Editor’s be aware: The beneath recap accommodates spoilers for Matlock Episode 8.

Alfie (Aaron Harris) and Edwin (Sam Anderson) are again for the Matlock winter finale, and Matty (Kathy Bates) is as soon as once more making an attempt to have all of it. This week, Alfie has a mock trial competitors the place he performs an eyewitness within the pretend case, and Matty is set to see him in motion. First, she’s acquired to sneak into Senior’s (Beau Bridges) workplace and print out the attachment from the Wellbrexa e-mail, show it is the lacking paperwork, and use that to show Senior helped bury proof that may have gotten opioids off the road ten years earlier.

In fact, attending to Senior’s desk is extra sophisticated than Matty anticipates, and is simply made more durable when Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) publicizes that she’s bringing Matty again to her facet of the farm for a case defending a wrongfully terminated nanny. Julian (Jason Ritter) is towards Olympia taking the case as a result of the nanny works for one of many mothers on the twins’ college, however Olympia just isn’t within the temper to take Julian’s counsel since he simply instructed her that he cheated earlier than they formally separated. In the meantime, issues are on pause with the Wellbrexa investigation, and getting the information she wants from Senior when Olympia is relying on her to run level places Matty in a really powerful place.

Everybody Is a Cheater in ‘Matlock’ Episode 8

The trivia of this case is de facto not necessary to Matty’s or the opposite attorneys’ arcs, and even actually the curve of the episode, so we’ll velocity run by means of the fundamental details. A nanny who works for a pal of Olympia and Julian, and even has watched their children earlier than, approaches Olympia one morning whereas she’s dropping off the twins to tell her that she’s simply been fired. Her image was taken and submitted to a nanny monitoring web site that wealthy mothers use to helicopter-watch the individuals they’ve employed to lift their youngsters. Not solely did the images get the nanny fired, however the web site is utilizing them in a brand new promotional poster, which is making it unattainable for the nanny to seek out any work.

To get wherever with the case, Matty and Olympia should thread the needle of their argument with out infringing upon the web site’s freedom of speech — partly as a result of they’re in entrance of a really pro-First Modification decide. They handle to get a waiver that requires the web site to present them the e-mail deal with of the one that submitted the pictures, and it seems to be Olympia’s greatest mother pal and fellow lawyer. It seems mentioned pal is having an affair with the husband who employs the nanny. When she noticed the nanny enjoying with the youngsters on the park close to the resort the place they’re hooking up, she took the photograph in hopes of deterring the nanny from reporting the affair. Nevertheless, the nanny by no means noticed the couple and all that drama turned out to be for nothing. Olympia can also be not stoked to have a pal who’s a cheater, contemplating Julian’s current revelation. She pushes her pal to come back ahead, the nanny will get a wrongful termination settlement that is sufficient to pay for bringing her personal youngsters to America along with her, and Olympia will get one other win within the books.

The true necessary growth on this case occurs between Matty and Olympia. As soon as Matty learns that Julian cheated, she takes it upon herself to regulate Olympia. Matty stops her from going to high school on a day when she would possibly blow up on any of the judgmental mothers who would possibly strategy her. She’s continually reassuring Olympia that she has her again and can do what it takes to be there for her. Originally of the season, Olympia was hesitant to confess she even appreciated Matty, and now the 2 are creating a borderline codependent relationship. It virtually blows up when Julian admits he requested Matty to look out for Olympia, however Matty stands agency in the truth that every little thing she does throughout this case is as a result of she genuinely cares about her boss. On the one hand, it’s heartwarming to see the expansion between Matty and Olympia. On the opposite, as I’ve mentioned earlier than, it makes the Wellbrexa investigation that rather more sophisticated.

The place Are the Dang Paperwork in ‘Matlock’ Episode 8?

After a couple of hitches, Matty does ultimately make it to Senior’s laptop and prints off the attachment she and Alfie want to research. Sadly, she prints the attachment off to the affiliate pool, and it will get snagged by Olympia’s assistant. Matty blows off going to Alfie’s mock trial to trace down the printout, which causes its personal share of drama. Alfie is ok with the choice, nevertheless it results in one other argument between Matty and Edwin when he says it echoes her previous habits with Ellie. After all of the guilt of lacking the mock trial, Matty does discover the printed attachment, solely to seek out that it isn’t the lacking Wellbrexa paperwork: it is a photograph of Senior and a blonde in Sydney. It additionally helps cowl up the truth that somebody will need to have cast Senior’s signature on the discharge of the Wellbrexa paperwork.

That narrows our suspect pool right down to both Julian or Olympia, which is a a lot more durable tablet for Matty to swallow as a result of she’s grown nearer to each, particularly Olympia. Matty places her eggs within the Julian basket and vegetation a recording pen in his workplace on the finish of the episode, which picks up a dialog between him and Olympia about his affair. Matty mutes the recording proper as Olympia calls for to know who Julian slept with — which could be very impolite to these of us who need the tea — exhibiting her loyalty to each of them. There are nonetheless strains that Matty is not prepared to cross to unravel this case.

Nevertheless, it would not appear to be Matty has absolutely thought-about what may occur if it truly is Julian or Olympia who hid the paperwork. After swearing that she and Olympia weren’t mates just some episodes in the past, Matty is bending over backward to show she’s there for Olympia in an actual capability. I am now satisfied that Olympia is the one who hid the paperwork as a result of it will likely be essentially the most narratively fascinating and sophisticated possibility for Matty to navigate. Can Matty actually maintain Olympia, who she’s grown to respect a lot, liable for the dying of her little one? On the flip facet, can Matty ship the daddy of Olympia’s youngsters to jail when he is additionally proven her kindness?

Issues are getting messy, and we’re now previous the midway level of the primary season. Meaning we’re nearer than we thought to discovering out who the wrongdoer actually is, and whether or not Matty can persist with the plan when she finds out the reality. I think the reply to all of those questions goes to be one thing that even Matty may by no means have imagined.

Matlock is on hiatus for the Christmas holidays. New episodes will return Thursday, January 30 at 9 PM on CBS. Episodes can be found to stream the subsequent day on Paramount+.

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