The Lone Gunmen - Like Water for Octane

I have to say that this is my favorite of the first season thus far. It gets all the characters involved instead of just one among TLG. Frohike is reinvigorated to find a water-power engine motorized machine he once rode in as a child, a document regarding it found stuck to a cinderblock in a box Byers thought contained Watergate files he's requested through the Freedom of Information Act...the clerk love to fuck with Byers so this joke was a rib. The daughter of the inventor Frohike so admired is reluctant to allow him and Byers to visit but their sincerity changes her mind. Also a farmer whose dad was the inventor's friend could very well know where the car currently resides. Maybe it is in a nuclear silo? Or perhaps it is somewhere else entirely? Shareen Mitchell is the inventor's daughter while Mark Valley (of Boston Legal fame) enlists (he thinks) the aid of Yves to give him info on where that water car is as he represents petroleum interests. Bye-bye goes the clerk who was smitten with Yves, working her charms, when Valley came looking for info. Jimmy actually helps and hurts the team, catching Yves trying to snatch an unredacted doc that'll lead them closer to the car but causing their can to flip off a road into a ditch while hoisting it up so TLG could fix a flat tire. He does get the best of Valley through the use of a well positioned, well timed bull kick, so the idea he's totally worthless proves wrong here. He's a lovable goof that drives Frohike nuts. Oh and Langly finds himself with his arm up the bull's ass....yeah. The ending is rather wise, profound, and anti-capitalist. Does the car ultimately help or hurt the world ultimately?

Fun opening montage details TLG as children proposing successful futures that hadn't quite panned out, perhaps to their own detriment. Good explosion that leaves the fate of TLG up in the air...it is momentary questioning of how they could possibly survive this.