Covert black ops and espionage take a back seat to zany personalities and relationships between secret agents and drones.
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy
Cast:H. Jon Benjamin , Judy Greer , Amber Nash , Chris Parnell , Aisha Tyler , Jessica Walter , Lucky Yates , Adam Reed , Dave Willis , George Coe , Tom Kane , Kayvan Novak , Z. Gillispie , Christian Slater , Maggie Wheeler , Stephen Tobolowsky , Jeffrey Tambor , Peter Newman
Malory wants her son dragged home from a South Pacific island, where he's getting over Katya's death. Rip gets him on a seaplane that crashes, thanks to Sterling.
Archer finally agrees to head back to Isis. Unfortunately as he boards Riley's plane to head back, their plane is attacked by pirates and they soon find themselves on an island run by pirates, and Archer is crowned their new pirate king.
At ISIS HQ, Malory awaits a call on her son's situation/ransom on the pirate island. Meanwhile, he goes from being pirate king to being pirate prisoner together with Rip, Lana, Ray and Noah.
Burt Reynolds is dating Malory. Sterling is not OK with it.
Malory sends Sterling, Lana and (just promoted to field agent) Cyril to catch a Colombian drug lord in the jungle to score $1M for ISIS. "Ironside" is demoted. ISIS employees will be drug tested.
ISIS transports a Canadian terrorist by train to Mounties in Canada. Will Nova Scotian terrorists free him? Will the drunk Sterling fulfill his dream of fighting on the roof of a moving train?
It's Sterling's birthday and his mom gives him a super spy car. She tells him to not get it stolen. Looking for his stolen car, he crosses path with the Yakuza.
Archer and Lana are called over to Malory's apartment on what was supposed to be an off night for the ISIS crew. There, they are shocked to discover what appears to be a dead body, some foreplay, and a few random gun shots. As they put together the pieces of the mystery, they soon discover that there's more to this story than meets the eye, and does Archer have enough spaghetti and meatballs for everybody? And what is underneath Malory's trench coat?
The ISIS crew travels to West Virginia to help Ray and his brother save their crop from a crooked Sheriff. Meanwhile, Archer discovers that Ray has been faking his paralysis.
Stirling wakes up with a hangover, only remembering having the best sex ever - but with whom? What may be Stirling's dad defects Russia and comes to see his mom and get protection from ISIS.
When Archer's fiancée returns under mysterious circumstances, he immediately suspects that his arch rival Barry is behind it, and soon begins to plot against them both.
The ISIS staff is called by ISA to stop the international space station from being taken over by space pirates. During training, Cyril proves to be a more than adequate pilot, a skill which will prove valuable when they return. While on the mission, Malory attempts to make drinks in low gravity, Cyril one again shows he has no concept of what "suppressing fire" is and Lana has an unusually weak stomach.
Once on board the international space station, Archer and the Isis crew have very little time to save the crew on board from being taken over by space pirates, but an even sinister motive looks to make things even worse for Archer and Isis.