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Inside Job (2021)

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Season 1, Part 1

• "Unpresidented":
  • Brett's Nice Guy persona is not an act. When Robotus goes haywire, he realizes he's out of his league and calls Reagan, begging her to come back because he's not qualified to stop a rampaging Terminator president. Despite being The Load at first, he stays by her side and bravely takes on the robot president when it tries shooting Reagan.
  • When Reagan collapses in the stairwell, he says his personal training instruction is about to pay off, and he picks her up while keeping pace with Robotus. Then they coordinate a video call with the team for backup, and Brett helps Reagan get their high coworkers off their asses. He then credits her with "saving the world" once Robotus is down, ensuring she gets her job back. As she admits at the end of the episode, Reagan needs Brett, as much as he needs her. He then invites everyone to celebrate with margaritas on his dime, and makes sure that Reagan knows that she is invited. When her dad sends a million needy texts, she says fuck yeah, it is drinks night!
  • Rand provides a weirdly odd example: conceding that Reagan's iron fist, which is designed to flip the bird at him, was actually pretty good.
• "Clone Gunman":
  • After spending most of the last episode hating his guts and trying to get him fired, Reagan greets Brett with an enthusiastic handshake as they prepare to "carpe that motherfucking diem". After seemingly friendless her whole life, Reagan has finally made a genuine friend. Later on, while drunk, Reagan even coos Brett's name and fondles his face.
  • Brett takes a liking to old "Grassy" Noel Atkinson and can be seen disapprovingly frowning in the background when Reagan has J.R. fire him.
  • In the end, no one is fired. Following all the clones being destroyed, Brett and Reagan lie to J.R. that they changed their minds and decided to liquidate the cloning department. As thanks, Gigi and the others cover for Reagan keeping ROBOTUS alive if imprisoned.
• "Blue Bloods"
  • When Brett attempts to hug Reagan as part of the reptoid sensitivity training, he notices she looks uncomfortable and asks her if she's alright beforehand.
  • J.R. tells Reagan that Brett's gone missing, and she becomes rather concerned and seems upset when J.R. cares more about the speech than her coworker.
  • Brett attempts to rescue Reagan when she causes an international reptoid incident, using an escape car while driving naked and covered in rat bites. When she asks what happened to him, he explains off-screen that his former frat bros hazed him, and left him to crawl in the vents all night because they like mocking him. Cut to Reagan being angry... for Brett instead of at Brett. She asks him why he lets people treat him like that, because he's a good person who deserves real friends. When he asks with confusion that he shouldn't do anything your friends want or they'll never like you, Reagan says "No." A real friend is there for you when you need them, and respects you as a person. Brett drives with a "Eureka!" Moment on his face: Reagan is there for him, and she respects him.
  • Brett sincerely defends Reagan at her trial. He tells the jury that Reagan's defense mechanism isn't personal; she punched him in the face for attempting a hug, and they're best friends. Reagan's expression notably changes when he says that.
  • The Reptoids all seem sincerely horrified when they see the extent of the Parental Neglect Reagan has endured. Judge Judy grants Reagan an Unishment in the form of court-ordered therapy and a group hug. The group hug from the Reptoids actually seems like a real attempt to comfort her and express sympathy…you know, before it turns into an orgy.
• "Sex Machina": While in Glenn's body, Brett simply apologizing and listening to Glenn's ex-wife Dolores is enough to get her falling in love with him again to the point that she makes out with him in the middle of their therapy session, which their therapist marks as progress.
  • At the end of the episode, ROBOTUS points out to Reagan that since she underwent some Character Development, the algorithm for finding her "perfect match" has expanded to beyond just Bryan. He then shows Reagan all the new options she has to choose from, much to her delight.
• "The Brett-fast Club":
  • Brett's butler sincerely apologizes to him when he is forced to deliver the bad news that none of Brett's family is coming to celebrate his birthday. Brett mentions he was hoping to see his siblings out for rehab and military school. As Brett mopes, his butler produces a giant cake for him as an Apology Gift... that immediately flops over.
  • Reagan willingly binges on 80s movies and sitcoms in order to understand why Brett likes them so much, and she's the one who talks him down when he becomes consumed by nostalgia and dangerous chemicals, telling him that he doesn't need a made-up family, because she and the rest of the gang are his "Business Family Forever." Then, at the end of the episode, Reagan treats Brett to a night of eating pizza and watching The Goonies.
  • Also, after she talks down a nostalgia-mad Brett and he returns to normal, Reagan is the one to initiate the Group Hug.
    • Glenn, Myc and Andre all join in on the group hug. It's extra sweet since they didn't really have to do it, as Reagan had already calmed Brett down by that point,(especially Myc, who said he hated the gang mere minutes before joining in on the hug) but they all did it anyways presumably because they were all genuinely happy he was okay.
  • Gigi and Glenn (and Andre to an extent) enthusiastically join in Brett's plan to disguise themselves as his parents despite it meaning more work to do, and later Glenn gives Reagan a coupon to Blockbuster so she can cheer him up after their argument. Even when they were both fed up with their roles, they still crack jokes about it and never take it out on Brett. They are also all shocked with Reagan and Brett's argument and implore the two to make up, even though they're also preoccupied with the mission at hand.
• "My Big Flat Earth Wedding": It doesn't last, but Tamiko's narcissism and hostility with Rand briefly cease when she sees Harold pull a gun on an escaping Reagan. Harold orders Reagan to take him to the edge of the Earth, and Tamiko immediately goes Mama Bear. She says, "Don't worry, mama's coming!" and rushes over to help. Rand only comes along to fight with Tamiko further, while Tamiko seems legitimately worried for Reagan's life.
• "Mole Hunt": Upon ascending to CEO, Reagan's big changes include adding more ethical subliminal messages in children's cartoons (such as to recycle and delete Twitter), introducing an ethics-bot and gifting her crew with custom jackets. When Myc is less than impressed, Reagan reveals that she upgraded Myc's "weird jerk-off machine" so it could milk all six of his tentacles.

  Myc: I would both kill and die for you!

• "Inside Reagan"
  • While Bear-O ostensibly betraying Reagan is sad, his logical reasoning is actually hard to contest. He has footage of Reagan spending many sleepless nights working, not having a social life or regard for her health, and a possible Adderall addiction. If she weren't obligated to the company, she could actually focus on herself and find people who care about her. Bear-O also knows that Reagan didn't want this job; she wanted to be an astronaut as a kid and go into space. Destroying the company is the only way that he can ensure she gets her second chance at finding happiness. Reagan herself has no retort, only to try and override his prime directive.
    • One could even argue that Bear-O was going Papa Wolf because Rand made him assist in wiping Orrin from Reagan's memories and wasn't able to disobey. He wants to eliminate Rand, the main source of Reagan's unhappiness, to give her a chance at something she wants to do.
  • Brett admits that despite the dire circumstances, Bear-O proved that none of them was the mole so they can be friends again. Reagan gives him a look that it's a nice sentiment, but not the time and place.
  • Bear-O reveals that when Reagan was eight, she wanted to be a "LEGO Astronaut who gets married on Mars to NSYNC". True, that sounds really random, but you cannot deny that Little Reagan dressed as a mix of a LEGO Astronaut Minifigure and a bride is really cute. Also, as we see later in the episode, this may be one of the few happy, unaltered childhood memories Reagan has.
  • Bear-O never once targeted Brett when he was on his own, only her other coworkers. Meaning the robot knew Brett is a positive influence on her life.
  • When Bear-O reveals he's going after her team, Reagan pulls a cannon on him and orders the others to run. They try, while everyone takes advantage of the rubble to hide.
  • Reagan under her dad's recommendation rebuffs Brett's offer to go with them into her mind. She does, however, order him to play guard duty. Brett wonders if that's because she's mad about him accusing her dad of being The Mole. Reagan makes it clear that she's not mad at Brett for accusing her father since Rand was acting suspiciously.
  • In flashbacks, Reagan can be seen hugging Bear-O (though in a corrupted memory) and telling him "no offense" when she says that Orrin is her best friend, implying that Bear-O's efforts weren't entirely unappreciated.
  • A captive NSYNC reveals that Bear-O captured them to fulfill Reagan's eight-year-old fantasy of marrying them and becoming a LEGO astronaut. They give advice to the team that they need to go back to save her. She risked her life for them, and they need to return the favor.
  • Brett accidentally ends up inside Reagan's mind. There, he finds a memory of her alone at her high school prom and, assuming she had a bad time because of bullies, decides to go with her to make sure her night is good. Even though she didn't need it, because she reverse-Carrie'd the entire bullying student body that night, young Reagan still appreciates the gesture. Because this was an alteration to her memory, the real Reagan also "remembers" this as a positive memory she's had for eighteen years, after just finding out her father erased the real memories of her only friend. So, as far as she's concerned, she's been friends with Brett for all that time and tells him so.
    • One could say that this episode is a Reconstruction of "Escape From LA" from BoJack Horseman. That one showed how creepy it is for a guy who is way older to take a dateless child to prom. Here, present-day Brett offers to take teen-Reagan but makes it clear that it's her choice, and waits for Tamiko and Rand to give approval. They both lampshade that it is kinda creepy, but in a Played for Laughs tone and Brett makes it clear he'll go away if he's making Reagan uncomfortable. For the rest of the night, he keeps a respectful distance from her and listens to her as a friend. He also apologizes to teen-Reagan that trying to do a nice thing ended up making her night worse. She reassures him that she got it covered, and they bond over having audio diaries. As an added benefit, it means Brett gets the password to Bear-O, just by being nice.
    • Brett also apologizes to Reagan for going into her mind against her orders for him to play guard duty. It was an accident since he tripped and fell into the vat, but he took responsibility for tampering with her memories since that's what Rand did in the past on purpose. Reagan smiles and reminds him that he saved everyone's lives by doing that.
  • One flashback has Tamiko admitting that she brags about Reagan all the time to her guru, and she's proud of her. For someone who says her adult daughter constantly doesn't meet her expectations, that shows that Tamiko is capable of genuine affection.
  • The flashbacks of Reagan's real memories with Orrin are sweet as they flash in glitches. No wonder Reagan is furious when she realizes that Rand erased all of them.
    • He attended her birthday party and rode with her on the velociraptor they engineered. They both had a good time.
    • Reagan won the science fair for her anatomically correct human-frog hybrid, while he got second-place. Orrin went over and sincerely congratulated her.
    • When Reagan's principal was advising for her to stay in fourth grade so she could develop an adjusted healthy relationship with a friend, Reagan is watching Orrin outside. He waves to her, and it's implied he deliberately got his tongue stuck on the swingset to make her laugh.
  • Brett ends up being the Big Damn Heroes when Bear-O prepares to kill the team as well as Rand, with Reagan helplessly begging for Bear-O to stop. He wakes up and shouts the password — "ORRIN!" and allows Reagan to shutdown Bear-O. When Reagan gushes that he saved them, he responds, "No, we did" which was what she said in the pilot after they took down ROBOTUS.
  • As thanks for his help in taking down the mole, Reagan modifies ROBOTUS's containment tank to be mobile so he can freely move about the facility, which he's genuinely grateful for.

Season 1, Part 2

• "How Reagan Got Her Grove Back"
  • Despite not supporting her in her attempted coup against her father, Brett still cares for Reagan's well being and refers her to a therapy group for people working in secret societies.
    • This inadvertently turns Brett into Reagan's wingman since this is how she ends up meeting Ron for the first time.
• "Whoas-Feratu"
  • Reagan being supportive of her mom's new relationship with Keanu Reeves. Up until she learns he's a Serial Killer vampire.
  • The gang (including Myc) cheers for Reagan as she drives off to meet up with Ron.
  • Compared to her first on-screen appearance, Tamiko is more loving and affectionate towards Reagan, and ultimately appreciates her attempts to keep her safe.
  • While he was a vampire, Keanu genuinely fell in love with Tamiko and is willing to give up his immortality to be with her.
• "We Found Love in a Popeless Place"
  • After arriving in Rome, Ron compliments Reagan's appearance and she blushes heavily in response.
• "Rontagion"
  • Despite the horrible first impression Ron made when meeting Brett, the two of them end up bonding after Ron maturely tells Brett that he isn't obligated to like him, something Brett has never been told before.