Tom Braidwood

The Lone Gunmen (Tom Braidwood, Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund)

Occupation: Conspiracy theorists

Agenda: Professional researchers into all things weird and extraterrestrial, this trio of misfits has provided the X-Files team with support and information for years.

Case File:... more The "independently financed" Melvin Frohike (Braidwood), John Fitzgerald Byers (Harwood) and Richard Langly (Haglund) share a loft where they also publish a newsletter on their interests. Their involvement in a case involving a rogue Army scientist brings them into direct contact with Mulder, and throughout the series they are there to give him and Scully assistance, sometimes at the risk of their own lives. They meet their end stopping a bioterrorist.

Quote (by Byers): "That's why we like you, Mulder. Your ideas are weirder than ours."

Don Kaye writes for Fangoria, Blabbermouth and others.