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CommandoRambo

Space Race - How did Barry find Archer in space?

In Space Race pt II, Archer and the gang are in space and Barry shows up. Somebody, possibly Archer, asks something like, "How did he find us?"

The camera then cuts to Kriegers van... Krieger is banging his asian holographic wife.

Earlier, Barry tracks the gang to the ISIS office and says, "Anybody going to ask how I found you?"... and the answer is that Barry tracked Archer through a russian chip Krieger installed in Katya.

But Katya isn't on the space station. So how did Barry find them?

My guess is that Krieger put a chip in Archer when he was doing the Space Training tests... but nobody ever seems to mention that sooooo...

other ideas? Am I missing something really obvious?

Posted Mar 11, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

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studentthinker•

I thought it meant Krieger got paid for the info and it funded repairing the hologram machine or given tech to make it better or something like that.

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Vivyd•

yea, both these answers seem plausible, but i always figured this one.

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MrFuxItRip Riley•

I always thought the scene with the van was Barry beating the shit out of Krieger while the holograph helplessly watches and 'oohs' and 'aahs' in empathy.

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cayal3•

You are so adorable

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justthestaples•

I am pretty sure when they ask how Barry found them it cuts to Krieger saying don't judge me on the how, until you see the why. And when he says that he shows an updated van mural (and possibly other tech stuff, who knows). I agree with u/studentthinker that he was probably paid, but I don't think it was to fix Mitsuko because she says I would never judge you (well you're mother sure as hell does!). He just does it to do stuff to his van. And the scene where he is having sex with Mitsuko is later pointing to him again as the reason for something. Though I don't remember what for that one.

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CommandoRamboOP•

Yup, you are correct. The joke is that Barry paid him and he used the money to fix his van.

I thought maybe the van name would give that away and that's what I had missed, so I searched for the name on Archer Wiki.

As usual, the van name is just a reference to Rush... but it does say:

"In the season 3 finale, "Space Race: Part II", Krieger's third van borrows its name, "Caress of Krieger," and appearance from the Rush album Caress of Steel. At least part of this was apparently financed by selling access to Lana's medical records and information, and telling Barry that Archer was on the International Space Station."

Thanks!

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Tacothekid•

Remember that time Archer had a chip in his head? Maybe that's how?

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joshy2209•

I think that chip is now inside Len Trexler...

Ninja edit: damn I hate mobile

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CommandoRamboOP•

Maybe, but they took that out at the begging of season2 and put it inLen Trexlers head... Rabbit Klein.

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OedipusRekt•

This new thing called intelligence gathering.

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