After it was introduced that veteran actor Mekhi Phifer would be a part of the forged of High Potential season 2 in an unspecified function, theories began to fly about who he may be. In contrast to fellow newcomer Steve Howey, who was confirmed to be taking part in new precinct captain Nick Wagner, Phifer’s character in High Potential season 2 was by no means named. He was, nonetheless, confirmed to have a recurring function, which means he’ll be vital to the plot.
After all, that led to theories, one among which was that Phifer was set to play Morgan’s long-lost ex in High Potential, Roman Sinquerra. It is not an enormous leap to make that guess, contemplating Roman needs to be launched quickly, and the deliberate ambiguity surrounding Phifer’s character factors to him being associated to the thriller in a roundabout way. Now, it will seem, the High Potential season 2 premiere has confirmed that Phifer is taking part in Roman – besides, I am not so positive.
Mekhi Phifer Is Taking part in Roman Sinquerra In Excessive Potential Season 2 – Or Is He?
Lieutenant Soto has been doggedly working to trace down Roman’s whereabouts, as has Karadec, ever since Karadec’s contact confirmed within the High Potential season 1 finale that Roman is an FBI informant – and in addition nonetheless alive. After the workforce trauma bonding of Oz virtually drowning by the hands of the Sport Maker, Soto determined to convey Oz and Daphne into the loop.
Thus, the companions hit the highway to Nevada, hoping to seek out Roman on the deal with that Soto’s personal contacts had lastly tracked down. In one of many remaining scenes of the episode, a shot exhibits a person’s hand pulling an envelope out from beneath a motel mattress mattress, with a chunk of paper containing an deal with: 3476 Sandstone Ave., Henderson, NV.
A second later, Oz and Daphne knock on his motel door and name out his title: “Roman Sinquerra?” Cue the digital camera panning as much as reveal that the actor taking part in the person they’ve tracked to the lodge room is Mekhi Phifer, and his character appears to be like none too completely happy about being discovered.
Lastly, Excessive Potential reveals the reply to the season-long thriller of the place Roman is, and the shorter thriller of who Mekhi Phifer is taking part in: it is Roman. Besides that won’t really be the case. As with so many issues in Excessive Potential relating to the tangled thriller of Roman’s disappearance, I do not assume it will likely be that straightforward.
Roman’s Excessive Potential Thriller Will not Be This Simple To Unravel
As a substitute of confirming that Phifer is Roman, Excessive Potential season 2 is probably establishing a purple herring for each the viewers and the LAPD cops. For starters, Phifer’s character by no means really meets with Oz or Daphne, nor does he verify that he is Roman. There’s solely the shot of him trying troubled earlier than it cuts to the ultimate scene within the episode.
Everybody is aware of the rule in films and TV that you need to by no means assume a personality is lifeless until you see a physique (and, in some genres, even that is not sufficient affirmation). However the identical may very well be stated of confirming a personality’s id, particularly when it ends on a cliffhanger. Except the character responds within the affirmative, it is up within the air. Excessive Potential left that scene on an ambiguous cliffhanger for a motive.
Past that, it simply feels far too handy. For starters, the Roman and Sport Maker mysteries have been working on parallel tracks. With the Sport Maker plot being so twisty and stuffed with so many false leads and fakeouts, it is onerous to imagine that the Roman story would by some means be much less advanced than its parallel narrative.
Additional, it is by no means made sense that Morgan could not resolve the thriller of Roman’s disappearance. Fixing mysteries nobody else can is actually her complete driving power within the present, so it is not possible to imagine that she would not have already tracked Roman down if he have been this straightforward to seek out. And he would not be straightforward to seek out if he have been a high-value FBI informant. Both the federal government would be sure that of it, or Roman would, realizing that he would have needed to go to excessive lengths to go off the grid.
Thus, I am not satisfied that Mekhi Phifer’s character is Roman, even when that is clearly what the Excessive Potential season 2 premiere needs us to imagine. It is too clear, too apparent. Roman has evaded regulation enforcement, his enemies, and one of the vital sensible ladies on the planet for 15 years. There isn’t a method, with all due respect, that the LAPD would monitor him down in only a few months.
Mekhi Phifer’s character clearly is aware of Roman and can get them one step nearer to discovering Morgan’s ex, however I do not assume he has been discovered. Showrunner Todd Hartman has already confirmed that one of many two huge cliffhanger tales from season 1 will likely be wrapped up pretty shortly, and it’ll doubtless be the Sport Maker plotline, as that is additional forward – and finally much less vital to the general story shifting ahead.
If that is the case, then it means the thriller of the place Roman Sinquerra is, what he is been doing for the previous decade and a half, and why he disappeared has many extra layers but. Mekhi Phifer’s character – whoever he’s – may be an enormous puzzle piece, however I do not assume Excessive Potential has revealed Roman simply but.
- Launch Date
September 17, 2024
