Speaking of cyborg KGB agents, after a season off during Archer Vice it looks like Archer's lost love (reborn as a robot courtesy of Krieger) and new husband Barry (a former agent for ISIS rivals ODIN who the KGB rebuilt as a cyborg under the name "Comrade Bionic Barry") will be returning early on in the sixth season, with Barry being the centre of a whole episode early on. Probably still wearing that same tracksuit. How did he get back from space, anyhow? The biggest mystery when it comes to returning characters in the sixth season of Archer, however, is who the heck Conway Stern, and why should we care? Voiced by Coby Bell from Burn Notice, Stern was actually the codename of a double agent sent to embed himself in ISIS. Which turned out to be pretty easy, since Malory needed to increase diversity and Conway killed two birds with one stone by being both black and Jewish. He only made a couple of appearances in the first season (along with a cameo in the fourth when Krieger fitted him with a robot arm in a scene spoofing the end of Empire Strikes Back), but boy were they memorable. He charmed everybody in ISIS, quite possibly impregnated Cheryl, had a thing with Malory, and then flew away on a helicopter. Also he wasn't circumcised. Was he faking being black too...?
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