‘The Irrational’ Season Two, Episode Three Features A Fun, But Emotional Case

NBC’s The Irrational Season Two is still going strong and this is a fun emotional one.

Alec Mercer (Jessie L. Smith) is reunited again with his spy girlfriend, Rose Dinshaw (Karen David). This time around, they are on opposite sides of this case. Already this episode seems to be a lot more exciting than the previous episode though the overarching story is still developing. But it is still coming into focus as time goes on. So let’s discuss a hockey practice that goes irrationally wrong.

Episode Three, “Bad Blood” finds hockey player Soph (Ashley Roxburgh) accidentally killing fellow player and rising Wall Street employee Leah in a heated practice. At the request of the New York DA, Mercer takes the case knowing that Dinshaw is working for the competition, to his slight irritation. Regardless, he proceeds with the case to find out that this case is as usual…irrational.

Meanwhile, Mercer’s sister Kylie (Travina Springer) learns from Marissa (Maahra Hill) that somebody in her hacker circle has stolen her codes and committed ransomware. This prompts Kylie to go undercover to expose who is behind the theft she points out the culprit thanks to the help of Phoebe (Molly Kunz), who also asks for a spur of confidence from Marissa to potentially oust Professor Rachel Myers as a plagiarist.

Back in New York, despite being on opposing sides, Mercer and Rose track down the real culprit: Wall Street employee Joy Laslen (Sarah Jane Redmond), who actually poisoned Leah before Soph intentionally crippled her, and then frames her OCD actor boyfriend, Zane (Sean Yves Lessard) for it.

Everyone has a moment starting with Kylie, who learns from Marissa that once they become involved in law enforcement, friendships come to an abrupt end. But they still have each other’s company. As with Mercer and Dinshaw, they both fear that one of them is going to die as Mercer wants their relationship to keep going. The episode ends with Dinshaw, who is a fan of karaoke during her spy days, singing in front of the crowd, to Mercer’s surprise and comfort.

Well…that was fun and informative for anyone who has jobs that could come into conflict with personal relationships. This week’s case feels like a reminder of an episode from the anime detective series Case Closed: Somebody dies at a wedding, when everyone is supposed to be happy. But, stuff becomes highly…irrational. We’ll see how this turns out as The Irrational airs on NBC and streaming on Peacock.