The Irrational — Season 2
He has solving crime down to a science.
About this season
Alec Mercer is a world-renowned professor of behavioral psychology with a unique insight into human nature who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, corporations and law enforcement. However, he meets his match in a female domestic terror suspect who turns his world upside down.
Episodes (18)
1. Collateral Damage
4.6Aired 8 October 2024 • 42 min
When Rose goes missing, Alec quickly discovers this is no ordinary kidnapping. While Rose plays a dangerous game to stall for time, Alec takes matters into his own hands to find her.
2. A Kick in the Teeth
5.0Aired 15 October 2024 • 42 min
The FBI needs Alec and his team to help stop a serial killer terrorizing the suburbs.
3. Bad Blood
3.3Aired 22 October 2024 • 42 min
Alex investigates the death of a rising star on Wall Street who was killed during her hockey game.
4. Formal Ties
3.3Aired 29 October 2024 • 42 min
Alec and Marisa attend a wedding inside a foreign embassy that turns into a murder investigation.
5. Anatomy of a Fall
1.5Aired 12 November 2024 • 42 min
Simon's mother asks Alec to help stop a suicide contagion when a third student death strikes the campus. Alex asks Marisa to help when he thinks there might be more to the case. Phoebe struggles with her next career move
6. The Wrong Side of Maybe
1.0Aired 26 November 2024 • 42 min
Alec and the team work to prevent a looming train disaster. Phoebe, Simon and Rizwan struggle to figure out the new power dynamics between them.
7. Stan by Me
1.0Aired 3 December 2024 • 42 min
Alec enters the world of K-Pop fandom when a superfan is murdered, and the only suspect is the pop star the fan idolizes. Alec and Rose dig beneath the surface to uncover what happened and, in the process, he uncovers more about her past.
8. Lost Souls
3.3Aired 7 January 2025 • 42 min
When an acclaimed tennis player goes missing in a remote forest, Alec is called to help find her and bring her to safety. However, a medical emergency threatens to sideline Alec, leaving Marisa and Rose to race against time and rescue the woman.
9. Another Man's Treasure
1.0Aired 14 January 2025 • 42 min
Alec and Marisa investigate a museum heist and a curator and his son might hold the key; the case raises ethical questions about the controversial practice of buying and selling cultural artifacts, which brings old memories for Marisa.
10. Now You Don't
3.3Aired 21 January 2025 • 42 min
Alec brings Rose on a date to a magic club he frequents where a friend is the headliner; the evening turns deadly when an audience volunteer is inexplicably killed onstage, and seemingly by magic.
11. Ghost Ship
3.0Aired 28 January 2025 • 42 min
Alec and Marisa investigate a mysterious ghost ship that has washed up on the shores of his hometown. This forces him to revisit his past and spend time with his father with whom he has a fraught and complicated relationship
12. Straight From the Heart
3.7Aired 4 February 2025 • 42 min
Renee seeks Alec's help after she has a dream containing details about a murder that actually happened. The case grows more intriguing when they realize the victim was Renee's heart transplant donor. Marisa is surprised by a visitor from her past
13. Murder, She Rode
3.0Aired 11 February 2025 • 42 min
After a champion horse throws and kills his rider, Alec and Phoebe are called upon to save the horse from being euthanized. Their investigation reveals what happened isn’t at all as it appears.
14. The Milgram Experiment
3.0Aired 18 February 2025 • 42 min
Alec helps Rose when an attorney general is threatened by a scandalous deep fake video that puts lives in danger. The head of Rose’s firm arrives from Europe and gets entangled in their case work, leading Alec to do an experiment.
15. Conversation Games
3.0Aired 25 February 2025 • 42 min
When Kylie and Marisa find evidence that a tech billionaire may be a serial killer, Alec quickly determines the only way to prove the killer’s guilt is for Alec to extract a confession, which leads into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
16. The Overview Effect
3.0Aired 11 March 2025 • 42 min
With an astronaut trapped in space, Alec is tapped to evaluate whether the pair of astronauts assigned to rescue them—a married couple—can safely complete the mission, until an accident during a training exercise puts the mission at risk.
17. Suddenly, Alec
3.0Aired 18 March 2025 • 42 min
In order to solve an actor's murder, Alec and Rose must go undercover to infiltrate a community theater production of "Little Shop of Horrors," but joining the cast may put them right in the killer's cross-hairs.
18. The Exchange
3.0Aired 25 March 2025 • 42 min
When Alec is recruited to assist with a multi-national prisoner exchange that has gone awry, he sees an opportunity to rescue a wrongfully imprisoned colleague. The case pulls Alec and Rose into the dangerous world of international espionage.