[2] On January 12, 2017, it was announced that the series would relocate to FX's sister channel FXX, beginning with Season 8 onwards.

After the success of the hidden scavenger hunts in Seasons 6 and 7, animator Mark Paterson devised an augmented reality mobile phone app called Archer, PI to run side-by-side with the show.

In this season, Archer appears as a freelance detective who seeks to find justice for his murdered partner Woodhouse.

Malory Archer is "Mother", the owner of the luxury jazz nightclub called "Dreamland" along with a henchman named Zerk and a rival to mobster Len Trexler.

Lana is an undercover agent with the Treasury Department investigating Mother who gets a job as the featured lounge singer at Dreamland.

Poovey takes all the abducted women to her home while Archer returns to his office to find it ransacked and Woodhouse’s envelope of clues stolen.

Meanwhile, Trexler insists that Figgis and Poovey return his abducted women and hire Krieger to build Dutch new feet.

In Krieger's laboratory in Dreamland's basement, Dutch awakes to find his legs and arms replaced with mechanical ones.

Mother arranges a deal with Cecil for a $1 million ransom for Charlotte's return, and Archer picks up the money.

Dutch is unhappy about Krieger's modifications to his body but finds it useful when he beats up a group of bikers and takes a motorcycle.

They all enter the mansion and discover Trexler tied up at a table in a room filled with dead men.

Trinette takes Cecil to the hospital to treat his wounds from ricocheting bullets while the others drive off with Archer at the wheel.

Later in the hospital, Trinette marries Cecil, and Poovey returns home to find that the Chinese sex slave hostages have left, leaving just a goodbye note.

The episode ends with a credit scene "dedicated to George Coe," the actor who voiced Woodhouse in the earlier seasons of the series.