High Potential Season 2 Confirms The Game Maker Wants To Undermine Morgan
Warning! SPOILERS about High Potential season 2, episode 1 ahead.
The whirlwind of High Potential season 2, episode 1’s case made it difficult to understand the Game Maker’s goal, but once it became evident, the crime drama revealed how his plans for Morgan are much more sinister than previously anticipated. High Potential season 1 ending with the Game Maker free and able to threaten Morgan made him a major antagonist.
The key storylines of High Potential season 1’s finale didn’t have a chance to be equally explored in season 2’s premiere after the threat of the Game Maker took over Morgan’s life. However, High Potential season 2’s premiere saw Morgan at her most chaotic because of the Game Maker’s latest inconspicuous but nevertheless wicked game, which highlighted a sinister truth.
High Potential Season 2’s Premiere Ending Shows The Game Maker’s Plan Is To Undermine Morgan
Unlike High Potential season 1’s finale, the Game Maker’s plan wasn’t as clear in season 2’s premiere. Indeed, the case Morgan was sure he played a hand in was initially investigated like any other one, with her fear of what he could do seeming reasonable to Soto and her team after the Game Maker approached Morgan in the parking lot.
It took some time for Morgan to understand the reasoning behind the Game Maker’s plan to point to Jason as the culprit behind Maya’s kidnapping, showing how much “David” showing his face in High Potential season 1 rattled her. However, High Potential season 2’s premiere made it clear that the Game Maker’s plan for Morgan was to completely undermine her.
Leaving the message in the groceries served the purpose of throwing Morgan off her balance, scaring her not as a prelude to whatever he intended to do to hurt her and her family, but with the intention to force her to second-guess herself, so that he could win the vicious game he forced Morgan to play.
The Game Maker’s plan even worked to an extent on Soto and her team. While Karadec plainly admitted he trusted Morgan, the entire team wasn’t sure that the Game Maker was behind Maya’s disappearance, and that was by design. This makes the Game Maker’s plan more sinister, as it attempts to strip Morgan of the genius that always defined her.
How The Game Maker’s Ultimate Plan Makes Him A Perfect High Potential Season 2 Villain
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High Potential season 2’s premiere showed Morgan grasping at straws trying to understand the Game Maker’s involvement in Maya’s case, proving he had the upper hand, raising the stakes from season 1’s finale. His interest in destroying the innermost parts of Morgan without physically harming her nevertheless makes the Game Maker more interesting and more durable as a villain.
There have been plenty of crime dramas where a consultant to a law enforcement agency and their mortal enemy play a game of cat and mouse, but more often than not, the villain resorts to violence against their lawful counterpart. In every single one of his wicked games, the Game Maker kidnapped and endangered people, but didn’t kill them.
New episodes of High Potential season 2 are released every Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.
It became so evident that even Karadec advanced the possibility that he may not be a murderer in High Potential season 2’s premiere. However, he made sure he was always in control, in any crime scene and any time he made contact with Morgan, attacking her at her core without ever laying a finger on her.
The Game Maker not being interested in physically hurting Morgan, but getting to her emotionally and intellectually, could easily draw out their fight, making him into a formidable villain that Morgan and Soto’s team need to vanquish. This way, High Potential would make his storyline much more unpredictable, while also raising the stakes for whenever his real identity is revealed.
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