Changes: Cassie Holmes

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Cassie Holmes, the daughter of world-famous Watcher Sarah Frank, works with Nick Gant to prevent the serum Kira Hudson stole from falling back into the hands of the Division. She draws on a chalkboard to focus her visions, and also drinks alcohol.

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+{{infobox about cassie holmes|image1 = Cassie holmes.jpeg|name_: = cassie holmes|type_: = watcher|age_: = 13|family_members_: = Sarah Frank|gender_: = female|hair_color_: = blond|skin_: = fair}}'''Cassie Holmes''', the daughter of world-famous [[Watcher]] [[Sarah Frank]], works with [[Nick Gant]] to prevent the serum [[Kira Hudson]] stole from falling back into the hands of the [[Division]]. She draws on a chalkboard to focus her visions, and also drinks alcohol.
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-|image = [[File:Push10.jpg|250px]]
-|name = Cassie Holmes
-|type = [[Watchers|Watcher]]
-|generation = Second
-|family = [[Cassie's unnamed mother|Mother]]
-|gender = Female
-|hair = Dark Blonde with Pink
-|eyes = Blue
-|skin = Light
-|affiliation = Unemployed
-}}
-Cassie is the daughter of the greatest Watcher Division has ever encountered, and a Watcher in her own right. Like all abilities, hers are not fully developed as this happens through training. She´s also the voice of reason of the main characters, being the extremely mature for her age.
-==Early Life==
-{{quote|[[Division]]'s got her locked up They were afraid of her because she was the greatest Watcher they ever saw, and they were afraid they couldn't control her."|[[Cassie Holmes]].|Push}} Very little information is known Cassie's past. Only in the narrative of the film reveals that Division captured her mother, a time before the movie.
-==In Push==
-===Cassie´s Narration===
-During the opening credits, we get a crash course in the history of the world, narrated by Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning). In 1945, Hitler and his Nazis were using experiments on people who were born with special abilities to create an ultra-powerful army. However, the war ending didn't put a stop to it. Other countries, fueled by the Cold War, set up their own branches, or Divisions, to investigate and weaponize psychic abilities. Types of powers: Watchers are able to see the future in quick flashes and scenes. (This is literally a visual skill, which is shown to be a weakness). Movers can move objects and people with their minds. Pushers can "push" people into believing that certain things are or aren't true (like hypnosis).
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-The following are only quickly mentioned at this point, but explained by demonstration later in the film: Bleeders emit high-pitched sonic screams that destroy their targets (glass, internal organs...) Stitches can disassemble or reassemble any damaged tissue. Sniffs can take any object and get a history of where it's been and who has touched it. Wipers can erase controlled amounts of memory. Shifters make objects appear to be something else, retaining approximate dimensions. Shadows, people whose ability is basically to block the effectiveness of other clairvoyants (the Sniffers, mainly).
-Cassie is a Watcher, and although she can know the future, she says that the only thing to know for sure about it is that it's always changing, and can change just by knowing it.
-===Meeting Nick===
-{{quote|This is how you treat your guests?"<br>"No, this is how I treat random strangers.|Cassie and Nick meet.|Push}} After the
-[[File:Nick&CassieEat.jpg|thumb|left|Nick and Cassie at the fish market.]]two Sniffer agents from Division, Mack and Holden leave Nick´s apartment, he starts gathering stuff up to flee when the phone rings. He answers it and is told to "let me in, and put down the gun", just as a knock sounds on the door. He opens it, gun drawn, and sees Cassie, who B-lines for the chicken she knows is in the fridge and tells him about a case they need to find that could net them about six million dollars, which would get Nick out of his debts.
-They move their conversation to a fish market near the docks to get something more than chicken to eat. Nick finds out that Cassie, a second-generation Watcher, draws what she sees in a sketchbook that used to belong to her mother (who is now captured by the Division). Cassie demonstrates some of the limits of her power: she knows that Nick is not a very good Mover ("because he doesn't practice"), but is surprised to learn that he can speak fluent Cantonese. She knows that division killed his Father as well, and eventually admits that there is not actually any money in the case she's spoken about. Nick tries to walk away from the situation, but is cut off by the arrival of the children of the Pop family (evidently an organized crime family comprised of those with powers, who know about the same case that Cassie is speaking of): another Watcher (Xiao Lu Li, credited as "Pop Girl") and her Bleeder brothers. After a lengthy chase through the market, the brothers begin to use their power to shatter tanks, with Cassie and Nick running through aisles just ahead of the line of breaking glass. The two are finally caught by the sound and fall to the ground, when Nick surprises himself by successfully Moving Cassie away from the danger zone. Pop Girl sees a vision of Kira sitting on a bench fading away, and stops her brothers from killing Nick, with the explanation that "if they kill him now, they lose the girl. He dies anyway." The Pops leave, with Nick bleeding from his ears on the floor of the market.
-Later, somewhere on main island, Cassie is sketching a doorway and eventually "draws her way" to Nick. She heads there and finds Nick being looked over by a Stitch named Teresa, who makes lots of sneering comments about Cassie's mother's capture and Cassie's own comparative lack of talent. Key here is a sudden flash to the shot of the patient in the hallway of the Division hospital dropping the glass marble that freed Kira, implying that this was Cassie's mother, who is "the greatest Watcher Division has ever seen". Teresa painfully repairs Nick's back and warns them not to cross the Division before leaving. Cassie wakes Nick up, and gives him a flower she picked out of a vase in the lobby, which convinces him to help her (as he recalls his father's words). She then shows him her latest drawing.... her and Nick dead.
-===Search for the Case===
-{{quote|This is about us finding millions of dollars.|Cassie Holme's background on their search.|Push}}Nick and Cassie are riding a taxi through the streets with Nick going through the book when he recognizes one of the drawings as the logo for a club he frequents. Cassie has drawn a shiny bead in front of it. They head to the club and find an ex-agent/Shifter there, Hook Waters. We see him using his ability to perform card tricks for the girls inside. Nick and Cassie sit down and he gives the waitress a paper with a "100" printed on it (which he shifts into a 100 HKD bill)and she goes to get their order and keep the change. After some talk about their purpose, Hook tells them that there's a sniffer named Emily they can use and gives them an address. They also tell him about the bead, and he makes an earring look like Cassie's description, which they take to Emily.
-They go to her just as she finishes up telling a client his wife is cheating on him with a guy with a big boat. Although reluctant to help, Emily takes the bead and shows them the identical bead she has been given: beads that broke off of Kira's bracelet in the restaurant restroom during her fight with Mack have been distributed to Sniffers across the country.
-Emily Sniffs the bead and points them to the Kwun Tong Pier, where Kira is trying to get a ride by Pushing a non-English speaking couple to believe that she is their old friend. She hears Cassie and Nick and starts shooting at them, when Nick recognizes her as his ex-girlfriend, who he used to run cons with on Coney Island. She tells him she doesn't remember anything, and he suggests that she had her memory Wiped to make it harder for Division to track her with Watchers. She points out that her memories of Nick are intact, for some reason. As Nick and Kira argue (Kira is angry with Nick for not rescuing her from Division, while he claims he couldn't find her despite his best efforts), Cassie gets a look on her face and scribbles quickly, then pales. She pulls Nick aside and shows him that the addition of Kira has added another grave to the picture -- her mom's.
-Nick isn't willing to part with her, though, and compromises by calling up an old friend named Pinky, a Shadow. They go to a hotel and get a room. Cassie draws herself holding Kira's shoe, and when she picks it up to examine it for real, finds a key taped to the inside. A piece of tape on the side covers the number "4100". Kira goes to take a shower and Cassie makes for a street vendor outside, claiming she's thirsty. Cassie encounters Pop girl outside, who taunts her, saying that the Shadow won't work on her for long, and that she already knows how Cassie will die. Cassie, trying to remain cool throughout this, steels herself to drink a bottle of green liquor as soon as Pop girl leaves. (Earlier she referenced her mother as having been famous for using alcohol to help her see the future better, and presumably this is an attempt to employ that same boost in clarity.)
-Later, everyone else is in the room when Cassie shows up, thoroughly plastered and saying that they should just dump Kira, since she'll get them all killed. She falls into a chair and falls asleep, and everyone else leaves her that way until morning.
-Cassie is woken suddenly by the feeling of Pop Girl tracking them down. The Pops are seen barging into the hotel room-- only to find it empty. On the streets below, Nick tells the others to go somewhere else while he tries to make a better future.... by killing Carver's Cassie follows him but on the way is stopped by Pop Girl, who threatens her and asks if she's seen her death yet, asking if she knows what the tiger she keeps drawing means. Cassie runs off just as Nick tracks Carver to a restaurant. He goes in with two mentally controlled guns but instead of being frightened or even surprised, Carver talks Nick down and asks how Kira is and if she's started bleeding guts yet, since apparently the drugs make everything in your system come out of your body without constant injections. The guns Nick is telekinetically holding on Carver and Victor start to waver, and Victor takes advantage and starts moving stuff of his own, resulting in a TK gunfight as Carver walks out and finds Cassie on the steps with her drawing pad. She averts her eyes to prevent him from pushing her, and he takes her pad and leafs through it while she quietly asks him not to "make her do anything to herself". He says he will not hurt her, but Cassie points out that if they kill Nick, they will lose Kira, which sends Carter back into the restaurant. Meanwhile, Nick and Victor have run out of bullets (thanks to TK shields) and Nick is trying a final charge when Victor grabs him and starts bouncing against the ceiling. Carter tells him to stop, and he drops Nick to the floor. Nick comes out after a while and a concerned Cassie tells him that he looks like shit.
-Nick quickly grabs a pen and some stuff to write on and starts writing the letters while Cassie works on sketching the exact proportions and shape of the case and the syringe containing the drug. Elsewhere, Pop Girl is sketching merrily while they talk, as her father and his "associates" do business in the background. She draws the same syringe that Cassie draws.
-She gets in the cab and, after being told by Cassie to get an umbrella since it'll rain, he and Pinky head to the docks where they find the old man who wiped Kira. The old man tells Nick that a woman paid for Kira's Wipe 5 years ago, but not for his. Nick pays the man to wipe the last two hours from his mind and to read a red envelope afterwards. He's clearly nervous about the procedure, and waits until exactly 7:35 to have the man do the procedure, when the others open their envelopes. As the Wipe occurs, we see Pop girl stop sketching, stunned. She tells her father that she has lost the connection, and he slaps her, telling her she has disgraced him.
-Cassie finds Nick and has a small breakdown, saying that she can't draw anything but pictures of a Tiger, and that she doesn't want to die but can't figure out how to avoid it. He comforts her and tells her that she can just go in a straight line away from all this and everything will work out, so long as she doesn't make any decisions the Watchers can track -- go random directions without thinking about them.
-She leaves him, heading down into the subway and coming to an intersection. She turns around until she gets dizzy, stares at two signs, puts her hand over her eyes, does another spin, and runs...and we see Pop girl circle the sign in the direction she went in a drawing of the scene in her sketchbook.She's still moving arbitrarily and eventually ends up in the attic of a Chinese restaurant.
-She turns around and sees a tiger logo on a stack of boxes in front of her and knows she's made a mistake. She turns around and sees Pop Girl smiling there with a gun pointed at Cassie. Suddenly, hands with long fingernails appear on either side of her head, and we watch her shocked and dazed expression as her memory is Wiped by the same old man who wiped Kira and Nick. The man tells Cassie that her mother is proud of her, which tells the audience that Cassie's mother is the one who paid for Kira's memory Wiping 5 years in advance, including that she shouldn't forget who Nick is. (Possibly to be in that building at the right time as well, though the envelop Nick gave him may have told him to follow Cassie somehow.) Cassie looks at the picture again and sees that Pop Girl has fallen unconciously in the same position as a girl in the sketchbook, with a tiger logo standing over her.
-Later, someone is approaching Nick's body. The feet kick him and Cassie says, "I thought I told you to bring an umbrella." He looks up and sees her holding an umbrella over him to deflect the dripping water. Nick smiles weakly and replies that she said it was going to rain, but she shrugs and admits to getting things wrong sometimes. She helps him up and they head downstairs where they pick up the real case, which was in a dumpster just outside the building the whole time. Nick asks just what he did get injected with, and Cassie smiles and says, "9 Dragon soy sauce", prompting Nick to say, "That's gross." (Note: probably also fatal, in reality). Nick comments that they now have the one thing Division would do anything to get, giving them an advantage in the war against it.
-Nick asks Cassie how long her mother has been planning all of this, to which Cassie replies "Probably since before I was born". By now we understand that Cassie's mother deliberately allowed herself to be captured to place herself inside the Division headquarters at precisely the right time to help Kira escape, and let everything else fall into place. The entire plan and plot of the story was foreseen by her, and maneuvered into being by her initial actions.
-==Physical Appearance==
-{{quote|I'm thirteen, and I get told I look at least fourteen.|Cassie Holmes.|Push}}[[File:DakotaPushPS031.jpg|thumb]] In the movie, Cassie appears as a thirteen year-old girl with long wavy dark blonde hair with hot pink highlights, almond-shaped blue eyes and light skin to match it. She is also petite and short for age, the reason why Nick and Pinky confuse her with a ten or twelve year-old.
-Also, she dresses in a ''grunge-glam ''style, wearing a '''Rag & Bone''' grey wool jacket, a cotton grey ''Reduce Reuse Recycle ''T-shirt, a pair of '''Miss Sixty '''mini shorts, a pair of black stockings and a pair of '''Doc Martens''' lace-up boots. She´s also seen with a '''Dolce & Gabbana '''leopard brown purse.
-==Personalilty & Traits==
-==Film Portrayal==
-'''Hannah Dakota Fanning''' (born February 23, 1994), better known simply as '''Dakota Fanning''', is the American actress who played Cassie in the ''Push'' 2009 movie.Fanning's breakthrough performance was in ''I Am Sam'' in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as ''Man on Fire'', ''War of the Worlds'', and ''Charlotte's Web''. Fanning began transitioning to more adult roles with ''Hounddog'' and ''The Secret Life of Bees''. She has won numerous awards and is currently the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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