[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Matlock Season 1 Episode 9, “Friends.”]
Matty (Kathy Bates) and Edwin (Sam Anderson) had been lacking key info of their Wellbrexa investigation, info that unexpectedly roped Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) and Julian’s (Jason Ritter) relationship issues into the investigation’s combine in Matlock‘s midseason premiere and revealed a model new suspect they by no means thought-about earlier than.
Matlock returned on Thursday, January 30 on CBS. Whereas Olympia and Julian’s ongoing separation has been a subplot to this point, it was revealed to be an necessary piece of the puzzle due to who Julian’s infidelity includes. Within the December midseason finale, Olympia realized that Julian cheated on her with the “human lie detector,” Shae (Yael Grobglas), up to now (Olympia wasn’t conscious of Julian’s dishonest when she requested for a divorce). The January 30 episode revealed that not solely did Olympia and Julian meet via the Wellbrexa case at Jacobson Moore, they met Shae via it, too.
Yael Grobglas as Shae in Matlock Season 1 Episode 9 (Robert Voets / CBS)
Edwin and Matty had been at odds all through the episode. Edwin was scuffling with the truth that Matty had turn into shut with Olympia (borderline codependent) regardless of their suspicions of her attainable connection to their daughter’s demise. However Matty trusts her buddy and couldn’t consider that Olympia would bury the paperwork.
As Episode 8 revealed, the Wellbrexa recordsdata had been hidden after Senior’s (Beau Bridges) signature was solid, thus eradicating him from their suspect record. Matty’s hidden recording pen made her aware about Julian and Shae’s hookup earlier than Olympia entrusted her with that info in Episode 9. Their drunk evening out revealed that Olympia and Julian met Shae as a result of she was working for Wellbrexa when Jacobson Moore took the corporate on as a consumer.
Which means that Shae may’ve had entry to those valuable paperwork as effectively, and it was sufficient info to make Matty take Olympia off of their suspect record fully. However the viewer is like Edwin, on this case, because it’s exhausting to consider that Olympia’s potential involvement is erased simply due to this newly revealed element about Shae. The suspect record is again to 3 in our books, however we’ll see if Matty might be satisfied to contemplate her buddy, who’s changing into a more in-depth buddy on daily basis, may’ve been the hand that solid the signature. As this episode’s case of the week proved, simply because somebody seems to be responsible doesn’t imply that they’re.
Subsequent week, Matty and Sarah (Leah Lewis) pose as grandmother and granddaughter so as to collect info at a senior residing facility going through a wrongful demise swimsuit. The episode is titled “Crash Helmets On.” Is {that a} trace that Matty is on a collision course headed for bother?
Matlock, Thursdays, 9/8c, CBS