Matlock

Previously... Good evening, Marcus.

Good evening, Mrs. Kingston.

The law firm Jacobson Moore hid documents

that could have taken opioids off the market

ten years earlier.

Think of how many lives that could have saved.

Including our daughter's.

That pen is a recording device.

Julian? The partner race. The divorce.

What did I do before you, Madeline Matlock?

How about invasion of privacy?

Can we start fresh?

I just want honesty.

Done.

So, no more looking back?

Talk to me about Slamm'd.

This is the case that's winning me partner.

$40 million!

Hell of a settlement.

Olympia is a suspect.

Are you sure you're feeling okay?

- You and Olympia were friends. - I thought

Olympia was someone she isn't.

And she definitely thinks I'm someone I'm not.

Glad to have clarity.

Oh, we're reaching out to the Redditor.

What's a Redditor?

It's a person who posted on the Reddit board

about the hidden Wellbrexa documents.

ReadEmAndWeep31.

I got hives when Barry Manilow was sick.

Your fur baby?

Exactly.

ReadEmAndWeep31.

But I know who it is.

Hello?

Hello, Emmalyn.

Thank you for coming.

I knew that you cared. Where are you?

Where I can see that your shoes are black

and your top is green.

I just have a few questions.

Then come out and talk to me.

Did you look through the information I sent you?

We know what the missing documents were:

a marketing study.

I just need you to confirm our timeline.

Not until I know who you are. It's not fair.

Fair?

You want to talk about what's fair?

You knew that Wellbrexa took those documents 14 years ago,

and you didn't come forward, and people died.

I did what I could.

No.

You posted on a Reddit board, and you hid.

Like you're hiding now?

The timeline.

Did you look at it?

I did. And it's wrong.

Wrong? In what way?

Edwin, I'm telling you,

it took every ounce of willpower not to march over there

and just shake that smugness right out of her.

Is she telling the truth or is she bluffing?

I don't know. And I hate that I don't know.

Well, if we're wrong about the window

when the study was stolen,

we could also be wrong about Olympia doing...

Stop. I'm not letting that thought in.

I made the mistake of letting my heart

lead my head once, and that's not happening again.

We need to find out if Belvin is telling the truth.

What are you thinking?

The carrot didn't work, so now it's time for the stick.

Ah.

Wait up, Matty.

Ah, there she is.

All decked out for her victory lap.

Just reminding everyone

that we do it backwards and in heels.

Ooh, can you make drinks tonight?

I want to take our whole team out to celebrate.

Aw, shucks.

Alfie's got some biology thingamadoodle,

and I'm on cut and glue duty.

Cut and glue duty is important.

But we're good, right?

You and me?

These last few weeks with Slamm'd have been... slammed.

And I just want to say

that I clearly couldn't have done it without you.

And when I make partner--

knock on elevator...

...I'll need you by my side.

Well, good, 'cause that's where I'm posting up.

Morning, Kyle.

Have I died and I'm the last to know?

Let's talk.

Matty, hi. I need your call

on our respectful disagreement.

Disagreement, yes.

Respectful, less so, 'cause you are wrong.

She's gonna jinx it. You can't jinx a shoo-in.

You can by calling it a shoo-in.

Just wait until after Olympia presents her final presentation

to the partner board to ask for your first case.

Okay, you can say that because you already had a case.

Olympia's in a good mood. It's the right time to ask.

I can't believe this.

Elijah just told me that the partner board

is unhappy with my performance.

And there's the jinx. What? Why?

Apparently, there's a sense amongst the corporate clients

that my Slamm'd class action took down one of their own.

Suddenly, I'm not a team player or partner material.

I can't even win when I win.

Amina's here.

I'll see you guys in the conference room.

Who's Amina?

The old you.

Well, actually the young you. The old young you.

Olympia's law school bestie.

Took two very different paths.

Olympia went corporate,

and Amina joined the public defender's office.

Golden handcuffs versus real handcuffs. Exactly.

Olympia, this is Isabel Sanchez. Mm-hmm. Hi.

Isabel, this is

the only person I'm scared of in court.

Oh, okay. You're here because you need something.

Of course I need something.

I made an appointment and everything.

But you are great and resourceful and well-funded.

Which is what Isabel needs.

Got it. What's going on?

I was on a jury 21 years ago,

and we got it wrong.

There's a man sitting in a prison

for a crime he didn't commit.

Amina said maybe you could help him.

Eugene Molina was

a doorman charged with murdering

one of the building's tenants, Linda Gallo.

And this was 21 years ago?

Prosecution argued Linda lodged a complaint,

Gene snapped,

used his doorman key to get in

and stabbed her to death in the nine-minute window

he left his desk

to pick up dinner for another tenant.

Must have been some complaint.

It wasn't. That's the thing.

She complained about all the doormen.

It didn't make sense.

Any eyewitnesses?

An unreliable one. Teenager.

Said the man was six feet.

Gene's only five-six.

She picked him out of a lineup, but the NYPD

was still doing single blinds back then.

DNA?

None of it matched Gene.

And the police tested everything.

The carpet, magazines,

the socks under the couch,

the spoon on the floor near the body.

Plus the caviar thing.

What's that?

Well, during the original trial,

they show us all these pictures of the crime scene,

and there was this trail of caviar

from the kitchen to the living room.

But the rest of the apartment: spotless.

And Linda was one of those ladies

with a housekeeper who came every single day.

Hmm, she could've made the mess herself before she died.

Autopsy said Linda hadn't eaten in hours.

She still had her jacket on.

She just got home. It doesn't make sense.

Gene was so mad, he went to pick up a tenant's dinner,

ran upstairs, murdered Linda, had some caviar in nine minutes?

That does sound pretty insane.

So, what happened in deliberation?

Everyone else thought he did it.

I brought up the caviar

over and over, but nothing.

But you must have voted guilty.

Or else it would've been a hung jury.

Not at first. I said no.

I tried to talk, but Dale,

the foreman, he told me I was wasting everyone's time.

He said I was just dragging this out

so I can get a free lunch from the government.

Geez. And he kept on screaming at me.

And everyone else agreed with him.

He took away my chair so I had to stand,

and I just--

I caved.

And Gene was found guilty.

And I have regretted it