Matlock Boss Breaks Down Finale’s Big Reveal, That Surprise Arrival, and If [Spoiler] Will Be Back for Season 2 – TVLine
2025-04-18T03:00:00Z
Matlock’s season-long whodunnit was (sorta?) solved in Thursday’s 2-hour finale. Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman answers our burning questions!
The following contains major spoilers for the CBS‘ Matlock Season 1 finale.
Matlock‘s season-long whodunnit was solved in Thursday night’s two-hour finale — Matty herself just doesn’t know it quite yet.
In the course of helping Sarah (played by Leah Lewis) defend a client she took on without the firm’s knowledge — oops! — newly minted Jacobson Moore partner Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) worked in concert with “Matty”/Madeline Kingston (Kathy Bates) to get to the bottom of how, exactly, Julian (Jason Ritter) 14 years ago came through with the money to buy their brownstone.
Ultimately, it came down to Olympia employing some of Matty’s “tricks of the trade” to snow a bank officer and get her own eyes on the trust that Julian claims he had been given access to, by his mother, to lock down their dream home. Olympia (with an assist from Edwin as “Julian”) pulls off the subterfuge, then excitedly phones Matty to declare, “There was no payout!,” that Julian did get the money from the trust. And that she will head over to Matty’s later with copies of everything.
But after Olympia hangs up, the bank officer asks if she also needs to check Julian’s safe deposit box…. Curious, and maybe filled with some dread, Olympia accepts the offer. And inside, she finds the damning Welbrexa study.
No sooner does she have it in he clutches does Julian arrive (why/how?), and truth-telling time commences. He talks openly, and emotionally, about how he was just 26 at the time and desperate to prove himself to his father. Julian pleads that he should not be defined by his worst moment — nor should he be tarnished in their children’s eyes — so there must be away to resolve this privately.
With that cliffhanger left hanging, we leave the safe deposit room to check in on Matty at home, anxiously awaiting Olympia’s arrival. But when the doorbell rings, it is not her boss on her doorstep but a stranger (played by Sons of Anarchy‘s Niko Nicotera) who says that Aflie somehow tracked him down, and he may be the motherless kid’s father!
TVLine spoke with Matlock showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman about the aforementioned twists, Billy’s big news and more.
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