History Recap / ArcherS3E8LoScandalo

A tense, wild-eyed Mallory sits in her apartment living room, stiffly taking sips of alcohol in the dark while thunder claps outside. Fearful, she immediately pulls a gun on Archer and Lana when they burst in. Both are irritated at Mallory's lack of explanation when she called Archer a little while before, but quickly see why she is so upset. The Prime Minister of Italy, Savio Mascalzone, sits dead in a chair before them, shot five times in the chest. To top it off, not only is Mascalzone bound to the chair, the chair itself has no seat, and the man's yellow zentai suit apparently opens up in the rear so someone could insert a "marital aid" into his ass. Archer and Lana are shocked and disgusted, so Mallory explains the situation.

She and Savio met after an Italian intelligence operation and felt a mutual attraction. After getting married and going into politics, Mascalzone would slip away from his duties to spend a romantic weekend with her. Over the years, Savio's tastes grew more "exotic" and Mallory started to indulge him, eventually leading to the zentai suit, bondage, and "rubber eggplant" situation in the present. After Mallory restrained him to the chair that night, she says, three men ran into the apartment and shot the Prime Minister.

Mallory fired after them three times and missed, as shown by matching bullet holes in the wall by the door. One of the men turned back and shot Mallory a jury's favor in court. Since plausible deniability is just not realistic, they must find a way to sneak Savio's corpse out of her apartment while dealing with surprise house guests and later the NYPD.

* ConnectTheDeaths: Krieger gives the entire ISIS staff each a package containing part of the murder victim. He tells them to put the packages in specific dumpsters, to form a smiley face. Averted however, as they just dump them wherever they feel like.

* EuropeansAreKinky: The Prime Minister was into some… exotic tastes. He was found dead in a full body zentai, with a dildo up his ass. Malory even states that she finally decided to exact her revenge because shit was getting too weird for her.

-->'''Archer''': So wait a minute...Mother shot ''herself''? Oh my god! Which would mean that she’s been banging him once a year for the last 35 years and the whole time, she’s been holding a grudge. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Holy shit, she killed him.

* RewatchBonus: A lot, once you know the final twist, notably how Archer and Lana were totally right from the start and how Mallory bend their minds, Krieger's level of implication based on his casualness about the whole thing and also the moment when Mallory almost gives the gun to Lana, which can be seen as a backup plan if the cop don't buy the masquerade.
* SexyCoatFlashing: The end of the episode reveals this as the reason why Malory wouldn’t take her trench coat off for Lana to treat the gunshot wound on her arm...she wasn’t wearing anything under it.

* EuropeansAreKinky: The Prime Minister was into some… exotic tastes. He was found dead in a full body zentai, with a dildo up his ass.

* EuropeansAreKinky: The Prime Minister was into some...exotic tastes. He was found dead in a full body zentai, with a dildo up his ass.

--> '''Archer''': I have a question, mother: Why does this chair have no seat? ''(looks under seat)'' And what... ''(looks under seat again)'' ...is in his '''''ass'''''?!:

A tense, wild-eyed Mallory sits in her apartment living room, stiffly taking sips of alcohol in the dark while thunder claps outside. Fearful, she immediately pulls a gun on WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} and Lana when they burst in. Both are irritated at Mallory's lack of explanation when she called Archer a little while before, but quickly see why she is so upset. The Prime Minister of Italy, Savio Mascalzone, sits dead in a chair before them, shot five times in the chest. To top it off, not only is Mascalzone bound to the chair, the chair itself has no seat, and the man's yellow zentai suit apparently opens up in the rear so someone could insert a "marital aid" into his ass. Archer and Lana are shocked and disgusted, so Mallory explains the situation.

* BestServedCold: Malory had her fun with Savio for 3 decades. The second Savio's started getting kinky for Mallory's tastes, she effortlessly does away with him.
* BilingualBonus: Lots of untranslated Italian.
* BlatantLies: Malory insisted throughout the episode that she didn't kill Savio, but Lana and Archer figured out by the end of the episode she did exactly that.
* BottleEpisode: 95% of the episode is set in Malory's apartment.

* CleanupCrew: Krieger, who [[NightmareFetishist really enjoys his work]]. In the end, he does it so well that the NYPD agent is none the wiser.
* ConnectTheDeaths: Krieger gives the entire ISIS staff each a package containing part of the murder victim. He tells them to put it in specific dumpsters, to form a smiley face. Averted however, as they just dump it wherever they feel like.

* DontAsk: When the others arrive and ask about the situation, Archer and Lana says this a few times to drop the subject:

* {{Hypocrite}}: Malory justifies her hatred of the Irish based on the fact that Ireland was neutral during World War II. While she's standing over the body of the Italian closet fascist politician that she has been having an ongoing affair with for ''three decades''. Also, Archer's possible-father was Italian as well and Malory even speaks fluent Italian. Italy was an actual Axis power!
* ItsPersonal: The reason why the Prime Minister was killed.

* RewatchBonus: A lot, once you know the final twist, notably how Archer and Lana were totally right from the start and how Mallory bend their minds, Krieger's level of implication based on his casualness about the whole thing and also the moment when Mallory almost give the gun to Lana, which can be seen as a backup plan if the cop don't buy the masquerade.

'''Archer & Lana:''' '''''DON'T ASK!'''''

-->'''Malory''': ''[opening her coat in front of a mirror]'' Girl, you’ve still got it! Bow chicka bow bow!