shark".

The series revolved around the three characters of The Lone Gunmen: Melvin Frohike, John Fitzgerald Byers, and Richard Langly, a group of "geeky" investigators who ran a conspiracy theory magazine. They had often helped FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files.

Typical plots

Unlike The X-Files, whose storylines dealt mainly with supernatural events and alien abduction conspiracies, episodes of The Lone Gunmen generally featured more "plausible" plots, such as government-sponsored terrorism, a creeping "surveillance society" under the eye of the government, cheating husbands, corporate crime, arms dealers, and escaped Nazis. The show had a light atmosphere and focused heavily on physical comedy. The trio were often aided (and sometimes hindered) by a mysterious thief named Yves Adele Harlow (Zuleikha Robinson).

The plot of the first episode, which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center and blame it on terrorists, thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war. Parallels of this plotted scenario of government conspiracy to revitalize its war industry to the events of 9/11 in this episode are noteworthy, if not uncanny, since the episode was aired six months prior to 9/11.

The series was filmed in Vancouver, Canada.

Parallel to events of September 11, 2001

The pilot episode depicted a plane being flown into the New York World Trade Center; it originally aired six months before 9/11 and on the day of the attacks as a re-run. Similar to a number of conspiracy theories which would arise in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the plot of the March 4, 2001 episode depicts a secret faction within the US government plotting to hijack a Boeing 727 and fly it into the World Trade Center by remote control. The conspiracy's stated motive within the episode is to increase the military defense budget by blaming the attack on foreign interests. In the episode, the plot is foiled by the protagonists, who board the doomed plane and deactivate the malicious autopilot system just seconds before the plane reaches the World Trade Center.

Chris Carter, the creator of The Lone Gunmen and The X-Files, was questioned about the pilot episode at WonderCon 2008 in San Diego. He passed the question to one of the show's producers, Frank Spotnitz. Spotnitz's response was critical of the government, asking why the show's creators had been able to predict such an event while the government could not. Spotnitz then dismissed the rest as merely a coincidence. Spotnitz also admitted initial remorse as to having possibly given the terrorists the idea to commit the attacks. Later, Spotnitz and other producers of the pilot episode participated in an interview concerning the similarities between the show's script and the later events of September 11th. Dean Haglund, part of the show's cast, was later interviewed by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones regarding the pilot episode. Haglund stated during the interview that the show's creative team would listen to shows like Jones's to develop plots for the initial episodes of the series.

Episodes

No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
code 		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"Pilot"Rob BowmanChris Carter & Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank SpotnitzMarch 4, 2001 (2001-03-04)1AEB7913.23
While The Lone Gunmen are thwarted in their attempt to steal a computer chip by Yves Adele Harlow, John Fitzgerald Byers receives news of his father's death and the trio soon find themselves unravelling a government conspiracy concerning an attempt to fly a commercial aircraft into the Twin Towers, with increased arms sales for the United States as an intended result.
2"Bond, Jimmy Bond"Bryan SpicerVince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank SpotnitzMarch 11, 2001 (2001-03-11)1AEB019.0
While searching for the killer of an infamous hacker, the three Lone Gunmen find a fourth member when they stumble upon a practice of a football team for the blind.
3"Eine Kleine Frohike"David JacksonJohn ShibanMarch 16, 2001 (2001-03-16)1AEB025.4
With help from Yves, Melvin Frohike attempts to convince a woman suspected of being a Nazi war criminal that he is her long-lost son - and survive to talk about it.
4"Like Water for Octane"Richard ComptonCollin FriesenMarch 18, 2001 (2001-03-18)1AEB03N/A
While searching for a water-powered car, the Gunmen encounter missile silos, rude government clerks, and cows.
5"Three Men and a Smoking Diaper"Bryan SpicerChris CarterMarch 23, 2001 (2001-03-23)1AEB04N/A
The Lone Gunmen turn into babysitters while working to expose the truth behind a murder linked to a Senator seeking re-election.
6"Madam, I'm Adam"Bryan SpicerThomas SchnauzMarch 30, 2001 (2001-03-30)1AEB05N/A
A man contacts The Lone Gunmen, believing his life has been stolen after being abducted by aliens. They end up getting caught in a love triangle involving a one-eyed stereo salesman, brainwashing, and a wrestling dwarf.
7"Planet of the Frohikes"John T. KretchmerVince GilliganApril 6, 2001 (2001-04-06)1AEB06N/A
The Lone Gunmen receive an email from an ingenious chimp, a self-named Simon White-Thatch Potentloins, attempting to escape a government laboratory.
8"Maximum Byers"Vincent MisianoVince Gilligan & Frank SpotnitzApril 13, 2001 (2001-04-13)1AEB07N/A
At the behest of a man's mother, Byers and Jimmy Bond pose as prisoners on Death Row in a Texas penitentiary to prove the man's innocence.
9"Diagnosis: Jimmy"Bryan SpicerJohn ShibanApril 20, 2001 (2001-04-20)1AEB08N/A
While recovering in a hospital, Jimmy begins to suspect that his doctor is a wanted killer. Meanwhile, the Gunmen attempt to stop a man who kills grizzly bears to sell their gallbladders.
10"Tango de los Pistoleros"Bryan SpicerThomas SchnauzApril 27, 2001 (2001-04-27)1AEB09N/A
Yves and Frohike go undercover as tango dancers to stop a man from selling government secrets.
11"The Lying Game"Richard ComptonNandi BoweMay 4, 2001 (2001-05-04)1AEB10N/A
While investigating the death of Byers' college roommate, The Lone Gunmen find evidence implicating FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner.
13"All About Yves"Bryan SpicerVince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank SpotnitzMay 11, 2001 (2001-05-11)1AEB12N/A
The Lone Gunmen team up with Man in Black agent Morris Fletcher to find Yves. What they uncover is Romeo-61, a secret government organization responsible for decades of major incidents.
12"The Cap'n Toby Show"Carol BankerVince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank SpotnitzJune 1, 2001 (2001-06-01)1AEB11N/A
The Lone Gunmen try to solve the murders of two FBI agents who were working undercover on Richard Langly's favorite TV show.

"Jump the Shark" (2002) (The X-Files episode)

No. # Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
code
1979.15"Jump the Shark"Cliff BoleVince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank SpotnitzApril 21, 2002 (2002-04-21)9ABX15
When Morris Fletcher approaches agents Scully, Dogget, and Reyes with information related to the super soldiers, they turn to the Lone Gunmen. But the Gunmen and Jimmy are already knee-deep in a bio-terrorist’s plot to release a deadly toxin, and his links to the mysterious Yves Adele Harlow.

DVD release

Fox Home Entertainment officially released the series (along with the episode of The X-Files titled "Jump the Shark" which finishes the cliffhanger that ended The Lone Gunmen as an additional episode) on a three-disc Region 1 DVD set on Tuesday March 29, 2005. In the UK, it was released on January 31, 2006.

References

  1. The Warehouse - Ratings for the Lone Gunmen tv show
  2. http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18532060g3Ck7dws
  3. ^ Kissell, Rick (March 19, 2001). "Eye Hoops March On". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved November 29, 2012. (subscription required)
  4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3WW6eoLcLI
  5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVasWIyFKQ
  6. http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20080225_gunmen_911.htm
  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSkQ0x1KVjM
  8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9KMg4zU-o
  9. http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/haglund_on_cia_hollywood_911.htm

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