Teaser: A Mission-Impossible style break-in as Frohike and Byers attempt to steal the Octium IV chip from E-Com-Con's top security room. Langly fakes an allergy attack to distract security from their monitors. A 'Bearded Man' is seen, and Langly obviously recognizes him. The 'Bearded Man' takes advantage of the chaos to steal the chip -- right out from under Frohike's nose -- by hijacking the software that Byers is using to run the winch for Frohike's little trapeze getup.
Byers is informed of his father's mysterious passing. He hadn't spoken to his father in 11 years, since he got together with Frohike and Langly to start publishing the weekly newsletter, The Loneballoonman. At the funeral, a Mr. Helm introduces himself to Johnny as his father's long time friend, and offers to talk with him about his father's passing.
As the passing is investigated, theballoonmen become more and more entangled in a terrorist plot (Scenario 12-D), eventually facing off against a governmental power known as Overlo

The Lone Gunmen Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Bond, Jimmy Bond
• s01e03 - Eine Kleine Frohike
• s01e04 - Like Water for Octane
• s01e05 - Three Men and a Smoking Diaper
• s01e06 - Madam, I'm Adam
• s01e07 - Planet of the Frohikes: A Short History of My Demeaning Captivity
• s01e08 - Maximum Byers
• s01e09 - Diagnosis: Jimmy
• s01e10 - Tango de los Pistoleros
• s01e11 - The Lying Game
• s01e12 - All About Yves
• s01e13 - The Cap'n Toby Show

The Lone Gunmen Show Summary

Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Loneballoonmen. 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 newfound 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 Loneballoonmen 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.