‘High Potential’: Is Morgan’s New Love Interest Really a Criminal?

High Potential may be on a winter hiatus, but that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate where Morgan’s (Kaitlin Olson) story is heading after that midseason finale cliffhanger.

As fans will recall, she became entangled with Rhys (Aiden Turner), an art dealer who was working on the same investigation as her, until she began to suspect he might be responsible for the crime of theft. To add insult to injury, the high-IQ LAPD consultant came to the realization about Rhys’s potential criminal involvement amid a steamy makeout session.

But is he really a criminal? “You’ll see in the premiere next year that not everything is as it seems,” showrunner Todd Harthan teased to TV Insider following the most recent episode before the January 6, 2026, return. “It certainly feels like this guy is the guy, but there are some things coming that are going to really make Morgan go, ‘Wait, is he a criminal?’” Harthan added.