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Spoiler alert! Don’t continue reading if you haven’t watched the premiere episode of Kathy Bates‘ new CBS drama, Matlock. Going into the episode, 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 aired on Sunday (September 22), 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. I’m gonna figure out who knew what when, and then I’m gonna put them in jail.” She’s looking at photos of the three lawyers in question – played by Beau Bridges, Jason Ritter, and Skye P. Marshall. Kathy was asked about the twist and told EW, “Well, the first challenge for me was ‘Is it believable?’ And I remember talking to a friend who’s in the corporate world, and I said, ‘Do you believe that someone could do this?’ And he paused and then he said, ‘Yeah, I could do it.’ And he’s someone I’m very close to. Then you have to track what’s going on with her in terms of her mission. Why is she reacting to this person in this way? How can she go this far? All of these different things. It requires really thinking things through. I think our showrunner said it’s a Rubik’s Cube, and so figuring all of that out is quite fun, actually.” The show’s creator is promising you’ll know who hid the documents by the finale. “You will know definitively by the end of the episode [in this season finale] who did what, when, and how. So we will solve that, and then that will sort of open up veins of story,” creator Jennie Snyder Urman told IndieWire. Matlock will re-air on October 17 on CBS, with episodes airing weekly after that. Be sure to tune in!
