Matlock Season 2 Centers on Julian’s Reckoning and Tracker Crossover

Jason Ritter has laid out a potential path for Matlock’s second season that would mix courtroom intrigue with a high-stakes cross-network crossover, while keeping the central mystery—Julian Markston’s hidden Wellbrexa documents—squarely in the foreground. In conversations surrounding the show’s return, Ritter suggested that Julian’s turmoil could push him toward a Tracker-style partnership with Colter Shaw, opening the door to a high-profile crossover if the opportunity arises. At the same time, the season promises to thrust Julian into a broader reckoning with his past actions and their consequences for his family, colleagues, and the case that has already defined his arc.

The season 2 arc picks up with Julian in a markedly altered position. After the season 1 finale revealed that he concealed key Wellbrexa documents—documents that might have altered the course of the opioid crisis linked to the firm’s work—Julian’s life has no room left for discreet moral compromises. Ritter describes the shift this way: Julian “was in the middle of a divorce, but he was going through his life with his skeletons safely in his closet. Now, with the affair coming out and then with the other big...