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| “ | Replicants are like any other machine, they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem. | „ |
| ~ Rick Deckard |
| “ | I had your job once. I was good at it. | „ |
| ~ Deckard to K. |
Rick Deckard is the titular main protagonist of the 1982 sci-fi cult classic Blade Runner and the titular tritagonist of its sequel Blade Runner 2049. The character first appeared in the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which the movie was based on. He is a former "Blade Runner", a police officer whose job is to hunt down and "retire" Replicants that were declared illegal on Earth.
He is portrayed by Harrison Ford, who is best known for Han Solo in the Star Wars series, Indiana Jones in the titular series, President James Marshall in Air Force One, Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive, John Thornton in the 2020 adaptation of The Call of the Wild, and Rooster in The Secret Life of Pets 2. In the 2014 BBC production, he was voiced by James Purefoy.
Biography[]
Background[]
Not much is known about Deckard's background, but he is divorced, and later left the Blade Runner unit due to feeling the Nexus-3 were becoming too human.
Blade Runner[]
In Los Angeles on November 2019, Deckard is brought by Gaff to meet with Bryant, who tells Deckard he must retire four Replicants who have rebelled and escaped to Earth. Their motives is because they have a four-year lifespan and they seek to extend it. Deckard arrives at the Tyrell Corporation and performs the Voight-Kampff test on Rachael, determined on finding out if she is a Replicant or not.
When Rachael visits Deckard at his apartment sometime after the test, Deckard reveals to her that the memories Rachael had were memories from Tyrell's niece, leaving her distraught. Deckard later investigates Leon's hotel room and finds a photo of Zhora, and tracks her down at a strip club. Deckard kills Zhora before Bryant arrives, and tells him that he must retire Rachael as well. Soon after, Deckard is confronted by Leon and after a brief fight, Rachael shoots and kills Leon, saving Deckard's life.
When the two return to Deckard's apartment, Deckard promises Rachael that he won't hunt her down, and when she tries to leave, he physically restrains her and kisses her. Sometime later, Deckard enters Sebastian's apartment in the Bradbury Building, where he is confronted by Pris. Deckard kills Pris before being confronted by Roy Batty, who dislocates two of his fingers in retaliation for the deaths of Zhora and Pris.
Batty chases Deckard through the building, and when Deckard nearly falls to his death, Batty saves him and Batty delivers a monologue about how his memories will be lost in time "like tears in rain" before dying peacefully. Gaff arrives shortly after, and as he gives Deckard his gun, he warns Deckard about Rachael: "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?" As Deckard rushes back to his apartment, he finds Rachael safe and asleep on his bed. They then decided to pack up and leave Los Angeles together.
Before leaving, Deckard picks up an origami shaped as a unicorn, which is the ending for the Workprint Version, Director's Cut, and the Final Cut. In the theatrical version, Deckard and Rachael drive off into the sunset, with Rachael's lifespan being endless, due to her being "special".
Blade Runner 2049[]
Not long after that the original Blade Runner took place, Rachael gave birth to a daughter named Ana Stelline via emergency cesarean section. However, because this was a miraculous first-time occurence and no one believed it was possible for a replicant to give birth, she was left in the care of Freysa Sadeghpour, the leader of an underground replicant freedom movement, to protect her from those who either wanted her dead or to use her for nefarious purposes. Sadly, Rachael also died as a result of the birth, so Deckard, who wasn't even present for the birth, taught Freysa how to scramble the birth records and cover their tracks to keep her safe. Meanwhile, Deckard staked out a home in the ruins of Las Vegas where, with the lone exception of a dog he came across and started taking care of, he spent many years in complete isolation, all to ensure that Ana would be safe.
Despite staying completely off the radar for many years, he is eventually found by K, a replicant who works as a Blade Runner like he used to be who was tasked with investigating what happened to his child. Thanks to finding a wooden horse that kept appearing in his memories and having traces of radiation on it analyzed, he was pointed in the direction of Las Vegas where he would find Deckard holed up in an otherwise abandoned casino. When K tells him that he's just there to ask him some questions, Deckard immediately assumes he's there on behalf of the LAPD to capture him, unaware that he had been labelled as a rogue replicant at that point and was only trying to seek answers out of his own intrigue, and immediately tries to shoot him. This leads to a game of cat and mouse between the two in a lounge where K hides from Deckard before disarming him, which leads to Deckard repeatedly trying to punch him, with practically no effect. K simply takes the punches and tries to assure him he's not there to harm him, which leads Deckard to finally calming down and inviting him to have a drink.
After sitting down in a bar area, Deckard is initially elusive to K's questions, but eventually opens up about Rachael, why he was hiding and took such extensive measures to ensure his child was found; due to being on the run since his previous job was to retire Rachael, which he couldn't do after falling in love with her, they were being hunted relentlessly, and he was sure if their child were found, she'd be found and studied or dissected, hence why he left her with the replicant freedom movement. However, the two would shortly be found by Luv, the main replicant enforcer of Niander Wallace, the CEO of Wallace Corporation, who tracks them down there and blows up Deckard's spinner with a drone missile before he can reach it. She then proceeds to have him captured and loaded into her own spinner before proceeding to severely beat up K and leave him for dead.
Later on, Deckard wakes up in Niander Wallace's headquarters where he's greeted by Wallace himself, who claims he's wanted to meet him for a long time. He proceeds to plays cruel psychological mind games with him by making him question the possibility of whether he's a replicant himself, and by extension, whether he was ever really in love with Rachael or whether he was just programmed to feel a certain way for her. Despite being noticeably rattled by his claims, Deckard holds his ground and asserts that he knows what's real and what isn't. Wallace then proceeds to bring out a clone of Rachael that looks exactly like her in an effort to coax him into telling him what he knows about his child's whereabouts. Although momentarily in awe and captivated by her, Deckard notices that her eye color is different from the original Rachael's and refuses his offer, so Wallace immediately has Luv shoot the clone in the head and has him removed from his office to be taken Off-world and tortured for the information he wants.
While initially resigned to his fate, Deckard would be rescued by K, who was previously saved by the replicant freedom movement after being left for dead, when he intercepts the shuttle Luv was transporting him and ultimately manages to drown her after an intense fight. While K was actually instructed to kill Deckard by Freysa so he couldn't lead Wallace to either his child or the movement, with Deckard himself even claiming he should have let him die, K just replies that he is dead to indicate he faked his death. He then takes him to the memory creation facility where Ana is working and implores him to go see his daughter before succumbing to fatal injuries he sustained in the fight against Luv on the steps outside the building. Meanwhile, a touched Deckard goes inside and finally meets Ana for the first time, putting his hand on the other side of the glass that separates them.
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Trivia[]
- There is an ongoing debate on whether or not Deckard is a Replicant or not. While the movie heavily implies Deckard to be a Replicant, Harrison Ford rebuked this, claiming him to be human, while director Ridley Scott, on the other hand, claims he was always meant to be a Replicant. His appearance in Blade Runner 2049 indicates that he is either a human, or a special breed of Replicant that was allowed to age.
- Harrison Ford reprises his role as Deckard in Blade Runner 2049. This marks the fourth time Ford has played his character in a sequel to a franchise, the other characters including Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and Jack Ryan.
- He has inspired many other heroes in cyberpunk fiction, the most notable example being Gillian Seed, the main protagonist of the Sega CD Konami video game Snatcher.
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