ISIS

International Secret Intelligence Service
The ground level of ISIS headquarters
Oganization Overview
Abbreviation	ISIS
Organization Type	Intelligence agency
Operational Structure
Organization Head	Malory Archer

The International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) is the workplace of the main characters of Archer. It is quite obviously a spy agency, with international offices (Mole Hunt).

ISIS Headquarters is located in New York City and operates above a wash & fold. Washing machines disguise the primary entrance, which is an elevator.

The security system at ISIS is depicted as weak. When Archer infiltrates the office during the night, he successfully enters the mainframe by using a registred voice of Cyril ("Mole Hunt"). The password "Guest" seems to be widely used to access the ISIS computers ("Mole Hunt," "Training Day").

ISIS is officially shut down by FBI in the episode White Elephant but restored at the end of Archer Vice.

Employees

Name	Image	Position	Other
Malory Archer		CEO	Mother of Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer		Field Agent	Son to Malory Archer
Lana Kane		Field Agent	Archer's love interest
Cyril Figgis		Comptroller, Field Agent	Promoted in Season 3
Pamela "Pam" Poovey		Head of Human Resources, Field Agent	Promoted to field agent in Season 4
Ray Gillette		Field Agent, Field Analyst	Paralyzed in Season 3 and again in Season 4
Cheryl Tunt		Secretary	Pyromaniac and violence fetish Extremely rich family
Dr. Algernop Krieger		Head of ISIS Scientific Research	Possible genetic clone of Adolf Hitler; has an affinity for bizarre science experiments
Jane		ISIS Worker	Known as "Scatterbrain Jane".
Brett Buckley		ISIS Worker	Constantly shot (deceased)
Rodney Whosits		Requisitions Officer	Debuts in Season 4

• According to Malory in Mole Hunt, there are 50 agents who would kill for Archer's position.

Former employees

• Bilbo, computer/technical support, died after Malory slapped him so hard he went into cardiac arrest.
• Chet, an intern who died working in Dr. Krieger's lab
• Conway Stern, an agent who was actually infiltrating ISIS  in order to steal the Whisper Drive and sell it to the Chinese.
• Crenshaw, who was actually a mole for the KGB named Kremenski
• Danny, an intern who died working in Dr. Krieger's lab
• Hector Ruíz, an agent who died due to a cell phone malfunction
• Mgumbe, an agent who died due to a cell phone malfunction
• Pak, an agent who died due to a cell phone malfunction
• Rip Riley, an agent who left ISIS to become a freelance manhunter.
• Lucas Troy, an agent who left ISIS for ODIN. He was later disavowed for stealing uranium to sell on the black market, then killed.

Unseen employees—ISIS Personnel Files

In "Mole Hunt," when Malory pulls up Archer's personnel file to investigate his expense account, a list of agents appears on the right side of the screen. Below is a list of ISIS employees who haven't been seen or identified throughout the course of the show, including:

Agent Cross Agent Holloway Agent Hyde Agent Mason

Agent McGail Agent Royale Agent Shuler Agent Stone

Agent Voigt Agent Walker Agent Wolfe Agent Zarich

Unseen employees—Pam's ISIS Tontine

In "The Double Deuce," Pam puts together a tontine for a bunch of the ISIS employees. A few of those employees haven't been seen or identified throughout the course of the show, including:

Bryan Cody 2

Eric X Dennis

Unseen employees—ISIS 401(k) Accounts

During "Jeu Monegasque," Cyril pulls up a list of the ISIS 401(k) accounts, at least one of the ISIS employees listed is dead, agent Hector Ruiz. Some of the other listed employees have never been identified or seen throughout the course of the show, including:

John Baxtor Samantha Munroe

Heather Baker Jeff Chapman

Trivia

• The carpet of ISIS is often referred as being filthy by both ISIS and ODIN employees. "A Going Concern." This could be attributed to the fact that Malory had the cleaning staff killed after they unionized in "The Rock".
• GPS Coordinates for ISIS headquarters appear to be 33.806333, -84.344165 which is actually an address in Atlanta, Georgia where Archer is created.
• ISIS, like ODIN, is the name of an ancient deity. Isis is an ancient Egyptian goddess. ISIS' name may also come from SIS, the British Secret Intelligence Service, or ISI, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence.
• ISIS is also the name of a Sunni jihadist group in Iraq and Syria.
• ISIS is also the name of the hotel George Sr. escaped to in the 3rd episode of the second season in Arrested Development.
• Originally thought of as another US government intelligence agency, it is clear throughout the entire series that ISIS operates more as a private military/intelligence company that does multiple "contracts" for different world governments and multi-billion dollar companies, with the exception of the Soviet Union and its proxy states. It does seem to have strong ties to the U.S. government, though. In the episode "Coyote Lovely" after Archer helps a wanted criminal smuggle a load of illegal aliens into the country and then escape from the U.S. Border Patrol, one of the Border Patrol agents gets a call from his "boss' boss' boss" who informs him that Archer has total legal immunity for the incident. It was later discovered that ISIS was in fact never sanctioned by the US government and had always been in business outside the law, revealing Malory had been lying about the agency's authenticity from the beginning.
• In The Wind Cries Mary, Pam is angry when no one fills out their peer reviews, angrily stating that only "Ten people work in this whole goddamn chicken shit outfit." This is a reference to the fact so few employees are ever depicted as prominent characters.
• With the exception of Cyril and Pam, all acting field agents and Malory have their own trademark weapons.
• Since ISIS' liquidation, prominent team members formed a drug cartel, which as of yet has no name. However, they still keep the ISIS sign at Cheryl's mansion. 
• In real life, there is an organization named ISIS (Which stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria") and is a murderous terrorist organization, involved in numerous mass murders in both countries. (Example) (The ISIS organization probably is not the namesake of the agency.)
• Everyone in ISIS, with the exception of Cheryl/Carol, is fluent in at least one Romance Language:
  • Archer - Spanish, Portuguese
  • Malory - Italian, French
  • Lana - Italian, French
  • Pam - Italian
  • Cyril - Spanish
  • Krieger - Portuguese
  • Ray - Latin