The Lone Gunmen's "Pilot" Episode


This FOX TV show, which was finished in April of 2000 but was not BROADCAST until March 2001, depicted a US GOVERNMENT PLOT to hijack a Boeing jetliner, fly it by remote control, and
CRASH IT INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.

 

"They're going to crash the plane into the World Trade Center."

"PILOT"
Episode #1AEB79
Original airdate 03/04/2001
Written by Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

Filming Locations: New York City, NY & Vancouver, BC
Shooting from: March 20 - April 7, 2000

(Click pic for official site)

 
 

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that...they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice." -CBS (05/17/02)
 

"You hate to admit it, but we hadn't thought about this," Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said. -DoD (10/23/01)
 

"What's disturbing about it to me is, you think as a fiction writer that if you can imagine this scenario, then the people in power in the government who are there to imagine disaster scenarios can imagine it, too." - Frank Spotnitz, Co-Producer of The Lone Gunmen
 

"In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba." -ABC (5/01/01)
 
 

The FOX TV series The Lone Gunmen (X-Files spin off) airs their opening episode "Pilot" six months before 9/11 which depicts a secret U.S. government agency behind a plot to crash a Boeing 727 into the WTC via remote control and blame it on foreign terrorists in the hopes of generating a bigger military budget. 

Why didn't that media pick up on this bizarre coincidence of life imitating art?  A Boeing 700 series commercial airliner about to crash into the WTC and being blamed on foreign terrorists shown just six months before the real thing happened on a major TV station?   I mean come on?!! 

The real irony is that a lot of conspiracy investigators think that this scenario is essentially what really happened on 9/11! 

 

You can watch the streaming video of the "Pilot" trailer here:  Propaganda Matrix
 
 

"The Cold War's over, John. But with no clear enemy to stock pile against, the arms market's flat.  But bring down a fully-loaded 727 into the middle of New York City; you'll find a dozen tin-pot dictators all over the world, just clamoring to take responsibility.  And begging to be smart bombed."
   
   

BERTRAM- "Well, how are they gonna bring it down?"

BYERS: "Same way a dead man can drive a car."
 

   
   

(World Trade Center)
   

 

  

"Remote access; somebody on the ground's flying your plane."

   
   

(Boeing 727 closing in on the WTC.)
   
   

"Your flight's gonna make an unscheduled stop.  In exactly 22 minutes."
 

   
   

"They're going to crash the plane into the World Trade Center."
 
   
   

(Pilot in the cockpit as the Boeing 727 approaches the WTC.)

   
   

"If we can't get to the FBI we'll go public, with your testimony we can break this conspiracy wide open."
   
   

"They almost killed me twice; they won't fail a third time.  My silence will keep me alive.  And you.  I know, you and your friends are, fighting for the American Dream.  Just don't expect to win."

 

An interview with The Lone Gunmen co-producer Frank Spotnitz about the "Pilot" episode after 9/11...
 
Gunmen Foreshadowed 9/11
Fans of the short-lived X-Files spinoff series The Lone Gunmen may recall that the pilot episode ended with an eerie foreshadowing of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center. Though the show aired six months before the attack, its final scene featured a commercial airliner aiming at the [World Trade] center, veering away at the last minute, TV Guide Online reported.
But for some reason, the show's images escaped notice in the months following the real-life attacks—something that mystifies one of the show's writers, longtime X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz. It wasn't until the industry newsletter The Myers Report ran a story about the show this week that it caught the notice of TV Guide.
"I know! That's what I've been wondering," Spotnitz told TV Guide. He, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban wrote the episode. "I thought, 'Nobody noticed!' I guess so few people saw the show. But it's strange, too, because that was the pilot, and the ratings were actually quite good for [that episode], and yet we didn't hear anything."
Myers Report columnist Ed Martin wrote that "this seems to be collective amnesia of the highest order. The final act of the Gunmen pilot, which seemingly made no impact last year, now contains some of the most deeply disturbing images ever created for an entertainment program," according to TV Guide.
"I woke up on Sept. 11 and saw it on TV, and the first thing I thought of was The Lone Gunmen," Spotnitz told TV Guide. "But then in the weeks and months that followed, almost no one noticed the connection. What's disturbing about it to me is, you think as a fiction writer that if you can imagine this scenario, then the people in power in the government who are there to imagine disaster scenarios can imagine it, too." -Sci Fi Wire (6/21/01)
 
 
- Alex Jones Interviews X-Files/Lone Gunmen Star Dean Haglund who believes 9/11 was an inside job!

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TV spinoff The Lone Gunmen comes to DVD with its prescient 9/11 episode
The Lone Gunmen, the Complete Series (Fox) - Back in 2001, when The X-Files was breathing its last prime-time gasp, this oddball spinoff series hit the airwaves for 13 episodes. The three unlikely conspiracy investigators built their own little cult following with the show, still shot in Vancouver after the original fled to sunny California.
The most remarkable episode in the short-lived series aired just a few months before 9/11 with an incredibly prescient plot about terrorists hijacking an airliner and threatening to crash it into the World Trade Center. Except, in this plot, the terrorists were a cabal within the U.S. government itself.
On the episode's commentary track, the creators themselves cannot believe the irony. They recall how, in the immediate hours after the event when it wasn't known who was responsible, they feared their story might have inspired the real terrorists." -Canada.com (03/28/05)
 

"On March 4, 2001, during Season 8 of “The X-Files,” the three spun off in a seriocomic series of their own, created by “X” producers Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban, and co-starring Zuleikha Robinson (“Hidalgo”) and Stephen Snedden (“Coyote Ugly”).
Despite the concern of some fans, the pilot of “The Lone Gunmen” is indeed part of the boxed set. This would seem like a no-brainer — until you realize that the central conspiracy in the episode involved the high-tech electronic hijacking of a commercial airliner with the intent of crashing it into the World Trade Center.
Although the episode was conceived and shot in 2000 and aired six months before the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, the eerie coincidence sent shockwaves through cast and producers.
“I'll never forget that,” says Spotnitz, calling in from the set of the pilot for his remake of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” “That was such a disturbing thing. It was very upsetting. As I say in the DVD featurette, you write something like that, and you assume that if you can think of it, being a Hollywood writer, then somebody in the government has thought about it already.
“Obviously that wasn't the case. Just the idea that a plane could fly into a building, and the building would be unprotected was just … anyway, it was upsetting.”
Although their scenario involved using sophisticated electronics to remotely control the plane and had nothing to do with suicidal terrorists, Spotnitz had some long moments on the fateful September morning.
“I was directing an episode of ‘The X-Files' when that happened,” he recalls, “so I woke up a little late because we'd been shooting the night before. It was the first thing I saw on TV, one of the trade towers burning. The first thing that went through my head was, ‘I hope this doesn't have anything to do with what we did, that it wasn't somehow inspired by anything we did.'
“Nobody knew who had done it or what had happened, but we knew it was an airplane. It became obvious that it didn't have any connection to what we did.”
Haglund, a frequent guest at sci-fi conventions, had noted a brisk business in “Gunmen” bootlegs over the years. He attributes some of that to the pilot.
“Once the pilot and the 9/11 thing came together,” Haglund says, “all the conspiracy theorists started passing around that pilot at conventions and UFO conventions and started propelling that forward. These guys are all asking questions about, ‘How much did we know?' ‘Who wrote the script?' — that kind of thing.
“Other than small, middling details, what's odd about that ‘Gunmen' pilot is the larger details they got right. I assume somebody will look through the rest of the episodes and see what other details may be right. I can assure you, I don't think there is a legion of super-smart military chimps out there.” -Kansas City Star (03/21/05)
 
 

Links:

U-R-NEXT (GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA ZIONIST BUREAUCRATS HAVE LIED ABOUT 9/11/2001...)

Propaganda Matrix (Streaming video of the "Pilot" trailer)

Plague Puppy (Downloadable "Pilot" scenes)

Gov Sux (Downloadable "Pilot" trailer)

Active Opposition (Downloadable "Pilot" trailer)

Media Mogul’s Sinister Links to September 11 - American Free Press

9/11: WHAT DID RUPERT MURDOCH KNOW? *PIC*

Did Rupert Murdoch Have Prior Knowledge of 9/11?

Lone Gunman TV Show Parallels WTC PLot - Conspiracy Planet

Jetliners Smashing into Tall Buildings?  No Surprise - The Seventh Fire

FOX TV X-FILES ESP 9-11 OR CIA COMPLICITY? - Pirate News

 

Lone Gunmen Fan Sites:

The Lone Gunmen - Unofficial Fan Site

InsideTheX.co.uk - (Unofficial "Pilot" Transcript)

TWIZ TV - (Unofficial "Pilot" Transcript)

 Road Runners - [Page 3 - Page 4]

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