The Diner

Matlock trifft sich mit der Ehefrau seines ersten Mandanten, Cyrus Jordan, und erinnert sich: Cyrus, ein schwarzer Koch, war in den früheren 60er-Jahren, des Mordes an Sheriff Slattery, eines skrupellosen Rassisten, angeklagt worden. Ben Matlock, damals ein junger, ambitionierter Anwalt, übernimmt die Verteidigung des mittelosen Angeklagten.

Matlock takes Leanne to meet Martha Jordan, the wife of his very first client back in 1962. Stan Shaw was the cook at the local diner when he was accused of killing the local sheriff after a disagreement in the diner. Charlie Matlock pushed Ben, who had recently quit his job as a district attorney to take the case, but not everyone in town was happy with the Matlocks siding with the black cook accused of killing the white sheriff. Despite Cyrus Jordan's attempts to get the Matlocks to drop his case for their own safety, father and son were determined to prove that Cyrus never killed anyone.