Melvin Frohike

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The X-Files character
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Melvin Frohike
Affiliated with The Lone Gunmen/Mulder and Scully
First appearance E.B.E
Last appearance The Truth
Portrayed by Tom Braidwood

Melvin Frohike is a fictional character in the television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, played by Tom Braidwood.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Frohike was born circa 1953 in Pontiac, Michigan. Prior to joining The Lone Gunmen, he was an acclaimed Tango dancer in Miami. On giving up the Tango, he toured the country with hippies before founding Frohike Electronics Corp, specializing in cable pirating hardware.

In 1989 at a consumer electronics show in Baltimore, where his company had a trade stand, he met John Byers and Richard Langly and subsequently they formed a group publishing “The Lone Gunman” Newsletter.

Frohike is the shortest of the three member of the Lone Gunmen and is terminally scruffy with a unique dress sense. In earlier X-Files appearances he sported a short ponytail, and favours wearing woolen vests, braces and leather, together with his trademark fingerless gloves.

He is the Lone Gunmen’s expert in photography, special operations and electronic surveillance and is something of an engineering wizard.

Frohike has a deep attraction for Agent Scully. In his first appearance he was taking photographs of her, ogling her and calling her “tasty”. Whilst this attraction seemed rather lustful at first, he has shown genuine affection for Scully (and Mulder) on numerous occasions, being the first person to bring her flowers after she returned from her abduction in the episode “One Breath”, and rescuing her from the attentions of Morris Fletcher in “Three of a Kind”.

All three of the Lone Gunmen died in the X-Files episode “Jump The Shark”, sacrificing themselves to save thousands from a terrorist created plague by using fire doors to seal themselves in a closed hallway with the man carrying the plague. AD Skinner pulls some strings and arranges for them to be interred at Arlington National Cemetery as tribute to their brave deeds.

[edit] Appearances

Frohike Appears in the Following Episodes:

Season 1

  • E.B.E.

Season 2

  • Blood
  • One Breath
  • Fearful Symmetry
  • Anasazi

Season 3

  • The Blessing Way
  • Paper Clip
  • Nisei
  • Apocrypha
  • Wetwired

Season 4

  • Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
  • Memento Mori

Season 5

  • Redux
  • Redux II
  • Unusual Suspects
  • Emily
  • Kill Switch
  • The End

The X-Files: Fight the Future (film)

Season 6

  • Triangle
  • Dreamland II
  • One Son
  • Three of a Kind
  • Field Trip

Season 7

  • First Person Shooter
  • En Ami
  • Requiem

Season 8

  • Within
  • Via Negativa
  • The Gift
  • Dead Alive
  • Three Words
  • Existence

Season 9

  • Nothing Important Happened Today
  • Nothing Important Happened Today II
  • Provenance
  • Providence
  • Jump the Shark
  • The Truth
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