Kathy Bates‘ new CBS drama, Matlock is finally returning with an all-new episode tomorrow (October 17) Going into the first episode in the series, many believed that the show would be a reboot of the beloved TV show starring Andy Griffith, which aired from 1986 to 1995.
However, in the last 10 minutes of the reboot’s premiere, which originally aired in September, we learned that this is NOT the case at all! Keep reading to find out more… In a nutshell, Kathy‘s character, Madeline “Matty” Matlock, was introduced as a woman who needed a job at a law firm, Jacobson Moore, in order to care for her late daughter’s son.
Viewers believed this to be true – up until there were about 10 minutes left in the episode. It’s then discovered that her character is not named Madeline Matlock, and it’s just an alias she used to acquire her position at this specific law firm. Kathy‘s character is revealed to be going undercover at Jacobson Moore as her daughter, Ellie, died of opioid use.
Jacobson Moore apparently had defended a pharmaceutical company and hid papers that could have helped the opioid crisis. In the episode, Kathy‘s character explained, “One of those three [lawyers] hid documents that could have taken opioids off the market 10 years earlier.
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