Irving Bailiff

**Irving Bailiff**, known as **Irving B.** when working at Lumon, is a main protagonist in the thriller series ***Severance***. He worked at Lumon for six years before agreeing to undergo the severance procedure, where his consciousness and memory are divided into two parts. He is portrayed by John Turturro.

## Background

Irving lives alone with his pet dog Radar and spends a lot of time painting the hallway leading to the Testing Floor repeatedly. His father was a soldier in the US Navy. It appears Irving was as well, as he has some of his medals displayed in his home.

He has been investigating Lumon Industries and the work they have their severed employees doing, and keeps his research hidden in a trunk with his father's Navy items. Irving has worked at Lumon for nine years and agreed to undergo the severance procedure. He has little knowledge of what goes on on the severed floor, but intends to find out. He has been tracking severed individuals in Kier and appears to be trying to make connections between them as well as trying to locate them.

Irving B. has been an employee in the Macrodata Refinement department of Lumon Industries for three years, making him the longest-tenured employee in his department. His job involves identifying numbers from a grid based on an emotional response, and categorizing them. The actual purpose of their work is unknown to Irving B. and his fellow refiners, but they believe it to be important.

Irving B. has a very good understanding of the rules and Lumon handbook, and knows all the Lumon Principles. He has had problems with falling asleep or napping during the work day. His daydreaming manifest as visual hallucinations of black paint oozing from the ceiling or other parts of the office.

## Physical Description

Irving is tall and thin, with light brown skin and brown eyes. He has curly grey hair that he keeps cut short and neat. Irving wears a suit to work, and often has a vest under his jacket. When at home, Irving dresses very casually, and often gets black paint under his nails from his late night activities.

## Quotes

**"Good News About Hell"**

* ***Irving B:** "Hi, kids. What's for dinner?"*

**"Half Loop"**

* ***Irving B:** "Hey, Mark. I just printed out the passage of the handbook on changing out group photos. Just might be good to peruse when you're between things."*
* ***Irving B:** "And don't pretend you care about this department. You just want your waffle party."*

**"In Perpetuity"**

* ***Irving B:** "You look trim, Mark. I wonder if you were food poisoned."*
* ***Irving B:** "Mark used to find it funny to interrupt Petey's announcements. With gas having."*
* ***Irving B:** "That place is everything."*
* ***Dylan G:** "My delts are embarrassingly good today. My outie does muscle shows for sure."**Irving B:** "If your outie did muscle shows, you wouldn't have to work here."*
* ***Irving B:** "It's the Perpetuity Wing. It's the Eagans. It's the living soul of Lumon and everything she stands for, not a bingo match."*

**"The You You Are"**

* ***Irving B:** "Kier’s whole original vision saw us all working together."**Dylan G:** "That was before O&D started disemboweling people’s bowels."*
* ***Irving B:** "I never thought I’d see the handbook passage depicted visually. It was only up for a month or so, but, man. What a month."*

**"Hide and Seek"**

* ***Irving B:** "You are sparing with the facial encouragements."*
* ***Mark S:** "If the Eagan philosophy is illumination above all…"**Irving B:** "Illumination beyond all. But yes."*

**"Defiant Jazz"**

* ***Irving B:** "Shouldn’t there be labels on the soap dispensers saying, ’soap’?"*
* ***Irving B:** "You smug motherfucker."*
* ***Irving B:** "You’re not severed. You walk out of here with your memories. You carry them home with you every night. No one can rip them away from you, snuff them out. Like they never existed. Like you never existed!"*
* ***Irving B:** "Let’s burn this place to the ground."*

**"What's for Dinner?"**

* ***Irving B:** "Don’t laugh. I just wonder if it might be helpful for us to stand behind her and perhaps chant her name."*
* ***Irving B:** "Okay, kids. Let’s find out what’s for dinner."*

## Trivia

* Irving is generous.
* He is fond of music and owns many records.
* He is a friend to children, the elderly, and the insane.
* Irving is strong and helped someone lift a heavy object.
* He attends many dances and is popular with the other attendees.
* He likes films and owns a machine that can play them.
* Irving is splendid and can swim gracefully and well.
* He values water.
* A photo of Irving's outie was once in a newspaper.
* He has no fear of muggers or knaves.
* Irving likes the sound of radar.
* He is also fond of records.
* He is skilled at kissing and lovemaking.
* Irving lives in the neighbourhood of Leonora Lake, named after Leonora Eagan.

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