Kaitlin Olson Is a Cleaning Lady with a Knack for Crime Solving in FirstHigh PotentialTrailer (Exclusive)
Mar. 15, 2025In the first trailer forHigh Potential, which PEOPLE can exclusively premiere, Olson plays Morgan, a woman who somehow finds herself working with the police after she accidentally reveals her knack for crime-solving.
The trailer begins with Morgan jamming out to No Doubt’s “Hella Good” as she gets to work cleaning the police department’s office. While cleaning the floors, she knocks over a box of photos related to an unsolved crime and within seconds, she can deduce that the police have the wrong woman identified as a suspect.
The next morning, Detective Karadec (Daniel Sunjata) asks the office, “Who changed our board? Who did this?” referring to Morgan’s handiwork: she crossed out “suspect” and replaced it with “victim.”
After reviewing security camera footage, Karadec, Daphne (Javicia Leslie) and Selena (Judy Reyes) realize that their dancing cleaning lady is behind the change. “Who the hell is this?” Karadec asks as he watches Morgan at work.
Kaitlin Olson as Morgan in ABC’s High Potential.Disney/Pamela Littky
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Morgan is then brought into Selena’s office, who warns her, “Tampering with a criminal crime is a serious crime.”
“If I see a mistake, I need to correct it,” Morgan admits, prompting Selena to hand her over the case’s full file and ask, “What mistakes did you see?”
The cast of ABC’s High Potential is pictured.ABC
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“We could use someone with your talents,” Selena tells Morgan, who is anything but eager.
“Me? Work with cops?” she says with a laugh.
However, Morgan is a single mom of three — and partnering with the police could offer her a way out of her cleaning lady lifestyle. “Mom’s gonna solve the case, and then she’ll never have to scrub other people’s toilets and we’ll live happily ever after,” she tells her son.
“You see a cleaning lady, I see more,” Selena says after she’s asked why the “cleaning lady” is rearranging crime scene boards. “Morgan is a high-potential intellectual. She has advanced cognitive abilities.”
“What is she supposed to do?” Karadec asks, to which Selena replies that Morgan can “spot the things my detectives miss.”
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While things eventually get smoother between Karadec and his unlikely partner, romance is strictly off the table (supposedly).
As the trailer ends, a man assumes that the partners just got married, to which Morgan says “no,” “nope” and then “absolutely not” at the question of her and Karadec dating or being romantically involved at all.
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(L-R) Kaitlin Olson and Daniel Sunjata in High Potential.ABC
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High Potentialpremieres Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.
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