He is approached by a woman who explains she is Sarah Tyrell, niece of Eldon Tyrell, heiress to the entire Tyrell Corporation and the human template ( templant ) for the Rachael replicant.

When Deckard, Batty, and Holden finally clash, Batty's inhuman fighting prowess leads Holden to believe he has been duped all along and that Batty is the sixth replicant ; he shoots him.

Deckard returns to Sarah with his suspicion: there is no sixth replicant.

* Dave Holden: Starting off bed-ridden after his attack by the replicant Leon, Holden is rescued by Roy who in turn leads him to some startling revelations.

* The idea of replicant models being mass-produced, and in particular a woman identical to Rachael existing, is also from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

It is likewise unclear why Deckard would have left her, or any suspected replicant he retired, in a state from which they could be repaired.

A derogatory term for a replicant is " skin-job ," a term heard again extensively in Battlestar Galactica.

* Cybergirl Cybergirl is a cyber replicant prototype 6000, a " cyborg " from a distant planet who ran away to explore the beings she was created after, human beings.

A derogatory term for a replicant is " skin-job.

In particular, the question that finally revealed she was a replicant involved a reaction to people " eating raw oyster and boiled dog ": it is implied that Rachel simply didn't have enough life-experience to know that this wasn't considered socially permissible.

However, according to several interviews with director Ridley Scott, Deckard is indeed a replicant.

From this one could also speculate that Gaff himself is a replicant and may share in the same imbedded memory.

" What is important is not so much whether Deckard is a replicant or not, but that very possibility and uncertainty further blurs the line between humans and replicants.

Although the press kit released to the media for the film explicitly defined a replicant as, " A genetically engineered creature composed entirely of organic substance ", a question commonly posed is the physical make-up of the replicants themselves.

That the ( apparently ) only way of telling a replicant from a human is to ask a series of questions and analyse emotional response would suggest they are entirely, or almost entirely, organic.

They also employ this power from time to time during the " Mysteronisation " process, which imbues the reconstruction ( dubbed " replicant " by Spectrum ) with the power of " retro-metabolisation " – the replicant is able to heal completely from almost any injury, including fatal ones.

* In 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, the bounty hunter Deckard is shown buying a bottle of Tsingtao right after dispatching the replicant Zhora.

* Cyber Cam: A " virtual replicant " of Cam created to monitor things at base when the real Cam is out in the field on Ranger missions.

The game emphasizes the concept of choice on the part of the player ; key among these is the option of ' retiring ' every last replicant, or possibly letting them escape.

The two men meet in the city sewers for the exchange, where Guzza is wounded by replicant gunfire.

* Pris was clearly stated as being a replicant in both the movie and the original novel, yet The Edge of Human claims she was human.

According to Deckard, a normal replicant can usually be discovered using the Voight-Kampff test after being given about 20-30 questions, cross-referenced.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

Even without considering the unicorn dream scene inserted in the director's cut, there is other evidence which allows for the possibility of Deckard being a replicant, but do not eliminate the possibility of Deckard being human.

" ( However, in an interview in Wired magazine in 2007, Ridley again states that he believes Deckard is a replicant, and says that Harrison Ford may have given up the idea of Deckard being human.

This created a plot hole and speculation among fans as to whether Deckard was the 6th replicant with new memories.

It is revealed that the Paradan government abducted O ' Brien and created a replicant ( clone ) designed to assassinate the rebels ' delegation at the peace-talks.

A replicant Zord created by Mesesgog that is a dark version of the Thundersarus Megazord.

Harrison Ford, who played Deckard in the film, has said that he did not think Deckard was a replicant, and also states he and the director had discussions that ended in the agreement that the character was human.

* The 1982 film Blade Runner contains an early depiction of smart glass in a scene in which a room is darkened with a smart glass-like shade so Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, can administer a polygraph-style test to determine whether Rachael, portrayed by Sean Young, is an organic robot known as a replicant.

* Hampton Fancher ( original screenwriter ) has said that he wrote the character Deckard as a human, but wanted the film to suggest the possibility that he may be a replicant.

She is known for her role as the replicant Zhora in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner ( 1982 ).

In 1982, Cassidy had her first major feature film role as the replicant Zhora in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

Beginning several months after the events in Blade Runner, Deckard has retired to an isolated shack outside the city, taking the replicant Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport container, which slows down the replicant aging process.

* " The Final Cut " of Blade Runner removed all reference to a sixth replicant, as it was normally considered a filming goof.

Paul Sammon, author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, has suggested in interviews that Deckard may be a Nexus-7, a next-generation replicant who possesses no superhuman strength or intelligence, but brain implants that complete the human illusion.

The following year, he appeared in arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet sympathetic anti-hero replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction thriller, Blade Runner — in which role Hauer improvised the oft-quoted tears in rain soliloquy.

In Blade Runner replicant Roy Batty evoked it as he dies, " I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.

The player can believe that McCoy is human, and hunt down the replicants ; be persuaded that he's a replicant himself, and side with them against the other Blade Runners ; or stay neutral, and flee the city.

Her fate in the game is ultimately tied to the player's actions ; she can either die ( killed by the player or in an explosion set up by the replicant Sadik ) or survive and pair up with McCoy as he gains the rank of " full Blade Runner " following the ' retirement ' of Clovis, the rogue replicants ' leader.

* Persephone's gun in The Matrix Reloaded is a COP 357 Derringer, the same gun used by replicant Leon Kowalski in Blade Runner.

In Blade Runner, the dying replicant Roy Batty introspectively makes the speech during a rain downpour, moments before his own death:

* Roy Batty, as a replicant, is powerful, but has a very short lifespan: Blade Runner