![]() “Like you’re the only one who has ever delivered a baby in a war zone.” ![]() “Aw… all the gardeners are running away!” “I don’t know anything!” // “I find that to be literally true.” So we can look forward to more workplace comedy next year, but given the excellent continuity of this show, we can also look forward to stronger character dynamics. Malory also successfully blackmails Holly, who will likely rise in the ranks of the CIA, to put ISIS on the payroll, which means it’s back to being secret agents next season. The talk between Lana and Sterling is the most tender scene of the whole season, and it’s nice to see that Sterling finally has a child whose life he can become involved with (sorry, Wee Baby Seamus). It doesn’t take long for Lana to reveal that the donor was none other than Sterling himself, dating back to the second season, where he could have died from breast cancer and froze vials of his sperm. “Any of you who had ‘black guy,’ pay up,” Pam says on announcing the successful delivery. Once at the airport, Malory and Pam help Lana deliver her child, a baby girl. The running gag is hilarious as one pilot asks who in the other person’s family is into tapas, in a tangent that seems like it was torn out of Adam Reed’s Frisky Dingo. We also cut a few times to a pair of fighter pilots who will bomb the presidential palace. As she tells Lana near the end of the episode, when Lana announces her intention to quit ISIS: “When have I ever been honest with Sterling?”Įventually Krieger realizes that the missile has no explosive payload, so he and Ray take out the cannister of nerve gas and get to the airport with Malory, Pam and Cyril. It therefore makes a lot more sense when Malory says it was her plan. Lana at this point is an emotional mess, not helped by the fact that Sterling was in on the CIA operation - until he tells her that he knew nothing about it. Cyril is resistant to leaving at first, but when he hears that the CIA is going ahead with “Operation Dropkick” (a full-scale bombing of San Marcos) along with the news that the First Lady is having (another) affair, he gets in on the looting.īack at the airport, despite his concern, Sterling isn’t much help to Lana since he refuses to examine Lana’s vagina. As expected, this leads to some tension with Lana, who grabs an assault rifle and corrals everyone into submission.īack at the palace, Krieger is having no luck disarming the warhead, and Malory, realizing the futility of Krieger’s efforts, tells everyone to grab as much as they can out of the palace and get out of the country. He then figuratively drops the bombshell that Sterling knew about the operation from day one. Lana is going into labour, and Krieger is trying to figure out how to disable the nerve gas missile.īefore either of this things are resolved, we are finally clued in on how the ton of cocaine got into Cheryl’s mansion in the first place - the CIA (specifically, Agent Holly) planted it there, so that the money could be used to buy arms from Iran (or Iraq, “doesn’t matter who,” Holly says, a line that will become a running joke throughout the episode). But really, it was about characters coming to terms with each other.įollowing the events of “ Filibuster,” the clock is ticking for two major events. And then it was about arms smuggling, and then it was about preventing New York City from being hit by a nerve gas missile. “Archer Vice” started out as the former ISIS group trying to move a literal, non-metric ton of cocaine, and also sort of about turning Cheryl/Carol into a country star. Lana was also left with a lot to lose, having lost any semblance of leading a normal life while pregnant. Arguably the biggest sufferer was Malory she lost her home, her company, and - briefly - her husband, to the point where she actually had an emotional breakdown, something that didn’t seem possible in other circumstances. Every character saw his or her circumstances lowered. Perhaps because of this sense of relative safety (both in terms of what the character felt and the overall narrative), there were not as many emotional connections between characters as they could have been.Īll of that was shaken up when ISIS was eliminated. Despite all of the crazy adventures the members of ISIS got up to, there was always somewhere to return to. At its core, “Archer Vice” has been a sharp and funny season, but with one fundamental difference - no one has a safety net.
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