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Episode 1AEB12

Title: All About Yves

First screened in Australia: December 13, 2001
First screened in the USA: May 11, 2001

Credits: Director: Bryan Spicer
Writers: Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban Starring: Guest Stars: Plot:
After having posed as aliens to trick Morris Fletcher into divulging privileged information, the boys learn of Romeo 61 — a rogue government agency that may harbor the most sensitive secrets in America. Shrouded in mystery, Romeo 61 represents the mother lode of conspiracy brokers to the Lone Gunmen... and now that they've learned of its existence, they're bound and determined to find out everything Romeo 61 knows. Pressing Morris for more details, the Gunmen discover that Yves may in fact be a part of Romeo 61. Knowing this, the Gunmen turn their investigative energies towards Yves, despite Jimmy's protestations that they're invading her privacy. Suspicions rise when we learn that Yves had anonymously contacted Mulder about trading top secret information, leading to an inadvertent rendezvous between Jimmy and Mulder while the Gunmen attempt to infiltrate Romeo 61's high-security compound. Unbeknownst to them, the Gunmen have been played all along by Morris as part of his plan to lure Yves into a trap. Sure enough, Yves tries to rescue the Gunmen once she learns they've been captured and is promptly taken prisoner by the real Romeo 61 outfit.
My Rating: 10/10
A great episode ... this is what I thought The Lone Gunmen series would be like all the time, investigating conspiracies and using X-Files characters. Not that the previous episodes with a comedic skew weren't worth watching - I did enjoy them all - it's just that they could have been better with a harder edge. The only negative is that this was filmed as a cliffhanger and with the show cancelled the conclusion is somewhere out there. I've heard rumours that it will be resolved during season 9 of The X-Files but until I see it happen....

Where Have I Seen That Face Before?
For informaiton on Michael McKean (Morris Fletcher) see The X-Files episode Dreamland. He also appeared as the same character in Dreamland II and Three Of A Kind.

For information on Jim Fyfe (Kimmy The Geek) see Three Of A Kind.

Trivia:
The episode title "All About Yves" is a nod to the movie "All About Eve," the Joseph L. Mankiewicz' 1950 film that starred Marilyn Monroe

Media Story:
FOX's 'Gunmen' Shoots for a Big Finish

LOS ANGELES. While a second season of FOX's Friday-night comedy-drama "The Lone Gunmen" remains an open question - although co-creator and executive producer Frank Spotnitz says improving April ratings are a good sign - the "X-Files" spin-off plans to finish its freshman run with a flourish.

"It's big, big," says Spotnitz. "We've got our 'X-Files' crossover. We've got Michael McKean, reprising the role he played on the 'X-Files.' We've got some other nice surprises in that show. It's the third Friday of sweeps, May 11. It's called 'All About Yves.'"

For those who don't keep track of "X" trivia, McKean first appeared on that show in 1998, in a two-part episode called "Dreamland." His character, government agent Morris Fletcher, temporarily switched faces and lives with FBI Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny).

The title of the finale refers to Yves Adele Harlow, the beautiful, enigmatic computer hacker on "The Lone Gunmen," played by British actress Zuleikha Robinson. Revelations about her background are planned as part of the arc of "Gunmen's" second season.

"That's exactly right," says Spotnitz. "It's the beginnings of the mythology of that show."

Duchovny also makes a guest appearance in that episode, as Mulder has an inadvertent rendezvous with the Gunmen's partner, Jimmy Bond (Stephen Snedden).

Sharp-eared fans of both series may have been puzzled when, in an episode airing April 6, the Gunmen referred to calling their old friend Fox Mulder. At that time, over on "The X-Files," Mulder was still believed dead, his apparently lifeless body having been returned (in an April 1 episode) by the aliens that abducted him last season. He was not discovered to actually be alive until the episode that aired April 8.

In other words ... oops.

"Yes, yes, yes," says Spotnitz. "You have to forgive the timeline inconsistency, because we had no idea, when we wrote that script and shot that episode, when it would land on the air."

"So you just have to assume that it took place not on the Friday before 'The X-Files' in which he came back to life."

Wasn't it dangerous, considering the uncertainty about Mulder's fate for many episodes, to even mention him in a "Lone Gunmen" script? "We didn't care," says Spotnitz. "Caution be damned!"



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