The X-Files - 6.

writers: Vince Gilligan and John Shiban

director: Cliff Bole

STARRING:

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Signy Coleman as Susanne Modeski

Tom Braidwood as Frohike

Dean Haglund as Langly

Bruce Harwood as Byers

Charles Rocket as Grant Ellis

George Sharperson as the Security Guard

Michael McKean as Morris Fletcher

Phil Abrams as Little Fritz

Brian Reddy as Big Fritz

Richard Zobel as Al

Jim Fyfe as Jimmy the Geek

John Billingsley as Timmy the Geek

Jeff Bowser as Redhead Geek

Jason Felipe as Bald Geek

Rick Garcia as News Anchor

Kalena Coleman as Bus Driver

The press release: The Lone Gunmen attend a Defense Contractors' Convention in Las Vegas to uncover government trade secrets. When they catch a glimpse of the woman (Signy Coleman) who was kidnapped by government agents ten years previously, they trick Scully into coming to her aid.

The sequel to Unusual Suspects. This time it won't be a flashback, this will be a current-day storyline.

Eyewitnesses to the filming report that Langly shoots Susanne Modeski in a Las Vegas casino.

Due to David Duchovny working on his episode, The Unnatural, he will not be appearing in this episode.

Yes, that's Michael McKean playing the role he played in "Dreamland" and "Dreamland 2". I'm told it's just a cameo.

Here's an article from the Las Vegas Review Journal

<http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Mar-22-Mon-1999/lifestyles/10830093.html>:

COLUMN: Shooting Stars

Lone Gunmen ride into town for 'X-Files' shoot

By Carol Cling

In its six-season history, "The X-Files" has traveled far afield, exploring bizarre and sinister corners of the globe.

This week, however, the show ventures into territory it's never investigated

before: an actual location.

As astounding as it sounds, "The X-Files' " two-day shoot -- scheduled today and Tuesday at the Monte Carlo -- marks "the first time the series has shot on location," according to "X-Files" spokeswoman Shannon Peterson.

Because "X-Files" FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) "travel all over the U.S. for their cases, everyone always believes" the show travels too, Peterson acknowledges during a telephone interview from Los Angeles, which became the show's production base after five years in Vancouver.

But Peterson says every eerie locale the show has probed so far -- including visits to the legendary Nevada outpost of Area 51 -- "has either been in our homes of Vancouver or L.A."

That is, until now.

"The X-Files' " Vegas visit involves the show's secondary, not primary, unit.

That means you won't find Mulder and Scully feeding coins into a Megabucks slot machine or hanging out at the Monte Carlo brew pub.

Instead, the show's sardonic "Lone Gunmen" -- undercover operatives Ringo Langly (Dean Haglund), John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood) and Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood) -- will be in the Vegas spotlight.

The Vegas "X-Files" episode, titled "Three of a Kind," calls for the intrepid trio to infiltrate an international defense contractors' convention to uncover alien conspirators -- posing as contractors -- during a card game.

The "Three of a Kind" script specified a Las Vegas setting, Peterson explains.

And, "unlike any other city in the country, you can't double Vegas outside," she points out. Glitter City's unique atmosphere helped "X-Files" producers convince officials at 20th Century Fox Television, the show's production home, "to cough up the cash" for the Vegas trek.

Both casino interiors and exteriors will be filmed during the show's two-day Monte Carlo shoot, notes Maria Gladowski, the resort's public relations manager. As part of the show, the Monte Carlo marquee will feature a "Welcome Defense Contractors" message, she adds.

"X-Files" officials also "are talking about maybe (filming at) a dry lake bed" during this week's Southern Nevada visit, according to Las Vegas-based location scout Eddie Fickett, who helped them choose a filming site.

"When I first scouted with them, they had a whole list of hotels" to consider, Fickett says. "They were looking for something basically upscale -- but not too upscale."

In addition to the hotel's understated elegance, show officials liked the fact that the Monte Carlo has "a casino that's not overly themed," Gladowski comments. "And, from an artistic standpoint," director Bryan Spicer "liked how the casino looked in setting up the shots."