When does the high potential return after a break? Details of next episode
High potential is not currently airing any new episodes, so when will the show return to ABC?
The hit series returned for season 2 in September 2025 before getting a pass for the holidays. Five episodes aired until the show went on hiatus again during the 2026 Games.
High potential follows an intellectual with a lot of potential – Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) – who works with the LAPD to solve murders. She is linked to Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), who is initially skeptical of Morgan’s involvement in the Major Crimes unit, but eventually comes to trust her.
Before the break, High potential introduced Susan Kelechi Watson as Lucia, aka Karadec’s ex-fiancée. ABC teased that Watson’s character is “always chasing the future, not out of recklessness, but out of a genuine zest for life. She follows her curiosity wherever it leads, whether that’s a new city, a new flavor or a new chapter.”
Sunjata, 54, recently exclusively teased We weekly about how Karadec’s personal life will be explored.
“Morgan meets a lot of people as she moves around,” he noted in September 2025. “She has options. Karadec probably has some options too. We’ll see what happens.”
Keep scrolling to find out when High potential returns – and what comes next:
When will the next episode of ‘High Potential’ air?
The new episode returns to ABC during its regular Tuesday timeslot on March 3. Fans of the show can watch previous episodes on Hulu, with both seasons 1 and 2 available to stream.
Why is ‘High Potential’ on hiatus again?
After the usual mid-season break, High potential had to press pause again due to competing coverage of the Winter Olympics.
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Where has ‘High Potential’ gone?
High potential got fans excited about the future of the show when Karadec seemed to get jealous of Morgan spending time with their boss Wagner (Steve Howey) in season 2.
“We’re starting to unpack a little bit of that as we get deeper into the season. For us, our approach is, you don’t know if it’s protectiveness or jealousy,” executive producer and showrunner Todd Harthan told Us Weekly exclusively. “Is he worried that Morgan is entering into a relationship that could be dangerous or complicated in a way that is destructive? Or is part of him starting to develop real feelings for her?”
Harthan continued, “It’s that fine line we walk throughout the show. I never really want to definitively tell the audience how he feels, but we play with that a lot as we dig deeper into the season. Because things are going to get a little messier.”
When asked if Karadec knows how he feels about Morgan, Harthan noted, “They’re both still thinking [that] out. Even in TV time, the two don’t last that long. It’s just complicated when you work together and you have such a great partnership that continues to grow and blossom and become even more attached to you.”
Harthan didn’t rule anything out. “He’s still in the reconciliation phase. But that’s where we are now,” he added. “It’s still that he’s not sure and we try to be honest about that as we implement it in the episodes.”
The screenwriter also teased Morgan’s multiple possible love interests.
“We haven’t put a super fine point on it. But I’ve talked to Kaitlin about it quite a bit and she has so many other things that take priority over having another meaningful relationship. Her priorities are her children and now she has this career that she has immersed herself in,” he explained. “There’s a very small piece of the pie left for her and her personal life. It’s just not one of those things that she focuses on as much as her children and her work. But we look forward to the time when that will blossom, but we’ve taken a very long time to get her immersed in a long-term relationship.”
