Archer must rescue Lana from the clutches of Skorpio, the infamous arms dealer. Meanwhile, Cyril fears not only for his girlfriend's life, but her succumbing to the seductive nature of Archer's heroics.
This episode provides examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: Lana shoots Archer in the foot.
- Antagonist Title: Skorpio is the Monster of the Week.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Archer reveals that he made Lana a beneficiary to his ISIS life insurance in case things go "tits up" for him. He's surprised to learn the Lana did the same for him. While a frustrated Lana plans to change this, it hints they may still have some feelings towards each other.
- Black Comedy Rape: Neither Archer nor Lana actually wanted to have sex with Skorpio (Lana in fact had been stalling him for days), but he gives them no choice in the matter.Archer: That...got a little dark.
- Blackmail: Archer insists on taking half of the bounty when they killed Skorpio, but frustratingly decides against it when Lana threatens to reveal his "wooden spoon" trauma to Pam, because she knows Pam will just blab it to everyone.Archer: Wooden spoons are a huge emotional trigger for me, Lana!
Lana: Yeah, and now I know. And once I tell Pam, so will everyone in the office.
Archer: Oh, is that how you want to play it?!
Lana: Eeyuuup! - Blanket Fort: Krieger uses some of the boxes of paperwork to build "Fort Kick-Ass".
- Blatant Lies: Malory is "at a conference", not nearby on a boat with Nikolai Jakov. Nor does she micromanage her agents.
- Continuity Nod: The stewardess that serves Lana and Malory on their flight is the same Sexy Stewardess that Archer slept with in "Mole Hunt", which explains the way she reacts to Lana's comment about Archer's fondness for Kinky Spanking.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Cyril spends most of the episode obsessing over Lana, to her great annoyance. Cheryl, Pam and Krieger have fun with it by taunting him that Archer and Lana are probably having sex mid-mission (in a way, they were right).
- Destructo-Nookie: After a three-way between Archer, Lana, and Skorpio, the room is covered with chocolate and even chocolate prints of Lana's boobs on the wall.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Archer gets distracted by Lana's bouncing boobs while she shoots with a firearm, and then she gets distracted by his bobbing ass doing the same.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Lana literally shoots Archer in the foot, in the middle of a firefight, because he complimented her tits.
- Do You Trust Me?: Archer asked this to Lana before blowing up Skorpio's yacht. She fiercely says no.
- Dramatic Irony: Cyril is tortured into thinking by everyone (except Pam) that Lana may be already having sex with Archer during their mission. Not only do they not really have consensual sex (they were forced by Skorpio into a messy threesome with chocolate), Cyril gives in to his desperation and has sex with Cheryl (in Malory's office).
- Erotic Asphyxiation: After having sex with Cyril, you can clearly see handprints on Cheryl's neck.
- Everyone Has Standards: Pam and Cheryl may be willing to tease Cyril and make his anxieties worse, but they're both disturbed by Archer casually tossing out the possibility of Lana being raped and killed.
- False Reassurance: Archer explains to Cyril that, worst case scenario, Skorpio was probably raping Lana senseless before chopping her battered corpse into shark food.Cyril: Oh my God!
Cheryl: How could you say that?!
Archer: What?! I said "worst case." - Foreshadowing: Pam explains the love triangle between Archer, Lana, and Cyril is why she doesn't sleep with her coworkers. She has since slept with everyone but Ray.
- Kick the Dog: Thanks to Archer and Cheryl, Cyril suffers this throughout the episode, fearing for his relationship with Lana at best, and her life at worst, while she's away on her mission. Pam and Krieger don't help much.
- Everybody Knew Already: Skorpio was already aware of both Archer and Lana's identities, and decides to reveal this after they have sex.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: Malory makes up the excuse to come along in the mission because she happened to have a secret date with Nikolai on a boat, behind their agencies' backs.
- Lampshade Hanging: When Lana asks Archer where he had a grenade for their escape, he responds "Hanging from a lampshade".
- Moment Killer: Lana shoots Archer in the foot during a moment of intimacy. Granted, they were still under heavy gun fire, he started complimenting her breasts, and she's still going out with Cyril, but there would have been other ways to have him focus up without injuring him.
- The Reveal: Mistakenly thinking that Archer has just been blown up, Malory lets slip that he is also Nikolai's son (maybe).
- Running Gag: "Whomp Whomp!"
- Tempting Fate: Lana counters Archer calling Cyril "clingy" by stating that at least she knows she can trust him in a relationship. Unfortunately, the episode ends with him having sex with Cheryl under pressure.
