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Elsbeth Recap: What If Parenting, But Too Much?
Admit it: You’d also murder to help your kid’s tennis career.
Most unfortunately, Cliff McGrath (Blair Underwood), tennis coach to his brilliantly talented but underperforming son, Hunter (Omari K. Chancellor), takes his fatherly ambitions a bit too far, with disastrous results. The usual types of red herrings and unexpected leads unfold over the course of the investigation, with Cliff misdirecting Detective Smullen (Danny Mastrogiorgio) to examine the possibility of a contract murder arranged by the Russian government (Blair Underwood is a very fine actor, but saying those lines with a perfectly straight face should garner him another Emmy nomination) and some baseless suspicion falling on Irina. Most interestingly, Smullen’s suspicion of Irina was engineered by a ball girl, Ashlee (Aubrey Matalon), whose eye for scams helped her spot Cliff surreptitiously placing the fateful towel on Yoyo’s side of the court.
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