Deckard seldom works in and does not consider himself to be either a peace officer or a full-time bounty hunter, the entire Northern California area is the territory of the district's senior bounty hunter Dave Holden, but accepts the left-over cases that Holden either does not want or have time to pursue.

The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.

The novel is a day in the life of bounty hunter Rick Deckard, January 3 / 1992, as he tracks down renegade androids who have assumed human identities in a post-apocalyptic world where animals a rare and the human population have largely migrated off-world.

His moral quandary deepens after working briefly with Phil Resch, who Deckard first believes is an android but then learns is a particularly callous fellow human bounty hunter.

Pris and her friends enlist Isidore to trap the bounty hunter chasing them down and Deckard recruits Rachael to help him.

After Deckard confesses his love for Rachael she reveals she has slept with multiple bounty hunters and, with the exception of Phil Resch, was able to dissuade them from retiring their targets.

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.

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

* Sarah Tyrell: The niece of Eldon Tyrell, Sarah locates and hires Deckard to eliminate the final replicant in order to retain her corporation's hold over the market.

Later Deckard has a conversation with his neighbor Bill Barbour as they tend to their domesticated animals, Deckard owns a malfunctioning synthetic black-faced Suffolk ewe being unable to afford an organic animal, where he realizes that owning a real animal would give meaning to his life.

Nearing the end of his life, Roy creates a stigmata by driving a nail into his hand, and becomes a Christ-like figure by sacrificing himself for Deckard.

Some film critics believe Roy saved Deckard's life so that Deckard would continue to live with knowledge of Roy's experience — being about to die.

Furthermore, Roy ensures that Deckard will remember him for the rest of his life.

* The apartment scene with Rachael and Deckard ( after Rachael saves his life by shooting Leon ) shows a red tint to Rachel's eyes and as Deckard comes up behind her, the same red tint can be briefly seen in Deckard's eyes.

Deckard ponders on the meaning of humanity, morality and empathy following an attempt to retire an android opera singer.

Pris and Zhora's descriptions were mixed up ( perhaps deliberately ) in the film: Zhora acts as a " basic pleasure model ", attempting to pass off as a stripper, while Pris ( who is dressed like a prostitute ) is capable of acrobatic combat moves which nearly kill Deckard.

In essence, Deckard probes the existence of defining qualities that separate humans from androids.

In interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to " make his mark on existence ... the robot in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of.

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.

Unicorns also appear several times in the dream sequences of the director's cut, and as it is explained in the film ; Rachel's memories are known by her creators, e. g. the memory Rachel has of the spiders ( as explained to her by Deckard in the movie ).

Although the film's main character, Deckard, only appears fleetingly in a non-speaking role in Blade Runner, he is referred to multiple times, and his recent activities are mentioned by non-player characters.

Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days.

Rick Deckard stays in a building on the east-side of the bay with his wife, Iran, who is depressed.

However Rachael attempts to use her sexuality on Deckard to distract him from his work.

When the game begins, Deckard has already been sent off on his own assignment, and the player will encounter numerous references to his activities, although McCoy and Deckard never actually meet, so as to remain consistent with the film's plot.

Holden's badge and Guzza questions how Deckard missed it, going on to say, " Deckard, he feels too much, ya ' know?

Main protagonist Deckard himself lives on the 97th floor of a generic building.

Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night ( 1996 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter that continues the story of Rick Deckard.

However, Holden-recovering from his injuries during the fight-later finds the truth: Rachael has been killed by Tyrell agents, and the " Rachael " who escaped with Deckard was actually Sarah.

* Pris was clearly destroyed by Deckard in both the movie and the original novel.

The novel begins with Deckard feeling alienated from his bed-ridden wife, Iran, who misuses her mood organ device, intended to keep the population in even temper, by dialing the depression setting daily.

Deckard is introduced to and interviews Rachael who eventually fails the test by hesitation in reaction to what should be normal human responses.

For example, Roy Batty is dying when he saves Deckard, Maximus dies after killing Commodus and Godfrey of Ibelin kills some enemies after he has been mortally wounded by an arrow.

In addition, the hero is saved from death before attaining his greatest deeds: Deckard is saved by Rachel, Maximus is saved by a slave and Balian is saved by a Muslim enemy.

Furthermore in the Director's Cut police officer Gaff ( played by Edward James Olmos ) leaves Rick Deckard an origami Unicorn a day after Rick dreamed of one.

SLS was developed and patented by Dr. Carl Deckard at the University of Texas at Austin in the mid-1980s, under sponsorship of DARPA.

* 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.

* Deckard Is Not A Replicant – essay by Martin Connolly

His clothing also resembles that worn by Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner.

Deckard brings it home, where his wife discovers that the toad is in fact synthetic.

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

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.