Ringo Langly
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Ringo Langly is the one who has long blond hair and wears black rimmed glasses. The communications expert of the group tends to wear a dark t-shirt showing various rock bands such as the Romones. Before becoming a Long gunman, he was an avid player of Dungeons and Dragons. At the computer exhibition in Baltimore, where the Lone Gunmen met, he had a stall named "Langly Vision". In "Via Negativa", his first name is revealed to be "Richard". |
He is the one most likely to joke with Mulder or invite him to "hop on the Internet to nitpick the scientific inaccuracies" of a new science fiction show.
But he's also a little bent; in "Fearful Symmetry," his colleague Byers explains Langly's absence in a meeting as a philosophical aversion to having his image bounced off a satellite. He automatically records every incoming phone call, and is evidently as conversant with current conspiracy theory as his two compadres.
He is ready with a laugh any time Mulder's theories get a little "out there," such as the idea that UFOs started the Gulf War. Nevertheless, when Mulder insists that Langly turn off the recording device in "E.B.E.," Langly does not hesitate to lie to him. Among the Lone Gunmen, truth is as rare as trust.
Dreamland II shows that Langly can't pronounce Spanish, but Byers and Frohike can. "Three of a Kind" shows that Langly can not stomach watching an autopsy. He gets greener and greener, before running from the room to be sick. ("You know, blood and guts can bother some people," he says, afterwards, when he finds Scully passed out on the floor.)