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A high-stakes game of chess transpired between friends-turned-unwilling foes Matty (Kathy Bates<\/a>) and Olympia (Skye P. Marshall<\/a>) in\u00a0Matlock<\/em> Season 2 Episode 2<\/a>, and fans are concerned about where the season is headed because of it. Some are complaining that there were \u201cimmature\u201d scenes in the episode, and others are wondering if there\u2019s a bigger scheme at play here that would explain what they view as confusing choices for the characters of Matty and Olympia.<\/p>\n The episode, titled \u201cAnother Matlock,\u201d showed Matty and Olympia constantly trying to one-up each other as they tried to get the Wellbrexa study into their possession, or in Olympia\u2019s case, keep it hidden. Matty found the study in Olympia\u2019s safe at her brownstone, took it, and replaced it with a document of equal size but blank pages. When Olympia discovered what Matty did, she told her that the study was a fake generated by AI. The real Wellbrexa study, according to Olympia, was in a safety deposit box in Connecticut, kept there so that Julian (Jason Ritter<\/a>) wouldn\u2019t be able to find it and destroy the evidence, should he give in to his fearful impulses and commit another criminal offense.<\/p>\n Olympia took a page from Matty\u2019s book when she secretly recorded a tense conversation between them. Olympia triggered Matty\u2019s anger when she threatened to get her and Edwin (Sam Anderson<\/a>) imprisoned for bank fraud and other crimes, which would leave their grandson, Alfie (Aaron D. Harris<\/a>), without guardians. Matty practically growled that she\u2019s \u201cuntouchable,\u201d and this audio is now Olympia\u2019s leverage over the Kingston family in this Wellbrexa debacle.<\/p>\n Matty had offered to let Olympia attend her meeting with The New York Times<\/em> in an act of goodwill to signal that she cared about her fate and the fate of her children, but Olympia doesn\u2019t want her ex-husband implicated in this at all; she wants Julian\u2019s father, Senior (Beau Bridges<\/a>), to take the fall since it was him who ordered Julian to hide the study. As Matty pointed out, Julian didn\u2019t have to follow that order, but he did.<\/p>\n The comments section of our\u00a0Matlock<\/em> Season 2 Episode 2 recap showed a dislike for the episode, particularly the Matty and Olympia feud and the scenes between Julian and Billy (David Del Rio<\/a>), in which Julian snapped over the idea of sharing an apartment building with him.<\/p>\n \u201cDid not like this episode and how it is leading the two main characters down a path of negativity towards one another,\u201d one comment reads. \u201cIf this is just going to be a weekly jostle as to which woman gets the upper hand, then the show will become less watchable. Just like the Julien\/Billy scenes. That storyline was bad. Too immature.\u201d<\/p>\n One fan feels that Matty and Olympia\u2019s plot in this episode didn\u2019t make sense, arguing that Matty and Olympia love each other too much to be fighting like this, leading them to wonder if the women are laying out an elaborate scheme to take down Senior and Wellbrexa while protecting Olympia\u2019s family.<\/p>\n