Although the blade runner manages to retire a third fugitive replicant, he's pursued by Roy, whose body is starting to falter. When Deckard almost slips and falls off a roof, Roy uses his remaining strength to save Deckard. “[My memories] will be lost in time, like tears in rain,” Roy says before dying.
In the final moments of the film, K collapses in the snow and dies from his wounds sustained in battle, but not before fulfilling his mission and revealing to Deckard the truth about his own past. The film ends with Deckard reuniting with his long-lost daughter, Ana Stelline, in a poignant and emotional scene.
Though Deckard is the hero of Blade Runner, his occupation as an assassin of replicants can also frame him as an oppressor. In a way, Roy becomes the hero in the end by doing the right thing, which makes Deckard realize he is not a hero after all, and finally sees the humanity in all replicants.
The "Happy Ending" refers to the scene after Deckard and Rachael leave the apartment. Gaff spares Rachael's life, allowing her and Deckard to escape the nauseating confines of Los Angeles.
However, by the end of the movie, Deckard felt empathy for the Replicants' cause, and he and Rachael ran away together, as they could no longer be a part of this corrupt, Replicant-hating world–and Gaff, a fellow LAPD officer and Blade Runner asset, let them go without even attempting to pursue them.
In a 2023 interview, Ford stated that he "always knew" that Deckard was a replicant, but wanted to "push back against it", adding that a replicant (or at least, Deckard) would want to believe that they are human. Ridley Scott stated in several interviews that he considers Deckard to be a replicant.
The second film further develops Rachael's origin, and gives significantly more details about her radical design. It revealed that she was an experimental model of replicant with a high percentage of human organs, including human reproductive organs, and that Rachael conceived a child with Deckard.
Roy Batty is the leader of the renegade Nexus-6 replicants and the main antagonist of the film. He was activated on January 8, 2016, which makes him 3 years and 10 months old by the time of the events of the film.
Personhood. Blade Runner raises the question of whether a constructed being should count as a person. In the movie, replicants lack legal rights and are not regarded as human. Similar questions are raised in later unrelated works such as Her and Westworld.
She weeps when they suffer and is heartbroken when they die, but is incapable of acting to stop either. Like so many people who feel helpless in today's society, Luv is a prisoner to her programming. Luv's first very-human tears come as she witnesses a murder.
Ana Stelline (Carla Juri), who is Deckard and Rachael's daughter but has no idea of this and now works as the world's best memory fabricator. We don't know if she planted that memory in only K's brain or in the brains of hundreds of replicants, hoping one of them would follow this message in a bottle. Maybe others did.
Because of this memory, K became convinced that he was Rachael and Deckard's child, but was eventually informed by Freysa that he was not and that the child was female. With this revelation, K soon determined that Stelline was the child. K took Deckard to Stelline's lab as she interacted with a snowfall hologram.
However, he later learns that, even if the memory is real, it was not his own but Dr Ana Stelline's. Through her work, Dr Stelline shared her memory with K, and this allowed him to understand what it was like to walk in her shoes, but most importantly, to believe himself a free, loved replicant.
Much like the original, Blade Runner 2049 became a cult hit but failed to thrive financially due to pacing issues, murky stakes and zero fun factor. Ridley Scott followed up the tremendous success of his science fiction horror film Alien with his cyber-noir thriller Blade Runner.
He engaged in a fight with Luv, ultimately drowning her while also being severely wounded. K then used the situation to fake Deckard's death, saying he drowned. Afterwards, he took Deckard to Stelline Laboratories, urging him to meet his daughter.
After a bloody mutiny against an Off-world colony staged by a Nexus-6 combat team in 2018, the law forbade replicant existence on Earth, except in the huge industrial complex where they were created. The law did not consider replicants human and therefore accorded them no rights nor protection.
Blade Runner 2049 mainly follows Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a Nexus-9 replicant used by the Los Angeles Police Department as a Blade Runner to track down and retire other rogue replicants. As a replicant, K is ostracized by the humans he works with, but as a Blade Runner, his job is to kill his own kind.
When Roy realizes that his death is inevitable at the end of Blade Runner, he decides that he needs to be redeemed before passing on. So, rather than letting Rick Deckard fall to his death, Roy Batty grabs his pursuer by his arm, picking him up and saving his life.
This is when she slices his eyes with her katana, permanently blinding him. While Elle manages to escape with her life and leave Los Angeles for parts unknown, her actions may have actually motivated Wallace Jr. to become the ruthless CEO he is in Blade Runner 2049.
Shortly after the incident with Zhora, Leon disarmed and beat Deckard severely after he witnessed him kill Zhora. Just as he was about to poke his fingers through Deckard's eyes, he was shot by Rachael, who had picked up Deckard's gun.
Extremely hot-tempered and violent, Luv was a complete and utter killing machine. She shows no remorse whatsoever after committing murder and does anything in order to serve her master Niander Wallace.
Why are they trying to find the child in Blade Runner 2049?
Finally, industrialist Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) sees the child as the key to discovering how to make a self-replenishing replicant population capable of exponential growth, a secret that the original film's Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel) had unlocked shortly before his death only for that knowledge to be lost due to a ...
During the final fight with K, after subduing him, she smugly kissed him and retorted "I am the best one!", as if trying to prove her superiority over not just K, but all other replicants, further hinting at her deep-seated insecurities that she kept well-hidden.
That seems pretty definitive, but even so – the film remains open to interpretation, and Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sequel “Blade Runner 2049” does nothing to confirm or deny Deckard's replicant nature.
