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The Lone Gunmen impersonate three people to get past a facial recognition security system in the episode "All About Yves", and photos of the people they impersonate appear on screen. The pictures are of executive producers Frank Spotnitz (Langly), Vince Gilligan (Frohike), and John Shiban (Byers).
After the series was canceled following the first season finale, an episode of The X-Files was dedicated to wrapping up dangling plot lines from the series. In addition to featuring the Gunmen, who made their debut on The X-Files in 1994, the episode featured the return of Jimmy Bond (Stephen Snedden), Morris Fletcher ('Michael McKean'), Yves Adele Harlow (Zuleikha Robinson), and Kimmy the Geek (Jim Fyfe).
"Yves Adele Harlow" is an anagram for Lee Harvey Oswald.
In the episode "Cap'n Toby", the series writer "John Gillnitz" is an amalgam of that episode's three writers: John Shiban', Vince Gilligan, and Frank Spotnitz.
The pilot episode, which first aired on March 4, 2001, concerned a terrorist plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the World Trade Center towers.
The pilot program, which first aired on March 4, 2001, concerned a government plot to crash an airplane into the World Trade Center and make it appear as a terrorist plot in order to justify more defense spending.
The pilot episode features a corporation called "EComCon". EComCon (a compression of "Emergency Communications and Control") is a codename for a secret base used by a rogue Air Force general to overthrow the U.S. Government in the film Seven Days in May.
The first episode of any TV show is generically called the series "pilot." In the case of _"The Lone Gunmen" (2001)_qv), though, calling the first episode "Pilot" has a double meaning, since the story concerns a plot to take the controls of a commercial airliner away from its pilot and remotely control it to fly into the World Trade Center.
In this episode we finally learn the location of the Lone Gunmen's HQ. It is a warehouse/basement in Takoma Park, Maryland, an industrial suburb of Washington DC.
This episode has never been aired in the UK, largely because of the similarity of its plotline to 9/11.
The character of Kimmy the Geek is played by Jim Fyfe who played the character's twin brother, Jimmy the Geek, in The X-Files episode, "Three of a Kind".
The crew received special permits to fly a helicopter around the World Trade Center to capture some night-time footage of the iconic landmark that would no longer be there several months later.
First appearance in the series of Stephen Snedden playing Jimmy Bond.
The character of "Senator Jefferson" is an obvious reference to President Bill Clinton: he plays saxophone and has an adventure with his assistant. He even proposes to call his son "William Jeffeson". The full name of President Bill Clinton is actually "William Jefferson Clinton".
The title of this episode is a famous palindrome (it reads the same when spelt backwards as it does forwards).
In the episode "Planet of the Frohikes", the "Boulle Behavioral Institute" is a in-joke reference to Pierre Boulle, the author of the original novel of "Planet of the Apes."
One of the problems encountered by the crew was that chimpanzees do not like the cold, so they proved highly uncooperative.
Mariano Cuchillo's last name means "knife" in Spanish (which is his preferred method of assassination).
Thomas Schnauz's director's cut of this episode was nearly 20 minutes overlong.
A favorite episode of Zuleikha Robinson as she thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to dance.
The entire cast took tango lessons for this episode.
One of the main problems the cast and crew encountered on this episode was the cold. Although set in Florida, it was filmed in Vancouver so the actors' breath was frequently visible. One way to counteract that was for the performers to chew ice beforehand.
The terrorist is named after writer Thomas Schnauz's agent.
That really is Dean Haglund performing the splits. The actor has a background in dance.
Guest appearance by Mitch Pileggi, playing Assistant FBI Director Walter Skinner, the character he played on The X-Files.
The pictures of the 3 employees of Fenix that the Lone Gunmen impersonate are the show's 3 executive producers, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz.
This story is concluded in The X-Files Season 9 episode, "Jump the Shark".
The reason why this episode is left on the cliffhanger is because the writers believed that the series would be coming back for a second season.
Director Bryan Spicer had the services of David Duchovny for his uncredited cameo for approximately an hour.
Michael McKean bites his fist when talking about Yves; this was a frequent habit of his character "Lenny" and his roommate "Squiggy" on Laverne & Shirley whenever they saw a beautiful woman.