Cassandra Thomas

Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas is the titular protagonist of 2020 vigilante film Promising Young Woman. Cassie is a personal avenger after the people responsible for the rape of her best friend Nina Fisher and Nina's eventual suicide when justice was denied her.
She's portrayed by English actress .
== Early Life ==
Cassie was best friends with Nina Fisher since childhood, even attending medical school with her. One of their classmates, Al Monroe, raped Nina while she was drunk. A classmate, Ryan Cooper, was present and didn't intervene, former friend Madison McPhee rebuffed Nina and smeared her with victim blaming, dean Elizabeth Walker threw out the case, and Al's lawyer, Jordan Green, terrorized Nina as part of his typical approach to making women drop charges. Nina eventually killed herself, and Cassie was so traumatized she dropped out of her studies.
== Throughout Promising Young Woman ==
At age 30, Cassie moved back in with her parents and found work at a coffee shop. She'd pretend to be under the influence at public venues to lure men into wanting to take her home while assuming she's vulnerable. She then reveals her ruse the moment they make a move on her to take advantage of her, just for the pleasure of shaking them up. Ryan reconnects with Cassie and decides to do a dance of taunting with her, asking her out by first giving her a fake phone number. He then encourages Cassie to really go out with him, and she accepts to see how things play out. She hears from Ryan Al's marrying a model, which infuriates Cassie enough she plans a series of paybacks on the people she blames for Nina's rape and suicide.
Cassie starts off by getting Madison drunk at a bar, then paying a man to bring Madison to a hotel and tuck her into bed. Madison wakes up with no memory of the night and, fearing she was raped, she tries to call Cassie, who ducks every message she sends so she sits in her terror. Going after Elizabeth, she finds the dean's daughter Amber and lies Cassie's a makeup artist for one of Amber's favorite bands. They drive off, and Cassie leaves her at a diner, before Cassie returns to the school under the lie she wants to be enrolled again. Inquiring about Elizabeth's role in the case, Elizabeth simply brushes off her culpability, until Cassie lies Amber is at a dorm where students are getting drunk. Elizabeth reacts in utter panic and finally owns up to her actions, leading to Cassie telling her where Amber is. She then vandalizes a truck of a motorist that harassed as she left.
Ryan and Cassie break up after she forgets a date they had scheduled, then he sees her tried to lure another lewd man away and assume she rejected him. Planning to confront Jordan, Cassie finds out he needed psychiatric treatment from cracking under the pressure of his underhanded efforts' consequences. Genuinely moved from hearing Jordan's regret, she makes amends with him instead of terrorizing him and leaves. At her mother's encouragement, Cassie honors Nina's memory by giving up her quest for revenge and keeps seeing Ryan. She even tells Madison the truth about the night she couldn't remember, and for the first time, Cassie sees a video of Nina being raped on an old phone Madison admits to having had all along and gives to her. After she agrees to cut ties with Madison mutually, Cassie sees Ryan in the video and storms to his office to confront him. While Ryan barely acknowledges any involvement in the rape, Cassie threatens to release it if she doesn't get from him where Al's bachelor party is being held.
Cassie gains admission to the party by pretending to be a "sexy nurse" stripper. As a coup de grace, she drugs everyone at the party, except for Al, whos dragged to the bed and restrained there. Cassie makes him face raping Nina again, before preparing to carve Nina's name into his body with a scalpel. Al breaks out of the restraints, fights Cassie, and suffocates her to death with a pillow. he then gets a friend Joe to burn Cassie's remains and leave her dead in isolated woods. The wedding goes ahead as planned, with Al and everyone else covering up Cassie's actions and motives. However, Cassie left a contingency plan behind if she didn't come back alive. Ryan received timed texts from Cassie's phone, Jordan received the video of Al raping Nina to use as required, and her boss Gail has Cassie's friendship necklace, as Cassie wore the half with Nina's name the night she was murdered. When Cassie is found dead, all the evidence is reported to the authorities, and Al is arrested at the wedding reception.
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