The second season of the animated television series, Archer originally aired in the United States on the cable network FX. This season started on January 27, 2011, with "Swiss Miss" and ended with "Double Trouble" on April 21, 2011, with a total of thirteen episodes.
Weakened by the recession, Malory institutes pay cuts in addition to seeking outside investment. Tasked with protecting the flirtatious 16-year-old daughter of a wealthy German dignitary, Anka (voiced by Kari Wahlgren), Archer finds the girl to be more trouble than she's worth.
With her fortune wiped out by a ponzi scheme, Malory plans to sell ISIS to ODIN so Archer takes drastic measures to stop it, including using the modified Ludovico technique.
After being mocked as a failure one too many times by his coworkers, Cyril accepts an offer from a mysterious man (Peter Serafinowicz) to upload a computer virus into the ISIS mainframe so he can "save the day" by stopping it, only to find out he's become a pawn in a scheme to steal a list of undercover ISIS agents.
When Malory suspects that she might have breast cancer, she undergoes a medical examination; Archer decides that he should be thoroughly checked for the disease as well.
When Pam is kidnapped, mistaken for Cheryl/Carol, ISIS discovers that Cheryl/Carol is really an heir to a billion-dollar empire and is being hunted by masked gunmen. Malory offers Cheryl/Carol ISIS as her personal bodyguard service, in exchange for financial compensation. Meanwhile, Archer and Ray attempt to rescue Pam while everyone else weighs the dollar-value of her life. (Spanish for "The Kidnapping")
Malory and the ISIS agents travel to the Monte Carlo Grand Prix to recover another one of her sex tapes, but Archer loses all the blackmail money gambling and must enlist Ray and Lana's help to recover it before Malory finds out. (French for "Monaco Game")
Archer's search for his father's identity takes him to Russia where he is held prisoner by KGB head Nikolai Jakov; Malory has to ask Archer's rival Barry Dylan to rescue him.
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 Dylan is on his way to kill him.