Season 2 of Matlock was off to a strong start before an investigation into David Del Rio‘s alleged sexual assault of costar Leah Lewis led to an offscreen firing.

CBS introduced a gender-swapped — and very plot different — version of the original Matlock series with Kathy Bates at the helm. Matlock followed a fictional lawyer hoping to get hired at a prestigious law firm — and she just happened to share the same last name as the iconic Matlock series from the ’80s. The season premiere, however, revealed that Matty’s (Bates) was all an act.

Matty turned out to actually be the wealthy Madeline Kingston, who has gone undercover at the firm to track down who is responsible for her daughter’s death. The suspects on Matty’s list included Olympia (Skye P. Marshall), Julian (Jason Ritter) or Sen

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