John Fitzgerald Byers/Las Vegas

In 1999, Byers and the other Lone Gunmen attended the annual Def-Con convention in Las Vegas. There, Byers went undercover as unmarried defense contractor Stewart Funston to play a game of Texas Hold 'Em against four legitimate defense contractors. One of Byers' opponents worked for a black ops organization, another not only went head to head with Byers and won - costing the Lone Gunmen $30,000 - but also cleverly discovered that he was lying about his identity. As a result of his mistakes, Byers was forcefully ejected from the game.
Ten years after the Lone Gunmen had met Susanne Modeski at a Baltimore convention, Byers momentarily caught sight of her in Las Vegas. He called Scully and, using computer software that mimicked Mulder's voice, lured her to Las Vegas in the belief that the Lone Gunmen required their own inconspicuous government agent to help them oppose the agents of the government he believed they were already up against.
After witnessing Susanne Modeski kiss the same man who had defeated him at Texas Hold 'Em earlier, Byers made an unsuccessful, unlikely and half-hearted attempt to commit suicide before he announced his suspicion that the man was a government agent who had brainwashed Modeski into both working for him and kissing him, using the mind-altering gas she and the Lone Gunmen had found in a warehouse ten years before. Following Scully's arrival in Las Vegas and the death of Jimmy Belmont (a friend of the Lone Gunmen), Byers began to suspect that Jimmy Belmont had been murdered and learned that Grant Ellis, the man he had witnessed kissing Susanne Modeski, was actually her fiancé and had not brainwashed her but had saved her from the organization who had seized her ten years earlier.
Byers and the other Lone Gunmen discovered that a derivative of the mind-altering gas they had previously encountered had been used to influence Jimmy Belmont to commit suicide and had recently been injected into Scully, although Susanne Modeski rendered her unconscious with a chemical that would counteract the drug's effect on her.
After Modeski realized that Langly was also under the influence of the mind-altering drug and administered the antidote to him, Byers and his friends helped to fake her death following the discovery that Langly had been instructed to kill her. As part of the deception, Byers dressed as a paramedic and, together with Frohike, he wheeled Modeski's supposedly lifeless body away from the conference room.
Having learned that the incident was a hoax, Timothy Landau, the man who had administered the mind-altering drug to Scully and had tried to supervise Langly's murder of Susanne Modeski, killed Grant Ellis, who had provided him with the drug, and subsequently confronted the Lone Gunmen with Modeski as his hostage. Byers was pistol whipped once by the man, knocking him to the ground, but he retaliated by managing to inject his attacker with the mind-altering drug. The man consequently lost his balance and fell on Byers, crushing him.
After Timothy Landau was arrested on charges relating to the murder of both Grant Ellis and Susanne Modeski, Byers provided Modeski, who had been pronounced dead on computer records, with a new identity and convinced her not to go public with evidence against the government, but to instead allow the Lone Gunmen to do so. The two then parted for the final time. 
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