John Fitzgerald Byers/Post-Gunmen

Following their release, Byers and his associates found themselves unemployed and low on funds, but they nevertheless continued to occasionally provide assistance to the FBI agents who were assigned to the X-files.
Upon visiting Agent Doggett's apartment in late 2001, Byers told Doggett that they had nothing better to do than help him, later revealing that the Lone Gunmen had managed to hack into the Department of Interior's mainframe and acquire certain files that Doggett had requested - Environmental Protection Agency files on EPA Deputy Administrator Carl Wormus, who Byers learned had drowned in his own car.
When Byers later met Agent , he informed her that Doggett had left his apartment after the Lone Gunmen had discovered, as a result of having to do some "real hacking", that Carl Wormus had been receiving encrypted e-mail data from a worker at a water reclamation plant in Maryland named Roland McFarland. 
Following another financial fiasco (namely, having their Internet service cut), Byers and his associates breached FBI security by posing as agents when they entered the organization's headquarters, where they returned to the X-files office, having earlier visited the room in the previous year As Agent Reyes was working alone in the room, Byers turned her attention to the Lone Gunmen's discovery that someone had been trying to call Carl Wormus after his widely reported death. Moments later, Byers noticed an incoming call from the same person and hastily instructed Langly to hook up a patch cord. He then gestured for Frohike to answer the call as Carl Wormus and, while listening to the conversation with Reyes and Langly, Byers gesticulated a question for Frohike to ask the caller, a sea captain who told Frohike, believing he was Carl Wormus, to notify the FBI about the horrors and inhumanity of a lab being maintained aboard his ship. 
In 2002, Byers and the other Lone Gunmen were called upon to protect Scully's baby, William, from the members of a dangerous cult. As Byers sat in the back of the Lone Gunmen's van while it made its way through a Washington, D.C. alley, he enjoyed tickling the baby's cheek, making William smile, but did not realize an imminent threat - a female cult member who shot at the Lone Gunmen's van, forcing it to a violent stop, and held Byers at gunpoint before kidnapping baby William, who was now loudly crying. 
Prior to the kidnapping, Byers had managed to tuck a cell phone under the padding of the baby's car seat. He subsequently assisted in an attempt to relocate William, helping with an initially unsuccessful, ultimately pointless effort to track the hidden phone and later watching as his associates provided Agents Reyes and Scully with instructions to follow the leader of the cult, voicing alarm when the Lone Gunmen lost a tracking signal representing the cult leader's car. However, the FBI agents had followed the signal for long enough to eventually find baby William, who they soon recovered. 
At one point, Byers learned about super-soldiers, discovering that they were a secret cadre of genetically altered humans that Agents Doggett and Reyes had been investigating.
Byers later helped search for John Gillnitz, a man who was essentially a human time-bomb, as he had willingly been implanted with a steadily decaying vessel of shark cartlidge carrying an engineered lethal virus, the only existing one of its kind, that could potentially kill thousands or even tens of thousands of victims within a radius of five or six miles. Byers and the other Lone Gunmen eventually found John Gillnitz moments before the shark cartlidge in his body was about to totally decay and consequently release the deadly virus, but, presented with the option of sealing themselves in a corridor with Gillnitz using airtight fire doors, Byers believed, even though he had been determined to never give up, that he and his associates had to do whatever it took to minimize the virus' death toll and, on his recommendation, the Lone Gunmen quarantined themselves, heroically sacrificing their own lives. Due to AD Skinner pulling strings, Byers was buried with Frohike and Langly in Arlington National Cemetery. 
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