‘The Irrational’ Season Two Episode Six Recap

All right, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving week. We are back with some more irrational stuff with The Irrational Season Two Episode Six. The series will then hit its fall break with this week’s fall finale episode with another fun episode with a fan-favorite character. But before we get to that episode, we’d have to talk about last week’s episode that involves a speeding train and future predictions. So let’s talk about last week’s case.

Episode Six The Wrong Side of Maybe finds Professor Alec Mercer (Jessie L. Martin) supposedly invited to a meeting with a data company on statistical probability in exchange for the data on his laser surgery for his scars. Accompanied by him is his reinstated research assistant Phoebe (Molly Kunz) and they find out that his appointment was never actually real. But instead one of the workers, Laura Bennet (Ashley Platz) requests their help with a potentially fatal train accident waiting to happen.

Per usual, Mercer and his colleagues devise a plan to prevent this train disaster from ever happening again. This train crisis is a complex issue involving two soldiers arrested for giving a hacker the blueprints to the train system, and the hacker himself sowing chaos at the behest of his employer.

In their later attempts to stop a speeding bomb train filled with passengers, Mercer plants himself in front of the railroad to force a stop. Luckily, he was not run over and the train stopped on time. Both the hacker and the true culprit, one of the co-owners of the data company Zed Mathis (Nicholas Gonzalez), were responsible for the whole fiasco for his greedy ends.

Kylie (Travina Springer) is upset about her brother’s increasingly dangerous attempts at saving the day in every episode at this point. He tells her that he understands and that he will try not to do any of this in the future (no promises on the audience’s side of things). He got back the probability report of reducing his scars and decided not to do the laser surgery. At least for now, until maybe the end of the season.

It was a very interestingly tense episode that seemed far-fetched, but it was good. They are building up to the idea that Mercer might end up doing the laser surgery soon enough. Of course, there is the possibility that some particular event might result in him finally reducing his scars. Maybe the later episodes will come next year, but for right now they seem to be inching closer to that part of the story. But that’s all for now until tonight’s last episode before the winter break begins when the best character of the series reappears again.