The Lone Gunmen turn 25: Vince Gilligan reveals how his X-Files spinoff accidentally predicted 9/11

That series was The Lone Gunmen, a spinoff of The X-Files which focused on the adventures of Byers (Bruce Harwood), Langly (Dean Haglund), and Frohike (Tom Braidwood), the three publishers of a conspiracy-centric supermarket tabloid named The Lone Gunman. In the show’s pilot episode, which aired on Mar. 4, 2001, the trio investigates a plot where evildoers within the government plan to hijack a passenger plane via remote control and fly it into the World Trade Center. The script even contains the haunting line, “They’re going to crash the plane into the World Trade Center.”