Variables Used Beat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Location Beat Description Subject Character Of Beat Secondary quests Conflict Character of Beat Secondary quests Assisting Characters Characters or quests not present but implicated View of a fake dictionary definition of the word, “Android,” ostensibly printed in 2012, which says androids are computers with human features that work at jobs too boring or dangerous for humans and to work in/explore space. Holden gives Leon the Voight Kampff test to determine if Leon is an android. When Leon realizes he can’t pass the test, he shoots Holden with a laser pistol and leaves. A blimp flies around a city advertising job opportunities to emigrate off Earth. As Deckard eats at a street vendor, Gaff arrives in a police car and tells Deckard that Captain Bryant has ordered Gaff to bring Deckard to s ee Bryant. Gaff says Deckard is a renowned Blade Runner. Deckard reluctantly goes with Gaff in the police car to see Bryant. Bryant offers D eckard a contract to hunt and kill 4 androids who went rouge, killed a bunch of humans and flew a hijacked spaceship to Earth. Then Leon shot Holden, critically wounding him. Deckard reluctantly accepts the miss ion. Deckard gets more info on the androids in a private meeting with Bryant. Deckard gets more info on the androids in a private meeting with Holden. The next morning, Gaff apprehends Deckard to take him to The Pyramid. At The Pyramid, Deckard meets Rachel. At Rachel’s beckoning, Deckard explains the risk of Tyrell joins Deckard and Rachel. Tyrell asks Deckard to give Rachel the Voight Kampff test. hunting androids, his motivations and justifications . Deckard gives Rachel the Voight Kampff test. Tyrell and Deckard leave Rachel. Tyrell tells Deckard Rachel doesn’t know she’s an android, Deckard and Gaff investigate an apartment the rouge androids stayed in. Deckard finds a and her memories are transplanted from his niece. photo and a glittery snake scale. Batty meets Leon on a street corner. Leon confesses his photo was taken by the police. Batty is displeased. Batty and Leon cross the street and enter Chew’s, a business that makes and sells android Deckard meets Rachel as he enters his apartment. She asks if he thinks she’s a android, eyes. Batty and Leon tell Chew he made their eyes, and then force Chew to tell them who because she doesn’t believe she is. Deckard explains/proves she is. Then she leaves him made them. Chew tells them Sebastian made them at the Tyrell Corporation. her phone number. 16 Pris ostensibly runs into Sebastian in front of his apartment on accident. Pris flirts with him and tells him she’s homeless . Sebastian invites her into his apartment. 17 18 Sebastian takes Pris into his apartment and explains what living in the city is like. Pris flirts Deckard uses computers and cameras to analyze the photo and snake scale he found with him and reiterates that she’s lost and alone. Sebastian offers to let Pris spend the earlier. He sees a dancer’s dress in the corner of the photo. night, and she accepts. 19 While eating fish at a the street vendor, Deckard realizes the glittery object he found resembles a fish scale, which makes him believe it is a synthetic fish scale. 20 21 22 Deckard goes to a strip club he believes the owner of the snake also owns. He questions Deckard visits a synthetic fish store and asks Cambodian Lady to analyze the snake scale. Deckard visits a synthetic snake store and asks The Egyptian to analyze the snake scale. He the bartender, who shows that the bar owns a synthetic snake, but it’s not the one She tells him it’s not a fish scale, but a snake scale. identifies the snake, and Deckard convinces him to identify the most likely owner. Deckard is looking for. 23 24 Later, backstage, Deckard tells Salome he works for the “American Federation of Variety At the strip club, Deckard calls Rachel and invites her on a date. He tells her to meet him at Artists” and is investigating for the “Committee on Moral Abuses. He tells her needs to the strip club. She agrees as Deckard is distracted by seeing Salome stripping on stage inspect her dress ing room for signs her bosses are committing voyeurism. After with the snake he’s looking for. questioning her further, she attacks him and runs away. 25 Deckard chases Salome through the streets, then fights and kills her. 26 27 Leon and Batty watch from a safe distance as they see Deckard showing his credentials to Moments later, Deckard sees Rachel in the growing crowd. He chases after her, but she police who responded to the public execution of Salome. Leon and Batty walk away angry. runs away, upset that Deckard killed an android. 28 Deckard chases Rachel but loses her. He ends up in an alley, where Leon attacks him. Deckard fights back and loses. Leon is about to kill him, but Rachel sneaks up and kills Leon. 29 Deckard takes Rachel to get drunk to cope with killing, but while at the bar, Gaff apprehends D eckard to send him to talk to Bryant. Before Gaff s ees Rachel, Deckard signals/warns her to hide. Gaff doesn’t see Rachel but is suspicious s he is with Deckard. 30 Bryant congratulates D eckard for killing two androids in one night and tells him Rachel went rouge, and he must now kill her. 31 Later, at Deckard’s apartment, Deckard justifies killing androids to Rachel. 32 As Rachel pervs out on D eckard bandaging himself half-naked, Rachel asks if he will hunt her. He says no, but someone will. She asks if Deckard knows how long she’ll live, and he says he doesn’t know. 33 While Deckard sleeps, Rachel looks at a photo of D eckard’s family jealously and then plays a beautiful melody on a piano. 34 35 36 In Sebastian’s apartment, Sebastian and Pris flirt. Batty sneaks in while Pris asks Sebastian The next morning, Rachel asks Deckard how he feels about all his family members and her. In Sebastian’s house, Sebastian figures out Pris and Batty are androids. They ask him to why he’s s till on Earth. Sebastian says he has a disease. Batty walks up on them and acts Then they have sex. help them meet Tyrell, and Sebastian reluctantly agrees. all creepy. 37 38 In Holden’s hospital room, Deckard tells Holden he killed two androids, including the one Bryant and Gaff s py on Holden and Deckard. Bryant wonders if Deckard knows where who shot Holden. Deckard says the androids had feelings, and Holden jokingly accuses Rachel is. Gaff says he’ll find out if Bryant gives him a promotion. Deckard of having sex with Salome. 39 40 41 Holden explains to Deckard that the rouge androids are trying to infiltrate Tyrell Corp. to meet Tyrell. Bryant and Gaff are surprised by Holden’s explanation that the rouge androids are trying to meet Tyrell. Sitting in his car, Deckard calls Schlecht and orders her to give him personnel files on the four people in Tyrell Corp. with the most authorization clearance, including Sebastian. Schlecht reluctantly complies. 42 43 44 45 Deckard calls Sebastian’s house. Pris answers and abruptly hangs up. Deckard studies her Sebastian takes Batty to Tyrell’s apartment at the top of The Pyramid. Tyrell reluctantly lets Batty asks Tyrell how to extend his life. Tyrell says it’s impossible, and Batty kills Tyrell and Deckard goes to Sebastian’s apartment and finds , then fights , then kills Pris. picture in his video phone. them in. Sebastian. 46 Batty returns to Sebastian’s apartment and fights Deckard, resulting in Deckard hanging over the edge of the roof. 47 Batty saves D eckard’s life and then sits down to die of old age. 48 Gaff finds D eckard on the roof next to Batty’s lifeless body. Gaff deduces Deckard will run away with Rachel. After threatening Deckard, Gaff decides to let Deckard run away with Rachel. 49 Deckard returns to his apartment and gets Rachel. 50 Deckard and Rachel drive into the sunset.
