If Deckard was programed to work for the department,you would think they would have adjusted his wiring up there,so to speak,so that he didn't drink.We know the best cop, would be one that didn't drink. Just think how that would reflect on the department, if they had a alcohalic, replicant, blade runner working for them.They're illegal,aren't they? The public can see a policeman take one drink and they'll talk up a storm if he has one little accident! I like the rep. idea ,and I don't wont to step on any body's toes, but how much it works ,I don't know. I've thought about ways it can work, although other things have to be considered.
1. Replicants are illegal on earth, and that would go against police policy, according to the story, visably. And who would arrange this?
2. Couldn't they get something stronger, like robo cop, for an example.
3. Bryant hates them to the core,he ordered Deck to eliminate Rachael,who was harmless. He probably would not have listened to Deckards feelings ,if Deck had explained. Bryant called them skinjobs,a name that Deckard compares to a racist term , spoke about in history books,(voice over vers.) .
4. Why didn't Deck acknowledge he was a replicant?,like R.,L.,P.,and Z.--
"how can it not know what it is?"-Deckard , Remember that Tyrell said that Rachael was special! only an experiment.
According to the above statement by Deckard ,it was a surprise to him,a replicant not knowing. Normaly,wouldn't he know that he was a replicant, if he was one?
5. Are people saying that Deck's a replic. because they want a sequel?
6. Rid. may have said that he's a replic.,but I'm still not convinced ,neither is Deckard.
7. Ridley once decribed the replicants as supermen that can't fly,(reminding me of the villians in Superman 2). I don't believe he was thinking of Deckard's character too much as a replicant when he said this, ..do you?,especialy not a nexus six. Deckard got to where he was running from Roy,instead of hunting him down. You see it's a good thing he made it out alive.
8. "They're almost us"--Holden,deleted scene
I think it's possible that a tranformation could have took place with Deckard, and you can't tell the difference anymore. Check out what I have to say about this under "Questions and answers for replics. and men",scroll down to," should've been?,views for yous". It's a cassarole of words you can't miss. I speak somewhat about a transformation that happens with Roy too .We know he died ,but it can be said that we never know how long we have here ,and maybe Roy had done something worth living for and dying for ,...he changed,he saved someone,deck, he said words with heart and meaning,was he able to obtain some kind of assurance of life before he passed. I don't believe he felt like a slave, in those final moments there on the roof top. I think there's something to be said about the light that shines on Roy before he runs to jump to "the other side", to pull Deck up.
There's so much more meaning that can be gathered from this movie rather than the replicant argument. This movie can work many ways, and thank God it got us talking.Thats'
more than human.
If Deckard was a replic.,when Gaff dropped the little unicorn,it could be an image that would trigger Deck to shut down soon after he saw it , because he had finished his original assignment. The trigger effect would work only after a certain implanted dream ran it's course. (This here was inspired by a comment above, from millennium, made about a serial number, like stamp/emblem.)
Get this,.......Gaff knowing that Deck is one of the "detect"ive replicants, that were issued to the department,so he drops the little unicorn outside Deck's door,knowing it'll catch his eye, and he'll pick it up.When he does,he sees the unicorn,the image/signal is sent to Deckard's central nervous system and registers for him to shut down within minutes or hrs.
Maybe there's a home base ,like a monitering station, (like west world) that gets the message sent from a sattilite, that someone needs to go pick him up to be repaired, or put in a warehouse until needed again.
The happy ending scene (intern version), could be a dream like state that Deckard goes into when he shuts down to be "shelved" ,and why,...well,...for the simple amusement of a mad scientist like tyrell.
If word got back to Bryant about Deckard harboring a fugitive,he could have ordered Gaff to retire Rachael ,after Deck shuts down,if he thought Deckard was going to be a problem.
Like I say ,I like the replicant idea to a certain point. Maybe I'm missing something,but if making Deck a replicant was Rid's intent, maybe he should have done more than he did,because incerting a dream just doesn't do much. I reckon the mystery is very cool though, and the ideas it provokes.
We have to understand ,the process in making this movie and others can be extremely complicated , people tugging back and forth, wanting this in and this out,etc.
Have you seen the album ,cover and back ,of Iron Maiden's classic "Some where in time"?Look who's on the front of the cover , they call him Eddie, he would have taken down the whole bunch,no question,they should have hired him and let Deck relax .
Inside there's a picture of a spinner, with the band standing around it . On the back there's a movie theater( bottom left)featuring blade runner as one of the shows.