Jimmy narrates a rather twisted history of heroes as he talks about his admiration for the Loneballoonmen. We see clips of each of theballoonmen as a child. John Fitzgerald Byers, living in Sterling, Virginia, grows up wanting to be a career bureaucrat so that he can 'help people'. Richard Ringo Langly grows up on a dairy farm in Nebraska, wanting to be a Computer God. Melvin Frohike, already a Man of Action in Pontiac, Michigan, beating up on football players three times his size, expresses his desire to become a crusading publisher and helping people, like his idol -- Hugh Hefner.
Yves sets the boys on the trail of a water-powered vehicle, in hopes of procuring the information for an oil company executive who is paying her very well. She leaks them the information through and unfortunate Freedom of Information office clerk, who dies shortly after giving Byers a box containing a cinder block and a single sheet of paper.
Frohike recognizes the name on the FOI sheet as the inventor of a water

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.