‘Matlock’ Boss on Matty’s Quest to Avenge Daughter’s Opioid Death and Almost Getting Busted: ‘It Gets Even More Difficult for Her’

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Jim Halterman SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “Sixteen Steps,” the Nov. 14 episode of CBS’ “Matlock,” now streaming on Paramount+.

The jig was almost up for Madeline “Matty” Matlock (Kathy Bates) in this week’s episode of the freshman legal drama when someone from her past who knows her by her real name, Madeline Kingston, pushes his way into her present.

In the previous episode, “Claws,” a dating app profile was created for Matty, which she couldn’t prevent, since she’s pretending to be widow Matty Matlock while undercover as a lawyer at the Jacobson Moore Law Firm.

The photo on that dating profile is seen by a man named Stanley (Henry LeBlanc), and Matty is not happy about it. This week, we find out that Stanley isn’t romantically interested in Matty, but is a fellow parent with a drug addicted child.