Director Brown

## Director Donovan Brown

The Director in his office

Director Donovan Brown appears in Neo Blade Runner 2021 as the head of the Neo Stroudsburg Blade Runner Chapter. Brown is a veteran of the cyber wars and was once the top Blade Runner of the chapter himself. He is close with his two subordinates Steve Wilson and Jim McMahon, although he is often more friendly with Steve than Jim. This is because in secret, he sees an important and life changing outcome in Jim's future, and he wants to push him to be the best Blade Runner he can possibly be. He is known to have a fondness of Garfield and 1980's Japanese City Pop.

## In Neo Blade Runner 2021

Director Brown is first seen at the very beginning of the video as Steve Wilson arrives in his office. Brown has Wilson interrogate a man named Richard Dick who is a suspected replicant that swapped his serial numbers. The test is a standard operation but Brown warns Wilson to be careful as he is but 2 days from retirement. During the interrogation, Brown watches intently through a security camera as this suspected replicant that Richard Dick could be, the HB-5J, is incredibly strong and can be very dangerous. All appears well from the security camera so Brown begins to rest easy, when he suddenly sees a scuffle once Wilson attempts to escort Dick out of the room. Brown is alerted and then shocked when he witnesses Steve get shot on the screen. He quickly picks up the intercom phone to alert the station to a Code Purple emergency which signifies a loose and dangerous replicant in the building. He is unable to save Steve as he is quickly killed by Richard while Brown is warning the building, and Dick manages to escape. Brown now down an important member of his team, quickly dials up Jim McMahon to get to the station immediately.

Brown is next seen in his office listening to Plastic Love, a guilty pastime of his, when McMahon suddenly enters causing him to pause it quickly. He is startled as he was caught listening to the sweet voice of a Japanese woman so he asks why Jim was in his office. McMahon reminds him that he was just called in so Brown then begins to brief him on the escaped replicant. When Jim regards the repo as a fairly easy job as he had handled 4Js before, Brown quickly cuts him off to inform him that his comrade Steve Wilson was slain. He tells Jim that a man matching the description of Richard Dick had gone towards a place called Jacopski Indizinski's lumberyard so he has him search there for evidence. Once McMahon leaves the room to get a dossier from the secretary before leaving the station, Brown resumes listening to his music.

Brown is again once McMahon has the snot beat out of him by Richard Dick. McMahon is rather angry as he is driven by revenge now to bring these replicants down, but Brown insists he needs to go home and rest. Brown attempts to convince him of this and only gets him to agree after giving him a file on Richard as well as the hand recovered from the crime scene. He sends Brown off before listening to more J-pop.

Brown is not seen again until the end of the video when he mysteriously appears after McMahon allows George Bonzinziki to go free. Here Brown reveals that he had been watching this fight for some time, and that he had been able to predict his outcome after years of studying Jim's performance as well as possessing the recently obtained knowledge of his replicant mother. When asked how Brown knew about his mother the Director only states that "Few secrets are unknown to the Director", implying that he had known this fact for years, and had also somehow discovered that McMahon had just learned of this. Brown assures McMahon that George will be allowed to go free, but he tells the Blade Runner he would have to retire following this. Brown says he will write him a nice check to keep him afloat for some time, and then heads off into the night.

## Trivia

- In his office Brown can be seen wearing a blue shirt that says "Cop" under a jacket, this a reference to the Cops Series as O'Harris wears this same shirt.

- Donovan Brown's name came from Phasmophobia just like Steve Wilson. The ghosts name was actually Donald Brown which was written into the script, but John wanted Donovan. This name was used because Jack and Michael went into the game to specifically find a nice generic name to use. What made this ghost memorable though, is the fact it was the first one to ever truly scare Michael as he was alone in the room with it and it appeared and made quite a ruckus. Jack actually witnessed this fear as he could hear Michael spasm some keys through the mic and he witnessed Michael's character flip out on the camera.

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