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\u201cMatty thrives as a woman in control. This year she\u2019s not, due to a lot of surprises, so she starts to grip tighter and tighter,\u201d executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman<\/a> reveals of septuagenarian lawyer Madeline \u201cMatty\u201d Matlock (Kathy Bates<\/a>), real name Madeline Kingston, in the legal drama\u2019s second season. \u201cThat\u2019s not conducive to one\u2019s best work, best friendships, or ability to get to where they want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n The strings of the puppet master, who went undercover at Jacobson Moore to find out which lawyer hid pharma documents that could have prevented her daughter\u2019s overdose death, were already getting tangled in the\u00a0Matlock<\/em><\/a> Season 1 finale. Matty\u2019s work pal Olympia (Skye P. Marshall<\/a>), now a partner, knew it was Julian (Jason Ritter<\/a>), her ex and the father of their kids. Julian claimed he did it under orders from his dad, Senior (Beau Bridges<\/a>), head of the firm. Matty and husband Edwin (Sam Anderson<\/a>) weren\u2019t sure if Olympia would protect her own family or help them expose the truth.<\/p>\n \u201cMatty and Olympia are formidable women,\u201d Urman says. \u201cLast season [shook] up their dynamic. Sometimes they are on the same side, sometimes they aren\u2019t. Justice and what it looks like will continue to absorb and challenge Matty. She wants it to be a seismic event. There will be some kind of justice. What it looks like will be revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n Also in the finale, a stranger (Niko Nicotera<\/a>) claimed to be the father of Matty\u2019s grandson Alfie (Aaron D. Harris<\/a>). \u201cThere\u2019s a level of control she has to let go of,\u201d says Urman, who promises flashbacks and \u201csurprising endings\u201d for the first two episodes.<\/p>\n But letting go of being in command is a tough ask for Matty. Before shooting the episode, Urman and Bates discussed where the need originates. \u201cThe last time her life was completely out of control was, of course, when her daughter was in an active addiction,\u201d Urman says. \u201cBecause she couldn\u2019t stop her daughter from using, that is the core emotional place that this lack of control puts Matty back into. Kathy and I talk a lot about that, about what that period of her life was like and what\u2019s getting reignited by it now.\u201d<\/p>\n