Jim Profit

"'You want all of us to tear each other appart because that's your twisted idea of family. When you look at Chaz, do you see your own father ? Do you see how deeply you want to please him ? How badly you need to gain control over him ? Maybe some day you'll have to kill him, like you killed your own father. Demons get pretty louds sometimes don't they ? What did they tell you to do ? Goes for Chaz's job, CEO ? No, because you'll be in the spot and it's no good, you can't operate in the light. You got your eye on the throne but you wanna be the power behind it. This problem of yours Jim... this lurking in the shadow. Do you think it has something to do with being raised in a box ?'"Jim Profit (originally Stakowski) is the main protagonist of the short-running serie Profit. Jim is a junior-executive at Gracen & Gracen, who he see as his family. He is a sociopathic man, appearing to be charming, seductive and extremely friendly, but in fact, only wanting to make the society better, because he consider it as his family.

Background
After the depart of his mother, Arnold Stakowski Jim's father (who owned a ranch) raised him as an animal, making him live and sleep in a box who he clean once a week, never letting him leave it, nor for school or feed himself (throwing him used food). The young "Jimmy" grown up, raised by TV which was his only opening to the world. His father remarried when Jim was around 14 with a woman named Roberta "Bobby". One day, as Arnold was drunk, he grave a cross on the back of Jim's right hand, telling that Jim was no religious. Bobby also engaged in a sexual relationship with Jimmy.

In 1983, Jim tied up his father to a bed, then set fire to the house. After that, he go on his own.

In the series
Being raised in a box which bears the mension "G&G, a family company" conduce him to develop an obsession with the company, seeing it as his twisted version of a family. Now grown up, Jim assassinate Wayne Gresham, a junior-advice of acquisitions at Gracen and Gracen, the fifteenth largest company in the world, in the point to take his job. Jim then blackmail Gail Koner, a secretary at the company (the latter stealing money from the company to pay medical's bills of her mother) into helping him for his plans.