Archer and Lana must go undercover as newlyweds to stop the sale of uranium to North Korea, but lingering feelings for each other get in the way.
This episode provides examples of:
- Foreshadowing: While climbing up the side of the hotel, Lana has a conversation with herself where she considers ways to push Archer's buttons and how she's not getting any younger. At the end of the episode she alludes to a "huge decision" that she's made (and unmade). It's strongly implied this is her deciding to get IVF using Archer's stored sperm, something the audience won't learn in full until the end of next season.
- Literal Metaphor:
- When Archer steals Malory's limitless credit card, and proceeds to waste money:Malory: [calmly] I am literally going to kill him.
Gilette: Well figurati—
Malory: LITERALLY. I'll lure him to my condo in Miami, drug his steak au poivre, drive him out to the middle of the Everglades, slather him with rancid chicken fat and then toss him to the gators!
Gilette: [shocked] That's pretty specific for a hypothetical...
Malory: Oh he is going to pay for this... literally. - At the end of the episode, Malory says the whole operation was a farce and Archer points out that this is literally true, the entire affair was practically Feydeau.
- When Archer steals Malory's limitless credit card, and proceeds to waste money:
- List-of-Experiences Speech: Archer points out everything he's experienced as an ISIS agent up to this point in the series. A handful can be considered Noodle Incidents:Archer: Since I started working at ISIS, I've been shot, stabbed, set on fire, poisoned, shot, sexually assaulted, partially chewed, shot, and declared legally dead. Twice on the same day!
- Manchild: Archer, to an even greater extent than usual if that can be believed. He is completely uninterested in the mission from the very beginning, being more focused to treating his "honeymoon" with Lana as if it were for real. This includes insisting that she perform her "wifely duties" as well as indulging in all the luxuries that the Tuntmore Towers Hotel has to offer. He also throws a major tantrum when he discovers the small size of the bonus his mother gave him.
- Never My Fault: Archer stole Malory's credit card and has been using it to treat himself to what amounts to a vacation, doing absolutely nothing to participate in the mission he is supposed to be on. Yet he is outraged when he discovers that Malory has taken away his bonus. He remains angry at the end when she does not restore it, even though he basically failed the mission — which was to catch the seller of the uranium, not the North Korean buyers.
- Privileged Rival: Lana considers Archer this as he was groomed, trained and favored by Malory as a top field agent, while she had to train diligently to not only catch up, but t o be better than him. She actually calls him out on this after Malory changed their bonuses as payback for Archer stealing her credit card.Archer: Sucks, right? That's not even... [Looks at and takes Lana's phone] remotely fair! What the shit?!Lana: Apparently, we're in a crazy parallel universe, where bonuses are based on merit instead of whether or not you crawled out of your [Archer drops Lana's phone] MOTHER!
- Rule of Three: Lana calls out Archer for this after listening to his List-of-Experiences Speech:Lana: You said "shot" like three times.Archer: That's just by you! Total, it's more like... holy shit, nineteen!
- Thinking Out Loud: Lana complains how she allows Archer to push her buttons.
- Undercover as Lovers: For no obvious reason, since they were in no way disguised, and checked into the Tuntmore under Archer's real name (and using his mother's credit card). If the intent was to be covert in case the North Koreans checked the hotel for enemy agents, their cover story as honeymooners was completely pointless, and the North Koreans figured out who they were once they ran into them anyway.
