Fan Casting Algren in The Safdie Brothers' 48 Hrs.

A veteran detective calcified into hollowed-out survival, Algren is Cates' only real friend on the force. Acman who surrendered inside years ago—the mediator who soothes tensions not from warmth but from a bone-deep allergy to paperwork. His death in the Walden Hotel, shot with Cates' own gun, is not a tragedy but a grim, senseless waste.