Fan Casting Elaine Marshall in The Safdie Brothers' 48 Hrs.

A psychiatric nurse practitioner tending bar at night to pay off student loans, Elaine is Cates' girlfriend and his only tether to something like sanity. Not a long-suffering love interest but a weary, sharp-tongued survivor of her own bad decisions. She loves Cates but refuses to drown for him, and her clinical training gives her an unsettling ability to diagnose the pathology driving the violence around her. She is the film's emotional intelligence—the one who sees clearly what Cates cannot.