High Potential Season 2 Episode 9 Recap: Under the Rug

It’s time to dive into High Potential Season 2 Episode 9.

If you want to read our full thoughts on the hour, check out our review here.

But for the full recap of the hour, let’s dive into our scene-by-scene playback.

We open with an obnoxious rich guy golfing and being rude to his driver and security, while someone is off in the bushes, taking pictures of him and notes. He looks like he’s military, maybe a hitman?

But his brakes are cut and leaking fluid, and his truck goes up in the air and into a ditch in such a startling way that I totally gasped a little. Goodness!

Ludo is back and brings in some flowers that were left for Morgan, and they’re apparently from Rhys, and the note talks about a lovely adventure. It piques everyone’s interest until Ludo distracts everyone.

The pipes in the kitchen are all messed up, so Ludo automatically gets to work trying to assist with that while Morgan’s son is definitely still hung up on the Rhys thing.

Morgan gets a text about the latest murder in the mountains and doesn’t necessarily follow Karadec’s advice to wear sensible shoes.

The team concludes there may be another victim nearby. Noticing the golf balls, they share them and talk about golf to help deter them, in case they might’ve come from a better scene.

“I never suspected you for a second, Guillory.” Oh, Karadec. I love you. The two of them find a left-handed golf putter and surmise that the golfer may have been the one who hit the hit man.

Morgan gets back to the station and changes her shoes to spare boots because, of course, she’s a fashionista with cowboy boots in her drawer.

They get an image of who the hitman was looking at, and Selina recognizes the guy instantly, knowing that he’s Douglas, a famous inventor who used a popular vacuum.

Apparently, his vacuum resulted in many deaths because they caught fire, and he was sued by many of the victims’ families. It’s a whole investigation into him, and many families of those who died have been threatening him. So they have many suspects.

Selina gives them their orders, then pulls Morgan aside to update her on Arthur. They don’t have much to go on and haven’t found anything, but it doesn’t appear he was physically hurt at the scene, so that’s something.

Morgan concludes that they can find the security officers that Doulas hired because they were both wearing German-made boots that suggest a former military background. Daphne scopes out a company and sees guys that fit the description from the photos the dead hitman had.

Karadec, Daphne, and Oz follow the German security guys to the house, find a body, and are about to call it in, when Douglas sits up, and a bunch of Feds come out yelling at the cops to lower their weapons.

They finally calmed things down, and Karadec showed the photo to the fed. Apparently, Bear wasn’t a killer for hire; he was an FBI undercover.

They all meet with Taylor, an FBI agent, for an update. And Wagner shows up because, apparently, he’s close with Taylor, who reached out to him.

Apparently, Wagner used to work undercover.

Morgan doesn’t make the best impression on the FBI head, since she’s insistent on taking down Douglas, too, but Taylor seems amused by her.

Morgan is with Daphne on babysitting duty with Douglas. She and Douglas have a few words, since she doesn’t hide that she doesn’t respect him and thinks he should be in jail. She especially hates it when he acts like his housemaid, who is coming the next day, should clean up the mess on the floor.

Karadec and Wagner are working together searching Bear’s cover apartment, and Karadec asks Wagner about his undercover work. He then gets direct about asking Wagner why he wanted to pair up.

Wagner asks about the missing painting and implies that Morgan is behind things. Wagner calls Karadec out on covering for Morgan while Karadec says if that’s what he’s doing, then Wagner should either approve or be considered a hypocrite, which Wagner smirks at.

Ludo is at the house fixing the plumbing, and their son starts saying he and Morgan need a night out and some romance. He’s worked up about some other guy leaving Morgan flowers and is trying to get his parents back together romantically.

Douglas asks Morgan if she learned anything new, and she tells him about how he basically opened his own charity so he could move his own money around and then reward himself for it, and that the FBI already knew about his vacuum killing people. He only got off on a break.

They have barbs back and forth, but Douglas finally hits Morgan where it hurts by implying that he knows her sort, wasting all her intellect and talent because she has no self-discipline, can’t apply herself, and hasn’t accomplished anything and never will.

OK, can we fight this man? Because, based on Morgan’s teary eyes, it gets to her and hits too close to home.

She gets a call from Ludo, who tells her that Elliott is upset about the flowers and is holding out hope they’ll reunite. Ludo says he’ll talk to Elliott himself.

Morgan asks Douglas about surgical scars and picks up that Douglas is having an affair with a married woman, the one he works with at the charity.

Karadec and the gang go to the scorned husband’s office to speak to and arrest him. He makes a run for it. Daphne takes him down LIKE A BADASS!

He says he can still call it off, which suggests he has a hitman on Douglas. But it means that Douglas doesn’t know that Bear was dead.

The Feds seem to think that the husband figured out that Bear was a fed and had him killed, and then is putting on a show, but Wagner doesn’t buy it and argues with the Feds while everyone watches from outside the office.

The team brainstorms and realizes that one of the Feds has to be the real killer because they had too much information about Bear, and now they have to keep things quiet.

Ludo talks to Elliot about the flower situation and that he and Morgan aren’t getting back together.

Morgan talks to Elliott later. He asks Morgan if it would be weird if he wanted to be a plumber, as he starts nerding out over everything he learned from fixing the sink.

At the FBI station, Karadec and Morgan speak with Douglas. They lead him into the office with the rest of the Feds and Wagner. On the screen, they show footage of Bear’s shots of him. The Tech person restored the photos from Bear’s camera, and they show that Douglas worked with the FBI lead on the case.

The FBI head broke into Bear’s motel room, stole and deleted photos, and cut Bear’s brakes.

Douglas tries to deny things, but they have proof and arrest both Douglas and the FBI lead.

Morgan is at the office later, still looking at the board, and she seems to be still reflecting on her conversation with Douglas. Karadec checks up on her, and she says that he reminded her of her dad.

He told her that she was wasting her gifts, too. Karadec reminds her of how valuable she is to the team and how many people she has helped since being there.

She still seems sad, and he gives her advice: If you need proof that the world is a better place because you’re in it, go home, Morgan.”

Ugh, the Morgandec feels are too much! Such a great scene.

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