From: rkim@OPUS.CALSTATELA.EDU ("Richard H.S. Kim")
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: How did Leon get the gun?
Date: 30 Sep 92 06:03:38 GMT

In article: <16871995E.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu> Sal Denaro writes: 

| How did Leon get the gun? ....

Hmm, the only thing that I could think is that Leon somehow filched it
from an unsuspecting Holden.  Holden was lulled by Leon's dunce act, and
was caught off guard. 

Interesting note: Deckard was caught off guard by Zhora and Leon.  After
that, Deckard had his gun out for Pris and Roy.  It seemed that this
was the first time both Deckard and Holden met Nexus-6 replicants.
 
| OK, Roy and Zhora were both built for combat, They could get at
| guns in their line of work. They probibly used them for their
| escape. Why would they dump the guns?

How could they sneak weapons across?  Modern airports have X-rays,
detectors at key entrance points.  You would have to assume in the
year 2019, the spaceports would be no different.  Otherwise, they never
would have been able to jump the shuttle to reach earth.  Plus, why did 
they need weapons?  They're pretty effective without them.
 
| Leon is dumb, He keeps his back to an open alley when he knows
| there are cops around. Why did he not grab the gun? He should
| have tossed Decker aside, then gotten the gun.

Leon was angry after seeing Zhora taken down.  Instead of killing Deckard
outright, he wanted to hurt him real bad.  That's why he was throwing
him all over the place, and would have poked his eyes out except for Rachel.
 
| I think that Decker is a standard Issue Police Replicant. (say
| nexus 5) He is given implants of a failed relationship and a
| drinking problem. He has nothing to live for. That's why he does
| it. Gaff is trained on how replicants think. He can predict every
| thought and every action. Then when they finish their police work,
| he retiers them. That way fewer humans get killed.
| 
| That would also explain why Decker and Holden look so much alike.
| They are both Tyrell Model N5 police replicants. (look it up in
| the Tyrell catalog)
 
I don't buy this.  First, because of the bloody revolt on one of the
outer colonies, replicants were BANNED on earth.  Blade runner units were
to "retire" all replicants found illegally on earth.

Considering how dangerous replicants can become when they're unstable,
the idea of an armed replicant loose on earth is highly unappealing.
Plus the political dangers of replicants working for the gov't when
the gov't forbids them on earth is very real.

When you consider Deckard's talents to be very ordinary, why bother with
a ordinary replicant?  Wouldn't you want a more intelligent, powerful model
instead?  Why bother with the lousy memories, put in some awesome ones
instead!

But seriously, replicants were used as "slave labor", doing things humans
wouldn't like (combat, murder, prostitution, etc.).  A replicant on the
police force would be resented and exposed due to the humans desire to 
protect their livelihoods and social bonding.  No matter how good a
replicant BR was, that BR was always under the control of someone else,
something the human partner would realize and not trust at all.

| Just a thought...
| 
| --
| SAL DENARO      "Live Fast, Die Young, Hack 'C'"
| sdenaro@polyvm.poly.edu    sdenaro@polyvm.bitnet

Rich K.
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