Melvin Frohike
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Melvin Frohike, the eldest of the Lone
gunmen, next to Langly and Byers, looks like the proverbian dirty
old man. Middle aged, short, unshaven, and clad in combat boots, he is
the Frog Prince of the gunmen. He serves as the photographic and
surveillance specialist, and before becoming a gunman, was a computer
hacker with a business called Frohike Electronics Corporation.
From his first leering
appearance in "E.B.E.", he has made no secret of his
attraction to Dana
Scully pronouncing her as "hot", which he repeated with
more conviction after hearing her expound about the CIA.
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In "Blood" he loaned Fox
Mulder a pair of night vision goggles for Scully's phone number, and was the
only person to bring Scully flowers, as she lay dying in "One Breath".
In "Blessing Way" he turned up at her apartment, to commiserate on
Mulder's supposed death.
He is pretty close to Mulder as
well, in-fact when they thought that Mulder was dead, he remarked that "he
was a true friend. A redwood among mere sprouts" and embraces Mulder when
he finds out he is alive.
He does have something of a
drinking habit. In "Blessing Way" when he goes to Scully's Apartment,
he shows her an empty bottle, when asked how much he's drunk. He always comes up
with the right information on everything. Not
a great talker, Frohike grows loquacious only when Mulder teases him; he
succinctly summarized the atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia in Mulder's
apartment during "Anasazi" with one bon mot: "weirdness."
In "Dreamland II",
Frohike seems quite domestic, cooking huevos rancheros for breakfast. (He says
he would have made more salsa if he'd known Mulder was coming.) Frohike doesn't
like it when Morris (in Dreamland II) calls him "Melvin", and
presumably likes it even less when he calls him "sneezy."
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