The Lone Gunmen

All About Yves

Season 1, Episode 12, Aired 5/11/01

Episode Summary

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.moreless

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Cast & Crew

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Tom Braidwood

Melvin Frohike
Dean Haglund

Richard "Ringo" Langly
Bruce Harwood

John Fitzgerald Byers

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The last one.

9.9

"Superb"

By farscapefanuk, Oct 28, 2010 Report Abuse

Its a shame really that The Lone Gunmen never got that big of an audience. But this episode was really good. I liked a number of things about it. I was however really disapointed by the ending...'To be continued'. Why does Fox make shows like this in the first place if they are justing going to cancel them before they get a proper ending? I don't know. In this last episode i feel that the show is at its best it seems that everyone is now used to the roles are are acting well, also the stories generally have been getting stronger too. I know that the Lone Gunmen isn't perfect but it deserved more of a chance than it got. I loved this show and am glad that we get an ending to the Gunmen story in the X Files season 9 episodes 'Jump the Shark'.moreless

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By Anon67683, Oct 28, 2010 Report Abuse

With such an ambitious-sounding title, it's a shame that nothing new is revealed about Yves before the series leaves for its (largely undeserved) dirt nap. Of course, the writers didn't plan for this episode to be the last one of the series and so we get a whole lot of set-up without any payoff. No surprise, then, that storywise this episode is a dud, although it continues to shine in the direction and production design departments.

Mulder makes an uncredited appearance for no apparent reason. He has a five-minute scene with Jimmy (which is drily hilarious), presumably filmed in between his five-minute appearances in The X-Files.

I love the blueface scenes. There is something eerily Kabuki like about the Gunmen in their blueface makeup. Frohike especially looks like some kind of crazed Oompa Loompa from the Violet Beauregarde scene in Willy Wonka.

As for the putative finale ("Jump The Shark") aired during the X-Files' final season, I don't think it was necessary and it certainly doesn't mesh very well with this episode from either a storyline or stylistic point of view. Better, I think, to simply leave the series as it was, with a hopeful (yet ultimately doomed) "To Be Continued" burning across so many blackened television screens....moreless

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Trivia
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- The pictures of the three employees of Fenix that the Lone Gunmen impersonate are actually the executive producers. Edit
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- There is a proper ending to the Lone Gunmen story in the The X-Files episode "Jump the Shark". Edit
- The show was apparently cancelled due to low ratings. But many people now believe that the rating were not that low and given more time, the audience would have grown. Edit
- The reason this episode is left on a cliff-hanger is because the writers thought that they would be coming back for a second season. Edit
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- Byers: Mr. Fletcher, I believe we can be helpful. We're journalist. Fletcher: (scoffs) I know who you are. You put out the Lone Gunmen. It's absolutely hilarious. Guys, it's why I let you live. It would have been like killing the staff of Mad magazine. Edit
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- Laverne and Shirley: While Referring to Yves, Morris Fletcher makes the same gesture, of biting his knuckle, that Michael McKean as Lenny made when he saw a pretty woman walk by. Edit