Continuing from the events of the last episode, Archer, Ray, and Cyril are being driven off to La Calebra, the biggest prison in South America...or so they think until one of two Colombian cops taking them there reveal that the 3 ISIS men aren't going there, which, according to Archer, means the cops are going to kill them. However, Cyril spots a cow right in the middle of the road and the jeep with the men ends up tumbling off the trail...a lot. Fortunately, Archer and Cyril (and, to their surprise, Ray) are still alive and conscious. Unfortunately, Ray ends up paralyzed from the waist down...again, and the dirty cops are barely alive. After Cyril tries (and fails) to take command, the boys build a raft and go downstream with the unconscious cops in tow, much to the chagrin of Archer, whose fear of crocodiles kicks up. And just to add salt to the wound, crocodiles appear and eat the cops in a (very) grisly manner. Ray ends up in tears and blames Archer for getting them "in the stupid jungle in the first place". Archer retorts by saying it was Malory's fault for buying the cocaine that started everything, which confuses Cyril since he was under the impression that Archer bought the cocaine. Ray still blames Archer for their current predicament...and after lighting a cigarette to calm his nerves, ends up lighting the raft on fire. The boys quickly get off and, after Ray shares his feelings of resenting Archer for not taking anything seriously, end up finding a plane with more shifty Colombians. After the boys take command of the plane, Ray reveals that he wasn't paralyzed the whole time, much to Cyril's annoyance, and they discover that the plane has more cocaine than they had when got into Colombia, meaning they can't land the plane anywhere. Ray assures Cyril that they'll worry about it when they have to.
Meanwhile, things aren't looking swell back at the Tunt Manor. Malory is reaching her breaking point since she's broke, Ron kicked her out of her own house, the ISIS crew are running out of cocaine, and she's has no idea what's become of Archer. Lana realizes this and feels bad for Malory. And Pam wants more cocaine. Lana resolves to give Malory an in-home "spa day", where Malory reveals to the girls that she didn't buy the cocaine either
This episode provides examples of:
- A-Team Firing: Cyril, of course.Cyril: SUPPRESSING FIRE!!!!!
- Brandishment Bluff / Stick 'em Up: Archer sneaks up behind a guy with a stick and makes the guy surrender, thinking it's a gun.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Ray indulges in one while they're on the raft. The gasoline-soaked raft.
- Continuity Nod: In the conversation between the girls back at Tunt Manor, there are nods to Archer being romantically involved with Lana, Cheryl and Pam ("Crossing Over"), as well as Pam having sex with both Lana ("Dial M For Mother") and Malory ("Swiss Miss"):Malory: Well, who knows with [Archer]? Maybe wherever he got that new kind of VD none of the doctors had ever seen before.
Lana: Wha— When was that?!
Pam: Yeah, when was that?
Cherlene: Seriously, was-
Malory: Trust me, if you had it, you'd know.
Cherlene and Pam: Phew!
Lana: Urgh. I loathe knowing that I had sex with the same person as you two.
Pam: What? You had sex with me!
Lana: No, I- (gasps) Oh my God, that's right.
Malory: Hah!
Pam: What are you laughing at?
Malory: ...Oh my God, that's right. - Cruel and Unusual Death: The two dirty cops are badly injured and unconscious after taking their Jeep into a long, long fall off of the road and into a deep ravine. They are then messily dismembered and devoured by crocodiles while being transported by raft down the river. Sure, they kind of brought it on themselves, but damn.
- Despair Event Horizon: Malory ends up here, or close, when every has gone wrong for her, and still is: losing ISIS, having Ron walk out on her, and losing more cocaine, not knowing where her son is, and going practically broke. Seeing her in this state prompts Lana, Cheryl, and Pam to present a makeshift spa to make her feel better.
- Deus ex Machina: By sheer luck, a random cow appears on the path of the Jeep and forces the car to veer off and fall off a looong way down, helping the trio escape.
- Dig Your Own Grave: Cyril assumes that they're going to be forced to dig their own graves, giving them the opportunity to attack the two cops. Archer replies that this being the jungle, they're probably just going to get shot in the head and left for the predators.
- Dirty Cop: The two Colombian cops who were going to kill Archer, Cyril, and Ray in the beginning of the episode. It isn't long until Karma turns them both into its bitches.
- Foreshadowing: Both Malory and Archer claim that they weren't the ones to obtain the cocaine. It turns out that the CIA were the ones who planted it in Malory's office.
- He Knows Too Much: Archer points out that the three of them wouldn't last long in prison, knowing that the cartel boss is really a deep-cover agent for the Colombian national police. One of the cops in the car assures them that they're not going there, so they don't need to worry about getting killed in prison. Archer points out that means they're just going to take them out in the jungle and kill them.
- Hell Hole Prison: La Culebra, not that they ever get there.
- Hollywood Hacking: Somehow, Archer was able to wire the phone line to the speakers in Cheryl's mansion for this episode's take on his Elaborable Voicemail Hoax, complete with dance music, when Lana was told to call him. Even Krieger is surprised, as he describes everything in detail after destroying the intercom.Krieger: OK, so, he forwards his phone here, that's easy; then he taps his phone line into the intercom—they're both low voltage, no big deal. But that's patched into the actual house wiring, obviously 110 AC, which means he must have wired a transformer in the circuit somewhere. But he's got all these fake wires in here that don't connect to any— [cut off by Malory bursting into tears]
- I Fell for Hours: The cliffside car crash goes on for a while. In a twist on the trope, a good portion of it is fairly horizontal, rather than a straight vertical fall.
- Jerkass Has a Point: This conversation, what was thought to be a jab at Colombians turns out to be a worse case scenario if they run into tribal groups:Cyril: Well, eventually, we have to come to a village or whatever, and maybe we can barter with them for a ride, or…
Archer: Barter with what, Cyril?
Cyril: I don’t know. Maybe the gun, or…
Archer: (laughing) Yes! Great idea, yeah, Cyril. Let’s give an M-16 to a bunch of wild Indians!
Cyril: Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey!
Ray: Goddamn, Huckleberry Finn!
Archer: What?! I don’t think it’s racist to assume that a previously uncontacted tribe of indigenous peoples might react unpredictably, perhaps even wildly, to a bunch of white guys who walk up and hand ’em a goddamn M-16!
Cyril: Oh, okay. I didn’t know in your scenario the indigenous people were uncontacted.
Ray: Totally different scenario.
Cyril: In which, no, you obviously wouldn’t just want to hand them an M-16.
Ray: ‘Cause they’d be, like, “What?!” Or whatever their word for that is.- Archer blames Ray for starting the fire that forces them to abandon their raft and swim to shore, which Ray protests but Cyril points out that Archer's not wrong on this one.
- Karmic Death: The two Colombian cops who were drinking and driving and planning to kill Archer, Ray, and Cyril end up becoming crocodile chow.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The Colombian cops who were driving Archer, Cyril, and Ray to their deaths crash their Jeep when a cow got in the road. Then they get severely injured. Then they both experience death by crocodile. Guess that's what happens when you drink and drive...
- Never My Fault: Ray and Cyril endure Archer's stubbornness to admit none of the problems they've gone through is his fault and tries to put the blame on his mother allegedly owning that much cocaine.
- Obfuscating Disability: Ray pretends to be paralyzed all episode, in hopes of teaching Archer a lesson. It's debatable if it worked,* but he's still impressed with his ploy.
- Overly Long Gag: The Jeep tumbles down a very long way down, stopped several times by nature getting on the way, only to continue tumbling down whenever Archer speaks a word.Archer: ...God- (Jeep tumbles down more) ...dam- (Jeep continues falling down and finally stops)
- Rage Breaking Point: Archer's decision to use a stick as a prop to ambush a guard and take his gun is what sets Ray off on his resentful tirade against Archer's habit of completely disregarding his own safety or chances of success while taking missions in the field.
- Riches to Rags: Malory is falling into a deep depression because she is now broke, and Ron has kicked her out of her penthouse (which she put in his name). That Tunt Manor is huge, luxurious and seemingly has a continually restocked supply of expensive liquor does little to assuage her misery since she is basically dependent on Cheryl.
- Shoot the Hostage: The drug dealers the men encounter immediately kill the guy Archer was holding at stick-point, even though he was the pilot for their plane.
- You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: The Boss Narco tries to pull this on Archer, Cyril and Ray when the latter hijack his drug plane. Unfortunately for him, Archer turns it around.Boss Narco: Do you have any idea who I am?Archer: No. Do you have an idea who we are?Boss Narco: ...No.Archer: (belches) Then blow me.
