Matlock Season 2: Is Matty's Marriage In Trouble? EP Previews 'Negotiations' Ahead

As Matlock Season 1 drew to a close, the joy that Madeline felt was tempered by some a tense exchange with husband Edwin.

With Matty (played by Kathy Bates) poised to get the goods on the Jacobson Moore lawyer who hid the damning Welbrexa study — thus bringing to a close her "undercover" scheme to avenge daughter Ellie's opioids OD — Edwin (Sam Anderson) assumed his wife would welcome an end to the work load and late-night phone calls that came with her revived legal career.

Matty, though, intends to keep on working.

"I don't want to stop," she told Edwin. "When we move back to San Francisco, I want to keep on being a lawyer."

Off Edwin's visibly shocked reaction, she explained, "Helping people, righting wrongs, going to court.... I love it so much."

When Edwin reminded his missus that she had retired from practicing law when Ellie died, she countered that it was "not because I wanted to" but so that she could tend to their suddenly parentless grandson and his needs. But Alfie, Edwin noted, still needs guardianship, and planning/making the teen's dinners "is not how I pictured my golden years."

"I understand that, but they're my golden years, too," Matty argued. "You finished your career... and now I want to finish mine."

"And if I say no?"

Ouch. Those five little words took Matty aback. Us, too.

"If you say no...?" she remarked. "I need this, Edwin. I cannot go back to being invisible" as a 75-year-old woman. To which Edwin shrugged, "You weren't invisible to me," before walking away.

I really hate it when grandmom and grandad fight, so I brought my concerns about that Matty/Edwin heart-to-heart to Matlock showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman.

"I mean, it's a 50-year marriage, right?" the EP noted. "So they have to figure it out, and that's what I'm interested in.

"But, how do you solve something in a long-term marriage when you say, 'I want X and I want Y' and they definitely don't want X? Like, what happens?" asks Snyder Urman. The answer: "It's the same thing as in a legal case when you get to a negotiable and you're each non-negotiable. You still have to negotiate. So I'm interested in seeing how they get through that and what it leads to."

And what it leads to when they do eventually figure things out, Snyder Urman hints, "comes with things that cost Maddie, too, because you have to give things up in negotiations."

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