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[This story contains spoilers from the season two finale of Chad Powers, “12th Quarter.”]
Following the unmasking of Chad Powers‘ season one finale, Ricky (Perry Mattfeld) learns that the South Georgia Catfish’s star quarterback is actually disgraced former football player Russ Holliday (Glen Powell) in disguise. She agrees to keep his secret so their team can continue winning, but that secret becomes harder to protect in season two.
Gerry (Colton Ryan), the original starting quarterback who Chad replaced, grows suspicious of Chad’s strange behavior and eventually discovers his true identity. When Ricky comes to Chad’s defense, Gerry realizes she’s in on the scheme, putting both of them at risk of being exposed. Meanwhile, Coach Hudson (Steve Zahn) continues to struggle with his health while remaining the Catfish’s head coach, even as he grows closer to Chad. “He really — no pun intended — carries so much of the heart this season,” Mattfeld tells The Hollywood Reporter of her onscreen dad. Ricky is also weighing a new career opportunity as a quarterback coach at Syracuse University, while her friendship with Chad/Russ begins to blur the line between platonic and romantic.
Those tensions come to a head in the season two finale, when Gerry threatens to expose Chad’s secret after discovering the stash of prosthetics in the basement. But after Chad refuses to follow Gerry’s demands during the team’s final game, Gerry storms onto the field to reveal his secret — only to be tackled by Tricia Yeager’s (Wynn Everett) bodyguard. Tricia, meanwhile, reveals that she knows Chad and Danny’s (Frankie A. Rodriguez) secret and plans to keep them on her ranch so Chad can continue playing football.
