As the first season progresses and Sterling continues to find himself in situations due to his arrogance and looks to the very people whose struggle he ignores and ridicules to help him solve his problem. This situation is an intriguing parallel to the bank bailouts in America, which require the help and use of taxes on the money of the middle class despite their policies that helped the banks' management staff become so rich. At first glance Archer really appears to be a TV show about a light-hearted but inexplicably competent spy agency, and as the episodes progress and the layers start to grow and develop, you start to see the façade of their competence fall away. ISIS, the agency, fails almost every mission it is hired for, so much so that Mallory, Sterling's mother, sends them on missions under false pretenses so that their failure works positively in their favor. Season 4 Episode 8 titled Coyote Lovely involves a complex manipulation performed by Mallory. In one episode Sterling derails the mission of a woman he believes to be the perpetrator, but is essentially the key element of the larger mission. Sterling loses it when he sees her and offers to help her take the illegal immigrants across the border, only to end up getting shot, and in the final three minutes of the episode the suspected culprit reveals that Sterling was indeed the essential piece. in the game of chess that was the episode. Archer is an incredible satire of modern America, so much so that there is an article discussing the satirical properties of Archer and the article is literally titled