Melvin Frohike
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.
