Karen David Explains Why Alec & Rose’s Romance Works on ‘The Irrational’

When The Irrational first premiered, and we met exes Alec (Jesse L. Martin) and Marisa (Maahra Hill), our first thought was that the drama would eventually bring them back together. And it still can! But over the course of the first season and now into the second, we’ve seen Alec fall for fixer Rose (Karen David), and we have to say, we’re rooting for these two to make it.

It was in the December 3 midseason finale that she admitted that she had to be “less than honest” in her line of work sometimes, and she wasn’t sure if she’d done the right thing when she previously let someone take the blame for a client’s actions. She also wasn’t sure she wouldn’t do it again. Rose worried that “knowing what I do and how I need to do it might make it hard to trust me.” But Alec countered, “I wouldn’t be falling in love with somebody that I couldn’t trust.” She responded in kind, “I love you, Alec, so much.” It was a major step for the two.