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The.Lone.Gunmen.S01E08.WS.AC3.DVDRip.XviD-MEDiEVAL

SOURCE     : DVD
VIDEO      : XviD 640x352 @ 23.976fps
AUDIO      : AC3 2.0
SIZE       : 25x15mb
DVD date   : Mar 29 2005
Rls date   : Wed Mar 30 2005

EP. INFO

The Lone Gunmen
#1.08: Maximum Byers
Fri Apr 13 2001 (runtime: 60 min)

Our episode starts out on a cruise ship in the Pacific,
where the boys are chasing down a man they think is Elvis,  |
still live and kicking. All our guys get some funny bits,
but the scene that stole the teaser for me was Jimmy's
not-too-bad-at-all Elvis imitation! "Elvis" turns out to be |
an embezzler, and not Elvis at all.

As the first act opens, the Gunmen's warehouse basement
office is approached by a little old lady, Alberta
Pfeiffer, who has been a faithful reader of their zine
since day one. She approaches them individually, with
comments on their character and personalities, then begs
Byers to get her son out of prison -- Douglas Robert
Pfeiffer, alleged murderer, being held on death row in
Texas.

Our boys, being who they are, come up with a plan, first
voiced by Jimmy, then supported by Byers: they'll break
into the prison to talk to Pfeiffer, who has refused to
speak to anyone after initially pleading innocence.

After setting up the plan, the boys head for Texas, and
stay at the Sam Houston Motor Lodge -- the very same seedy  |
hotel used by Scully and Mulder in the episode Bad Blood,
about the mobile-home vampire colony. Jimmy and Byers get
themselves into the prison, posing as convicts named John
Wesley and James Dillinger. It's obvious that Byers is more |
than slightly shell-shocked by the treatment they get as
part of the check-in procedure, but Jimmy seems to deal
with it stoically. We get what is sure to be one of the
most memorable scenes of the first season when we have
Jimmy and Byers naked in a shower with a room full of other |
prisoners. They apparently also get yet another Full Body
Cavity Search, made infamous by the Pilot.

Once inside, they spend time trying to learn where Pfeiffer |
is being held, only to discover that he is in the
infirmary. Byers decides that the only way to get to him is |
to get himself beat up so that he will be transferred to
the infirmary as well. Jimmy is against this, very
obviously concered for Byers' safety and well-being. When
Byers insists that he is the one who has to do the deed,
Jimmy attempts to play along, and even tries (though
perhaps vainly) to threaten Lowry if he hurts Byers too
badly -- by shouting that John was his "bitch" and to get
to Byers, Lowry would have to come through him.

Meanwhile, Frohike and Langly, along with Yves, are trying  |
to investigate the murder itself, to discover any evidence  |
that Pfeiffer may be innocent -- instead, they find that
he's quite guilty of murder. They also uncover the
disturbing and dangerous fact that Pfeiffer's lawyer,
Jeremy Wash, is behind the whole thing, financing two
murders and framing an innocent man, in order to make a
play for some land to develop. The reason for Pfeiffer's
silence is that Wash has threatened his mother if he
doesn't keep his mouth shut about the details -- and his
mom will be well cared for if he does stay silent. Yves is  |
asked to infiltrate the prison as a visitor for Jimmy, as
Frohike and Langly blew their attempt to get in to see
Byers as his brothers when Langly was found carrying a
firewire card. Yves agrees, and enters the visiting room
dressed as trailer trash, to visit her 'husband'.

When Yves enters the facility, Byers is in the process of
making his move to get Lowry to beat him up. Unfortunately, |
his plan goes rather awry when the guards are distracted by |
Yves on their surveillance screen, and Lowry gets in a hell |
of a lot more damage than Byers had planned on taking. He
does, however, end up in the infirmary, where he has a
chance to talk to Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer threatens to slit
Byers' throat if he mentions the murder again.

In the visiting room, Yves manages to pass Jimmy a tiny,
quite sophisticated communications device. Jimmy actually
proves to know enough about it to understand it and turn it |
on. (He also knows the word 'conjugal,' which amazed me,
after his 'angina' error in Three Men and a Smoking
Diaper.) Eventually he manages to communicate with Langly
and Frohike, who inform him of the true nature of the
situation. He then needs to get a message to John, in the
infirmary, to ask for the information they actually do
need.

Six hours later, the message reaches Byers, who acts on it  |
immediately, pleading with Pfeiffer to come clean with a
confession and implicate his lawyer in order to free Spike, |
the roach dude, who was wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced |
to death. As this happens, an attack is made on Pfeiffer,
which had been arranged by the lawer with Lowry. Byers
manages to save the day (and get a teensy taste of revenge) |
by whacking Lowry over the head with a bedpan and knocking  |
him out. He and Jimmy are then taken by the guards and
released into the custody of Frohike and Langly, who
arranged a transfer for them by way of "computer error."

The tag is sweet, sorrowful and poignant, with Jimmy and
Byers waiting outside the prison after midnight, awaiting
the news of Pfeiffer's execution. Alberta Pfeiffer, who had |
so enthusiastically approched the Gunmen as an admirer,
slaps John in the face before walking away without a word.  |
Despite the fact that he and Jimmy had done everything they |
could, had saved the life of an innocent man, and done the  |
right thing as best they could, her son was still executed, |
and her faith in the Gunmen destroyed. Byers is crushed by  |
this, but Jimmy does his best to comfort his friend.

Spike -- or Wallace Crendall Atherton -- goes on to found a |
rescue clinic for roaches, and presumably lives more or
less happily ever after.

url: http://tvtome.com/LoneGunmen/

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