High Potential has offered up plenty of mysteries thus far for Kaitlin Olson’s Morgan to conquer (or help conquer) without needing more than a single episode’s length, but Season 2’s fall finale split its art heist investigation in half. Thankfully, after a months-long hiatus, ABC’s ratings juggernaut will return early in the 2026 TV schedule — on January 6 to be exact — and showrunner Todd Harthan shared an update about the other long-running enigma plaguing the Gilory family: Roman’s whereabouts.
CinemaBlend spoke with High Potential’s head honcho ahead of the midseason finale, and among other hot and heavy topics (i.e. Morgan and Rhys getting to first-and-a-half base), I asked Harthan if he was keeping up with fans’ mountainous eagerness to learn more about Roman, and how that creative process had been going, and he implied viewers will be getting some big answers as the rest of the season plays out. In his words:
