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[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0Matlock<\/em> Season 2 Episode 2, \u201cAnother Matlock.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n Matty (Kathy Bates<\/a>) and Olympia (Skye P. Marshall<\/a>) are operating in truth now in\u00a0Matlock<\/em><\/a>. Well, sort of. More truth definitely came out in the second episode of Season 2, but so did more tension. Olympia took the upper hand in their complicated feud by the end of the episode, wresting control out of Matty\u2019s hands<\/a> after she had been controlling the narrative since Season 1.<\/p>\n Matty and Edwin (Sam Anderson<\/a>) were excited about getting in contact with a\u00a0New York Times<\/em> reporter at the top of the episode. They worked together to steal the Wellbrexa study from Olympia\u2019s safe in her home in the\u00a0Matlock<\/em> Season 2 premiere (read our recap here<\/a>). Matty soaked in every detail of her supposed last day at Jacobson Moore, but after a dance in the courtroom that featured Bates doing impressions of Andy Griffith<\/a>\u2018s Ben Matlock from the original\u00a0Matlock<\/em>, a mid-episode plot twist changed everything.<\/p>\n Olympia realized that Matty had taken the document and called her out for it. Matty didn\u2019t hesitate for a second to admit the truth when Olympia cornered her. Matty offered to bring Olympia with her to her meeting with the\u00a0Times<\/em> to go on the record and try to protect her family.<\/p>\n While Olympia confirmed that her ex-husband, Julian (Jason Ritter<\/a>), hid the study in a safety deposit box for all those years, she soon revealed that the study in her safe was a decoy to keep Julian from trying to destroy the damning evidence. Olympia is desperate to pin the scandal on Julian\u2019s father, Senior (Beau Bridges<\/a>), who ordered his son to hide the study to protect their big-money pharmaceutical client.<\/p>\n \u201cI care about justice, too, so let\u2019s work together,\u201d Olympia urged. Matty wasn\u2019t buying the \u201cdurress\u201d argument her friend was posing. Julian could have refused to follow his father\u2019s order, an act that could have saved countless lives, including Matty\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n Matty and Olympia fought back and forth for the entire episode, trying to convince the other to see their side of things. Olympia kept getting the upper hand on Matty whenever they squared off, showing how equally quick-witted she is in comparison to Matty (she\u2019s clearly the other Matlock the episode title references). She made Matty miss her meeting with the Times<\/em>, and she took Edwin on a road trip to get the supposed real Wellbrexa study, which she said she had left in a different safety deposit box in Connecticut. On this trip, Edwin said that Matty \u201csaw through [Olympia\u2019s] lies,\u201d but neither of them really did.<\/p>\n Olympia took Edwin\u2019s phone and left him stranded on their road trip (he got back just fine). She handed Matty a fake study with blank pages, saying that Matty doesn\u2019t have the leverage she thinks she has. Matty pushed back, but Olympia revealed the list of crimes Matty and Edwin committed in their secret investigation at the law firm. All of this was to trigger Matty, just like they had with a criminal in a court case earlier in the episode. Olympia pulled a Matty by recording this conversation in secret.<\/p>\n This damning audio file is what Olympia emailed Matty when she was supposed to be emailing the Wellbrexa document. And now, Olympia has control of the chessboard, and viewers still don\u2019t know if the real Wellbrexa study is in Connecticut like Olympia claimed \u2014 or if it\u2019s even real, for that matter. Matty will have to find this key evidence if she has any hopes of getting a proper investigation into this scandal. That, or find a new way to prove Jacobson Moore\u2019s guilt.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the episode, Matty and Edwin agreed to help Alfie\u2019s (Aaron D. Harris<\/a>) father, Joey (Niko Nicotera<\/a>), with his sobriety by paying for his place at a rehab center, but it\u2019s up to him to decide if he accepts the help.<\/p>\n