‘High Potential’ Showrunner On Upping The Stakes With A Mystery “Worthy Of A Two-Parter,” The “Exhilarating Push-Off” Into Potential Season 3

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• “What we’re plotting and planning, it has a different flavor than what we did last year, but I think it’s gonna be even more personal, even more propulsive, even more surprising than what we did in Season 1, because we’ve learned some things and the characters have gotten richer.” Watch on Deadline Related Stories News ‘High Potential’ Showrunner On Mapping Out High-Speed Chase, Casting Roman & That Midseason Cliffhanger: “It Gets Intense” News ‘High Potential’ Guest Aiden Turner Teases How Rhys “Makes Morgan Fall In Love” After Writers Extended His Storyline: “I Enjoy Being Eye Candy” In ‘The One That Got Away: Part Two’, Morgan is suspicious of art consultant Rhys (Aiden Turner) after their steamy make-out session led to the discovery of a scar that matches their mysterious suspected art thief, Jean Baptiste.
• But as the two-part mystery concludes, his true motives come into focus.
• “We hadn’t done anything even sort of like this as it relates to a meaningful guest star … and putting Morgan and the team in a position where they’re questioning whether or not this person that they’ve welcomed into their orbit is actually playing them.
• And then also, whether or not he’s a killer, a murderer,” he explained.
• “There were a lot of like things that played up the stakes, that just was not in the DNA of any other episode we’ve done before.