SPOILER ALERT! This submit incorporates particulars from the Season 1 finale of ABC‘s Excessive Potential.
Tuesday evening’s Excessive Potential finale left audiences with extra questions than solutions as Morgan and the LAPD start to zero in on what occurred to her ex, Roman Sinquerra.
Right here’s a recap of the episode:
Issues kick off when the LAPD receives a tip whereas discussing their upcoming police gala, which Soto has requested all the Main Crimes unit is in attendance for. The tip is merely a photograph of a person being held hostage with a observe that claims: “Spencer Wallace wouldn’t play with me, will you?”
The person within the picture, presumably Spencer Wallace, is holding an indication that reads: “Two hours to make your transfer.”
They begin by visiting Spencer’s house, the place they discover a puzzle ready on his doorstep. Inside is a observe that reads “let’s play.” Again on the station, Morgan solves the puzzle to find it’s an elevation map of the Hollywood Hills space, and one piece is lacking — one other clue.
She and Karadec head for the area lined in that lacking piece and, certain sufficient, they discover one other sport. This time, they’ll have to play “Loco Ocho” to determine which of the 2 paths in entrance of them to take. They take the second path to search out two hopscotch patterns sketched on the bottom, which Morgan makes use of to decipher some coordinates, trying by means of the viewfinder on the highest of the hill to find out that they should head for a storage facility within the distance, the place they finally discover Spencer.
That is just the start, although. Amid this case, Morgan will get a go to from Gio, the person who was the final one to see Roman alive. He’s sitting at a diner consuming soup when Morgan walks in to choose up dinner for her household. He tells her that he has discovered a connection to Roman’s disappearance within the type of a girl named Lila Flynn.
Morgan doesn’t have a lot time to mull that over although, as a result of the subsequent day they’ve bought a brand new lead on the kidnapper case. Somebody has left a stroller stuffed with creepy child dolls on the venue the place they’ll be internet hosting the police gala, and the dolls are holding Scrabble blocks that spell, “the enjoyable has simply begun.”
That is when Oz decides to let everybody know that he truly acknowledged Spencer from a grief group he attends, and he speculates that the kidnapper may very well be a part of this group. So, to the grief group they go.
In the middle of interviewing the remainder of the group, they arrive to the consensus {that a} man named David is a probable suspect. The director of the group additionally mentions that one other member, a girl named Sierra, was lacking from that session, which was uncommon for her. One other sufferer?
Sierra’s house is in a state of chaos after they arrive, confirming she’s David’s newest sufferer. Morgan manages to determine that there’s a hidden message on her wall that claims “you’ll be able to’t inform in the dead of night.” Seems, Sierra is an ASL interpreter, and this clue leads them to comprehend these creepy infants are sending a message with their fingers. They decipher the clue to find an previous artwork gallery, the place they discover Sierra.
Via channels of his personal, Karadec finds out that Lila Flynn was an undercover subject agent for the FBI and she or he was murdered 15 years in the past, and one of many final circumstances she was engaged on was Roman’s disappearance. FBI agent fingers Karadec a file and tells him to burn it after he reads it.
It’s a reasonably main breakthrough in that season-long thriller, nevertheless it’ll have to attend, as a result of Oz is the most recent grief group sufferer and is attacked in a parking storage. As soon as Forrester finds his automotive, she additionally sees an hourglass and a observe that claims “Marco!” sitting on the motive force’s seat.
The workforce meets again on the station to overview all of the clues and attempt to perceive what’s going on. Forrester realizes the fonts on the notes from David are totally different, and Morgan saves the day but once more by uncovering that every one the fonts are pointing her to a house in Encino, the place Oz is at present chained to the underside of the pool. They save him simply in time, however nonetheless no sight of David.
As soon as Oz is secure and sound, Karadec pays Gio a go to, and despite the fact that Gio is resistant, Karadec calls for to know why he desires to satisfy Morgan alone. He says that he has one thing to offer Morgan, however he gained’t quit the explanations he’s serving to Morgan along with her seek for Roman, regardless of the goal it’s placing on him.
Again on the station, they uncover that the proprietor of the home the place Oz was is owned by a rich household who’ve a son named David Peck. They assume that’s their man, and Soto is able to plaster his face all around the information.
However wait — on the similar time, Morgan is loading groceries into her automotive along with her children when an merchandise goes rolling away and a person picks it up and returns it to the bag it fell out of earlier than joking with Morgan and strolling away. It isn’t till she will get dwelling that she realizes that wasn’t a coincidental interplay.
Unloading the groceries, she discovers a card sport has been positioned in her grocery bag. The field says “You’re the one, Morgan. We will play once more. Me and also you.”
Seems like David Peck discovered her — or not? On the station, Forrester discovers that David Peck has been in a rehab facility for the final 4 months. So who is that this man?
As Morgan is reeling from her personal discovery, she will get a name from Karadec, who’s leaving Gio’s. He tells her he is aware of the place Roman is, as a result of he’s alive.
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Sadly, viewers can be left on this cliffhanger for fairly some time, since Excessive Potential is anticipated to return within the fall. The excellent news is that it was already renewed for Season 2, so solutions are on the horizon.
