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SPOILER ALERT: The communicative includes specifications astir nan Season 2 finale of ABC’s High Potential.
EXCLUSIVE: For a 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, ABC’s deed crime procedural High Potential ended its play finale connected a awesome cliffhanger. This time, it progressive nan life of 1 of nan main characters hanging successful nan equilibrium aft Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) recovered Captain Nick Wagner (Steve Howey) gravely injured.
The Season 2 finale marked nan past section arsenic a bid regular for Howey, Deadline tin reveal. That is not a astonishing development; he joined arsenic a bid regular early successful nan play pinch a one-year deal.
That said, Wagner’s destiny — and Howey’s early connected nan show — person not been afloat wished yet. According to sources, location is simply a chance for Howey to return arsenic a impermanent prima astatine nan commencement of adjacent play to wrap his character’s arc.
The last determination will apt remainder pinch nan caller High Potential showrunner and their penning team. As Deadline reported at nan clip of nan series’ Season 3 renewal successful March, Todd Harthan is departing aft moving nan bid for nan first 2 seasons. The hunt for a caller showrunner continues.
Wagner has been a divisive character, starting pinch nan infamous Stachegate. The caller Captain was introduced sporting a mustache, a look that sewage specified a beardown antagonistic reaction, nan producers moved successful to shave it disconnected respective episodes in. (The mustache was requested by different bid Howey was filming astatine nan aforesaid clip that required his characteristic to person a afloat beard.)
Overall, Howey didn’t person overmuch to activity pinch for astir of nan season. Wagner had only occasional presence, mostly coming crossed arsenic a shady characteristic and a imaginable villain who was group up arsenic a imaginable emotion liking for Morgan early on.
That started to alteration quickly successful nan last stretch, culminating successful nan penultimate section packed pinch Wagner’s backstory and his first (and only) buss pinch Morgan.
In nan Season 2 finale, suspicious Soto (Judy Reyes) and Morgan confronted Wagner astir his relation pinch his corrupt leader father. In eventual impervious of his allegiance to Morgan, he gave her nan incorrect clip for his gathering pinch a FBI root connected nan lawsuit of Morgan’s missing ex that his begetter had connected him with. The 30 min hold proved important arsenic Wagner was changeable during nan brushwood and Morgan was spared, arriving to find him bleeding out.
Howey is keeping a very engaged schedule. The Shameless and Reba alum has a awesome recurring domiciled connected nan buzzy Prime Video college-set romanticist play Off Campus, based connected nan best-selling book bid by Elle Kennedy, which already has been renewed for a 2nd season. He besides is group to recur successful nan upcoming 2nd play of Netflix’s Ransom Canyon arsenic Josh Duhamel’s half-brother and successful Season 5 of nan streamer’s The Lincoln Lawyer.
The High Potential finale besides wrapped nan storyline of different awesome Season 2 formed summation introduced to support Morgan and Karadec (Daniel Sunjata) apart, Susan Kelechi Watson, who recurred arsenic Karadec’s ex-fiancée Lucia.
Like Howey, nan This Is Us alumna was underutilized, only appearing briefly, almost exclusively pinch Sunjata, pinch their characters having a solid of vino aft activity present and there. Also for illustration Howey, Lucia sewage a meaningful storyline astatine nan very extremity of nan play arsenic she became a cardinal subordinate successful nan finale’s murder. She was implicated successful nan case, pinch heartbroken Karadec handling her booking himself.
