Casting director Rick Millikan was tasked with finding an actress to play Pam, the would-be bank robber's girlfriend. Millikan expressed the difficulty in casting the role:"You had to feel sorry for this woman's terrible, unbelievable plight—basically she's trapped in a living hell—without at any time thinking she's insane." The role eventually went to actress Carrie Hamilton. This was one of Hamilton's final television roles, as she died from cancer three years later at the age of 38. Millikan cast Darren Burrows, a former regular on the CBS comedy series "Northern Exposure".