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* AntiClimax: The gang gear up for a big, action-filled showdown...which lasts all of 6 seconds, cause no one brought any extra ammo.

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* AntiClimax: The gang gear up for a big, action-filled showdown...which lasts all of 6 seconds, cause because no one brought any extra ammo.



* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: It takes the whole gang most of the episode to realise that the KGB framing Katya as a double agent is the first thing any agency would do. Especially because it's also extremely similar to the first thing Malory did after [[Recap/ArcherS1E9JobOffer Archer tried to get a job at ODIN]].

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: It takes the whole gang most of the episode to realise that the KGB framing Katya as a double agent is the first thing any agency would do. Especially do, especially because it's also extremely similar to the first thing Malory did after [[Recap/ArcherS1E9JobOffer Archer tried to get a job at ODIN]].



* GoneHorriblyRight: Boris boasts about the cyborg project he ran behind Jakov's back and constantly wishes for a promotion when he impresses Boris with the results. When Barry goes rogue with his superhuman skills, he meekly asks to put a pin on the promotion, much to Jakov's chagrin.
%%* HighHeelFaceTurn: Katya.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: Boris boasts about the cyborg project he ran behind Jakov's back and constantly wishes pushes for a promotion when he impresses Boris with the results. When Barry goes rogue with his superhuman skills, he meekly asks to put a pin on in the promotion, much to Jakov's chagrin.
%%* HighHeelFaceTurn: Katya.
chagrin.



* SenselessSacrifice: Katya uses a wedding veil to drag Barry off the terrace of Archer's apartment. She dies on impact. Barry doesn't even seem bothered by it. Averted for Archer, though, as she prevented Barry from killing him.

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* SenselessSacrifice: Katya uses a wedding veil to drag Barry off the terrace of Archer's apartment. She dies on impact. impact. Barry doesn't even seem bothered by it. it. Averted for Archer, though, as she prevented Barry from killing him.



* ShootingSuperman: Granted it was only one round, because that's all anyone had left, but Mallory putting a .44 round in Barry's back didn't even faze him.

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* ShootingSuperman: Granted it was only one round, because that's all anyone had left, but Mallory Malory putting a .44 round in Barry's back didn't even faze him.
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* AntiClimax: The gang gear up for a big, action filled showdown...which lasts all of 6 seconds, cause no one brought any extra ammo.

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* AntiClimax: The gang gear up for a big, action filled action-filled showdown...which lasts all of 6 seconds, cause no one brought any extra ammo.



* EmergencyTransformation: Barry is turned into a cyborg by the KGB, having lost a leg and sustained other severe injuries in the fall from the previous episode. They intend for him to take out Katya. He promptly goes rogue, intending to kill Archer, but she dies in the process.

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* EmergencyTransformation: Barry is turned into a cyborg by the KGB, having lost a leg and sustained other severe injuries in the fall from the previous episode. They intend for him to take out Katya. He Barry promptly goes rogue, intending to kill Archer, but she Katya dies in the process.a sacrifice to protect her fiancé.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ray is at first hesitant to label Archer as a double-agent but when Lana tells him that Katya's influence caused him to withdraw from alcoholism, he withdraws all hesitation.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ray is at first hesitant to label Archer as a double-agent double agent, but when Lana tells him that Katya's influence caused him to withdraw from alcoholism, he withdraws all hesitation.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Boris boasts about the cyborg project he ran behind Jakov's back and constantly wishes for a promotion when he impresses Boris with the results. When Barry goes rouge with his superhuman skills, he meekly asks to put a pin on the promotion, much to Jakov's chagrin.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: Boris boasts about the cyborg project he ran behind Jakov's back and constantly wishes for a promotion when he impresses Boris with the results. When Barry goes rouge rogue with his superhuman skills, he meekly asks to put a pin on the promotion, much to Jakov's chagrin.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: It takes the whole gang most of the episode to realise that the KGB framing Katya as a double agent is the first thing any agency would do. Especially because it's also extremely similar to the first thing Malory did after [[Recap/ArcherS1E9JobOffer Archer tried to get a job at ODIN]].

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* HeelFaceMole: Subverted, the KGB fakes Katya's file to make it look like she's TheMole rather than a defector. The ISIS crew nearly falls for it.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Katya.

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* HeelFaceMole: Subverted, the KGB fakes Katya's file to make it look like she's TheMole rather than a defector. The ISIS crew nearly falls for it.
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%%* HighHeelFaceTurn: Katya.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Boris boasts about the cyborg project he ran behind Jakov's back and constantly wishes for a promotion. When Barry goes rouge with his superhuman skills, he meekly asks to put a pin on the promotion, much to Jakov's chagrin.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: Boris boasts about the cyborg project he ran behind Jakov's back and constantly wishes for a promotion.promotion when he impresses Boris with the results. When Barry goes rouge with his superhuman skills, he meekly asks to put a pin on the promotion, much to Jakov's chagrin.

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* ATeamFiring: Considering that they're all inside Archer's (admittedly spacious, but still) apartment, you'd think that with Lana's DualWielding TEC-9s, Ray DualWielding his .45s, and Malory with her scoped HandCannon on one side and Archer and Katya each DualWielding pistols on the other, someone would have managed to hit ''something'' besides the walls.

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* ATeamFiring: Considering that they're all inside Archer's (admittedly spacious, but still) apartment, you'd think that with Lana's DualWielding TEC-9s, Ray DualWielding his .45s, and Malory with her scoped HandCannon on one side and Archer and Katya each DualWielding pistols on the other, someone would have managed to hit ''something'' besides the walls. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded by Archer asking how that even happened.]]



* GoneHorriblyRight: Boris boasts about the cyborg project he ran behind Jakov's back and constantly wishes for a promotion. When Barry goes rouge with his superhuman skills, he meekly asks to put a pin on the promotion, much to Jakov's chagrin.



* SenselessSacrifice: Katya uses a wedding veil to drag Barry off the terrace of Archer's apartment. She dies on impact. Barry doesn't even seem bothered by it.

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* SenselessSacrifice: Katya uses a wedding veil to drag Barry off the terrace of Archer's apartment. She dies on impact. Barry doesn't even seem bothered by it. Averted for Archer, though, as she prevented Barry from killing him.
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* BlingBlingBang: After Katya damages her main pair of TEC-9s Lana switches to a nickel-plated pair for the shootout at Archer's penthouse.
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** Woodhouse is also shocked that he is willing to sacrifice drinking if it means marrying Katya.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: The KGB try to take out Katya after her defection because she walked in on an orgy involving several top members of the organisation and they don't want that information to get out.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ray is at first hesitant to label Archer as a double-agent but when Lana tells him that Katya's influence caused him to withdraw from alcoholism, he withdraws all hesitation.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Malory snarks that the only reason Katya ''doesn't'' have VD is because Archer hasn't slept with her yet. Archer's about to object but then admits that was a pretty good line.


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* HeKnowsTooMuch: The KGB try to take out Katya after her defection because she walked in on an orgy involving several top members of the organisation and they don't want that information to get out.
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* AntiClimax: The gang gear up for a big, action filled showdown...which lasts all of 6 seconds, cause no one brought any extra ammo.

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* AntiClimax: The gang gear up for a big, action filled showdown...which lasts all of 6 seconds, cause no one brought any extra ammo.ammo.
* ATeamFiring: Considering that they're all inside Archer's (admittedly spacious, but still) apartment, you'd think that with Lana's DualWielding TEC-9s, Ray DualWielding his .45s, and Malory with her scoped HandCannon on one side and Archer and Katya each DualWielding pistols on the other, someone would have managed to hit ''something'' besides the walls.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Katya manages to shoot Lana's machine pistols out of her hands. Lana is ''pissed'' that her guns are damaged in the process.
* CarCushion: When Katya drags Barry off the roof, they land on Krieger's van. Barry, being a cyborg, survives. Katya and the van do not.
* EmergencyTransformation: Barry is turned into a cyborg by the KGB, having lost a leg and sustained other severe injuries in the fall from the previous episode. They intend for him to take out Katya. He promptly goes rogue, intending to kill Archer, but she dies in the process.
* FaceHeelTurn: Barry goes from agent of a rival organization to full-on murderous cyborg.
* HeelFaceMole: Subverted, the KGB fakes Katya's file to make it look like she's TheMole rather than a defector. The ISIS crew nearly falls for it.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Katya.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Well, as [[AxeCrazy Barry]] sees it, him wrecking Archer's wedding and throwing Archer off the roof is the perfect payback for what Archer did to him.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Malory claims that if there's anyone who's going to ruin Archer's wedding, it's going to be her.
* SenselessSacrifice: Katya uses a wedding veil to drag Barry off the terrace of Archer's apartment. She dies on impact. Barry doesn't even seem bothered by it.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Katya walked in on at least three senior Party members getting it on with each other. Her defection thus poses a large problem for the KGB.
* ShootingSuperman: Granted it was only one round, because that's all anyone had left, but Mallory putting a .44 round in Barry's back didn't even faze him.
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* AntiClimax: The gang gear up for a big, action filled showdown...which lasts all of 6 seconds, cause no one brought any extra ammo.
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Krieger works to finish a top-secret project, and Archer brings a mysterious former KGB agent named Katya Kasanova home to meet Malory, unaware that Barry Dillon is on his way to kill him.

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