SPOILER ALERT: The story contains particulars concerning the Season 2 finale of ABC’s High Potential.
EXCLUSIVE: For a second 12 months in a row, ABC’s hit crime procedural High Potential ended its season finale on a serious cliffhanger. This time, it concerned the lifetime of one of many fundamental characters hanging within the stability after Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) discovered Captain Nick Wagner (Steve Howey) gravely injured.
The Season 2 finale marked the final episode as a sequence common for Howey, Deadline can reveal. That isn’t a stunning growth; he joined as a sequence common early within the season with a one-year deal.
That stated, Wagner’s destiny — and Howey’s future on the present — haven’t been absolutely decided but. According to sources, there’s a probability for Howey to return as a visitor star in the beginning of subsequent season to wrap his character’s arc.
The last determination will seemingly relaxation with the brand new High Potential showrunner and their writing workforce. As Deadline reported at the time of the series’ Season 3 renewal in March, Todd Harthan is departing after operating the sequence for the primary two seasons. The seek for a brand new showrunner continues.
Wagner has been a divisive character, beginning with the notorious Stachegate. The new Captain was launched sporting a mustache, a glance that acquired such a powerful adverse response, the producers moved in to shave it off a number of episodes in. (The mustache was requested by one other sequence Howey was filming on the identical time that required his character to have a full beard.)
Steve Howey on ‘High Potential’
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Overall, Howey didn’t have a lot to work with for many of the season. Wagner had solely occasional presence and went MIA for awhile, coming throughout as a shady character and a doable villain who was arrange as a possible love curiosity for Morgan early on.
That began to vary within the last stretch when Wagner’s arc picked up momentum, culminating within the penultimate episode filled with Wagner’s emotional backstory and his first (and solely) kiss with Morgan.
In the Season 2 finale, suspicious Soto (Judy Reyes) and Morgan confronted Wagner about his affiliation along with his corrupt politician father. In final proof of his allegiance to Morgan, he gave her the unsuitable time for his assembly with a FBI supply on the case of Morgan’s lacking ex that his father had linked him with. The 30 min delay proved essential as Wagner was shot through the encounter and Morgan was spared, arriving to seek out him bleeding out.
(L-R): Kaitlin Olson, Steve Howey in ‘High Potential’
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Howey is protecting a really busy schedule. The Shameless and Reba alum has a serious recurring position on the buzzy Prime Video college-set romantic drama Off Campus, primarily based on the best-selling guide sequence by Elle Kennedy, which already has been renewed for a second season. He additionally is ready to recur within the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Ransom Canyon as Josh Duhamel’s half-brother and in Season 5 of the streamer’s The Lincoln Lawyer.
(L-R): Susan Kelechi Watson, Daniel Sunjata in ‘High Potential’
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The High Potential finale additionally wrapped the storyline of one other main Season 2 solid addition launched to maintain Morgan and Karadec (Daniel Sunjata) aside, Susan Kelechi Watson, who recurred as Karadec’s ex-fiancée Lucia.
Like Howey, the This Is Us alumna was underutilized, solely showing briefly, virtually completely with Sunjata, with their characters having a glass of wine after work right here and there. Also like Howey, Lucia acquired a significant storyline on the very finish of the season as she grew to become a key participant within the finale’s homicide. She was implicated within the case, with heartbroken Karadec dealing with her reserving himself.
