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The Fox TV network has produced some of the longest television shows based on the FBI to date. From 1993 to 2002, the popular television series The X-Files, which concerned investigations into paranormal phenomena by five fictional Special Agents. Beginning in 2001, the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agency in the TV drama 24 works with, and is patterned closely after, the FBI Counterterrorism Division. The 1991 movie Point Break, is based on the true story of an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated a gang of thieves. The 1997 movie Donnie Brasco, is based on the true story of undercover FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrating the mafia.