Directed by Bill Eagles
Written by Craig SO Neill, Jason Tracey, Patricia A Fullerton, & Nancy Pinkston
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.
Tropes:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Eric, the student journalist who covered Andi's tennis career, and began falling in love with her, and stalking her with mysterious phone calls.
- Handsome Lech: Fritz only took up tennis so he can become an instructor to feel women up.
- Heel Realization: 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.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Poor Andi just wanted to have a normal college experience and to be liked for herself. She is murdered before this could happen.
- "Mister Sandman" Sequence: Magazine clippings of the "Battle of the Sexes" between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs are shown.
- Murder by Mistake: 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.
- The Nicknamer: Eric is the one who came up with "superstar" as a nickname for Andi.
- Not Good with Rejection: Andi was killed because her Abhorrent Admirer wouldn’t take no for an answer, as he felt that Andi owed him for "putting her on the map".
- Parental Favoritism: Andi's father liked her better than Emily. He tries to make amends to his surviving daughter in the epilogue.
- Parting-Words Regret: The last conversation between Andi and her dad was an argument wherein Andi told him she wanted more in her life than tennis.
- Red Herring: 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.
- Sports Dad: 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.
