Warning: spoilers for Matlock Season 1, Episode 14, referred to as “Recreation Day” are in play.
Our journey within the 2025 TV schedule has seen Matlock’s protagonist working via a rollercoaster of twists and turns. That’s to be anticipated, particularly when final week noticed Kathy Bates and Beau Bridges’ large scene promising a friendship I didn’t wish to see finish. This week’s chapter, “Recreation Day,” delivered one other potential Fox and the Hound-style heartbreak, however what makes it so horrific is that it put somebody we thought was off the board again on. And whereas it’s positively a chance, I believe one other occasion continues to be extra prone to be the perpetrator.
Matlock Could Have Put Olympia Again On The Welbrexa Clue Board
For these of you who love a very good authorized lesson, Matlock’s present episode form of jogged my memory of Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s brilliantly evil plot. I say this as a result of because of the assistance of Edwin (Sam Anderson), we had been reminded of two vital factors to any good case: motive and alternative.
Weighing these two elements ultimately manifested via two fantasy sequences that Madeline performed out to work the issue. The primary situation she dreamed up was an All The President’s Males-type car parking zone meet up between Shae (Yael Grobglas) and Julian (Jason Ritter), which noticed the ex-Welbrexa worker tipping her fling off to one thing earth shattering.
Alleging that advertising and marketing paperwork had been unintentionally despatched to Jacobson Moore by an intern, Julian then solid his father’s signature, and introduced these docs for shredding.
Nonetheless, throughout this week’s developments involving the Slamm’d class motion swimsuit Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) is banking her future on, we discovered about some fascinating new wrinkles to Matlock’s central thriller. Particularly that Julian’s key card logs might have been deceptive…as Olympia might have swiped his card as cowl.
The day of the file theft noticed Julian at a espresso bar (which was a shredding room), the ladies’s room, and Olympia’s previous workplace. These final two revelations are what despatched Madeline into that second fantasy sequence, which noticed her heartbroken by Olympia’s supposed betrayal.
Arriving at her pal’s present workplace, this week’s enormous setback in courtroom didn’t cease her from exhibiting up decided to get the reality. I gave myself a second to gasp, however then I took one other have a look at the information, and I believe there’s one other situation.
Hooray, Shae Is Nonetheless In Play
There’s a basic saying I believe Madeline Kingston wants to contemplate at this level of her Matlock journey. As everyone knows, the reality is meant to lie between the 2 sides each story carries, and I believe that knowledge applies to those eventualities. Whereas Shae Watch noticed some delicate waves, like a possible reunion of her alliance with Sarah (Leah Lewis) it appears to be like like we would see some enormous swells sooner or later.
Particularly if my assumption is appropriate that she is the one who had Julian’s key card on the day of the file’s theft. It feels like Alternative is within the air, however Motive is one thing that must be gamed out to actually transfer ahead.
And if we’re going by the main points from these hypothetical eventualities, then perhaps The Meerkat unintentionally shared one thing she shouldn’t have, and needed to cowl her tracks. Cue Shae’s affair with Julian through the Welbrexa case, and the following paper path on his key card.
I may very well be completely off base, as there’s nonetheless a handful of episodes left in Matlock’s first season. CBS’ second season renewal might need ensured that Madeline Kingston’s Welbrexa campaign will go on indefinitely, with an enormous cliffhanger teeing all of it up within the weeks to return.
A part of me hopes that is the reality as a result of I don’t wish to see Olympia and Matty cease being pals, particularly because of the recurring troubles on the Kingston family. However as a prudent investigator, I can’t completely low cost the proof till we all know extra.
The one technique to discover the reality is, after all, to maintain tuning into CBS on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET and comply with alongside. If my idea on latest episode titles holds up, the upcoming “Recreation Face” goes to be fairly a journey for Madeline, Shae, and everybody concerned.