Madeline "Matty" Matlock / Madeline Kingston, who claims to be a widowed lawyer, returns to the workforce following decades of retirement due to being left in financial distress by her husband's gambling troubles, and having to raise her grandson following her daughter's death from a car accident. Matlock takes a job at the law firm Jacobson Moore, working with Olympia, a junior partner at the firm who becomes her boss.
In fact, Kingston is wealthy and happily married, though indeed grieving the loss of her daughter who died from an opioid overdose and seeking retribution. She gave herself the alias of Matlock that was inspired by the TV series.
