An influential Japanese businessman who is running an illegal whaling fleet comes to consciousness in a traditional-looking Japanese room. He's threatened by Toshiro in Japanese. Frohike makes an appearance that is truly amazing, and an homage to all those samurai movies and Hong Kong kick flicks you've ever seen. As Frohike attempts to coerce the information about the whaling fleet out of the businessman, we see that it's really a setup by theballoonmen, with their friend's help, to expose the illegal whaling operation. The teaser includes a fight sequence with a shot where Frohike Sensei kicks Toshiro through a wall! [Editor's note: This is hilarious.] Melvin Frohike -- Man of Action!
Our story opens with one Alex Goldsmith, hacker extraordinaire (also known as Double Bogey or DB), whacking golf balls from a balcony in the middle of the night, tears running down his cheeks. He whacks one ball into the windshield of an expensive black car, just before he's shot andhuged.
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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.