{"id":2086800,"date":"2025-10-13T01:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2086800"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:51:11","slug":"matty-and-olympia-trade-lies-but-who-got-the-upper-hand-plus-grade-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/matty-and-olympia-trade-lies-but-who-got-the-upper-hand-plus-grade-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Matty and Olympia Trade Lies, But Who Got the Upper Hand? (Plus, Grade It!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s a battle of the legal titans in Season 2 of <em>Matlock<\/em>, as Matty and Olympia put their prodigious brains up against one another. But who came out on top?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sunday\u2019s special premiere on CBS \u2014\u00a0the show returns to its regular time slot this Thursday at 9\/8c for Episode 2 \u2014 finds Matty and Olympia trying to outmaneuver one another as they dance around the truth about the Wellbrexa case. Olympia knows Julian hid crucial documents, but she\u2019s not telling Matty that. And Matty is determined to go to the press, even if it means Julian is implicated. Matty has more troubles on her mind, too, with the arrival of Joey, who claims to be Alfie\u2019s father. Matty is skeptical, but Joey produces an old iPod he says was Ellie\u2019s, claiming that he and Ellie were in love for two years. (He claims he\u2019s clean, too.) Matty will need some proof, so she takes some of his hair for a DNA sample.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from TVLine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Olympia is there for Matty, comforting her about the Joey situation, but she lies right to her face, too, telling her Julian would never conceal a document like the Wellbrexa one. She tries to shift the blame onto Senior, and zeroes in on an unidentified woman Senior took with him on a trip to meet some Big Pharma bigwigs. Olympia sets out to ID the mystery woman so they can get answers from her \u2014 and she has a safe installed in her home to keep the damning Wellbrexa documents safe. Julian wants to shred them, but Olympia warns him that could lead to jail time. Meanwhile, Edwin cautions Matty that if they take their evidence to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, it could mean the end of her friendship with Olympia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Matlock Season 2 Premiere Olympia Safe<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The case of the week is a high school girl named Maya who\u2019s accused of burning down her high school\u2019s theater after throwing a party there. The kids blamed it on a space heater, but the authorities found nitric acid \u2014\u00a0an accelerant \u2014\u00a0at the scene and are charging her with felony arson. What\u2019s worse, Maya\u2019s friend Georgia turns on her, saying Maya had motive because she didn\u2019t get the lead in the school play. The girls both have skeletons in their closet: Georgia went back into the theater after the party to fetch her cocaine (oops), and Maya was being blackmailed by a catfish boyfriend and went back into the theater to use the wifi to pay him off in crypto. Kids today!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Olympia is still looking for Senior\u2019s mystery woman and decides to snoop through his Rolodex \u2014 old school! \u2014\u00a0to get the phone number for his flower shop, since they know he sent her flowers. Matty still wants to take her case to the <em>Times<\/em>, but Olympia stops her: \u201cI\u2019m not implicating the father of my children.\u201d Matty doesn\u2019t want Olympia or her kids to suffer because of this, but Edwin is pushing her to go public once they get Alfie\u2019s DNA results back. While Olympia sneaks into Senior\u2019s office and searches through his Rolodex for the flower shop number, Matty has to distract Senior, so she confronts him about treating his son Julian so poorly. A miffed Senior pointedly reminds Matty they\u2019re not equals and threatens to use every trick in the book to ruin her career, gloating that \u201claws don\u2019t touch people like me.\u201d He\u2019s just kidding. We think.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Matlock Season 2 Beau Bridges\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"650\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/n1Z7lmyi1GPcjrY3L67pxg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY1MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/tvline.com\/18f63e314c7c519e0ecdff8354468213\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Matlock Season 2 Beau Bridges<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Olympia grills her client Maya\u2019s friend Georgia on the stand, getting her to \u2018fess up about her cocaine use and floating the theory that she torched the theater to cover up that she\u2019d been stealing to feed her habit. Matty tells Olympia she found a disgruntled employee at the flower shop who might divulge who Senior sent flowers to, and they head back to Olympia\u2019s brownstone, with the two friends lying their pants off to each other. Olympia worries that Julian came there to destroy the documents, but they\u2019re still in the safe \u2014\u00a0and Edwin thinks he might have the smoking gun in the Maya case. Matty does a fiery demo in Olympia\u2019s kitchen, and Olympia confronts the fire expert on the stand with a bucket full of ping pong balls, each of which contain a tiny bit of nitric acid. Georgia brought a bunch of them to the party to play beer pong, and those, plus the space heater, led to the accidental fire. Maya is exonerated. Case closed!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A couple other cases are closed, too: Matty identifies Senior\u2019s mystery woman as a lady named Deborah Palmer, and the DNA results say Joey is Alfie\u2019s father\u2026\u00a0and he\u2019s not sober, either. Oh, and speaking of paternity: Billy confirms he\u2019s the father of Claudia\u2019s child, and they decide to get back together to raise the baby. (Note: This episode was filmed before <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/casting-news\/matlock-david-del-rio-fired-sexual-assault-leah-lewis-billy-1235529534\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:David Del Rio was fired;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">David Del Rio was fired<\/a> and accused of sexually assaulting co-star Leah Lewis.) As Olympia convinces Julian to come crawling back to work so he can spy on Senior, Matty and Alfie take a nostalgic listen to Ellie\u2019s iPod \u2014\u00a0Florence + the Machine; nice choice \u2014\u00a0and we find out Matty had another trick up her sleeve. She used a phony phone call to Edwin and the distraction of the fire in Olympia\u2019s kitchen to get a peek inside Olympia\u2019s safe\u2026 and she took the Wellbrexa documents, leaving a copy in their place. She can\u2019t believe Olympia lied to her. But she\u2019s ready to go to the <em>Times<\/em>, emailing an editor and promising bombshell evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What\u2019s your verdict? 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But who came out on top? 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