Warning: spoilers for Matlock Season 1, Episode 18 – “Tips of the Commerce – Elements One and Two” are very a lot in session.
On this planet of tv, the season finale is a typical breeding floor for cliffhangers. Now that Matlock’s closing arguments for Season 1 have hit the 2025 TV schedule, I can undoubtedly affirm that the “Tips of the Commerce” two-hour occasion gave us a couple of rock formation to hold from till Season 2’s arrival.
And the craziest factor is, even with the id of the Welbrexa offender revealed, that’s not the most important angle to speak out. So order some take out, and roll up your sleeves mates! We’re digging by the spoilers within the file room, and going over what Matlock Season 2 has to reply for sooner or later.
Julian Did Certainly Steal The Lacking Welbrexa File
Oh, generally I hate to be proper. As I’d predicted after Jason Ritter’s latest TikTok dance, Julian Markston is the one who stole the Welbrexa examine that might have pulled their product from the market. When it comes to Alternative, that twenty fifth flooring hearth drill was engineered by Senior (Beau Bridges), whose Australia journey occurred to be a direct results of this examine’s existence.
Seems he’s the precise Welbrexa Huge Dangerous, with Julian merely being the instrument. Which ends up in Motive, a subject I used to be not positive about. Making an attempt to please his father in his youthful days, he gave his father the within tip in regards to the file – one thing he discovered by his Matlock affair with Shae (Yael Grobglas). Dad gave the order, his son willingly carried it out as a option to attempt to impress him.
Olympia Made Associate, And Hasn’t Rejected Julian’s Pleads For Mercy
In the event you couldn’t inform, Julian has formally misplaced the associate race. However seeing the place “Tips of the Commerce” leaves him and ex-wife Olympia Lawrence (Skye P. Marshall), I’m not so positive his exit can be speedy and imply that he can solely be discovered by way of outdated episode streaming on a Paramount+ subscription. Because of her tenuous partnership with Madeline Matlock (Kathy Bates), the monetary data had been confirmed to not be the smoking gun.
Nevertheless, a secret secure deposit field was revealed to her, and it contained the lacking Welbrexa file. Appearing as the one piece of proof that might incriminate the Markstons, Jacobson Moore’s latest associate is now confronted with a alternative: her job/household, or justice. That query is to be decided, as our final picture of Ms. Lawrence is her tearfully clutching the Welbrexa examine to her chest, with no determination to talk of.
Billy Is About To Grow to be A Father
Talking of households, it seems that Billy (David Del Rio) goes to be beginning a brand new one! Matlock’s season finale noticed the return of Claudia (Bella Ortiz), who was final seen rejecting a wedding proposal on the workplace Christmas social gathering. Effectively, apparently the 2 of them have been hooking up across the similar time that Billy was seeing Simone (Andrea Londo).
Simply as he was about to interrupt issues off and declare the beginning of “Scorching Billy Summer time,” Claudia confirmed as much as the workplace together with her information. Naturally Sarah (Leah Lewis) will not be very comfortable about this, and as for Simone, she doesn’t even know what’s about to hit her. This might complicate one other thread dangling for Matlock’s future to select up.
Sarah Has Gained Her First Case, And Simone Is Gunning For Her
Keep in mind how final week’s Matlock all-nighter began with Sarah writing a easy stop and desist letter to a consumer of Olympia’s? Seems that matter escalated into accusations of tried homicide. “Tips of the Commerce’s” double size case of the week was centered on the health club proprietor Sarah wrote that letter for, and the way he was accused of murdering his associate to achieve management of the enterprise.
After being in scalding scorching water with Olympia, the younger go-getter lastly bought what she was going for – her first authorized win. And that’s a part of why I’m beginning to suppose that Matlock Season 2 goes to introduce Andrea Londo’s spiteful nemesis as a daily character within the halls of Jacobson Moore.
All through “Tips of the Commerce,” Simone not solely shared her intentions to get Sarah in hassle, however she additionally began cozying as much as the exonerated health club proprietor after dumping Billy. Two fronts of revenge appear able to explode, presumably as the ultimate signal that “Scorching Billy Summer time” is undoubtedly not occurring.
Alfie Bought In Contact With The Man Who Might Be His Start Father
Like every good lawyer, I needed to save the perfect level of order for final in my closing arguments. One other hen that got here house to roost in Season 1’s finale was the Matlock thriller surrounding the organic father of Alfie (Aaron Harris). Once we final left the problem, Madeline and husband Edwin Kingston (Sam Anderson) had a combat in regards to the matter, however didn’t pursue it.
Alfie, the enterprising younger lad, made contact, and hid this truth from everybody till the reality got here to name on the Kingston residence. With Madeline answering the door, a person that significantly seems to be like Milo Ventamiglia, or a hybrid of the That is Us star with Ryan Gosling, makes his intentions fairly clear. He desires to get to know his household, leaving Matlock Season 1 to finish with Matty welcoming this man into the household house.
For a short second, it regarded just like the Welbrexa thriller was going to be wrapped as soon as and for all, with some members of the Kingston household trying to transfer again to San Francisco. On the similar time, Madeline Matlock – which has been her authorized identify because the starting of her Jacobson Moore sting operation – is bored with being invisible.
She has a style for training legislation once more, and even when justice for her daughter’s wrongful demise was executed, she nonetheless desires to assist others. How all of these household issues will resolve is simply as huge of a query mark as what Olympia Lawrence will do in her fairly perilous predicament.
On one hand, if Matlock’s early Season 2 renewal hadn’t occurred, I’m wondering if an alternate ending would have aired, closing this file for good. However we now have a complete summer time to attempt to guess what occurs subsequent. Till we all know after we’ll be returning to the legislation agency of Jacobson Moore, this isn’t a goodbye to Matty Matlock and her shenanigans, however fairly a “so long.”