Matlock Season 2 Episode 10 Recap: A New Associate Arrives as Sarah Faces a Tough Reality

The emotions are running high and lines are blurring in this week’s Matlock. 

A lot of this episode is focused on bringing Julian into the fold of Matty and Olympia’s story. With where we left off last week, Julian now knows that Matty is not who she says she is and this was all to gather information for her case against Jacobson-Moore. This leaves him at an odd spot, he has to work with someone that he doesn’t trust and does not want to get to know better, but if he doesn’t, he runs the risk of going to jail.

He throws out some threats at Matty and she doesn’t want to work with him either. She says that this won’t work unless she

gets an apology from him for causing Ellie’s death due to his involvement with the Wellbrexa documents. Throughout the episode, we see Matty and Julian learn more about each other and grow to work together and be cordial enough. 

The case of the week focuses in on a caregiver who is being accused of manslaughter due to her client dying. They suspect that she is guilty of this due to his death being caused by aspirin being in his bloodstream. This affects Matty especially because she’s thinking of Julian and the Wellbrexa case. Her and Olympia argue about this and Olympia is also struggling with the situation because she wants to be there for both of them. 

We also have the introduction of our new associate, Hunter, who is taking Billy’s place on Olympia’s team. Once again, Billy’s character is not needed so I’m totally fine with the fact that he is gone. We do see Sarah struggle with this and the fact that she is no longer on Olympia’s team throughout this episode. She sees how Hunter is bringing out some playfulness and happiness with Matty and Olympia and she misses them. It makes it even more awkward that her desk is still in the office with Hunter and Matty, so it’s not like she could avoid them even if she wanted to. I feel for Sarah and I do hope that eventually she comes back on board with Olympia, but I can’t even predict a timeline of that happening.

On the flip side, so far, Hunter’s character is interesting to me but I don’t know enough to be invested yet. He’s a typical bro and brings a very different energy to the group, not in a bad way, but just not what I was expecting. Throughout all of this, he provides some solid points in Matty & Olympia’s case and helped them to prove the client’s innocence. We also see the return of Shay’s character this week, due to the merger at the firm, she is back in the office. I actually like Shay’s character and I think that bringing her on for a more long-term role could be an interesting plot point. 

Overall, another good episode of Matlock. It didn’t blow me away like last weeks, but still a good time and I’m curious to see what’s to come in the remaining episodes of Season 2. 

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