[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Matlock Season 1 Episode 16, “The Johnson Case.”]
Not so quick, Matty Matlock, if that’s even your actual identify. Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) caught on to Matty’s (Kathy Bates) schemes in a bombshell ending of the Thursday, April 3, episode of Matlock, establishing high-stakes battle heading into Season 1’s ultimate stretch. Whereas Matty obtained put within the sizzling seat, Edwin (Sam Anderson) made a key discovery that seemingly proved Olympia’s innocence of their Wellbrexa investigation. Now Matty’s the one being investigated heading into subsequent week’s penultimate episode on April 10, adopted by the two-part finale on April 17.
“The Johnson Case” proved that Olympia actually is Matty’s blindspot, simply not in the way in which she and Edwin feared. Matty was so preoccupied with blackmailing the Redditor — Jacobson Moore’s very personal Mrs. Belvin (Patricia Belcher) — that she didn’t notice Olympia was secretly investigating her personal suspicions about Matty. Olympia labored solo on what she known as “the Johnson case,” refusing to let Sarah (Leah Lewis) and Billy (David Del Rio) help in any approach. They incorrectly related Olympia serving to out a former regulation faculty classmate/Manhattan District Legal professional worker on a case that she was making an attempt to get a brand new job. In actuality, Olympia was looking for solutions about her worker and buddy.
The case of the week was all about righting a longterm unsuitable. Many years prior, a juror had been illegally pressured into convicting a person of homicide — a person she believed to be harmless however the proof didn’t absolutely assist. The DA’s workplace requested Olympia to assist with this case, as they lacked the assets to take it on. Olympia was her typical justice-driven self as she and the staff fought to free an harmless man who had been wrongly imprisoned for many years. However Marshall’s efficiency hinted that there was one thing occurring underneath the floor that she couldn’t reveal — not but, a minimum of.
Olympia made an impassioned plea to the DA, one other former classmate of hers, to have a DNA pattern examined for the trial. It was a kind of moments the place you “stick your neck out” for one thing simply because it’s the best factor to do, she argued. After he regretfully turned her down, Olympia went to ex-husband Julian’s (Jason Ritter) workplace in want of a hug. She couldn’t say what was troubling her, however a microscopic flash of emotion in Marshall’s efficiency hinted that she was hiding one thing, and that one thing is what was really getting her down. Whereas this case was critical and high-stakes, it was taken on so just lately that it wouldn’t moderately have such a deep emotional influence on Olympia that we had been seeing within the episode. One thing was up, and that reveal would come within the episode’s ultimate second.
The DA did find yourself testing that DNA pattern in spite of everything, and it exonerated the harmless man and resulted in a abstract judgment in favor of the good-samaritan juror. Matty obtained the excellent news she was ready for from Edwin within the moments after the victory in court docket. She and Edwin had been wanting into the whereabouts of their Wellbrexa suspects throughout a fireplace drill within the Jacobson Moore workplace throughout the time of the Wellbrexa case 14 years prior. Their proof instructed that whoever took the Wellbrexa examine, did so throughout that fireside drill. Courtroom transcripts within the public document proved that Olympia was in court docket on the time of the hearth drill.
“You had been proper,” Edwin fortunately stated. “Olympia didn’t take the Wellbrexa examine.”
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Matty cried tears of pleasure and aid. She’s been combating Olympia’s potential guilt for a number of episodes now, leading to a brief mood, elevated agitation at work, and distancing herself from her buddy. This very effectively might have been what induced Olympia’s suspicions. Olympia had a downtrodden look about her as she smiled by means of interactions along with her staff even after the courtroom victory. A triumphant and hopeful rating performed as Matty took the bus to her designated meetup spot along with her driver within the very subsequent scene. She was elated on the cellphone with Edwin, saying she was “so completely happy” that her intestine was proper about Olympia. Sadly for Matty, Olympia’s intestine about Matty was proper, too.
Olympia was ready for Matty on the bus cease when she disembarked. “Heading dwelling?” she pointedly requested. Matty, internally panicking, warily requested, “My goodness, you might give an previous woman a coronary heart assault! Did you want me to return to work? Is it the Johnson case?” Olympia replied, “You’re the Johnson case.”
The sequence then flipped the script on Matty, utilizing the flashbacks sometimes deployed to indicate how she pulled off a sneaky transfer at work. Flashbacks confirmed how Olympia pieced collectively a case towards Matty, the smoking gun being the pen recording machine. Flashbacks confirmed Olympia asking Julian if he spied on her with the pen, suspicions raised by the contents of Alfie’s (Aaron D. Harris) pockets, Bitsy’s (Julie Hagerty) sudden look in court docket, and extra. All of this led to Olympia tracing Matty’s automotive for weeks and discovering her decoy bus cease.
“So, who the hell are you, Madeline Matlock?” Olympia requested, closing out the episode. Now we have a sense she’s about to search out out.
Matlock, Thursdays, 9/8c, CBS