On the romance front, High Potential fans likely spent the show’s first season ‘shipping Morgan with one of two lucky gentleman — Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), her new partner at the LAPD, or Tom (JD Pardo), the janitor-turned-nurse whose relocation to San Diego threw a serious wrench in their budding relationship.

But what about Ludo (Taran Killam), Morgan’s DMV instructor ex and the father of her two younger children? Based on everything we saw in Season 1, he’s kind, affable and extremely helpful around the house. So what happened to end their relationship, especially so soon after Morgan gave birth to Chloe? And does Ludo hope to one day reignite their spark, or is he content to remain a platonic co-parent?

According to Harthan, there just wasn’t enough room in High Potential‘s 13-episode first season to properly explore Morgan and Ludo’s complicated situation — but that’s about to change.

“I think the audience has a real appetite to find out what really happened,” Harthan tells TVLine. “What was it like the day they sat down and had a conversation about what wasn’t working? How did they decide how they should co-parent? What caused that? So now it’s our job to come up with a story.”

As for how that story will unfold, Harthan suggests multiple potential scenarios: Morgan might get a case “that hits a certain nerve and reminds her of that period in their lives,” or perhaps “a new love coming into one of their lives where they have to sort of explore that chapter.” Either way, the showrunner promises, “We absolutely will tell that story. What happened between them? I think we’re going to answer that question this year.”

Frankly, it’s unclear whether Tom is still in the running for Morgan’s heart. He was able to make it to Los Angeles for the finale’s police ball, but long-distance relationships don’t always work out long-term. Though Harthan can’t say for sure whether Tom will be back in Season 2, he’s hopeful that we haven’t seen the last of this hunky nurse.

“I love the guy, and I love the character,” Harthan tells TVLine. “There’s a lot of affection, and nobody did anything bad to each other. There’s a lovely thing there, so who knows?”

That said, Pardo’s recent casting as a series regular on the new  Netflix show Trinity makes it a lot less likely that we’ll see more of Tom in Season 2.

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Season 2 Will Dive Into the Team’s Personal Lives

First of all, we’d like to apologize to Oz for using the word “dive” up there. After what he experienced in the finale, it was probably too soon. And while we’re discussing Oz’s little scare…

“[I want] to get the person who put me in the pool,” Deniz Akdeniz told TVLine when we spoke to the High Potential cast on the ABC Upfront carpet. “I want to make sure we get them and put them in cuffs!” But will he? That’s just one of many “unanswered questions … that we’ll hopefully get to answer” in Season 2, Akdeniz added. (Watch his and Javicia Leslie’s full interview in the video above.)

Judy Reyes also has a few questions about her character, Lieutenant Selena Soto, that she’d like to have answered in Season 2: “I want to explore who she’s really like as a person outside of the precinct, who she’s like as a friend,” Reyes told us. “Is she a parent? What’s her emotional history? And how does that bring her and [Morgan] closer together?”