Insurrectionist Leader

"If they weren't onto you before, they definitely will be now. Come with us, Connie. I'm not gonna lose you over this."

- The Insurrectionist Leader persuading C.T to come with him

The Insurrectionist Leader, also known as C.T, first appears in the episode Bon Voyage and later in My House, From Here, making a physical appearance. The Leader, acting as C.T, serves as the primary antagonist of Recreation and is the leader of a desert dig team trying to get their hands on an ancient alien weapon.

History
The Leader is first seen in a flashback in Season 9, then later towards the end talking to C.T via video conference. C.T ends the call just as they are seen by Washington, whom she tells to mind his own business. He makes his first physical appearance in Season 10: Episode 2 when C.T sneaks off on her own to meet up with Insurrectionist soldiers. It becomes clear at that moment that C.T and the leader are obviously very close to each other, persuading her to come with them to their hideout once the Freelancers catch on to C.T's true alliances. Later, at the Longshore Shipyards, the Freelancers launch an attack to retrieve C.T's armor, which prompts the Leader to immediately evacuate with C.T. They both reach a bunker, but are soon held at gunpoint by Tex and Carolina. He laughs when Carolina refers to them as a "resistance", asking "Is that who he told you we were?" A fight ensues when Tex, after being called a "shadow" by C.T, fires a bullet at her, which seemingly hits her, until it is revealed to be a hologram. Though the two held up well against the top Freelancers, Tex threw a tomahawk straight into C.T's chest. The Leader carries her to an escape pod, where he gets information from C.T before she dies in his arms. Out of grief, the Leader takes C.T's helmet, assuming her identity and becomes the "new" C.T.

Chronologically, his next appearance is during Recreation, where he is now the leader of a desert dig team looking for an ancient artifact. Though he gets impatient with the trio that get themselves caught in a minefield (Sarge, Grif, and Caboose), he shows enough courtesy to offer them food and water until they can get their jeep fixed, despite warning them not to look for any artifacts. It is clear to them that the Leader is not who he says he is. It is soon revealed that the Leader and the "dig team" murdered the original dig team, save for Tucker, who locked himself and Junior inside the massive temple where the artifact they were looking for was kept. Epsilon causes the temple door to open, causing the Leader to lead an all-out attack on the Reds and Blues. Tucker gets them to safety and locks the temple, and the Leader orders them to get it open. Once they do bust down the door, they surround the Reds and Blues. Seeing that they already activated the artifact (which serves as a new body for Epsilon-Church), the Leader orders Jones to fire at it. The Alien diplomats, not liking their religious artifacts be abused, began to attack the humans while the Leader escaped with Epsilon-Church. The Reds and Blues pursued him across the Sandtrap, breaking his vehicle. He does, however, corner Tucker and tells him he "should have killed him the second he laid eyes on him." Tucker asks one last time who he really is and who he works for, which the Leader refuses to tell. Epsilon-Church floats up to the two, and the Leader refers to him as "that thing." Angered by being called a "thing", Epsilon-Church fires a laser through the Leader, killing him.

When the helmet was found later in Revelation by Washington and the Meta, it was believed that C.T had been in the Sandtrap all those years, but as of Season 10: Episode 10, it had been revealed that the original C.T died and that the Insurrectionist Leader had been assuming her identity the whole time.