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13 Episodes 2011 - 2011
The ISIS agents return for Season 2 of this hilarious animated comedy. Archer (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) and Lana (Aisha Tyler) head to Louisiana to stop an ecoterrorist from blowing up a natural-gas pipeline, and Malory (Jessica Walter) tries to land a role in a spy movie. Later, Pam (Amber Nash) is abducted by kidnappers. Also back in the second season are Cheryl (Judy Greer) and Cyril (Chris Parnell).
Episode 1
Thu, Jan 27, 2011 30 mins
Season 2 opens in the Swiss ski resort Gstaad, where the ISIS crew has gone to protect a billionaire's teen daughter from kidnappers (and to get the billionaire to invest in the insolvent spy agency). One complication: The girl wants to seduce Archer, who keeps getting caught in compromising situations that make it appear that he's doing the seducing.
Episode 2
Thu, Feb 3, 2011 30 mins
Broke after having been wiped out in a Ponzi scheme, Malory decides to sell ISIS to rival spy agency ODIN, whose chief (voice of Jeffrey Tambor) happens to be in love with her. Not surprisingly, the ISIS staff tries to stop the sale---and the romance.
Episode 3
Thu, Feb 10, 2011 30 mins
Archer's favorite call girl (voice of Maggie Wheeler) accuses him of fathering her child and makes him take a paternity test---overseen by ODIN agents.
Episode 4
Thu, Feb 17, 2011 30 mins
Archer and Lana head to Louisiana to stop an ecoterrorist from blowing up a natural-gas pipeline. (Archer's also looking forward to a Big Easy vacation.) Back at ISIS headquarters, Mallory orders the staff to go green to get "freebie socialist tax credits." A flashback recalls Lana's introduction to ISIS.
Episode 5
Thu, Feb 24, 2011 30 mins
When members of Woodhouse's WWI Royal Flying Corps squadron (the "Double Deuce") start dying mysteriously, he naturally suspects foul play. So does Archer, who's in for some multitasking: track down the killer while babysitting his young son, Seamus.
Episode 6
Thu, Mar 3, 2011 30 mins
After being told by his ISIS colleagues that he's a failure once too often, Cyril injects a virus into the agency's mainframe in order to detect it and be seen as a hero. Not surprisingly, things don't go as planned.
Episode 7
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 30 mins
On Malory's orders, Lana helps Hollywood star Rona Thorne (voice of Rachael Harris) research her role in a spy thriller while Malory writes a role for herself in the movie (with Cyril's reluctant assistance). Meanwhile, Pam steals Rona's diary.
Episode 8
Thu, Mar 17, 2011 30 mins
Breast cancer strikes the Archer family---Sterling has it. "I'm trying to stay positive," he says. "I can beat this." But before surgery, he wants to bond with young Seamus (even though he isn't actually the baby's father) and take a Las Vegas vacation.
Episode 9
Thu, Mar 24, 2011 30 mins
When Archer discovers that the chemotherapy drugs he has been taking are phony, he goes on a rampage against the Irish gangsters behind the scheme. He also makes friends with a fellow marijuana-toking cancer patient (voice of Joan Van Ark). Meanwhile, Cyril learns why Krieger is fluent in Portuguese. Darren Criss ("Glee") provides the voices of Mikey and Tommy.
Episode 10
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 30 mins
Pam is abducted by kidnappers who mistake her for Cheryl. It seems that Cheryl wasn't completely forthcoming about her background when she applied for her job at ISIS.
Episode 11
Thu, Apr 7, 2011 30 mins
Malory and her agents travel to Monaco on a mysterious mission during Grand Prix week. Archer arrives with $4 million in untraceable bearer bonds, and he's in the mood to gamble.
Episode 12
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 30 mins
Archer searches for his father's identity in Russia, where he runs into trouble, requiring the rescue efforts of ODIN agent Barry, who's not exactly Archer's friend.
Episode 13
Thu, Apr 21, 2011 30 mins
Season 2 finale: Krieger works to finish a top-secret project, and Archer brings a mysterious former KGB agent named Katya Kazanova home to meet Malory.