"The Lone Gunmen" Pilot (2001)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Rob Bowman

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator) &
Vince Gilligan (creator) ...

TV Series:

"The Lone Gunmen" (2001)

Original Air Date:

4 March 2001 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The 3 Lone Gunmen attempt to steal the Octium IV chip from E-Com-Con's top security room. However, a professional thief is watching them. |

Plot Keywords:

World Trade Center New York | Pre 911 | World Trade Center | Title Spoken By Character | Spin Off

Cast

Bruce Harwood	...	John Fitzgerald Byers
Tom Braidwood	...	Melvin Frohike
Dean Haglund	...	Richard 'Ringo' Langly
Zuleikha Robinson	...	Yves Adele Harlow
George Coe	...	Bertram Byers
Wally Dalton	...	Ray Helm
Jim Fyfe	...	Kimmy the Geek
David Kaye	...	Pilot
Mark Gibbon	...	First Guard
Steve Makaj	...	N.D. Man
Dee Jay Jackson	...	Demo Man
John Innes	...	Reverend
Brenda James	...	Publicist
Christopher Gora	...	Co-Pilot
James Hutson	...	Bearded Man

Filming Locations:

British Columbia, Canada

Trivia:

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.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When the Lone Gunmen and Timmy are hacking into the Department of Defense's mainframe, their intrusion is detected, but Byers tells Timmy to "keep downloading". They're downloading a text document (.txt), which would download instantaneously on any contemporary internet connection (which we assume they have, since they're hackers).

Quotes:

Guard: Full body cavity search!

Movie Connections:

References "Teletubbies" (1997)

Soundtrack:

Cross the Line

No such thing as coincidence

["Life imitating art? Not really, just a ghastly coincidence. The stellar writing team and Rob Bowman's crisp and snappy direction ensure that Pilot sticks in your mind for all the right reasons."]

I find it odd this person takes it upon himself to inform us sheep why this Lone Gunman Pilot is merely a "coincidence". This isn't the first so called 911 coincidence Fox has aired before 911. There is a Simpsons episode (Season 9, Episode 1) where Lisa holds up a magazine that reads "New York" at the top and a large "$9" to the left of the twin towers silhouette. This obviously reads "911". The question must be asked - where did these writers come up with these ideas? The quote above gets one thing right - the Pilot was created to stick in our minds for all the right reasons... Desensitization. Millions of people tune in to watch the Simpsons and many people are fans of the X-Files as well (where the Lone Gunman first began).

The fact there are huge questions that have never been answered about who is actually responsible for 911 and the fact people in a cave could not have any control over NORAD's actions during 911, when many aircraft had been intercepted before 911 within minutes of violating air traffic control's rules and regulations.

Under Trivia it states: ["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."] Sound familiar? Our defense spending sky rocketed bankrupting our country! We know elements of the government created a document entitled "Northwoods" in March of 1962. It intels hijacking passenger aircraft to blame it on Cuba in order to have an excuse to invade that country. Its what's known as a "false flag event". Declassified documents prove the "gulf of tonkin" was a false flag event that allowed LBJ to invade Vietnam.

Another question I like to ask the skeptics: Do you trust politicians? They all say NO. So why should we believe their so called "official story" when they can't be trusted and have left nothing but questions, rather than solid answers that are backed by solid proof? Hell, Osama bin Laden isn't even wanted by the FBI for is supposed involvement in 911, even though we were all shown a video of him taking responsibility for the event!