He's the only one that's not use to the multiverse thing, right? So at least he and Irene will have that in common!
I appreciate novels, esp in plot scenarios! Irene finds good guys largely uninteresting unless they want her to work for* them, in which case she wants to figure them out. Absent him being the kind of guy that'd hire a dominatrix she'd probably just roll her eyes and mutter under her breath about do-gooders >>
* read: pay her to beat the living daylights out of