Conspiracy

 

 

I blogged a while back on my Geek blog about VR5, one of several great shows that never made it their first season. A comment on the post made mention of “The Lone Gunmen’, a one series spinoff from “The X-Files”. I add the first disc to my Netflix queue and watched the pilot episode earlier in the week.

 

The Lone Gunmen

 

 

The episode was first broadcast in March 2001; the date is relevant. It concerns a government conspiracy to stage a terrorist outrage to create the climate for an attack on an unspecified dictator. This is obviously implausible; people would not be so gullible as to be manipulated into supporting an invasion of a country that had no involvement with the attack. What is really strange is the nature of the planned outrage; flying a passenger plane into the World Trade Center in New York.  Remember this was broadcast six months before the tragic events of 9/11.  I am amazed that I had not heard of the show given the subject matter of this episode; granted the actual drama was not especially good, despite the chilling subject.