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BLADE RUNNER -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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DARYL HANNAH
WILLIAM SANDERSON
Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced robot evolution into the NEXUS phase -- a being virtually identical to a human -- known as a Replicant.
The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets.
After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-world colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth -- under penalty of death. Special police squads -- BLADE RUNNER UNITS -- had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant.
This was not called execution. It was called retirement. |
