Instead, here he was in a cold, rainy city on the opposite coast, seated in a dark, deserted hotel bar named Journeys. No, Carter had bolted for Manhattan to talk up his new series, The Lone Gunmen . Something different for him, he says. An action comedy.
Gunmen is a spinoff.
Played by Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood and Dean Haglund, these ill-assorted activists are on their own now, publishing a muckraking newspaper and plunging into quixotic exposes. But while one is marked by darkness and opacity, the other dares to lighten up. Gunmen looks not to the skies or even the Pentagon for intrigue, but, instead, the Dow Jones industrials and Nasdaq. The Gunmen uncover a computer chip that spies on its users and a water-fuelled car kept off the market because it would wreck the petroleum industry. Clearly, corporate bogymen can be as shadowy and sinister as any paranormal foe.