𝕀𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕁𝕠𝕓 - 𝕌𝕃𝕋𝕀𝕄𝔸𝕋𝔼

Dr. Reagan Ridley is the main protagonist of Inside Job. She is a 30-year-old inventor, the head roboticist, former team leader, and current Chief Executive Officer at Cognito Inc. She is the best friend and boss of Brett Hand. She is the daughter of the company's former CEO, Rand Ridley.

Appearance Physical appearance Reagan is a mixed-race woman (half-Japanese from her mother, half-Caucasian from her father), with a slim build. Her hair is short and brown, and she ties it into a ponytail leaving her remaining hair parted on both sides. She also has an underbite visible from the side. Because she suffers from sleep deprivation, she often has deep eye bags and messy hair.

Since her left pinky finger was accidentally destroyed by J.R., she wears a robotic prosthetic, and her left hand is visibly scarred.

Attire She's most frequently seen at work in a lab coat with a grey shirt underneath, green pants with a small tear just above the right knee, white sneakers, and low-cut socks.

At home, she likes to get cozy by wearing a large orange hoodie and grey sweatpants. She tends to get her hoodie dirty with food, while lying on the couch watching TV.

Personality At first glance, Reagan comes off as insufferably brilliant, easily irritable, cynical, paranoid, and competitive to her core with evident social awkwardness, which usually makes her unable to establish a connection with those around her. She appears to be a callous misanthrope whose genius drives her headfirst into her work. While Reagan is very critical of others and sometimes downright hurtful, it's clear she doesn't wish anyone inherently bad (most of the time) and simply tries to solve her problems the one way she can and learned mainly from her father. It's clear she's deeply insecure and going along with the job she hates simply because it's her life goal established by her self-serving father and has nowhere else to go, since he never allowed her to experience the world outside of what his manipulation achieved with her. A lot of her character flaws can be traced back to her abusive childhood which crippled her emotionally and left her out of touch with her emotions.

Throughout the series, there are hints she's sometimes able to exhibit the more human and caring side of her, like establishing a genuine friendship with Brett, attempting to connect with her father or expressing affection to a found cat (only for it to scratch her and leave her with an eye wound). At the end of Part 1, she finally realizes the full scale of her father's deception and, seeing his true uncaring and cruel nature, rejects him in favor of her coworkers, whom she has learned to appreciate over a time despite their incompetence, only to then be informed she has been replaced as the CEO of Cognito, Inc. by him after the pandemonium during the mole hunt on her term of office, which only further disgraces him in her eyes.

With her father now retired from Cognito and the organization now headed by J.R. Scheimpough, Reagan now works at the company with the pretense of being his successor as the company's head roboticist and team leader. Her coworkers include half-dolphin half-human supersoldier Glenn Dolphman, biochemist Andre Lee, head of PR and Media Manipulation Gigi Thompson, and psychic mushroom Myc.

As committed as Reagan is to her job, her difficulty parsing social situations has led to her being intense with coworkers. To help this, J.R. assigned the most normal-faced American man ever, Brett Hand, as her right-hand and co-leader. Reagan dismisses him at first, but after a tour of the Cognito premises she makes him the first to see her latest invention, Alpha-Beta (then named ROBOTUS), a robot copy of the president that she plans to use to replace the real one.

She catches on fairly quickly during their talk that Brett offers no legitimate skills that would make him an asset to the team or the company in general, and was merely hired on a whim to accommodate for her own lack of charisma and people skills. Brett meets the rest of the team during lunch, in which everyone takes an immediate liking to him. Reagan, sitting by her lonesome, is approached by Myc, who jokingly offers to slip rat poison into Brett's next cup of coffee, an idea Reagan genuinely entertains before Myc begins to mock her for taking him seriously. Later that night, Reagan confides in Rand about the current situation, inquiring about how unlikeable he thinks she is, and Brett's arrival.

Rand is quick to suggest that J.R. may be trying to force Reagan out of the company using Brett, but she counters claiming that once Alpha-Beta is finished and the president has been successfully swapped, J.R. will recognize that Reagan doesn't need any sort of co-leader. The next day, Reagan showcases Alpha-Beta to her team, J.R. and the Shadow Board, though concerns are expressed about the A.I. potentially going rogue, Reagan assures them the robot is "too patriotic" to rebel. The meeting is interrupted suddenly by Brett, who surprises everyone with a box of bagels. J,R, and the Shadow Board express their satisfaction with Brett, which quickly draws away any sort of attention or recognition from Reagan, deeply upsetting her. She visits Brett in his new office, and he commends her for her hard work. Reagan, unsure of how to respond, merely returns the thanks, telling him he did a good job bringing bagels for everyone, Brett reveals he's been tense since he's stepped foot into Cognito, hoping to make a good first impression. Reagan quickly begins to prey on Brett's anxiety, attempting to convince him it'd be best to leave the company while he still can. Brett dismisses the idea, preferring instead to remain positive, and stick with the job. Reagan begins to suspect that perhaps Brett is not entirely what he seems or claims to be, and decides to conduct a personal investigation on him.

The next day, Reagan arrives noticeably late to work, having stood-up all night gathering "evidence" on Brett. She interrupts a meeting in which Brett was showcasing his own ideas for the company, and nicknames for his co-workers. Reagan's "evidence" turns out to be nothing but technicalities and insignificant details on Brett's previous field of work and high-school years. J.R., not seeing any of this as a reason to distrust Brett, and being overall frustrated with Reagan's current mental state, takes her off the Alpha-Beta launch and essentially firing her, telling her to take as much time as she needs to clear her head, he then puts Brett in charge of the Alpha-Beta mission launch, feeling confident that he is well-suited for the task.

Reagan, dejected, goes home and watches the news that night with her dad, where she finds out Alpha-Beta has gone rogue, and is planning on placing the entirety of America into the "Americube". Rand reveals that he had actually tampered with Alpha-Beta' code, and should for any reason Reagan be removed from the company's payroll, it's inhibitor chip would deactivate. She suddenly receives a call from Brett, who reveals Alpha-Beta going rogue has caused mass hysteria within Cognito, and begs for Reagan to come back and help set things straight. The two of them make their way to New York to stop Alpha-Beta' plan, when they reach him, Reagan quickly decides that the best way to convince him to stop, is to connect him to the internet, and show him how terrible America really is. After a few brief moments of analyzing, Alpha-Beta deduces that all of humanity is horribly flawed, and the most merciful thing to do is to destroy it. He calls the Pentagon to launch the nukes, though they wait for further confirmation. He then opens a safe, containing what appears to be a metal briefcase, that actually has the controls to arm the nukes. Reagan attempts to swipe it from him, and ends up burning the side of his face with the jet fuel Brett brought, but two Secret Service agents bust through the door to protect the "President". Reagan and Brett flee from the scene, jumping through a window to do so, while Alpha-Beta kills the two Secret Service agents after his cover is blown, thanks to the left side of his face now missing due to Reagan melting it with jet fuel and escapes to the roof of the building. Reagan and Brett reveal themselves, who were actually hiding beside the window after jumping through it. Reagan picks up one of the guns dropped by the Secret Service, and attaches an improvised laser-sight onto it, realizing they have no choice but to neutralize Alpha-Beta'. They begin to chase him up the stairs, though Reagan lags behind due to her lack of stamina. Brett then carries her on his back, full-on sprinting up the stairs, revealing he is still in excellent-shape. Reagan contacts her team via her tablet, though they aren't of much help, due to all being high on "super molly". Reagan berates them for their incompetence. Brett suggests he get a turn at talking to the team, and successfully motivates them, and to follow Reagan's orders, which include "un-kidnapping the President" and a media cover-up to calm the masses.