The Irrational

The Irrational – Stan by Me

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Although it provides almost nothing for the assistants to do, other than to laugh at Owen’s (Arash DeMaxi) fandom, I enjoyed the main story of “Stan by Me” featuring Alec (Jesse L. Martin) and Rose (Karen David) working together to solve the murder of a fan one of her former clients, a renown K-pop star (Kirstin Leigh) who becomes the prime suspect. Sadly, I was far less interested in the B-story involving Marisa (Maahra Hill) and her struggle getting along with her new boss at the FBI which, in procedural fashion, fixes itself by the end of the episode and thus turns out to be mostly pointless.

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The Irrational – The Wrong Side of Maybe

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  • Title: The Irrational – The Wrong Side of Maybe
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In an episode that sees Simon (Max Lloyd-Jones), Owen (Arash DeMaxi), and Phoebe (Molly Kunz) struggling to find a new status quo all working together, Alec (Jesse L. Martin) is approached by an employee of a company which uses science-forecasting for predictive analysis who believes a train disaster is imminent. While the company’s owner is against any action which she believe might cause greater harm, Alec and the others look for ways to bypass the disaster which they discover someone close to the company is helping along.

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The Irrational – Anatomy of a Fall

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The Irrational - Anatomy of a Fall

“Anatomy of the Fall” allows for the conclusion of Phoebe’s (Molly Kunz) separate story and her return to the department. Before that, however, we’ll get a case of suicides on campus which Alec (Jesse L. Martin) is asked to look into. What he finds, with the help of Marisa (Maahra Hill), is the latest suicide was anything but as a young woman’s death was covered up by her sorority sisters attempting to avoid bad publicity. The episode is notable for the experiment playing on how peer pressure can force someone to go against what they know to be true, the case hitting home for Simon (Max Lloyd-Jones) given his brother’s death, and Alec’s interactions with the girl’s father (Blake Robbins) allowing them both a way to honor the young woman’s memory.

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The Irrational – Formal Ties

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The Irrational - Formal Ties

“Formal Ties” takes Alec (Jesse L. Martin), Marisa (Maahra Hill), and Owen (Arash DeMaxi) to the Italian embassy for the marriage of a the daughter of a political refugee (Nikolai Tsankov) who someone at the heavily-guarded event wants dead. Putting the life of another guest in jeopardy, the killer uses the opportunity to sneak a second assassin on to the premises leaving our trio to work with the embassy security and find both men, without alerting the guests. Getting these three to the embassy and the eventual motive both feel a bit shaky, but the investigation itself works well. 

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The Irrational – Bad Blood

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The Irrational - Bad Blood

After apparently writing her off in the season premiere, and then teasing doing that again here, Rose (Karen David) apparently will be sticking around. The murder of the week involving a woman killed during an ice hockey game, theoretically pits the pair on opposite sides (but it doesn’t take all that long before they are working together to solve the case). The episode ends with Rose tempted to walk away but Alec (Jesse L. Martin) convincing her to stay. Our B-story involves Kylie (Travina Springer) getting in trouble with the FBI when one of her hacker friends uses her code to commit a crime. Getting to the truth puts her on the outs with a longtime friend.

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