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Context Recap / HustleS6E4TheFatherOfJewels

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2	[[caption-width-right:350:This is one awkward family reunion...]]
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4	Emma and Sean are shocked to see their dad; Rex Kennedy, who walked out on them 25 years ago. Determined to even the score, Sean targets him with a new con about treasure underneath a building site.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* ChekhovsGun: Sean swapping briefcases is what he fails at at the start of the episode due to seeing Rex, but Sean succeeds at the end of the episode [[spoiler:when he swaps the £80K briefcase with one that has £420K for Rex to pick up; £80K taken away to pay for the debt he owed to them.]]
8	* ContrivedCoincidence:
9	** Sean and Emma's father; Rex, happens to pass by Sean, who holds ''one hell of a grudge'' against him.
10	** Eddie collects military artefacts, something that is needed for the con to work.
11	* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: What Sean wanted [[spoiler:from Rex in the end. Rex was a wreck, doing drugs and in debt, and he thought it was best it was to leave Emma and Sean with their mother. When Rex found out their mothers death 5 years later, he never went back to find them on the selfish assumption that they were being cared for when that was far from true.]]
12	* ImagineSpot: Sean punching Rex in the nose as revenge happens within his head.
13	* {{Macguffin}}: The notebook. It's got child handwriting that has maths adding up to almost £75,000 in unpaid child support that Sean wants paid back.
14	* ParentalAbandonment: Rex Kennedy left Emma and Sean when they were 3 and 5 respectively. Safe to say, Sean never forgot about his departure, and Emma bottles her anger up.
15	* RunningGag:
16	** Eddie trying to find a use for some expensive champagne.
17	** Ash reminding Sean about the £50,000 he lost with the failed briefcase swap.
18	* TranquilFury: Emma throughout the episode. She is clearly upset about her father leaving, but acts more mature about it. She loses it when [[spoiler:they confront him later on, and rightly chews him out over being extremely selfish.]]
19	* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Eddie is a very good painter, and paints an authentic wartime mural ad. This never comes up again.
20	* TimeForPlanB: The con is successful, but only because [[spoiler:the rest of the crew had a contingency plan if Sean bottled or things went wrong]].
21	* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Mickey warns Sean against doing a con out of revenge, and is [[spoiler:proven correct when Sean admits as such later on to Ash]].
22	* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Something Sean learns the hard way is that conning your old man is not the way to bury the hatchet, and his plans for revenge were self-sabotaged by his need to find out what went wrong with Rex.

Context Recap / HustleS6E4TheFatherOfJewels