The Accident

John Kramer wittert das große Geld. Aus einem Unfall will sein Anwalt Dobbs Kapital schlagen. Doch der halbseidene Jurist hat die Rechnung ohne den Richter gemacht. Der schmettert Dobbs Antrag ab. Am nächten Tag ist der Anwalt tot, erschossen. John Kramer wird unter Tatverdacht verhaftet. Matlock übernimmt seine Verteidigung.

Eugene Dobbs and Nolan Wheeler are the perfect combination -- Dobbs presents the cases, and Wheeler does all the legwork. After Dobbs is unable to keep the promises he makes to football coach John Kramer, Dobbs meets his maker one night at the office, with Kramer as the prime suspect. Matlock takes the case, in part to prove to Kramer that not all lawyers are schmucks like Dobbs, and in part because the list of people who want Dobbs dead is getting longer by the minute as Matlock and Conrad find an interesting link between Dobbs, the owner of a local water park, and Dobbs' wife.