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Look, I know J.R.'s got it out for me. If I'm ever axed from this company, I need an insurance policy to get me back in. And if Daddy's little insurance policy gets off track by befriending some idiot, the Ridley empire crumbles.
~ Rand Ridley in a flashback and his infamous quote.
Aw, come on. There are special people like us who should run the world, and then there's normies like Orrin who deliver our pizza and fight our wars. Haven't you seen The Incredibles?
~ Rand Ridley fully revealing his callous and self-serving true nature to Reagan.
Hey there, jellybean.
~ Rand Ridley revealing himself as Cognito, Inc.'s replacement CEO.
That’s how many times, that’s how many times I’ve tried to get you both back, you and your mother; into the same timeline. But it never works Reagen. No matter how many times I try, you both hate me. (…) I had everything. I had my job, I had power. I know it’s a fucking cliche, but it’s true…you don’t know what you have until you lose it.
~ Rand feeling remorse for his testament of Reagan and Tamiko and wanting to create a new timeline so they can be happy.

Randall "Rand" Ridley is the main antagonist of the Netflix adult animated series Inside Job.

He is Reagan Ridley's toxic, dependent, and neglectful father, Tamiko Ridley's ex-husband, and the co-founder of Cognito, Inc., a shadow government company keeping the world conspiracies, most of which are true, out of the public eye. While initially appearing as likely a deeply hurt and broken man, he is later shown to be a manipulative, self-centered, power-hungry, abusive, obnoxious, narcissistic sociopath whose actual love for his wife and daughter pales compared to the lengths of his constant use of them.

At the end of the first season, he became the new CEO of Cognito Inc. after the previous one, J.R. Scheimpough, was sent to a black site prison by the Shadow Board. In the second season, after failing to win his ex-wife back, he nearly destroyed the universe trying to create a new timeline where his family was still together. After reality was restored, he was once again sent to Shadow Prison X with J.R. as a cellmate and his daughter Reagan replacing him as CEO of Cognito.

He is voiced by Christian Slater, who also portrayed Mr. Robot and Edward Alderson in Mr. Robot, Robert Boyd in Very Bad Things, Ushari in The Lion Guard, Special Agent Slater in Archer, Jimmy Dolan in Jimmy Dolan's Cadillac, Michael Griffin in Hollow Man 2, Jason Dean in Heathers and Composite Santa Claus in Robot Chicken.

Personality[]

Like his daughter, Reagan, Rand is a genius scientist. Unlike Reagan, however, Rand has far better social skills and uses it to his advantage by manipulating those around him. While Rand is foul-mouthed and unabashedly hedonistic, he's strongly charismatic, shrewd, and well-aware of how to make people play into his hands whether knowingly or not. However, Rand's capability is overshadowed by his crippling addictions to drugs and alcohol. As a result of his substance abuse, Rand is often prone to erratic, self-destructive behavior, which ultimately led to his firing.

Rand's other greatest hindrance is his narcissism and elitism. He views himself and Reagan as above "normies" for their high intelligence and feels that he has earned the right to rule the world due to his supposed superiority. Rand is similarly callous towards his own family. While he does genuinely love Reagan, throughout her childhood he emotionally abused and isolated her simply so he could use her as a pawn if he was ever fired from Cognito Inc. In the present day, he continues to prey on her poor self-worth and love for him to exploit her. Rand also loves his ex-wife Tamiko, but the two are constantly at each other's throats and for her part, she seems to despise him.

Rand is at times shown to genuinely regret his treatment of his family and that he is cripplingly aware of how much his mistakes have cost him. However, he is in denial over it and frequently tries to paint his actions - most frequently his abuse of Reagan - in a positive light. Ultimately, however, he comes to recognize how much his mistakes have cost him in the grand scheme of things.

Appearance[]

Rand is an elderly Caucasian man, with a slim build. He has messy grey hair, grey eyebrows, a long-pointed nose, and a large chin. He has a small tuft of grey hair in the middle of his chest, and stubble on his face. In the 2nd part of season 1, his hair is more combed back.

Rand's most frequent attire in part 1 of season 1 consists of a red beanie, a brown and orange robe with a pink flower pattern, dark green pants with yellow streaks on both sides, and brown pajama boots. In the 2nd part of season 1, he wears a black business suit.

Biography[]

Past[]

Little is known about Rand’s childhood, except he possibly had a bad relationship with his father, to the point where his mind space is “A abandoned Alleyway with hobos that all have the face of my father.” In college, Rand Ridley met J.R. Scheimpough and they immediately got on each other's nerves, but they soon recognized each other's talents, so they decided to join forces to make money. From the later ’70s to Early ’80s, the two created numerous inventions that ended in disasters. After so many failures they succeeded when they invented a reality altering machine, they called Project Reboot.

However, they were captured and brought in front of the Shadow Board the true secret rulers of the world. They offered them to create a company the purpose of which was to keep the public from finding out about the various conspiracies surrounding the world, which, in the show's universe, are mostly true, e.g. The Fake Moon Landing or The Hollow Earth theory. While they were ordered to destroy Project Reboot, Rand convinced J.R. to hide it instead as an insurance policy.

After they buried their invention Rand and J.R. founded Cognito, Inc. which was now one of six groups that secretly control the world on the Shadow Board's behave: the other five being The Reptoids (shapeshifting lizard people), the Atlanteans, the Catholic Church, the Juggalos, and the Illuminati.

He then married a Japanese woman named Tamiko and had a daughter, Reagan (presumably named after his acquaintance President Ronald Reagan). Because he was absorbed by maintaining his name in Cognito, Inc. and the power it gave him as well as believed that emotionality makes people weak, he exhibited little to no empathy for his daughter, not even bothering to hug her in difficult moments, instead tasking it with his bear-like robot creation, Bear-O, which has repeatedly ambushed and traumatized Reagan throughout her life, leading her to repress the memory of the robot and develop a defense mechanism of punching people when they tried to hug her.

Since she exhibited a lot of technological genius similar to his at an early age, Rand made her skip the rest of elementary and middle school in her fourth grade, which involved erasing her memories of her only friend, Orrin Carthwait, so she wouldn't be held back by their friendship from graduating as soon as possible and joining him at the company to preserve his influence and become his insurance policy in case he was ever fired by J.R.

Sometime later, he had divorced Tamiko and lost all connection he had with her, endlessly and furiously arguing with her whenever he had the time, which inadvertently caused the L.A. Riots.

Season 1[]

Part 1[]

Bullshit! Listen up, kids. Everything they teach you in school is a lie. You want the truth? The world is controlled by shadowy elites, and shape-shifting lizard people. Have you ever folded a one-dollar bill? Look, you can make it say "boobs"! What does it mean?? Am I the only one who cares that the President is a robot?!
~ Rand's first lines of the series.

After he was actually fired as an elderly man for getting drunk and trying to blow up the sun in ordered to cure skin cancer, Rand moved to Reagan's apartment and let himself go completely, drinking uncontrollably and repeatedly transplanting himself new livers to avoid lethal liver damage, becoming infuriatingly dependent on Reagan, nearly exposing the world conspiracies in random places and becoming obsessed with upstaging J.R. and reassuming his position in the company through any means necessary, even once wide-spreading the Flat Earth theory to his advantage and defaming J.R. through his YouTube channel.

Reagan, in turn, started to become more and more aware of his devious influence inflicted upon her throughout her work misadventures, and once, fed up with his obnoxiousness and dependence, voluntarily embarked on a flight to the Moon to inspect a homing call from the real Buzz Aldrin, who stayed on the Moon following his landing in 1962 with a group of sex cultists to become a hostile colony to the Earth.

After getting there with her work partner and best friend Brett Hand, Reagan not only found out that the colony has become friendly and utopian since the Moon landing, but Rand also had stowed away with her to find the sunglasses he lost there while on a Moon tour with Tamiko shortly before Reagan's conception, to her and Buzz Aldrin's, who already had his beef with Rand, fury. A distracting power outage in the colony provoked Reagan and Aldrin to investigate and fix it, while Rand was being held captive and at Brett's supervision. Rand, furious at Reagan's suspicion of Aldrin being her true father due to Tamiko cheating on Rand with him around the time Reagan was conceived, decided to take a DNA test to prove he is, in fact, her real father.

After making a DNA test device and gaining Brett's trust, he escaped his confinement and headed out with Brett to find his glasses. When he spotted them on the Moon's surface, he discovered Neil Armstrong's body with a bullet in the head, deducing Aldrin had killed him for uncovering his true plans for the satellite - de-orbiting it to fulfill its severance from Earth - and possibly beating him to be the first man on the Moon and rushed to save Reagan from him. After Aldrin exposed himself as both a murderer and a pervert, Rand helps defeat him and admits his obnoxious nature to Reagan, partially reconciling with her, and confirming he is her biological father as the test says. The two remain on frenemy terms when landing on Earth.

On the day of Reagan's promotion to become the CEO of Cognito, Inc., and J.R. becoming inducted to the Shadow Board, the company's true superiors, a mole was found to have stolen sensitive data. Because of that, J.R.'s promotion was resumed, and Reagan was tasked with locating and identifying the mole. After a while of a chaotic hunt, Rand had dropped from the ceiling, revealing he had wanted to celebrate Reagan's promotion. When Reagan's coworkers deduced, he had stolen the data, Reagan decided to defend her father from the team, and, after a direful fight, Bear-O suddenly revealed himself to be the mole, as he wanted Reagan to get fired from a job, she hates to finally be happy, his highest priority.

He then blamed her state on her coworkers, deciding to eliminate them and forcing Reagan to deactivate him, the only thing stopping her is that she had forgotten the deactivation password. She and Rand go inside her mind to uncover the password, during which Rand attempts to hide the half-erased memories of Orrin from her, which she deduces after a time and subdues him to investigate herself. Reagan discover Rand’s true selfish motives – to use Reagan’s genius for personal gain, even if it means erasing the only true childhood friend that Reagan had, at the risk of damaging his daughter’s brain. Uncovering the truth and losing trust in Rand completely, she awakens along with Rand and Brett (who had accidentally entered her mind and inserted himself into her homecoming memory to make her happier) and deactivates Bear-O with the password, ORRIN.

When Rand tries to callously defend himself in vain, saying that genius people like him and Reagan are above normal people like Orrin as an excuse for his awful actions, she ultimately rejects him and throws him out of her home. A day later, celebrating her victory, Reagan is informed by the shadow board that she has been degraded from her position for the chaos she and her coworkers inflicted upon the building during the mole hunt while J.R. has been imprisoned for his many crimes against the board. They then reveal they have replaced her with the most experienced worker and their biggest shareholder, Rand. As he wickedly reveals himself and "promises" his daughter they will have equal working conditions, a bewildered and enraged Reagan curses him out.

Part 2[]

During an annual gathering of the six secret societies at Bohemian Grove, Rand intends to beat Illuminati leader Dietrich at all of the events using Reagan's nanobots. Reagan controls the nanobots to sabotage Rand but catches Ron Staedtler doing the same to Dietrich. The two fights, but are arrested by a security guard, then escape their cell. While hiding from the other guards, the two vent their frustrations about their respective companies before having sex, inadvertently causing Rand and Dietrich to kiss and make both of their companies win the activities much to Rand and Dietrich's embarrassment and annoyance.

Rand, jealous of Tamiko's new relationship with Keanu Reeves, tries to make a movie. He has Brett track down Leonardo DiCaprio, who fails but ends up bonding with DiCaprio's actor friends. Rand takes a youth serum from Andre, which regresses him into a baby as the filming continues. In the end, Rand was eventually returned to normal, but the movie was a disaster. Rand's tainted blood was later used to poison a bunch of celebrity vampires.

Rand became increasingly paranoid trying to find the one that had been defecating on his desk. He eventually found a hole in the wall leading to the hiding place of J.R. Scheimpough who had escaped from Shadow Prison X. After J.R. reveled the robotic surveillance bugs spying for the Shadow Board Rand allowed J.R. return to Cognito as an intern much to J.R.'s dismay.

After successfully getting congress into passing an act requiring all divorcees go on an annual date, Rand tries to win Tamiko back by projecting Paris in the Holo-Deck. He then sends Alpha-Beta disguised as him using the same holographic technology woe Tamiko with poetry because he realized he was striking out in certain areas in romance. He then sees his Ex-wife kissing Alpha-Beta via surveillance after the robot won her over. In a fit of jealous rage, a fight ensued. Tamiko left the scene after seeing Rand hadn't changed a bit. Rand was still convinced that as long as he was head of Cognito, Inc. he still had a chance get back together with Tamiko, but just then Shadow Board contacted him to review his performance as CEO.

Having nothing left to lose Rand dug up Project Reboot to create a timeline where he was still married to Tamiko and Regan didn't resent him, but the more he kept using the machine the more chaos transpired with all the random changes and anomalies caused by the machine. Just then Regan busts into his makeshift shack where Rand was using Project Reboot where she saw Rand desperately trying to fix his broken family instead of trying to get revenge on the Shadow Board for firing him like she assumed. It was then Regan saw how much her father had fallen from grace and had truly become a broken man. While Reagan did pity her father, she claims that Rand cannot truly change what he done, and, self-reflecting on her own relationship with Ron Staedtler, is able to convince Rand to move on from his goals, high Rand reluctantly accepted.

However, an enraged J.R. then shows up to use the machine for himself, feeling bitter that he was left out in getting his own selfish desires. After a brief scuffle J.R. is stopped just in time by Brett in the company UFO. Both Rand and J.R. are taken into custody during which Reagan realizes that sending her father to Shadow Prison X was the best way to protect him from himself, which Rand agrees with. As he is taken away Rand sincerely apologized to his daughter for everything, he put her through. Rand was later seen in a cell fighting with J.R. until a guard told them to save it for the death arena, to both of their annoyance.

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Quotes[]

Season 1[]

Part 1

Ambien's a great drug, really clarifies some things.
~ Rand's Drug addiction.
It's true I don't even know most of your names.
~ Rand confirming Reagan's claim he doesn't care about the members of Cognito's Task Force.

Part 2

True. My years of living awesomely have taken their toll.
~ Rand admitting to his ravaged body.
Are these jumpsuits made out of fucking polyester? I already have crotch rash!
~ Rand after being imprisoned.

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The Shadow Board

Cognito, Inc.
Leadership
Rand Ridley | J.R. Scheimpough
Employees
Reagan Ridley | Brett Hand | Dr. Andre Lee | Glenn Dolphman | Gigi Thompson | Myc Cellium

The Illuminati
Dietrich Kluge | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Ron Staedtler

Others
ROBOTUS | Bear-O | Flat Earth Society | Rafe Masters | Dr. Skullfinger | Buzz Aldrin | Vampires of Hollywood (Keanu Reeves | Leonardo DiCaprio) | Hive Mind

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