Line #5 Recap/ColdCaseS3E17Superstar

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1	Directed by Creator/BillEagles
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3	Written by Creator/CraigSONeill, Creator/JasonTracey, Creator/PatriciaAFullerton, & Creator/NancyPinkston
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5	A woman asks the police the police to solve the murder of her sister, who was a star college tennis player in the 70's.
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7	!Tropes:
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9	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Eric, the student journalist who covered Andi's tennis career, and began falling in love with her, and stalking her with mysterious phone calls.
10	* HandsomeLech: Fritz only took up tennis so he can become an instructor to feel women up.
11	* HeelRealization: Bill is remorseful that he’s alienated both his daughters, Andi by denying her a life outside tennis, and Emily by neglecting her after Andi’s death.
12	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Poor Andi just wanted to have a normal college experience and to be liked for herself. She is murdered before this could happen.
13	* MisterSandmanSequence: Magazine clippings of the "Battle of the Sexes" between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs are shown.
14	* MurderByMistake: Fritz's girlfriend poisoned the towel as an attempt to poison ''him'' but Andi ends up taking it by mistake. Subverted as it's revealed the poison wasn't what killed her.
15	* TheNicknamer: Eric is the one who came up with "superstar" as a nickname for Andi.
16	* NotGoodWithRejection: Andi was killed because her AbhorrentAdmirer wouldn’t take no for an answer, as he [[EntitledToHaveYou felt that Andi owed him]] for "putting her on the map".
17	* ParentalFavoritism: Andi's father liked her better than Emily. He tries to make amends to his surviving daughter in the epilogue.
18	* PartingWordsRegret: The last conversation between Andi and her dad was an argument wherein Andi told him she wanted more in her life than tennis.
19	* RedHerring: Andi's sister Emily reopened her murder case due to the discovery of a poisoned towel in her processions. However, the towel turned out to be intended for Andi's tennis rival Fritz, made by his jaded girlfriend. Andi took the towel by mistake, but it didn't kill her.
20	* SportsDad: Bill was this towards Andi and her tennis career. He trained her since she was five, clashed with her varsity coach, and even wanted to pull her out of college because it was a "distraction" from her going pro.

Context Recap / ColdCaseS3E17Superstar