TL;DR: Predictable case, perfect partnership. Selena gets snubbed, Karadec gets shaken, and Morgan gets real. High Potential Season 2, Episode 4 earns its title by finding the music in the spaces between the clues.

There’s a kind of comfort to watching High Potential these days. You know the rhythm: a cold open, a body, a wildly intuitive leap from Morgan Gillory, and Daniel Sunjata’s Adam Karadec trying his best to keep her chaos contained. Season 2, Episode 4—titled Behind the Music—doesn’t reinvent that formula. The mystery is fine, predictable even. But the heart? That’s where the show finally plays in a new key.

This episode begins with a terrified woman, Raina Viera, calling 9-1-1 to report a shooting—then denying she ever called when Morgan and Karadec show up. Hours later, she’s found dead. From there, the case unspools into a double-murder decades apart, all traced back to a bloodstained sequined dress hidden in Raina’s basement. It’s the kind of premise High Potential thrives on: memory, guilt, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

The “whodunit” part unfolds exactly as you expect—Raina once witnessed a murder, the killer’s child (Lucy) unknowingly repeats the cycle—but the real pull is watching Morgan and Karadec navigate the fallout. When Karadec is forced to shoot a suspect to save a life, the show pauses long enough to let that shake him. And Morgan, usually the whirlwind, becomes his anchor. Their conversation afterward—Karadec quietly admitting he doesn’t need to change because he has her to talk to—lands with a tenderness that outshines the entire case file.

Meanwhile, Selena’s subplot stings harder than any crime scene. She’s passed over for a promotion she earned, replaced by a new captain (Steve Howey’s Nick Wagner) whose charm comes preloaded with warning labels. Judy Reyes gives the storyline quiet gravity, her disappointment simmering under professionalism. Morgan’s support, blunt and empathetic, is one of the hour’s best scenes—and a reminder that High Potential works best when it lets its women carry the emotional weight together.

The case? Solid but standard. The characters? Better than ever. Behind the Music proves the show knows where its real strengths lie—not in the twist, but in the partnership. The basement scene between Morgan and Karadec, flashlights cutting through the dust, is the moment fans have been waiting for: not romantic yet, but intimate enough to make the air hum.

Verdict: 

Behind the Music isn’t the most surprising mystery, but it’s one of High Potential’s most human hours. The procedural beats fade into the background, leaving room for what matters most—the fragile, funny, fiercely loyal bond between two people learning how to save others without losing themselves.