A heart transplant recipient starts having dreams of murder. Did she do it in The Irrational season 2, episode 12?
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS from The Irrational season 2, episode 12.
The episode starts with a murder happening, but a woman wakes from having a dream. She’s in her car and immediately calls Alec. It’s clear why she calls him. She believes she killed someone while sleeping, and she knows that is irrational.
When Kylie finds out that the heart Renee received was of a cop who died in the line of duty, Renee realizes that she is experiencing dreams of the cop’s last moments. Alec isn’t initially too convinced, but Simon finds information that shows cellular memory. People who received transplanted organs can take on interests and lifestyles of the original organ owner.
Renee realizes the cop may have been murdered in The Irrational season 2, episode 12
So, Alec and Renee go on a hunt for information about the cop. They find his widow, who shares that her husband died by accident. He was apparently trying to fix his gun and shot himself.
That doesn’t make sense considering he was a Green Beret as well as a cop. He would have known better. When Renee notices his ring, she remembers more of the dream, which is clearly the night that the cop, Johnny, died.
The widow points out that Johnny never worked nights, but the death happened at night. When she starts to get evasive, Alec and Renee head to the sheriff station. Renee is sure that there was someone else there that night and that Johnny was murdered.
We get a look at how cops will cover up for themselves. The question was whether Johnny died while off duty and the cops fudged the report to make sure the widow would get the death benefit, or if there was far more to the story.
Alec ends up on the case in The Irrational
Of course, the entire case ends up tickling a nerve with Alec. He needs to figure out what happened. They drive out to the place Johnny died to get an idea of why he was out there. There is a meth lab in a camper, but he’s the one who made the 911 call that night. When he says that the paramedic was out there in minutes, Alec is even more intrigued. As the meth guy notes, they’re out in the sticks. How would a paramedic arrive right away?
When Alec and Renee head out on a stake out for the paramedic, they see him meeting with Johnny’s widow. There is definitely something bigger going on.
The problem is the cops refuse to entertain anything. If they thought there was a murder of one of their own, they would have hunted down whoever did it. Is it possible that the paramedic was just that good to leave no trail of murder?
Alec does have to start to admit that it wasn’t a murder. What he does think is that Renee needs some sort of closure, and that could be just to get some answers about the wife and the paramedic. Alec wants Renee to get home and get some rest, but she decides to go to see the paramedic and accuse him of murder.
However, Renee has a heart attack while there. It’s probably a good thing that she’s at the house of a paramedic. It does always annoy me when people are so focused on solving a mystery when they know that they’re running the risk of causing harm to themselves. Renee knew that she had to keep her heart rate down because of the transplant, and yet, she ends up spiking her stress levels for answers. I understand that she wouldn’t find it easy to stop her brain from thinking, but she could just have gone home and ran through things. Considering it had been six months since the murder, one day wouldn’t hurt!
It turns out that the paramedic parked at a Kmart parking lot down the road on shift because there’s an OD once a week. He met the wife at the funeral. It all goes back to Cookie the meth dealer.
The paramedic getting Renee to the hospital did help Alec get to the bottom of something. Renee was showing signs of meth use, and Alec knows she wouldn’t intentionally use drugs. Of course, everyone thinks Cookie switched out the medication. He’s the one who called 911, and he talked to a dispatcher called Linda.
It now all falls into place. The deputy was taking money of Cookie, which was why nobody ever went to shut down his operations. Johnny was staking out the place to see who Cookie would give money to, but the deputy realized and ended up killing Johnny. With Cookie making the phone call and Linda answering, the sheriff had to clean up. And remember that the deputy had Renee’s bag back at the police station. He changed out the pills.
Did we really think that this wouldn’t end up with being an inside job? There was so much hinting that the cops were protecting themselves. Of course they would stage the scene afterward. With the sheriff working with the deputy, there was no way Johnny would ever get a fair investigation.
Marisa ends up stepping in to get justice. Cookie agrees to wearing a wire.
Was it cellular memory?
The question now is whether it was the heart that remember it all or if it really was a freaky coincidence. Alec can’t answer that. He does point out the evidence for and against it, sharing how she potentially got all the information.
So, we don’t get to know. I do love The Irrational for this. We get the science and then we’re left to figure it out ourselves.
Marisa deals with an unexpected visitor in The Irrational season 2, episode 12
A man comes into the FBI office to talk with Marisa. He is young, and he shares that he is a defense lawyer, but he has followed Marisa’s work. Now he is thinking about a switch to the FBI.
Marisa is shocked to see him. There’s a lot going on in her mind, and even Alec stops while at the office to see the interaction. It’s possible that this man is Marisa’s Bean.
Sure enough, it turns out that Cam is Bean. It turns out that Cam has always known that he was adopted, and he only had good things to say about them. However, it meant that he always wanted to know where he came from, who his mother was. There doesn’t seem to be any resentment for Marisa giving him up, but he does want to know why. That’s understandable.
I love that we get to find out that these adoptive parents were so honest. Personally, I think it’s the way to go. There is nothing worse than people finding out when they’re adults with no idea how to handle it all or a lot of questions about their whole life. We see this in fiction all the time. Sure, knowing from a young age leads to questions, but it gives a person time to process and understand as they’re learning about so much in life. There’s also a chance they can get answers.
I’m excited to see where this story goes. It’s clear Cam wants to get to know his birth mom.
The Irrational airs on Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC. Catch up the following day on Peacock.
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