Name: The Overview Effect
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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When Alec is recruited to assist with a multi-national prisoner exchange that has gone awry, he sees an opportunity to rescue a wrongfully imprisoned colleague; the case pulls Alec and Rose into the dangerous world of international espionage.

The Irrational

The Exchange

In order to solve an actor's murder, Alec and Rose must go undercover to infiltrate a community theater production of "Little Shop of Horrors," but joining the cast may put them right in the killer's crosshairs.

Suddenly Alec

With an astronaut trapped in space, Alec is tapped to evaluate whether the pair of astronauts assigned to rescue them - a married couple - can safely complete the mission; an accident during a training exercise puts the mission at risk.

The Overview Effect

When Kylie and Marisa find evidence that a tech billionaire may be a serial killer, Alec quickly determines the only way to prove the killer's guilt is for Alec to extract a confession, which leads into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

Conversation Games

Alec helps Rose when an attorney general is threatened by a scandalous deep fake video that puts lives in danger; the head of Rose's firm arrives from Europe and gets entangled in their case work, leading Alec to do an experiment.

The Milgram Experiment

After a champion horse throws and kills his rider, Alec and Phoebe are called upon to save the horse from being euthanized; their investigation reveals what happened isn't at all as it appears.

Murder She Rode

Renee seeks Alec's help after she has a dream containing details about a murder that actually happened; the case grows more intriguing when they realize the victim was Renee's heart transplant donor; Marisa is surprised by a visitor from her past.

Straight From the Heart

Alec brings Rose on a date to a magic club he frequents where a friend is the headliner; the evening turns deadly when an audience volunteer is inexplicably killed onstage, and seemingly by magic.

Now You Don't

Alec and Marisa investigate a museum heist and a curator and his son might hold the key; the case raises ethical questions about the controversial practice of buying and selling cultural artifacts, which brings old memories for Marisa.

Another Man's Treasure

When an acclaimed tennis player goes missing in a remote forest, Alec is called to help find her and bring her to safety; however, a medical emergency threatens to sideline Alec, leaving Marisa and Rose to race against time and rescue the woman.

Lost Souls

Alec enters the world of K-pop fandom when a superfan is murdered, and the only suspect is the pop star the fan idolizes; Alec and Rose dig beneath the surface to uncover what happened and, in the process, he uncovers more about her past.

Stan by Me

Alec Baker, a professor of behavioral science, lends his expertise to an array of cases.

The Wrong Side of Maybe

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