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| Beat | Acts | Action Sequences | Beat Description | Locations | Storylines | Beat |
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Team 2 shoots Holden. Then Bryant recruits Deckard to hunt/kill Team 2. Deckard meets Tyrell and Rachel, and Tyrell tells Deckard that Rachel is an android. |
Prologue | View of a fake dictionary definition of the word, “Android,” ostensibly printed in 2012, which says androids are computers with human features that work at jobs too boring or dangerous for humans and to work in/explore space. | (Team 2 ) | 1 | |
| 2 | Inciting indident | Holden gives Leon the Voight Kampff test to determine if Leon is an android. When Leon realizes he can’t pass the test, he shoots Holden with a laser pistol and leaves. | EXT. HADES – DUSK INT. TYRELL CORPORATION INTERROGATION ROOM – DUSK |
Holden
Leon |
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| 3 |
Deckard recieves the quest to hunt Team 2.
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A blimp flies around a city advertising job opportunities to emigrate off Earth. | EXT. OVERHEAD VIEW CITY – NIGHT EXT. THE BLIMP – FROM BELOW – NIGHT |
(Tyrell ) (Deckard ) (Team 2 ) (Sebastian ) |
3 | |
| 4 | As Deckard eats at a street vendor, Gaff arrives in a police car and tells Deckard that Captain Bryant has ordered Gaff to bring Deckard to see Bryant. Gaff says Deckard is a renowned Blade Runner. Deckard reluctantly goes with Gaff in the police car to see Bryant. | EXT. CITY STREET – NIGHT EXT. CITY – BIRD’S EYE VIEW – NIGHT |
Deckard Gaff (Bryant ) |
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| 5 | Bryant offers Deckard a contract to hunt and kill 4 androids who went rouge, killed a bunch of humans and flew a hijacked spaceship to Earth. Then Leon shot Holden, critically wounding him. Deckard reluctantly accepts the mission. | INT. SPINNER – NIGHT EXT. PRECINCT SPINNER PAD – NIGHT INT. POLICE HQ CONCOURSE – NIGHT |
Bryant Deckard (Team 2 ) |
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| 6 | Holden gets info he needs to find Team 2. | Deckard gets more info on the androids from Bryant and Holden. | INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE (DAY) INT. HOSPITAL – NIGHT |
Deckard Bryant Holden |
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| 7 |
Holden meets and gets to know Rachel.
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The next morning, Gaff apprehends Deckard to take him to The Pyramid. | EXT. CITYSCAPE – MORNING EXT. SPINNER – MORNING INT. SPINNER – MORNING EXT. OVER CITY – MORNING INT. SPINNER – MORNING EXT. SPINNER – MORNING |
Gaff Deckard (Tyrell ) |
7 | |
| 8 | At The Pyramid, Deckard meets Rachel. At Rachel’s beckoning, Deckard explains the risk of hunting androids, his motivations and justifications. | EXT. THE PYRAMID – MORNING INT. SPINNER – MORNING INT. THE PYRAMID – MORNING |
Deckard Rachel (Tyrell ) |
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| 9 | Tyrell joins Deckard and Rachel. Tyrell asks Deckard to give Rachel the Voight Kampff test. | INT. THE PYRAMID – MORNING | Deckard Tyrell Rachel |
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| 10 | Deckard gives Rachel the Voight Kampff test. | INT. TYRELL’S OFFICE – A LITTLE LATER | Deckard Rachel (Tyrell ) |
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| 11 | Tyrell and Deckard leave Rachel. Tyrell tells Deckard Rachel doesn’t know she’s an android, and her memories are transplanted from his niece. | INT. TYRELL’S OFFICE – A LITTLE LATER | Deckard Tyrell (Rachel ) |
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| 12 |
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Deckard flirts with Rachel as he follows clues that lead him to Salome, who he fights and kills. Pris convinces Sebastian to let her live with him. Batty and Leon follow clues to find their maker (Tyrell). |
Holden investigates clue #1 and finds clue #2. | Deckard and Gaff investigate an apartment the rouge androids stayed in. Deckard finds a photo and a glittery snake scale. | EXT. OVERHEAD VIEW OF HOTEL – NIGHT EXT. ANGLE ON DECKARD – NIGHT INT. HOTEL CORRIDOR – NIGHT INT. HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT INT. HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT (A LITTLE LATER) INT. HOTEL BATHROOM – NIGHT (MOMENTS LATER) INT. HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT INT. HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT (MOMENTS LATER) INT. HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT (A LITTLE LATER) EXT. HOTEL – NIGHT INT. HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT EXT. HOTEL – NIGHT |
Deckard Gaff (Leon ) |
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| 13 |
Batty and Leon begin/continue their quest to find their maker by investigating clue #1 and find clue #2.
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Batty meets Leon on a street corner. Leon confesses his photo was taken by the police. Batty is displeased. | EXT. STREET – NIGHT | Batty Leon Deckard |
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| 14 | Batty and Leon cross the street and enter Chew’s, a business that makes and sells android eyes. Batty and Leon tell Chew he made their eyes, and then force Chew to tell them who made them. Chew tells them Sebastian made them at the Tyrell Corporation. | INT. CHEW’S SHOP – NIGHT | Batty Leon Chew |
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| 15 | Deckard and Rachel get closer. | Deckard meets Rachel as he enters his apartment. She asks if he thinks she’s a android, because she doesn’t believe she is. Deckard explains/proves she is. Then she leaves him her phone number. | EXT. DECKARD’S APARTMENT BUILDING – NIGHT INT. ELEVATOR NIGHT INT. CORRIDOR NIGHT INT. DECKARD’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. KITCHEN – NIGHT INT. LIVING ROOM – NIGHT |
Deckard Rachel |
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Pris befriends Sebastian as her first step in Team 2’s plan to find their creator.
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Pris ostensibly runs into Sebastian in front of his apartment on accident. Pris flirts with him and tells him she’s homeless. Sebastian invites her into his apartment. | EXT. AN ABANDONED BUILDING – NIGHT EXT. SEBASTIAN’S BUILDING – NIGHT |
Pris Sebastian |
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| 17 | Sebastian takes Pris into his apartment and explains what living in the city is like. Pris flirts with him and reiterates that she’s lost and alone. Sebastian offers to let Pris spend the night, and she accepts. | INT. SEBASTIAN’S LOBBY – NIGHT (SHOT) INT. CAGE ELEVATOR (SHOT) INT. CORRIDOR – NIGHT (SHOT) INT. CORRIDOR – NIGHT (SHOT) INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT -NIGHT |
Sebastian Pris |
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| 18 |
Deckard investigates clue #2 and finds clue #3. He investigates clue #3 and finds clue #4. He investigates clue #4 and finds Salome and kills her.
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Deckard uses computers and cameras to analyze the photo and snake scale he found earlier. He sees a dancer’s dress in the corner of the photo. | INT. DECKARD’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. SHOWER – NIGHT |
Deckard | 18 | |
| 19 | While eating fish at a the street vendor, Deckard realizes the glittery object he found resembles a fish scale, which makes him believe it is a synthetic fish scale. | EXT. NOODLE BAR – NIGHT | Deckard | 19 | ||
| 20 | Deckard visits a synthetic fish store and asks Cambodian Lady to analyze the snake scale. She tells him it’s not a fish scale, but a snake scale. | EXT. ANIMAL ROW – NIGHT | Deckard Cambodian lady |
20 | ||
| 21 | Deckard visits a synthetic snake store and asks The Egyptian to analyze the snake scale. He identifies the snake, and Deckard convinces him to identify the most likely owner. | EXT. EGYPTIANS JOINT – NIGHT | Deckard The Egyptian |
21 | ||
| 22 | Deckard goes to a strip club he believes the owner of the snake also owns. He questions the bartender, who shows that the bar owns a synthetic snake, but it’s not the one Deckard is looking for. | INT. TAFFEY’S SNAKE PIT BAR – NIGHT | Deckard | 22 | ||
| 23 | At the strip club, Deckard calls Rachel and invites her on a date. He tells her to meet him at the strip club. She agrees as Deckard is distracted by seeing Salome stripping on stage with the snake he’s looking for. | INT. TAFFEY’S BAR MOMENTS LATER | Deckard Rachel Salome |
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| 24 | Later, backstage, Deckard tells Salome he works for the “American Federation of Variety Artists” and is investigating for the “Committee on Moral Abuses. He tells her needs to inspect her dressing room for signs her bosses are committing voyeurism. After questioning her further, she attacks him and runs away. | INT. BACKSTAGE A LITTLE LATER INT. DRESSING ROOM – NIGHT |
Deckard Salome |
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| 25 | Deckard chases Salome through the streets, then fights and kills her. | EXT. STREET – OPERA HOUSE – NIGHT | Deckard Salome |
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| 26 |
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Leon attacks Deckard, but Rachel kills him. Graff learns Deckard is harboring Rachel when he picks up Deckard to see Bryant. Sebastian introduces Sebastian to Batty. Then Deckard and Rachel talk about themselves and have sex. |
Leon, Batty and Rachel react to the death of Salome. Leon tries to kill Deckard, but Rachel kills Leon.
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Leon and Batty watch from a safe distance as they see Deckard showing his credentials to police who responded to the public execution of Salome. Leon and Batty walk away angry. | EXT. THE CROWD – NIGHT | Batty Leon Deckard (Salome ) |
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| 27 | Moments later, Deckard sees Rachel in the growing crowd. He chases after her, but she runs away, upset that Deckard killed an android. | EXT. STREETS – NIGHT | Deckard Rachel |
27 | ||
| 28 | Deckard chases Rachel but loses her. He ends up in an alley, where Leon attacks him. Deckard fights back and loses. Leon is about to kill him, but Rachel sneaks up and kills Leon. | EXT. ALLEY NIGHT | Deckard Rachel Leon |
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| 29 | Deckard takes Rachel to get drunk to cope with killing, but while at the bar, Gaff apprehends Deckard to send him to talk to Bryant. Before Gaff sees Rachel, Deckard signals/warns her to hide. Gaff doesn’t see Rachel but is suspicious she is with Deckard. | EXT. 42ND STREET – 20 MINUTES LATER EXT. KIOSK – MOMENTS LATER |
Deckard Rachel Gaff (Bryant ) |
29 | ||
| 30 | Deckard recieves a prize for his success, but it’s a false victory. Rachel went rouge. So Bryant orders him to find and kill her. | Bryant congratulates Deckard for killing two androids in one night and tells him Rachel went rouge, and he must now kill her. | EXT. KIOSK | Bryant Deckard (Rachel ) |
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| 31 |
Deckard and Rachel get to know each other better.
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Later, at Deckard’s apartment, Deckard justifies killing androids to Rachel. | INT. DECKARD’S KITCHEN – NIGHT | Deckard Rachel |
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| 32 | As Rachel pervs out on Deckard bandaging himself half-naked, Rachel asks if he will hunt her. He says no, but someone will. She asks if Deckard knows how long she’ll live, and he says he doesn’t know. | INT. DECKARD’S BATHROOM – NIGHT INT. DECKARD’S BATHROOM A FEW MINUTES LATER |
Rachel Deckard |
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| 33 | While Deckard sleeps, Rachel looks at a photo of Deckard’s family jealously and then plays a beautiful melody on a piano. | INT. LIVING ROOM NIGHT INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT INT. LIVING ROOM – NIGHT |
Rachel Deckard |
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| 34 | Pris gets to know Sebastian better, and introduces him to Batty. | In Sebastian’s apartment, Sebastian and Pris flirt. Batty sneaks in while Pris asks Sebastian why he’s still on Earth. Sebastian says he has a disease. Batty walks up on them and acts all creepy. | INT. CITYSCAPE DAWN EXT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – DAWN INT. SEBASTIAN’S BUILDING – DAWN INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – DAWN INT. WEDDING DRESS ROOM – DAWN INT. SEBASTIAN LABORATORY – DAWN |
Sebastian Pris Batty |
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| 35 | Rachel and Deckard get to know each other better, and they have sex. | The next morning, Rachel asks Deckard how he feels about all his family members and her. Then they have sex. | INT DECKARD’S BEDROOM – MORNING INT. DECKARD’S LIVING ROOM MORNING |
Rachel Deckard |
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| 36 |
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Team 2 convinces Sebastian to take them to see Tyrell. Holden tells Deckard that Team 2 is trying to find their maker and eternal life. |
Sebastian gets to know Pris and Batty better. Sebastian agrees to take them to their creator. | In Sebastian’s house, Sebastian figures out Pris and Batty are androids. They ask him to help them meet Tyrell, and Sebastian reluctantly agrees. | INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT | Sebastian Pris Batty |
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| 37 |
Holden and Deckard get to know each other better. Holden explains Team 2’s plan to Deckard and gives Deckard clue #5. While spying on Deckard and Holden, Gaff and Bryant plan to follow Deckard to find Rachel.
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In Holden’s hospital room, Deckard tells Holden he killed two androids, including the one who shot Holden. Deckard says the androids had feelings, and Holden jokingly accuses Deckard of having sex with Salome. | INT. HOSPITAL (DAY) | Holden Deckard (Team 2 ) (Rachel ) |
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| 38 | Bryant and Gaff spy on Holden and Deckard. Bryant wonders if Deckard knows where Rachel is. Gaff says he’ll find out if Bryant gives him a promotion. | INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE – DAY | Bryant Gaff (Deckard ) |
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| 39 | Holden explains to Deckard that the rouge androids are trying to infiltrate Tyrell Corp. to meet Tyrell. | INT. HOSPITAL (DAY) | Holden Deckard (Team 2 ) |
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| 40 | Bryant and Gaff are surprised by Holden’s explanation that the rouge androids are trying to meet Tyrell. | INT. BRYANT’S OFFICE – DAY | Bryant Gaff (Team 2 ) |
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| 41 |
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Tyrell tells Batty he’ll die of old age very soon and there’s no cure. Batty kills Sebastian and Tyrell. Deckard follows clues to Sebastian’s house, where he meets, fights and kills Pris. Then he fights Batty who spares Deckard’s life and then dies of old age. |
Deckard investigates clue #5 and finds Pris.
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Sitting in his car, Deckard calls Schlecht and orders her to give him personnel files on the four people in Tyrell Corp. with the most authorization clearance, including Sebastian. Schlecht reluctantly complies. | INT. DECKARD’S CAR | Deckard (Team 2 ) (Sebastian ) |
41 |
| 42 | Deckard calls Sebastian’s house. Pris answers and abruptly hangs up. Deckard studies her picture in his video phone. | INT. DECKARD’S CAR INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT INT. DECKARD’S CAR |
Deckard Sebastian Pris |
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| 43 |
Batty meets and gets to know his creator. Batty asks for more life, but his creator says he can’t give it to him. So Batty kills his creator and Sebastian.
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Sebastian takes Batty to Tyrell’s apartment at the top of The Pyramid. Tyrell reluctantly lets them in. | EXT. TYRELL CORP. – SUNSET EXT. PYRAMID – NIGHT INT. ELEVATOR – NIGHT INT. TYRELL’S BEDROOM -NIGHT INT. ELEVATOR – NIGHT |
Sebastian Batty Tyrell |
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| 44 | Batty asks Tyrell how to extend his life. Tyrell says it’s impossible, and Batty kills Tyrell and Sebastian. | INT. TYRELL’S BEDROOM – NIGHT | Batty Tyrell Sebastian |
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| 45 |
Deckard investigates Pris’s location, where he fights and kills Pris and Batty (with a twist).
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Deckard goes to Sebastian’s apartment and finds, then fights, then kills Pris. | EXT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. LOBBY/SEBASTIAN’S – NIGHT INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. STAIRWELL/SEBASTIAN’S BUILDING – NIGHT INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. STAIRWELL – NIGHT INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. STAIRWELL – NIGHT INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT |
Deckard (Sebastian ) Pris |
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| 46 | Batty returns to Sebastian’s apartment and fights Deckard, resulting in Deckard hanging over the edge of the roof. | INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. CORRIDOR – NIGHT INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT – NIGHT INT. BILLIARD ROOM – NIGHT INT. SEBASTIAN’S APARTMENT NIGHT INT. LOBBY – NIGHT INT. BILLIARD ROOM – NIGHT INT. DARK ROOM – NIGHT INT. FLOOR B – TOILET – NIGHT |
Deckard Batty |
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| 47 | Batty saves Deckard’s life and then sits down to die of old age. | EXT. ROOF – WINDOW LEDGE – NIGHT EXT ROOF – NIGHT EXT. THE ROOF – LOW ANGLE – NIGHT EXT. THE SECOND ROOF – NIGHT EXT. THE FIRST ROOF – NIGHT EXT. ROOF – LOW ANGLE – NIGHT EXT. SECOND ROOF – NIGHT |
Deckard Batty |
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| 48 |
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Denouement |
Gaff congratules Deckard for completing his external quest. He gives Deckard a chance to continue his love story quest, but also promises to hunt and kill them.
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Gaff finds Deckard on the roof next to Batty’s lifeless body. Gaff deduces Deckard will run away with Rachel. After threatening Deckard, Gaff decides to let Deckard run away with Rachel. | EXT. THE SECOND ROOF (DAWN) | Gaff Deckard (Rachel ) |
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| 49 | Deckard returns to his apartment and gets Rachel. | INT. DECKARD’S CORRIDOR – DAY INT. DECKARD’S LIVING ROOM – DAY INT. KITCHEN – DECKARD’S POV – DAY INT. BEDROOM – DAY |
Deckard Rachel |
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| 50 | Deckard and Rachel drive into the sunset. | INT. CORRIDOR – DAY EXT. MOVING TREES – DAY INT. DECKARD’S CAR – DAY EXT. WOODS – DAY |
Deckard Rachel |
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