Alec Mercer's one-time protégé left the world of academia behind on The Irrational because she felt it was too "risky," but she landed in this high-stakes career instead.
“It’s not necessarily going to be a murder every week,” The Irrational's creator Arika Lisanne Mittman also said of how we’ll see Alec Mercer use his skillset on the show.
As the behavioral science professor was “coming alive” in the writing and production process, The Irrational’s creative team thought of Jesse L. Martin as the star.
