Who was Deckard?
While I and many others dislike the Replicant Deckard version of the story, there is an undeniable direction this leads us in.
It begs the question: Who was Deckard??
As I see it there are 3 basic possiblities:
-Deckard was not a Replicant
-Deckard was a Replicant but...he was made from Holden
-Deckard was a Replicant but...he was made from someone else who also was a BladeRunner.
The first possibility has been covered to death, the next follows:
The story begins with an eye...not Deckard's, yet it is a recurrent theme throughout the film. It is Holden's eye.
Deckard doesn't begin until Holden's dangerous BladeRunning days are over. Holden doesn't die in the film and is probably saved by staff doctors at Tyrell.
In the out-takes Holden knows Deckard and chats with him like they are old friends. There is a problem though. If they are old friends, neither is a replicant.
All this leads to one possible conclusion; Deckard is Holden. Or at least a facsimile. Holden knows it...unless...
Holden did die, but was memory harvested before he died and a replicant lies in the hospital to brief Deckard. Rep Holden might not know.
One other minor fact that supports the possiblity of Deckard being Holden is the physical resemblance of the two BladeRunners as well as in mannersisms and in speech.
Was Deckard just a quick copy of Holden?
The third possiblity: The real Deckard.
This, while possible, is according to Tyrell, unlikely. The mneumonic technique seems new and would not have been used on an exiting BladeRunner to harvest his memories "just in case".
Though it is still possible that someone thought that far ahead, it doesn't mesh with the story...unless that is how the real Deckard financed his off-world excursion.
This leads to a totally new question. Where is the real Deckard?
If he is Holden, we know where. If he is not, is he off-world? -Alive? -Dead??