'Matlock' Season 1 Episode 17 "I Was That, Too" Recap
- Je-Ree
- Apr 10
- 2 min read
Whoa! Maddy is in trouble in the latest episode of Matlock. She wants answers and she wants them now. She takes Maddy’s phone, texts Alfie, has the driver leave and locks her in a room to write down every lie she has told. Seeing this side of Olympia is jarring but in the best way. I feel like she has finally become a shark and I wanted this Olympia in the courtroom.
Meanwhile, Olympia has a new client. A powerful family named the Buckleys who Senior represents has an issue. Amy Buckley, the wife of Grant Buckley, is pregnant and Grant is beyond controlling. He even scheduled her C-section. She wants a divorce the same night. Olympia does her best but the judge does not grant it. Grant does show up to the law firm and gets in Olympia’s face about his wife. Billy records him and Grant leaves.
Elsewhere Sarah is trying her own case without the permission of Olympia. She is writing a strongly worded cease and desist letter for her “client” while Billy teases her.
However, Olympia needs Maddy’s help with Amy. Maddy helps her figure a way out for Amy. Maddy explains that she had no idea that she would form a friendship with Olympia and the scene was so touching and heartbreaking because all Maddy wants is forgiveness and understanding and Olympia is not letting up. They do find a way out of the marriage for Amy, an annulment based on fraud (fitting).
“People don’t see old women, but you saw me.”
Later, Amy goes into labor and while Olympia tries to sneak away, Billy and Sarah follow her after finding Maddy’s phone in her purse. Maddy and Olympia come up with a cover story of Maddy having a headache and getting her own office. Maddy takes the opportunity to get her phone back. She also comes up with a way to help Amy by going after the Priest that married Grant and Amy. Grant told his Priest that his children would be heavily involved in the Church which is defrauding Amy who is an atheist. The Judge grants the annulment.
Olympia finally reads Maddy’s full confession letter and daughter’s obituary. We get a flashback of how paranoid Olympia was with the recording device and how she tore her home apart and argued with Julian in front of the twins. It was also heartbreaking. She begins to doubt Julian and in the last moments she tells Maddy to get up and they go to her home where Edwin and Alfie greet them with open mouths.
This was one of the season’s best episodes. Full of raw emotion and great acting. What did you think? Drop a comment and vote in our poll.
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