A mysterious stranger and a scavenger hunt help Archer and the gang get a jump on their enemies.
Tropes:
- Achievement In Ignorance: Krieger's machine was supposed to allow Archer to go into Colt's brain and get the information needed to stop IIA. Instead, it somehow awoke Colt from his coma.
- Always Someone Better: To Cheryl's immense mortification she finds that, while obscenely wealthy in America, in the relatively wealthier Singapore she's small potatoes.
- Bait-and-Switch: Krieger attempted to have Archer take a Journey to the Center of the Mind to retrieve Colt's information about the device the IIA had taken. Thanks to Archer, for better or worse, that's no longer necessary now that the scientist has woken up.
- Berserk Button: Lana is utterly enraged when Cyril keeps saying she's becoming more like Archer.
- The Bus Came Back: Barry, or rather "Other" Barry, returns at the end of the episode despite Barry claiming to have overcome his issues with regards to Other Barry.
- Elite Mooks: The IIA has trained assassins known as the Diamond Force
- Evil All Along: Downplayed and Double Subverted. Archer suspects Fabian to be a villain who wanted to use Colt's device from the premier episode for nefarious purposes. Fabian says he wants to use it to help the environment so the world stops using fossil fuels. How exactly? By creating a protection racket against major countries and hold the fuel companies ransom. So, he's more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist.Archer: Okay, wires uncrossed.
- Fair-Weather Friend: Played for laughs. Ray is upset they have to go through a guard who's "the only friend I've made here" as they eat at the same lunch table every day. It turns out the guy has no idea who Ray even is so Ray punches him out.
- "Friends" Rent Control: Lampshaded. Colt/Jeremy finds out that the rent in his home in Singapore is $12,000.
- Hope Spot: When Barry comes at the end to apparently rescue Archer from the IIA agents, Barry informs Archer that he is "other Barry" before knocking him out.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Lana disparages billionaires trying to make themselves look like nice people, Cyril points out that she's married to a billionaire.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Despite waking from his coma, Colt loses his memories and half the team must try to help him regain it.
- Mal Mariée: Lana's escapades in the previous episodes are brought up. Even though she argues that she did not fully cheat on Robert, Cyril considers her actions emotionally cheating, which is worse.
- Mirror Character: Krieger discovers how much alike Colt/Jeremy is to him. Absent-minded scientists with a love for vans and rock. They even have a holographic companion.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Cyril begins comparing Lana to Archer, due to her recent half-assing of strategy and thoughts of cheating on Robert. Lana angrily denies it.
- Not What It Looks Like: When Archer, Lana and Cyril find Ray working for the IIA, Ray at first says the trope verbatim before confessing that it truly is what it looks like.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Cheryl learns that her US money is chump change in Singapore.
- Colt discovers a paper with his possibly actual name: Jeremy. He still decides to use Colt.
- Properly Paranoid: After learning the truth about the device, Archer believes Fabian is using the IIA as a front for a classic "evil villain destroys the world with some sort of weird doomsday device" plot. He is mostly right when Fabian spells it out for him.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Ray downplays this, saying that IIA is just a backup in case their own agency shuts down again. He still assists them in stealing back the device, blowing his cover.
- The Reveal: The device that the Agency and the IIA were fighting for creates a power source that can solve the world's energy crisis. In the wrong hands, however, it can be a Doomsday Device that can wipe out all life on the planet.
- Riches to Rags: Cheryl takes this attitude to realize that Singapore is so wealthy that a hotel clerk dismisses her thousand-dollar tip as chump change. She spends the episode acting like she's bankrupt despite having no idea why $12,000 a month rent for an apartment is so much.
- Villain Respect: Despite his annoyance at Archer's behavior and interference, Fabian confesses the agent is starting to grow on him and offers him a job at IIA. Archer refuses.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: This episode answers why Ray Gilette was missing for some time. The gang infiltrates IIA HQ, only to discover he was moonlighting there.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Robert is understandably upset that Archer booked an expensive hotel in Singapore for a stakeout. He tones it down though as he admits it would make a perfect honeymoon with Lana.
