Detective Munch interrogating John Fitzgerald Byers.
Detective John Munch (played by Richard Belzer) was an officer for Baltimore Homicide in Baltimore, Maryland.
Encounter with The Lone Gunmen[]
In May 1989, Detective Munch investigated the breaking and entering of a warehouse in Fells Point Industrial Park. He interrogated John Fitzgerald Byers and learned of the events that had occurred at the Baltimore Convention Center involving Susanne Modeski, John Fitzgerald Byers, Richard Langly, Melvin Frohike, and FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder. Byers, Langly, and Frohike were arrested for the trespassing, Modeski disappeared, and Agent Mulder was taken into custody by the FBI.
When Mulder was released from the FBI's restraints, he ordered Munch to let Frohike, Langly, and Byers out of their holding cells and they were freed. (TXF: "Unusual Suspects")
Background Information[]
- Detective John Munch was a main character on both Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
- He has appeared in seven other television shows and his appearance on The X-Files ties the so-called "X-Files Universe" to a massive fictional TV universe, known as the "Tommy Westphall Universe".
- Belzer also guest-starred as Munch on Law & Order, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, The Beat, Arrested Development: Exit Strategy, and The Wire.
- On Homicide: Life on the Street, Detective Munch has often been portrayed as a somewhat cynical conspiracy theorist.
External link[]
- John Munch on Wikipedia
- John Munch at the Law & Order Wiki