John Munch

That's-

And then, like, Richard Belzer is the, uh, reality destroyer because Munch has shown up on so many different shows.

Right.

Yes.

[laughs]

... being on a billion different shows-

As Munch

... that happen to cross over with billions of other different shows.

This was interesting.

Um, the show was "Homicide: Life on the Street", and Richard Belzer portrays a character in that series called Detective John Munch, and he plays that same character in this episode.

Uh, it also gave Gilligan, through the foresight of John Shaban, um, the chance to bring back X, played by Steven Williams, and to show that he was already a shadowy figure who had eyes out for Mulder even at that time.

So the simple story here is that we have this origin story of The Lone Gunmen.

Okay.

But the detective, I was like, wait, wait, who is that? It's a detective, John Munch, who is the detective from homicide life on the streets, which, and then also law and order SVU.

Oh, I cannot picture that person.

Is that what what part is is John Munch the actor's name? No, really? No, it's not.

That's the thing.

It's played.

Wouldn't it be cool if we could get the guy from homicide life on the streets to play this? Oh my God.

But then, I don't know, four or five years later, he does the same thing.

name Munch?

He was Detective Munch.

The ladies love him.

Now when