Archer
A possible clone of Adolf Hitler , mad scientist , and " The Wiz " fan , Dr. Krieger is a complex , but often creepy man . An unlicensed scientist who never formally earned his doctor’s degree , Krieger is still a magisterial professional who gather respect in his field . Every character onArchertrustsKrieger ’s scientific knowledgebecause he is indeed a brilliant physicist , pharmacist , and biologist .
But where Krieger ’s brilliance ends , morality does not begin . He follow no scientific ethic whatsoever , yet although he is like Dr. Victor Frankenstein , intoxicated on the potential for great scientific discovery , Krieger ’s rabidity is taper by three thing : the making love of his friend and co - worker , the awe of Malory , anda astonishingly genuinely right heart .
The Flask
When the gang gets trapped in a malfunctioned elevator , they decide to ration out their food until they are rescue . They all rightfully assume that Krieger has tea or umber in his flask . However , Krieger ceaselessly warn the gang to remain serene and not to panic . There is obviously something ominous in his flask , which the crowd all decide they do not want to know about .
Given that Malory calls Krieger to dispose of a organic structure when she murders the Italian Prime Minister and given Krieger ’s background in nano - applied science and bionic man , it is fair to say that even audiences do not require to know what is in the flask . Either way , not have a go at it makes it creepier .
Mitsuko Miyazumi-San
Krieger ’s projection Zanzibar copal lady friend is a sentient digitize being that is so tangible the government licence him to marry her . The engineering science behind this is mind - blowing , yet it is treated as a boring occurrence by his workmates .
Mitsuko engages the preternatural vale of looker who are not indisputable how or if she is even alive . Even creepier , she has the full personality and agency of a human being . She lusts after other military personnel , for example , as well as reads magazines . In late episodes , it is revealed that she does not love him and does n’t really want to be with Krieger - san .
The Krieger Clones
Inanother money - making dodge , Malory decide to make the delegacy greener using " vast tax credits from that flower child - Democrat Congress , just for making a few simple changes around here . "
Krieger , however , is not well-chosen with her decision to concentrate electricity use in the building because he is produce clone of himself in secret . Even more worrying , these clones are all deformed and monstrous , and one of the clones has a giant nictitate eye in the middle of his os frontale . This means that the ringer are alive and possibly ego - aware . Are these clones in nuisance ? Do they long to speak and carry themselves ? Do they hope for freedom?Do they crave love as most humans do?How nighttime is Krieger ’s soulfulness that he is able to make clone of himself and look out them in this nation ?
Katya
In " hide Game , " Krieger pull Katya ’s clay from the rubble after she is murdered by Barry . A few month later , he invite Sterling back to his flat where he acquaint the distraught spy tohis newly - alive lover . As with questions of reanimating dead tissue , the same doubtfulness can be asked : what about their soul ?
The show ’s writers see that Katya ’s soul is still the same , as is her moral good . But , as Krieger ’s clones in San Marcos show , clone and cyborgs can also wrench out to be evil and soulless . Indeed Katya would later become the head of the KGB .
Devil-Dogs
IntheArcher : Dreamlandseason , Krieger and the bunch are sent back to the 1940s , where Archer works as a private detective in Los Angeles . The episode , " Ladyfingers " employs flashback to bring out Krieger ’s involution in Nazi Germany , two year before he get in the U.S. Krieger was a Jewish doctor who counterfeit his destruction and forged his newspaper to become Germany ’s leading super - soldier investigator .
When he is fascinate by the Nazis , he confesses that he has been killing the soldiers before they can awaken and waste million in research money to sabotage Germany ’s warfare cause . He sets his cyborg fiend - dogs on the Nazis to belt down them and his research assistant who directly falls out of love when she find out he is Judaic .
Ray
unluckily for Ray , he is beholden to the whims and desires of Krieger berth - operating theatre . Krieger is able-bodied to control when Ray can take the air and when he can’t . Archer Vicebegins withRay in a deep depressionbecause he has misplace the use of his legs again . Months later , Krieger remembers to readjust the options that would well restore the gift of movement back to Ray .
Citing a " labor , " Krieger stays behind with Ray while the squad goes on a route trip . For over two time of day , Krieger habituate his bionic miracle to control Ray into marching and give the Nazi salute . Krieger ’s fixation with Nazism is troubling , at best .
Krieger Bots
The Krieger Bots are another ' unearthly vale ' Kreiger universe . They are supposed to be simple robots that Krieger designed to attend him around the laboratory . " Movie Star " establish that they are not mere random golem , as they display human emotion like curio . One bot is curious enough to catch Krieger diagnose Archer when he suffers irregular hearing loss .
The bot even display possible concern , peeping over Krieger ’s shoulder joint after Krieger block its sentiment . Made out of clang run blank , their inability to move their aspect like humans lead the audience to all kinds of questions , the main one being whether Krieger made them sentient or not .
The Wetsuit
When Krieger invites Archer to his dingy apartment to show him a surprisal , Sterling is understandably anxious . He calls Krieger a serial killer to which Krieger object to the usance of the countersign , " serial , " but not " cause of death . "
As soon as Sterling step foot in Krieger ’s apartment , he is alarmed to see a dead human body hanging off a chemical chain at the entering of the flat . Krieger fence that it is a wetsuit hung on a manakin , as he is a " certified underwater diver . " Sterling , however , counterargues that it is a wetsuit made of human skin . know Krieger , a wetsuit made out of human skin is a very likely possibility . It accounts for why the wetsuit is " flesh " colored since wetsuits are usually pitch-black .
The Cyborgs Of Everyone
To make redundant Johnny Cash , Krieger lease out his cyborg on the set ofThe Deadly Velvet . This gives Malory the idea that Archer should use his clone as a decoy during police investigations into the slaying of her ex-husband - husband , Ellis Crane .
Back at the office , it is revealed that Krieger observe cyborgs of everyone in his laboratory . Although the cyborgs are portray as good , faithful , and shoddily - created , creating a cyborg of a individual with their full personality and memories without their knowledge or permit is upsettingly creepy-crawly .
Pigley, Pigley II and Goatley
Before Krieger experimented to give himself the strength the equivalent of an pismire , he try out with pigs instead . Pigley was an even more dark experiment wherein Krieger attempt to make a human - hog hybrid . This breaks enquiry ethics on human experiment and animate being experimentation .
Sincehumans must give permissionbefore they are experimented on , it is bonnie to assume no homo willingly grant Krieger permission to use their body to make a pig - human being . There are also serious considerations , like does a human - pig hybrid finger botheration ? After Pigley , he makes Goatley , also a Capricorn the Goat - homo hybrid . After Goatley , he make Pigley II , a radioactive pig who feed on dead human build .
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