Morgan’s late to work because she got a ticket, and she’s not happy that her police badge isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free card as ABC’s High Potential season two episode four begins. In more important news, Lt. Selena Soto’s still waiting to hear if she got the promotion to captain, and a 9-1-1 call just came in about a shooting.
(The following is a recap of episode four, and there are spoilers ahead!)
It’s possible there are two victims and a shooter on the loose as Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) and Adam (Daniel Sunjata) arrive on the scene. Raina Viera, the woman who made the call, is adamant she never phoned 9-1-1. Morgan confronts her because her unusual accent matches that on the call. Adam examines her cell phone, and it doesn’t show an emergency call.
They don’t have a legal reason to stay, but both think she’s scared or hiding something. Adam confirms the cops swept the place and didn’t find anything unusual.
Selena (Judy Reyes) managed to fast-track getting unmarked surveillance outside Raina’s place, which makes Morgan feel slightly better. Morgan wonders who will take over for Selena if she’s promoted, and Adam says he’ll be acting lieutenant. Which means she’ll get a new partner, and she’s not happy about that one bit. Adam promises they’ll make it work.
Unfortunately, Morgan’s instincts were correct. Raina is found dead at the base of her stairs. Oz (Deniz Akdeniz) informs Morgan and Adam that the neighbors didn’t see anything unusual. It looks like she fell and hit her head. Adam instructs Oz to find the Lucy who’s been calling Raina.
Morgan determines Raina either jumped or was pushed from the banister. It turns out there was a party across the street at the time, and Oz, Adam, and Morgan head over to talk to Logan, the homeowner. The house is trashed inside—the party was definitely wild—and Morgan thinks someone could have been killed during a drug deal gone wrong. She noticed a unicorn sticker on his mailbox, there’s a sketchy guy on a bike circling outside, and spots the drawer where he’s keeping his stash. He takes off running, pushing the druggie off his bike and immediately slamming into a passing car.
Logan’s taken to the station where Adam confronts him about Raina’s death. Adam believes that Raina saw a murder and was killed to keep her quiet. But Logan claims he was helping Raina and wouldn’t hurt her. He labels himself a “legit unlicensed neighborhood pharmacist” and was helping Raina get her migraine medication. He liked her and wouldn’t hurt her.
Logan was with her that morning and was just fine. She never mentioned a 9-1-1 call or witnessing a murder.
Morgan’s surprised Adam bends the rules by using a blacklight to look for Logan’s fingerprints in Raina’s basement. If they are there, then it helps confirm Logan’s story. Apparently if you’re on drugs, your fingerprints shine brighter under a blacklight. And, yes, Logan’s fingerprints light up in the basement.
They remember four beeps in the 9-1-1 call, and Morgan thinks it was her coffeemaker. But it should have beeped eight times, which means someone stopped it. A bright fingerprint proves that ‘someone’ was Logan, so he was definitely there at 9:30am.
All of this means she made the 9-1-1 call from the basement, so Adam and Morgan search it again. They find an old cell phone that was used to call 9-1-1. Morgan pieces things in Raina’s house together and comes up with Raina using the meds to treat early onset dementia, not migraines. That means an old memory could have caused Raina to call 9-1-1, not about something she was currently seeing but something from the past.
Something in the basement set it off, and Adam locates a bloodstained dress. Now the question is, when did the murder take place?
Back at the station, the team tries to narrow the timeline. Given her age, it could be any time within the last 50 years. Morgan examines the bloodstained dress and determines the fabric is tinsel, which means it’s from no earlier than 1985. The next clue is the US registration number and Daphne (Javicia Leslie) confirms that the company that manufactured it went out of business in 2015. Because the care tag in the dress has symbols, it must be from 1998 or later. The lack of a barcode or inventory number means it was made before 2000. The possible murder dates have been narrowed down to 1998 to 2000.
Daphne determines that the timeframe leaves them with 200 cases. Raina reported that the victim was shot, which narrows it to nine. Daphne narrows it to just one when she discovers one victim was wearing a dress that looks like Raina’s. Greta St. John (Fallon) was an up-and-coming singer last seen on New Year’s Eve 2000 at The Black Jewel nightclub. She was found in an alley and died of a gunshot wound to the chest.
There weren’t any witnesses. The coroner didn’t do a good job, and the cops didn’t interview very many people. There were powder burns and shrapnel on her right side, but the report lacks any real details. The case was neglected and then forgotten.
The team thinks Raina was killed so she wouldn’t talk about Greta’s murder. Daphne and Oz will talk to Eddie, the manager of The Black Jewel Club, while Adam and Morgan speak with Lucy, the professional photographer who called Raina multiple times right before her death. Eddie confirms that Greta had a fantastic voice and was on her way up, and that upset Raina Viera.
Eddie plays Daphne and Oz two recordings of Greta, one of which is noticeably better than the other. Eddie explains that’s because of Mac Epps.
Lucy also confirms Greta and Raina were rivals at The Black Jewel. Raina didn’t like to talk about Greta, and both Lucy and Eddie explain that Raina and Greta had the same manager, Matt Epps. Raina blamed him for her career not taking off.
Eddie describes Epps as shady and that Greta didn’t find her voice until Epps was locked up. When Greta was ready to hit big, Epps tried to worm his way back into her life. She wouldn’t let him and he harassed her. Eddie and Lucy think Epps only managed Raina to get close to Greta, and Raina realized it. But Epps was incredibly dangerous and had powerful friends. Lucy warns that Epps still does.
Eddie confesses he should have told the cops about him years ago but didn’t. He provides the detectives with videos and photos from around the time of Greta’s murder.
Back at the station, Selena announces that she did not get the promotion. The person who got the promotion comes from a different squad, and Selena hopes they treat the new captain with respect.
Eddie and Lucy both have alibis, so they are cleared of any involvement. However, Mac Epps is still a suspect. Epps has a mix of legitimate and illegal businesses and owns The Black Jewel now. Daphne and Oz’s research turned up that Epps paid for Raina’s house decades ago, maybe to buy her silence.
Recent footage from outside The Black Jewel shows Epps and Raina in a heated discussion.
Adam describes all of Morgan’s different “quiets” as they head to The Black Jewel. Her current quiet indicates she has something to say, and she claims to be worried about Selena Soto. Adam’s not. If Selena wants to talk to him about it, she will.
Mac and his minions attempt to keep Adam and Morgan from conducting an interview, suggesting they come back when they have an appointment. Adam doesn’t care what they want and asks about Greta and Raina. Mac’s face gives nothing away, and he claims he bought Raina a house in exchange for her music rights. Raina’s career didn’t take off so he just let her have the house out of the goodness of his heart.
Morgan points out that Greta had a compass tattoo on her wrist, and he has a North Star tattoo on his. Adam wonders if Greta was breaking up their personal and professional relationships and that’s why she was murdered. Epps won’t talk anymore and wants his lawyer. But Morgan isn’t done and explains that foil confetti used at the club to ring in the new year caused hives on Greta’s skin. She still had them when she was found, which means she died in the club in the hours after midnight.
The following day Selena confirms Epps’ lawyer threatened them if they ever return to the club. Morgan notices something everyone else missed in the photos of Greta taken at the club over her last few months. She had a wrist splint, wore flats, and her hair was falling out. Selena and Morgan know this is a result of having a baby.
Epps went to jail and Greta really found herself because she became a mom. She probably had to hide the child from Epps, since he was so dangerous. When he learned about it, he probably killed her.
The photos also show Epps’ hand was fine on New Year’s Eve but was bandaged on New Year’s Day. Morgan deduces Epps shot Greta once in the chest but then the gun jammed. He tried firing it again and it blew up, leaving powder burns on Greta’s face and injuring his hand. Raina witnessed it, and that’s how she got blood on her dress.
Epps still has a scar on his hand from the explosion. Selena gets busy obtaining a warrant and sends Adam to the club, while Oz and Daphne head to Epps’ house. Morgan wants to tag along, but Adam says it’s too dangerous. Instead, she needs to start work finding Greta’s child.
Epps makes a run for it through his club and Adam gives chase. Epps makes it outside and puts a gun to a woman’s head, refusing to put it down. Epps admits he killed Greta because she kept him from his child. He searched for their child for years. Adam promises to help if he puts the gun down.
Epps doesn’t and the standoff ends with Adam injuring Epps, which earns him time off from work, thanks to internal affairs. He has to be cleared by the behavior science section before returning to work. The IA guy, Solomon, claims he can’t pull strings and get Adam a quick meeting even though Adam says this case is important. Adam finally convinces him to change his mind when he points out that the mishandling of Greta’s case led to Raina’s murder.
Adam’s allowed to remain at work and on the case. He seems off as they examine Epps’ car for possible evidence in Raina’s case, and he admits discharging his weapon affected him. It’s the third time in his career he’s had to, but it was the first time he actually hit someone. Adam knows he didn’t have any choice, and every morning he practices at the range just in case something like yesterday happens. He knew he wouldn’t miss.
Morgan finds a visitors pass to a federal prison dated the same day as Raina’s murder. There are 13 prisons he could have visited, but Morgan narrows it down to one in the Mojave since there’s a yucca moth on his windshield. If he was at the Victorville prison when Raina was killed, he didn’t murder her.
Raina helped Epps cover up Greta’s murder, but they were killed 25 years apart by different people. Morgan looks at the murder board again and announces she knows what happened to Greta’s baby and who killed Raina.
Lucy had photos with timestamps to prove she was at the Griffith Observatory at the time of the murder.
However, Morgan looks closely and sees the sun is in the wrong position for that time of day. The photos were actually taken at 3pm in December. Plus, the stain on the back of Raina’s shirt comes from chemicals used in developing photos.
Lucy is Greta’s daughter and when she found out Raina knew who killed her real mom, she murdered her. Raina confessed to her that she helped cover up Greta’s murder. Lucy didn’t mean to kill her but pushed her out of anger.
Lucy’s placed under arrest for murder.
That evening, Morgan admits to Adam that he’s right about a lot of things that have to do with her. She doesn’t listen to him because she’s not used to having someone look out for her.
Morgan pops into Selena’s office and tells her she can be pissed “with” her. Morgan assures her she’s there for her and doesn’t need to keep things bottled up, including being passed over because she’s a woman. Selena admits she’s upset because she should have gotten the promotion.
Episode four ends with Morgan having a conversation with a stranger as she’s stepping into the elevator to leave for the day. It’s friendly enough, until the man says he’s been looking forward to meeting her and knows her name. He finally introduces himself as Nick Wagner, the new captain, and extends his hand. She shakes it without saying anything, but you know she wants to!
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