LOS ANGELES
NOVEMBER, 2019...
Give or take a year.
Intercom:
Next subject, Kowalski, Leon, engineer, waste disposal,
file section, new employees, six days.
[knock on door]
Holden:
Come in. Sit down.
Leon:
Care if I talk? I'm kind of nervous
when I take tests.
Holden:
Uh, just please don't move.
Leon:
Oh, sorry. I already had one audition
this year, I don't think I've ever had one of these- -
Holden:
Reaction time is a factor in this,
so please pay attention. Now, answer as quickly as you
can.
Leon:
Sure.
Holden:
Knock Knock.
Leon:
What?
Holden:
What?
Leon:
What?
Holden:
What?
Leon:
Yeah, sure I guess-- that part of the
test?
Holden:
No, just warming you up, that's all.
Leon:
Oh. "Who's
there?"
Holden:
You're under the bigtop, all the audiences
eyes are on you, you walk into the spotlight when all of
the sudden-
Leon:
Is this the test now?
Holden:
Yes. You're under the Bigtop walking
along in the sawdust when all of the sudden you look
down-
Leon:
What one?
Holden:
What?
Leon:
What Circus?
Holden:
It doesn't make any difference what
Circus, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon:
But how big is the audience?
Holden:
Maybe there's a 100 people, maybe
1000, who knows? You look down and you see a dwarf, Leon,
he's crawling...
Leon:
Dwarf, what's that?
Holden:
Know what a midget is?
Leon:
Of course.
Holden:
Same thing.
Leon:
I've never seen a dwarf -Holden gives
*filthy look*- But I understand what you mean.
Holden:
You reach down, you flip the dwarf
over on his back Leon.
Leon:
Do you make up these questions, Mr.
Holden, or do they write them down for you?
Holden:
The dwarf lays on his back, his belly
baking in the hot spot-lights beating his little legs
trying to turn himself over but he can't, not without
your help, but you're not helping.
Leon:
What do you mean I'm not helping?
Holden:
I mean, you're not helping. Why is
that Leon? -- They're just questions, Leon. In answer
to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test,
designed to provoke an emotional response. -- Shall we
continue? Describe in single words, only the good things
that come in to your mind about... laughter.
Leon:
laughter?
Holden:
Yeah.
Leon:
Let me tell you about laughter.. Hahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahah!
[ Leon pies Holden ]
[cut to overhead shot of city, zoom in on Deckard, reading
a newspaper]
ad blimp:
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[Deckard walks over to sushi counter]
Sushi Master:
...kimashita, kimashita. Irasshai,
irasshai. Sa dozo. Nani ni shimasho-ka.
Deckard:
Give me four.
Sushi Master:
Futatsu de jubun
desuyo. [Japanese: "Two
are really enough"]
Sushi, that's what my ex-wife called
me. Cold fish.
Cop:
Hey, idi-wa.
Gaff:
M'sieu, aduanon kovershim
angam bitte. (1)
[Fr-Hung-Ger: "Sir, you will please come with me
now."]
Sushi Master:
He say you under arrest, Mr. Deckard.
Deckard:
Got the wrong guy, pal.
Gaff:
Lo fa, ne-ko shi-ma,
de va-ja Blade... Blade Runner. (2) [Hung: "Ah, don't shit
me, man, you're the Blade... Blade Runner!"]
Sushi Master:
He say you Blade Runner.
Deckard:
Tell him I'm eating.
Gaff:
Captain Bryant to
ka, me ni omae yo. [Japanese: "It's Captain Bryant wants to see you,
y' know!"]
Deckard:
Bryant, huh?
Sushi Master:
Hai!
[Deckard and Gaff take off vertically in spinner to see
Bryant.]
Spinner:
...This is yellow three. Climb and
maintain 4000 ... when approaching pad six ...caution...
Deckard:
The charmer's name was Gaff. I'd
seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the
Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city-speak,
guttertalk, a mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German,
what have you. I didn't really need a translator. I
knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going
to make it easier for him.
Spinner:
...now on glide path, on course, over
the landing threshold.
[Police Station, Bryant's office]
Bryant:
Hi ya Deck.
Deckard:
Bryant.
Bryant:
You wouldn't have come if I'd just
asked you to. Sit down pal. C'mon don't be an asshole
Deckard. I've got four skin jobs walking the streets.
Deckard:
Skin jobs, that's what Bryants called
replicants. In history books he is the kind of cop
used to call black men niggers.
Bryant:
They jumped a shuttle off world --
killed the crew and passengers. They found the shuttle
drifting off the coast two weeks ago so we know they're
around.
Deckard:
Embarrassing.
Bryant:
No sir. Not embarrassing, 'cause no
one's ever going to find out they're down here. 'Cause
you're going to spot them, and you're going to air them
out.
Deckard:
I don't work here anymore. Give it
to Holden, he's good.
Bryant:
I did. He can breathe okay as long
as nobody unplugs him. He's not good enough, not good
as you. I need you, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst
yet. I need the old Blade Runner, I need your magic.
Deckard:
I was quit when I come in here, Bryant,
I'm twice as quit now.
Bryant:
Stop right where you are. You know
the score pal. If you're not cop, you're little people.
Deckard:
No choice, huh?
Bryant:
No choice pal.
[Video room]
video:
Leon:
I already had an IQ test this year,
I don't think I've ever had one of these-
Holden:
Reaction time is a factor in this,
so please pay attention. Answer as quickly as you can.
Leon:
Yeah, sure.
Holden:
1-1-8-7 at Unterwasser.
Leon:
Yeah, that's the hotel.
Holden:
What?
Leon:
Where I live.
Holden:
Nice place?
Leon:
Yeah, sure I guess--
Bryant:
There was an escape from the off-world
colonies two weeks ago. Six replicants, three male, three
female. They slaughtered twenty-three people and jumped
a shuttle. An aerial patrol spotted the ship off the
coast. No crew, no sight of them. Three nights ago they
tried to break into Tyrell Corporation. One of them got
fried running through an electrical field. We lost the
others. On the possibility they might try to infiltrate
his employees, I had Holden go over and run Voight-Kampff
tests on the new workers. Looks like he got himself one.
video:
Holden:
So you look down you see a tortoise.
It's crawling towards you.
Leon:
Tortoise, what's that?
Holden:
Know what a turtle is?
Leon:
Of course.
Holden:
Same thing.
Leon:
I've never seen a turtle.
Deckard:
Well I don't get it. What do they risk
coming back to earth for? That's unusual. Why--what do
they want out of the Tyrell Corporation?
Bryant:
Well you tell me pal, that's what you're
here for.
Deckard:
[funny look]. [pause] What's this?
Bryant:
Nexus 6. Roy Batty. Incept date 2016.
Combat model. Optimum self-sufficiency. Probably the
leader. This is Zhora. She's trained for an off-world
kick-murder squad. Talk about beauty and the beast, she's
both. The fourth skin job is Pris. A basic pleasure model.
The standard item for military clubs in the outer colonies.
They were designed to copy human beings in every way
except their emotions. The designers reckoned that after
a few years they might develop their own emotional responses.
You know, hate, love, fear, anger, envy. So they built
in a fail-safe device.
Deckard:
Which is what?
Bryant:
Four year life span.
Bryant:
Now there's a Nexus 6 over at the Tyrell
Corporation. I want you to go put the machine on it.
Deckard:
And if the machine doesn't work?
[Deckard flies to the enormous Tyrell building]
Deckard:
I'd quit because I'd had a belly
full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than
a victim. And that's exactly what Bryant's threat about
little people meant. So I hooked in once more, thinking
that if I couldn't take it, I'd split later. I didn't
have to worry about Gaff. He was brown-nosing for a
promotion, so he didn't want me back anyway.
[inside the Tyrell building]
Rachael :
Do you like our jack-in-the-box?
Deckard :
it's cute.
Rachael :
Of course it is.
Deckard :
Must be funny then.
Rachael :
Very. I'm Rachael.
Deckard :
Deckard.
Rachael :
It seems you feel our work is not
a benefit to the public.
Have you ever retired a really bad
actor by mistake?
Deckard :
No.
Rachael :
But in your position that is a risk?
Deckard :
In this film? ...(glances at camera)
yes!
Tyrell:
Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary
dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation
of the pupil? Involuntary dilation of the iris?
Deckard:
We call it Voight-Kampff for short.
Rachael:
Mr. Deckard, Dr. Eldon Tyrell.
Tyrell:
Demonstrate it. I want to see it work.
Deckard:
Where's the subject?
Tyrell:
I want to see it work on a person.
I want to see a negative before I provide you with a
positive.
Deckard:
What's that going to prove?
Tyrell:
Indulge me.
Deckard:
On you?
Tyrell:
Try her.
Deckard:
It's too bright in here.
[the window changes shade, letting less light in]
Rachael:
Do you mind if I smoke?
Deckard:
It won't affect the test. All right,
I'm going to ask you a series of questions. Just relax
and answer them as simply as you can. -- It's your birthday.
Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.
Rachael:
I wouldn't accept it. Also, I'd report
the person who gave it to me to the police.
Deckard:
You've got a little boy. He shows you
his butterfly collection plus the killing jar.
Rachael:
I'd take him to the doctor.
Deckard:
You're watching television. Suddenly
you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
Rachael:
I'd kill it.
Deckard:
You're reading a magazine. You come
across a fullpage nude photo of a girl.
Rachael:
Is this testing whether I'm a replicant
or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?
Deckard:
Just answer the questions, please --
You show it to your husband. He likes it so much he hangs
it on your bedroom wall.
(Deckard:
...bush outside your window...)
Rachael:
I wouldn't let him.
(Deckard :
...orange body, green legs...)
Deckard:
Why not?
Rachael:
I should be enough for him.
[audio fades out and in, time passes.]
Deckard:
One more question. You're watching
a stage play. A banquet is in progress. The guests are
enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists
of boiled dog.
Tyrell:
Would you step out for a few moments,
Rachael -- Thank you.
Deckard:
She's a replicant, isn't she?
Tyrell:
I'm impressed. How many questions does
it usually take to spot them?
Deckard:
I don't get it Tyrell.
Tyrell:
How many questions?
Deckard:
Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.
Tyrell:
It took more than a hundred for Rachael,
didn't it?
Deckard:
She doesn't know?!
Tyrell:
She's beginning to suspect, I think.
Deckard:
Suspect? How can it not know what it
is?
Tyrell:
Commerce, is our goal here at Tyrell.
More human than human is our motto. Rachael is an experiment,
nothing more. We began to recognize in them strange obsession.
After all they are emotional inexperienced with only
a few years in which to store up the experiences which
you and I take for granted. If we gift them the past
we create a cushion or pillow for their emotions and
consequently we can control them better.
Deckard:
Memories. You're talking about memories.
[Deckard and Gaff drive to Leon's apartment in spinner,
watching Leon's video.]
video:
Holden :
Reaction time is a factor in this,
so please pay attention. Now, answer as quickly as you
can.
Leon:
Sure.
Holden:
One-one-eight-seven at Unterwasser.
Leon:
Yeah, That's the hotel.
Holden:
What?
Leon:
Where I live.
Holden:
Nice place?
Leon:
Yeah, sure I guess--that part of the
test?
Holden:
No--
[Deckard and Gaff inspect the apartment. Deckard finds
a scale in the bathtub and some family photos. Gaff watches
quietly, folding an origami statue of a man with an erection.]
Deckard:
I didn't know whether Leon gave
Holden a legit address. But it was the only lead I
had, so I checked it out -- Whatever was in the bathtub
was not human. Replicants don't have scales. And family
photos? Replicants didn't have families either.
[Leon meets Roy outside of phonebooth]
Roy:
Time enough -- Did you get your precious
photos?
Leon:
(shakes his head no.) Someone was there.
Roy:
Man?
Leon:
(nods yes)
Roy:
Policeman?
[Roy and Leon enter Chew's laboratory]
Chew:
(mumbles to himself in Chinese -- screams
when hoses are pulled by Roy)
Roy:
Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder
rolled around their shores, burning with the fires of
Orc.
Chew:
(Chinese). You not come here. Illegal
-- Hey. Hey. (Chinese) Cold! Those are my noses!
Freezing!
Roy:
Yes, questions.
[Leon removes Chew's jacket.]
Chew:
(Chinese, screams)
Roy:
Morphology, longevity, incept dates.
Chew:
Don't know -- I, I don't know such stuff.
I just do noses. Just noses -- genetic design -- just big
red shiny noses. You Humorus, huh? I design your nose.
Roy:
Chew, if only you could smell what I've
smelt with your nose. Questions.
Chew:
I don't know answers.
Roy:
Who does?
Chew:
Piewell. He -- He knows everything.
Roy:
Piewell corporation?
Chew:
He's big boss. Big genius. He, he design
your mind, your sense of humor.
Roy:
Ah, smart.
Chew:
Cold.
Roy:
Not an easy man to sniff out --
Chew:
Me cold.
Roy:
I guess...
Chew:
Se-, Sebastian he take-- take you there,
he take you there.
Roy:
Sebastian who?
Chew:
J. -- J. F. Sebastian-- Sebas... Sebas...
Roy:
Now--where... would we find this....
J. F. Sebastian?
[In spinner, listening to Leon's video]
video:
Holden:
Let's continue, shall we? Describe
in single words, only the good things that come in to
your mind about... your mother.
Leon:
My mother?
Holden:
Yeah.
Leon:
I'll tell you about my mother.
[shot fired]
[In front of Deckard's apartment]]
Elevator:
Voice print identification. Your floor
number please.
Deckard:
Deckard, ninety-seven.
Elevator:
Ninety-seven, thank-you, (danke)
Rachael:
I wanted to see you -- So I waited.
Let me help.
Deckard:
What do I need help for?
Rachael:
I don't know why he told you what he
did.
Deckard:
Talk to him.
Rachael:
He wouldn't see me.
Deckard:
You want a drink? Huh? No?
Rachael:
You think I'm a replicant, don't you?
Deckard:
Hah.
Rachael:
Look, it's me with my mother.
Deckard:
Yeah. -- Remember when you were six?
You and your brother snuck into an empty building through
a basement window. You were gonna play doctor. He showed
you his, but when it got to be your turn you chickened
and ran. Remember that? You ever tell anybody that? Your
mother, Tyrell, anybody huh? You remember the spider
that lived in a bush outside your window? Orange body,
green legs. Watched her build a web all summer. Then
one day there was a big egg in it. The egg hatched--
Rachael:
The egg hatched...
Deckard:
And?
Rachael:
And a hundred baby spiders came out.
And they ate her.
Deckard:
Implants! Those aren't your memories.
They're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's --
Okay, bad joke. I made a bad joke. You're not a replicant.
Go home, okay? No really, I'm sorry. Go home -- Want
a drink? I'll get you a drink. I'll get a glass.
[Rachael runs away when Deckard turns to get a glass.]
[Deckard, on balcony.]
Deckard:
Tyrell really did a job on Rachael.
Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had,
a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed
to have feelings. Neither were Blade Runners. What
the hell was happening to me? Leon's pictures had to
be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a replicant
would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael.
They needed memories.
[Outside J. F. Sebastians's apartment building. Pris covers
herself in trash pile.]
Pris:
Pugh... Uhhh... Ungh... Ungh...
Sebastian:
Hey! You forgot your bag.
Pris:
I'm lost.
Sebastian:
Don't worry, I won't hurt you. -- What's
your name?
Pris:
Pris.
Sebastian:
Mine's J. F. Sebastian.
Pris:
Hi.
Sebastian:
Hi. Oh, where were you going? Home?
Pris:
I don't have one. We scared each other
pretty good, didn't we?
Sebastian:
We sure did.
Pris:
I'm hungry J. F.
Sebastian:
I've got some stuff inside. You want
to come in?
Pris:
I was hoping you'd say that.
[Pris and Sebastian enter building.]
Pris:
Do you live in this building all by
yourself?
Sebastian:
Yeah, I live here pretty much alone
right now. No housing shortage around here. Plenty of
room for everybody.
Pris:
(cough).
Sebastian:
Watch out for the water.
Pris:
Must get lonely here J. F.
Sebastian:
Mmm... Not really. I make friends.
They're toys. My friends are toys. I make them. It's
a hobby. I'm a genetic designer. Do you know what that
is?
Pris:
No.
Sebastian:
Yoo-hoo, home again.
Toys:
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.
Good evening J. F.
Sebastian:
Good evening, fellas.
Toy 1:
Oooh!
Sebastian:
They're my friends. I made them. Where
are you're folks?
Pris:
I'm sort of an orphan.
Sebastian:
Oh, what about your friends?
Pris:
I have some, but I have to find them.
I'll let 'em know where I am tomorrow.
Sebastian:
Oh. Can I take those things for you?
They're soaked aren't they?
[Deckard's apartment, Deckard uses the Esper machine]
Deckard:
Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop.
Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Center in,
pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop.
Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance
34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance
57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give
me a hard copy right there.
[Market]
Deckard:
Fish?
Cambod. Lady:
I think it was manufactured. Look.
Finest quality. Superior workmanship. There is a maker's
serial number 9906947-XB71. Interesting. Not fish. Snake
scale.
Deckard:
Snake?
Cambod. Lady:
Try Abdul ben Hassan. He make this
snake.
[Abdul Hassan's]
Deckard:
Abdul Hassan? I'm a police officer,
I'd like to ask you a few questions. Artificial snake
license XB71, that's you? This is your work, huh? Who
did you sell it to?
Abdul:
My work? Not too many could afford
such quality.
Deckard:
How many?
Abdul:
Very few.
Deckard:
How few? Look my friend.
Abdul:
Taffy Lewis's, down in First Sector,
Chinatown.
[Taffy Lewis's]
Deckard:
Bartender? Taffy Lewis? Taffy, I'd
like to ask you a few questions.
Taffy:
Blow with me.
Deckard:
You ever buy snakes from the Egyptian,
Taffy?
Taffy:
All the time, pal.
Deckard:
Y'ever see this girl, huh?
Taffy:
Never seen her, buzz off.
Deckard:
Your licenses in order pal?
Taffy:
Hey Louie, the man is dry. Give him
one on the house, okay? See ya.
[Deckard calls Rachael on a public videophone.]
Rachael:
Hello?
Deckard:
I've had people walk out on me before,
but not when I was being so charming. I'm at a bar here
now down in the Fourth Sector. Taffy Lewis's on the line.
Why don't you come on down here and have a drink?
Roy:
I don't think so, Mr. Deckard. That's
not my kind of place.
Deckard:
Go someplace else?
[Deckard returns to Taffy's]
Announcer:
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Taffy Lewis presents Miss Salomé
and the snake. Watch her take the pleasures from the
serpent that once corrupted man.
[Miss Salomé's dressing room.]
Deckard:
Excuse me, Miss Salomé,
can I talk to you for a minute? I'm from the American
Federation of Variety Artists.
Zhora:
Oh, yeah?
Deckard:
I'm not here to make you join. No ma'am.
That's not my department. Actually, uh. I'm from the,
uh, Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses.
Zhora:
Committee of Moral Abuses?
Deckard:
Yes, ma'am. There's been some reports
that the management has been taking liberties with the
artists in this place.
Zhora:
I don't know nothing about it.
Deckard:
Have you felt yourself to be exploited
in any way?
Zhora:
How do you mean, exploited?
Deckard:
Well, like to get this job. I mean,
did you do, or- or were you asked to do anything lewd
or unsavory or otherwise, uh, repulsive to your person,
huh?
Zhora:
Ha. Are you for real?
Deckard:
Oh yeah. I'd like to check your dressing
room if I may.
Zhora:
For what?
Deckard:
For, uh, for holes.
Zhora:
Holes?
Deckard:
You'd be surprised what a guy'd go
through to get a glimpse of a beautiful body.
Zhora:
No, I wouldn't.
Deckard:
Little, uh, dirty holes they uh, drill
in the wall so they can watch a lady undress. -- Is this
a real snake?
Zhora:
Of course it's not real. Do you think
I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford
a real snake? -- So if somebody does try to exploit me,
who do I go to about it?
Deckard:
Me.
Zhora:
You're a dedicated man.
[Fight and chase]
Hari Krishnas:
Hari, Hari. Hari, Hari. Hari, Hari.
Street Thing:
Cross now... Don't walk...
Deckard:
Move! Get out of the way!
[Deckard fires. Kills Zhora in dramatic slow motion scene.]
Deckard:
The report would be routine retirement
of a replicant which didn't make me feel any better
about shooting a woman in the back. There it was again.
Feeling, in myself. For her, for Rachael.
Deckard:
Deckard. B-263-54.
Street thing:
Move on...
Lady:
...a minute. Yeah what do you want?
Deckard:
Tsing tao. This enough?
Lady:
Yeah.
Gaff:
Bryant.
Bryant:
Christ, Deckard, you look almost as
bad as that skin job you left on the sidewalk.
Deckard:
I'm going home.
Bryant:
You could learn from this guy, Gaff.
He's a god damn one man slaughter house. That's what
he is. Four more to go. Come on, Gaff, let's go.
Deckard:
Three. There's three to go.
Bryant:
There's four. That-- That skin job
that you V-K'ed at the Tyrell Corporation, Rachael. Disappeared.
Vanished. Didn't even know she was a replicant. Something
to do with a brain implant says Tyrell. Come on Gaff.
Drink some for me, pal.
[Leon stops Deckard in the street]
Deckard:
Leon.
Leon:
How old am I?
Deckard:
I don't know.
Leon:
My birthday is April 10, 2017. How
long do I live?
Deckard:
Four years.
Leon:
More than you. Painful to live in fear,
isn't it? Nothing is worse than having an itch you can
never scratch.
Deckard:
Oh, I agree.
Leon:
Wake up! Time to die.
[Rachael shoots Leon]
[Deckard's apartment]
Deckard:
Shakes? Me too.
Rachael:
What?
Deckard:
I get 'em bad. It's part of the business.
Rachael:
I'm not in the business. -- I am the
business.
[Deckard gurgles blood.]
Rachael:
What if I go north. Disappear. Would
you come after me? Hunt me?
Deckard:
No. No, I wouldn't. I owe you one.
But somebody would.
Rachael:
Deckard? You know those files on me
The incept date, the longevity, those things. You saw
them?
Deckard:
They're classified.
Rachael:
But you're a policeman.
Deckard:
I didn't look at them.
Rachael:
You know that Voight-Kampf test of
yours? Did you ever take that test yourself? Deckard?
[Deckard falls asleep while Rachael plays the piano and
lets down her hair.]
Deckard:
I dreamt music.
Rachael:
I didn't know if I could play. I remember
lessons. I don't know if it's me or Tyrell's niece.
Deckard:
You play beautifully.
[A little rough-housin']
Deckard:
Say kiss me.
Rachael:
I can't rely on...
Deckard:
Say kiss me.
Rachael:
Kiss me.
Deckard:
I want you.
Rachael:
I want you.
Deckard:
Again.
Rachael:
I want you. Put your hands on me.
[Sebastian's apartment]
Sebastian:
Whatcha doing?
Pris:
Sorry, just peeking.
Sebastian:
Oh.
Pris:
How do I look?
Sebastian:
You look better.
Pris:
Just better?
Sebastian:
Well, you look beautiful.
Pris:
Thanks. -- How old are you?
Sebastian:
Twenty-five.
Pris:
What's your problem?
Sebastian:
Methuselah's syndrome.
Pris:
What's that?
Sebastian:
My glands. They grow old too fast.
Pris:
Is that why you're still on earth?
Sebastian:
Yeah, I couldn't pass the medical.
Anyway, I kind of like it here.
Pris:
I like you just the way you are. Hi
Roy.
Roy:
Ah, gosh. You've really got some nice
toys here.
Pris:
This is the friend I was telling you
about. This is my savior J. F. Sebastian.
Roy:
Sebastian. I like a man that stays
put. You live here all by yourself, do ya?
Sebastian:
Yes. -- How 'bout some breakfast. I
was just gonna make some. Excuse me.
Pris:
Well?
Roy:
Leon...
Pris:
What's going on.
Roy:
Ah... There's only two of us now.
Pris:
Then we're stupid and we'll die.
Roy:
No we won't.
[Sebastian and Roy at chess board]
Sebastian:
No, knight takes queen, see. No good.
Roy:
Why are you staring at us Sebastian?
Sebastian:
Because. You're so different. You're
so perfect.
Roy:
Yes.
Sebastian:
What generation are you?
Roy:
Nexus six.
Sebastian:
Ah, I knew it. 'Cause I do genetic
design work for the Tyrell Corporation. There's some
of me in you. Show me something.
Roy:
Like what?
Sebastian:
Like anything.
Roy:
We're not computers Sebastian, we're
physical.
Pris:
I think, Sebastian, therefore I am.
Roy:
Very good Pris, now show him why.
[Pris throws hot egg at Sebastian]
Roy:
We've got a lot in common.
Sebastian:
What do you mean?
Roy:
Similar problems.
Pris:
Accelerated decrepitude.
Sebastian:
I don't know much about biomechanics,
Roy, I wish I did.
Roy:
If we don't find help soon, Pris hasn't
got long to live. We can't allow that. -- Is he good?
Sebastian:
Who?
Roy:
Your opponent.
Sebastian:
Oh, Dr. Tyrell? I've only beaten him
once in chess. He's a genius. He designed you.
Roy:
Maybe he could help.
Sebastian:
I'd be happy to mention it to him.
Roy:
Better if I talk to him in person.
Sebastian:
Umh.
Roy:
But I understand he's a sort of hard
man to get to.
Sebastian:
Yes, very.
Roy:
Will you help us?
Sebastian:
I can't.
Pris:
We need you Sebastian. You're our best
and only friend.
Roy:
(strange accent) We're so happy you
found us.
Pris:
I don't think there's another human
being in the whole world who would have helped us.
[Tyrell's apartment]
Tyrell:
66 thousand Prosser and Ankovich. Hmm..
Trade. Trade at--
Computer:
New entry. A Mr. J. F. Sebastian. 1-6-4-1-7.
Tyrell:
At this hour? What can I do for you
Sebastian.
Sebastian:
Queen to Bishop 6. Check.
Tyrell:
Nonsense. Just a moment. Mmm. Queen
to Bishop 6. Ridiculous. Queen to Bishop 6. Hmm... Knight
takes Queen. -- What's on your mind Sebastian? What are
you thinking about.
Roy:
(whispered) Bishop to King 7. Checkmate.
Sebastian:
Bishop to King 7. Checkmate, I think.
Tyrell:
Got a brainstorm, huh, Sebastian? Milk
and cookies kept you awake, huh? Lets discuss this. You
better come up, Sebastian.
Sebastian:
Mr. Tyrell. I-- I brought a friend.
Tyrell:
I'm surprised you didn't come here
sooner.
Roy:
It's not an easy thing to meet your
maker.
Tyrell:
And what can he do for you?
Roy:
Can the maker repair what he makes.
Tyrell:
Would you like to be modified?
Roy:
Stay here. -- I had in mind something
a little more radical.
Tyrell:
What-- What seems to be the problem?
Roy:
Death.
Tyrell:
Death. Well, I'm afraid that's a little
out of my jurisdiction, you--
Roy:
I want more life, fucker.
Tyrell:
The facts of life. To make an alteration
in the evolvment of an organic life system is fatal.
A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Roy:
Why not?
Tyrell:
Because by the second day of incubation,
any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give
rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking
ship. Then the ship sinks.
Roy:
What about EMS recombination.
Tyrell:
We've already tried it. Ethyl methane
sulfonate as an alkylating agent a potent mutagen It
created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before
he left the table.
Roy:
Then a repressive protein that blocks
the operating cells.
Tyrell:
Wouldn't obstruct replication, but
it does give rise to an error in replication so that
the newly formed DNA strand carries the mutation and
you've got a virus again. But, uh, this-- all of this
is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Roy:
But not to last.
Tyrell:
The light that burns twice as bright
burns half as long. And you have burned so very very
brightly, Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son.
You're quite a prize!
Roy:
I've done questionable things.
Tyrell:
Also extraordinary things. Revel in
your time.
Roy:
Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't
let you in heaven for.
[Tyrell screams as his eyes are gouged out.]
[On the street...]
[voices...]
Bryant:
Body identified with Tyrell a twenty-five
year old male caucasian named Sebastian. J. F. Sebastian.
Address Bradbury apartments, ninth sector. NM46751. I
want you to go down there---
Cop:
This sector's closed to ground traffic.
What are you doing here?
Deckard:
I'm working. What are you doing?
Cop:
Arresting you. That's what I'm doing.
Deckard:
I'm Deckard. Blade Runner. Two sixty
three-fifty four. I'm filed and monitored
Cop:
Hold on. Checking. -- Okay, checked
and cleared. Have a better one.
[Deckard calls Sebastian's apartment.]
Pris:
Hello?
Deckard:
Hi, is J. F. there?
Pris:
Who is it?
Deckard:
This is Eddie. An old friend of J.
F.'s.
[Pris hangs up.]
Deckard:
Ooh. That's no way to treat a friend.
[Deckard enters Sebastian's apartment.]
Toys:
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.
Good evening J. F.
Toy 1:
Oooh!
[Lots o' background noise from the toys... Deckard searches...
He takes off Pris's veil. Pris attacks, crushing his heard
between her legs. Deckard shoots Pris... again... again.
Roy arrives. Deckard fires, but misses.]
Roy:
Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed
opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't
you the good man? Come on Deckard. Show me what you're
made of.
[Roy breaks through wall.]
Roy:
Proud of yourself, little man? This
is for Zhora.
Deckard:
Arrggh.
Roy:
This is for Pris.
Deckard:
Arrgghh.
Roy:
Come on, Deckard, I'm right here, but
you've got to shoot straight.
[Deckard fires again.]
Roy:
Straight doesn't seem to be good enough.
Now it's my turn. I'm gonna give you a few seconds before
I come. One, Two. Three, Four. -- Pris...
Deckard:
Arrghhh.
[Chase starts... Roy begins howling.]
Roy:
(singing) I'm coming. -- Four, five.
How to stay alive. -- I can see you! -- (grasping hand)
Not yet. Not...
[Roy puts spike through hand and screams.]
Roy:
Deckard-- Yes...
[Roy puts head through wall.]
Roy:
You better get it up, or I'm gonna
have to kill ya! Unless you're alive, you can't play,
and if you don't play... Six, seven. Go to hell, go to
heaven.
[Fight, Deckard hits Roy with pipe.]
Roy:
Good, that's the spirit.
Roy:
That hurt. That was irrational. Not
to mention, unsportsman-like. Ha ha ha. Where are you
going?
[Deckard does some amazing climbing, then jumps to next
building. Roy follows, holding a white pigeon.]
Roy:
Quite an experience to live in fear,
isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
[Deckard spits at Roy as he falls; Roy catches him with
one hand.]
Roy:
I've seen things
you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off
the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
the darkness at Tannhäuser
Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears
in rain. Time to die.
[Bird flies off...]
Deckard:
I don't know why he saved my life.
Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than
he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life,
my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the
rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I
going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit
there and watch him die.
Gaff:
You've done a man's job, sir. I guess
you're through, huh?
Deckard:
Finished.
Gaff:
It's too bad she won't live. But then
again, who does?
Deckard:
Rachael? Rachael? Rachael?
[Deckard uncovers Rachael.]
Deckard:
Do you love me?
Rachael:
I love you.
Deckard:
Do you trust me?
Rachael:
I trust you.
Deckard:
Rachael?
[Deckard picks up paper unicorn.]
Gaff's voice:
It's too bad she won't live. But
then again, who does?
Deckard :
Gaff had been there, and let her
live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell
had told me Rachael was special: no termination date.
I didn't know how long we had together. Who does?
THE END
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