When members of Woodhouse's famed WWI Royal Flying Corps squadron start dying mysteriously, Archer tries to track down the killer.
This episode provides examples of:
- Ambiguously Gay: Woodhouse and Reggie Thistleton. Woodhouse was obvious in his devotion to Reggie. Reggie kept a photograph of them both in his Sopwith Camel.
- Apophenia Plot: When the last survivors of the squadron begin dying off in mysterious circumstances, Woodhouse believes that the squadron's villainous second-in-command, Lieutenant Scripes, is trying to cash in on the money, driving Woodhouse to hole up in Archer's apartment with the only other survivor in an attempt to prepare for the worst. However, Scripes himself reveals that the "mysterious circumstances" were just exaggerated by the newspapers to drum up publicity; in reality, two of the victims died in their sleep of natural causes, one of them fell off a roof while trying to fix an antenna, and the other accidentally throttled himself to death in an Erotic Asphyxiation incident.
- Delivery Guy: Turns out Woodhouse delivered Archer after Malory went into labor in his bar. When Archer freaks out about this, Malory points out that Woodhouse most likely saved both of their lives in the process and so maybe Archer should be nicer to him.
- Erotic Asphyxiation: One of the soldiers in Woodhouse's squadron was into this, and his "mysterious" death was actually the result of him accidentally strangling himself during a session.Stilton: Oh, plus, of course, what he named his plane.
Woodhouse: I always thought that had something to do with the engine. Well, here's to you, "Choke and Stroke". - Hypocritical Humor: Malory rejected Woodhouse's idea of giving Archer the middle name "Reginald" saying it was "too gay", yet she ends up making his middle name "Malory" and later in life assigns him the codename "Duchess".
- Kick the Dog: Malory is forced to look after the Wee Baby Seamus. Her main maternal skill is to dote on the baby with toys then rudely taking them away to make him cry, with the goal to teach him how cruel the world can be and that he can only trust Malory.
- Maternity Crisis: Malory went into labor with Sterling while on the run from enemy spies in Tangiers.
- Mistaken for Gay: Corporal Bishop assumes Archer and Woodhouse are a couple and the Wee Baby Seamus is their adopted son.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: When Archer learns that Woodhouse helped deliver him, all he can think of is the fact that Woodhouse saw Malory's private parts.
- Pistol-Whipping: Corporal Bishop knocks Archer unconscious by hitting him with Reggie's pistol after Archer tossed Scripes off the roof.
- Reckless Gun Usage: Stilton brings Reggie's old service revolver to return it to Woodhouse; he brings it fully loaded, and shows Woodhouse the good condition it's been kept in by inviting him to look down the barrel.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Woodhouse crosses no man's land and takes down fifty German soldiers with a combat knife after Reggie is killed by a sniper.
- Tontine: Reggie finds a way to inspire morale in his fighter company by starting one. In the short term, it works... right up until Reggie crash-lands in no man's land and the second-in-command refuses to attempt a rescue. In the long term, it works about the way you'd expect.
- After hearing about Woodhouse being part of a tontine, Pam and Cheryl decide to set up one among the ISIS staff. Their logic is that given most of the employees are field agents and the rest work in a deathtrap of a building, it'll be a lot easier to win. Cyril informs them that tontines are illegal but still agrees to join in.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Woodhouse calls out Archer for tossing Scripes off the roof when he assumed that Woodhouse was going to get killed by him.Woodhouse: Scripes wasn't here to kill us, he came to mourn our comrades in arms!
Archer: ...Oh.
Woodhouse: "Oh"? That's all you have to say, you great flapping twit, "oh"?! Corporal Bishop, the Webley!
Archer: The what? What's a Web—(gets knocked unconscious by Bishop)
