John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood), Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood), and Richard "Ringo" Langly (Dean Haglund) are The Lone Gunmen on The X-Files. A trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks who publish an underground newspaper, Byers, Frohike & Langly often come to the rescue when Mulder and Scully have nowhere else to turn. The Lone Gunmen starred briefly in their own television series, a light-hearted spin-off of The X-Files, which first aired in March of 2001 and was cancelled in June of that same year. In "Jump the Shark", one of the final episodes of the X-Files (Episode #197 to be exact), The Lone Gunmen die trying to save the world from a deadly virus.