Randolph "Randy" Brooks had been a combat soldier in the home timeline, and saw action in the military intervention in Iran, near the holy city of Qom. This left him with traumatic memories which he much later shared with Justin Monroe. Shortly after Justin gave Myrtle the cure and said good-bye to Beckie, Randolph, Cyndi, and Justin traveled to an alternate where human life had not evolved, for quarantine. After some weeks there, they were returned home.