00:00Hey, Mark.
00:00I'm absolutely elated.
00:02Like, who isn't happy to come back in season two?
00:05Alec Mercer, fancy professor by day,
00:07inspector gadget by night.
00:11The Irrational is all about solving
00:13the mystery of human behavior.
00:15My character, Alec Mercer, whose day job
00:17is teaching psychology.
00:18Nearly all irrational behavior is driven by our emotions.
00:23Also helps law enforcement solve their most unusual cases.
00:28If you hate someone and you kill them during the game,
00:30does that make it murder?
00:31Bit of an irrational question.
00:33You got my attention.
00:34The show got bigger.
00:35It looks bigger.
00:36It feels bigger.
00:37And we get into a lot of trouble.
00:42This season, Marissa and Alec explore
00:45more of the friendship part of their relationship.
00:48I think they make a great team.
00:49I was your wife for 15 years.
00:51If I'm going to be your friend, you
00:53should listen to me sometimes.
00:55My sister, Kylie, has joined the FBI.
00:57In sort of a hacker capacity.
00:59Kylie gets to really show off her skills.
01:01She can lend her talents in solving the cases.
01:04I wanted to get out of the house
01:06and into the mix of the exciting FBI stuff.
01:08You know, like bad boy style.
01:10Alec is Phoebe's idol because he sees
01:12what other people don't see.
01:14How can you make decisions and react and read people
01:18under those very intense situations?
01:20That's Alec's superpower.
01:21I'm feeling you're a good guy.
01:22You didn't want to do it, did you?
01:24I needed the job.
01:25What's he doing?
01:25Getting him to rethink his identity.
01:28We'll find out.
01:30People love Alec, first of all, because he's
01:32played by the Jesse L. Martin.
01:34And who doesn't love Jesse?
01:35And it's just a great match for the character.
01:37When we're in a hot state, we make mistakes.
01:40They fit as many lessons into an episode as they possibly can.
01:44Confirmation bias, groupthink, sympathy money,
01:46selective mutism.
01:47You're doing the whole beautiful mind thing again.
01:50Usual crime dramas, you try to figure out who did it.
01:54In this case, why they did it.
01:56Why subdue the captain in that abandoned ship
01:59when you finally gained control?
02:00Maybe they were running?
02:01From what?
02:02And who?
02:03I think it does make you feel smart when you
02:05walk away from this show.
02:07What you going to do?
02:07An experiment.
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