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Title: Maximum Byers

First screened in Australia: November 1, 2001
First screened in the USA: April 13, 2001

Credits: Director: Vincent Misiano
Writers: Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz Starring: Guest Stars: Plot:
Byers and Jimmy infiltrate a prison to help a convict facing execution on death row.
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Where Have I Seen That Face Before?
For information on Darren Burrows (Pfeiffer) see The X-Files episode "Monday".

Robert LaSardo (Lowry) appeared in The X-Files episode "The Amazing Maleeni".

Kevin McNulty (Wash) has appeared on The X-Files in "Squeeze", "Soft Light" and "Apocrypha", plus 3 "Millennium" episodes. He's also appeared in episodes of many other TV series including "Dark Angel", "Stargate SG1" and "First Wave". He's also appeared in over 80 movies including "Bird On A Wire", "The Accused" and "Timecop".

Trivia:
The title might be a play on Maximum Bob, a novel by Elmore Leonard, about a Florida hanging judge. It was also a TV series starring Beau Bridges.

There were 2 Elvis songs used in this episode. Jimmy does a rendition of Hound Dog, and the boys are behind bars to Jailhouse Rock.

Lost from this episode are clips from two or three scenes involving backstory on Doug Pfeiffer. When Alberta comes to LGM HQ, she shows the Gunmen a small, rather expensive collectors figurine. She explains that her son, when he was young, knew that she loved them, and so he would save up his money and buy a new one for her every week. In the scene where Byers first approaches Pfeiffer in the infirmary, the figurines are mentioned as something Pfeiffer's mother had said about him. In the scene where Pfeiffer calls Byers over to talk, he says that he wants to talk about the figurines, then says that he didn't buy them for his mother -- he'd stolen all of them -- and hence had never been the person his mother thought he was.

The names used by Byers and Jimmy in prison are John Wesley and John Dillinger.

John Wesley Hardin was a famous Texas gunfighter of the Old West, supposedly the one with the most confirmed kills. He spent a good portion of his life behind bars.

John Dillinger was one of the most infamous -- and popular -- criminals of the early 20th century. Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI outside a movie theatre in Arizona.

From TV Tome.


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