Blade Runner (1982)
Harrison Ford: Deckard
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Deckard : [narrating] I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life; my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.
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Deckard : She's a replicant, isn't she?
Tyrell : I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?
Deckard : I don't get it, Tyrell.
Tyrell : How many questions?
Deckard : Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.
Tyrell : It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn't it?
Deckard : [realizing Rachael believes she's human] She doesn't know.
Tyrell : She's beginning to suspect, I think.
Deckard : Suspect? How can it not know what it is?
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Rachael : Do you like our owl?
Deckard : It's artificial?
Rachael : Of course it is.
Deckard : Must be expensive.
Rachael : Very.
Rachael : I'm Rachael.
Deckard : Deckard.
Rachael : It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the public.
Deckard : Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
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Tyrell : We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better.
Deckard : Memories! You're talking about memories!
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Deckard : Remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were going to play doctor. He showed you his, but when it got to be your turn you chickened and ran; you remember that? You ever tell anybody that? Your mother, Tyrell, anybody? Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer, then one day there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched...
Rachael : The egg hatched...
Deckard : Yeah...
Rachael : ...and a hundred baby spiders came out... and they ate her.
Deckard : Implants. Those aren't your memories, they're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's.
Deckard : [he sees that she's deeply hurt by the implication] O.K., bad joke... I made a bad joke. You're not a replicant. Go home, O.K.? No, really - I'm sorry, go home.
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Bryant : They jumped a shuttle off-world, killed the crew and passengers. We found the shuttle drifting off the coast two weeks ago, so we know they're around.
Deckard : Embarrassing.
Bryant : No sir. Not embarrassing, because no one's ever going to find out they're down here. 'Cause you're gonna spot 'em and you're gonna air 'em out!
Deckard : I don't work here anymore. Give it to Holden. He's good.
Bryant : I did. He can breathe okay, as long as nobody unplugs him.
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[last lines]
Deckard : [narrating] Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachael was special. No termination date. I didn't know how long we had together... Who does?
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Bryant : You could learn from this guy, Gaff. He's a goddamned one-man slaughterhouse, that's what he is. Four more to go! Come on, Gaff, let's go.
Deckard : Three. There's three to go.
Bryant : There's four. That - that skin job that you V-K'ed at the Tyrell Corporation, Rachael. Disappeared. Vanished. Didn't even know she was a replicant. Something to do with a brain implant says Tyrell.
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Deckard : I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming.
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Policeman : This sector is closed to ground traffic. What are you doing here?
Deckard : I'm working. What are you doing?
Policeman : Arresting you, that's what I'm doing.
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Deckard : Enhance 224 to 176.
[a man's arm becomes visible]
Deckard : Enhance. Stop.
[the man's shoulder and wrist are visible]
Deckard : Move in. Stop.
[close-up of man's wrist]
Deckard : Pull out, track right. Stop.
[writing is visible]
Deckard : Center and pull back. Stop.
[arm and door are visible]
Deckard : Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop.
[doorway and mirror are visible]
Deckard : Enhance 34 to 36.
[dresser top is visible]
Deckard : Pan right or-and pull back. Stop.
[mirror is visible]
Deckard : Enhance 34 to 46.
[blurred white object in mirror becomes visible]
Deckard : Pull back. Wait a minute. Go right. Stop.
[Zhora's arm becomes visible]
Deckard : Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop.
[Zhora is visible]
Deckard : Enhance 15 to 23.
[marks on Zhora's face become visible]
Deckard : Gimme a hard copy right there.
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Deckard : Have you felt yourself to be exploited in any way?
Zhora : Like what?
Deckard : Well... well, like to get this job. I mean, did... did you do, or... or were you asked to do anything lewd... or unsavory, or... or, otherwise repulsive to your... your person, huh?
Zhora : [laughs] Are you for real?
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Gaff : Monsieur, azonnal kövessen engem, bitte!
[Deckard gestures to Sushi Master for translation]
Sushi Master : He say you under arrest, Mister Deckard.
Deckard : Got the wrong guy, pal.
Gaff : Lófaszt! Nehogy már! Te vagy a Blade, Blade Runner!
Sushi Master : He say you blade runner.
Deckard : Tell him I'm eating.
Gaff : Captain Bryant toka. Meni-o mae-yo.
Deckard : Bryant, huh?
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Bryant : There was an escape from the off-world colonies two weeks ago. Six replicants: three male, three female. They slaughtered 23 people and jumped a shuttle. An aerial patrol spotted the ship off the coast. No crew, no sight of them. Three nights ago, they tried to break into Tyrell Corporation. Two of them got fried running through an electrical field. We lost the others. On the possibility they might try to infiltrate as employees, I had Holden go over and run Voight-Kampff tests on the new workers. Looks like he got himself one. That's Leon. Ammunitions loader on intergalactic runs. He can lift 400-pound atomic loads all day and night. The only way you can hurt him is to kill him.
Deckard : I don't get it. What do they risk coming back to Earth for? That's unusual. Why...? What do they want out of the Tyrell Corporation?
Bryant : Well, you tell me, pal. That's what you're here for.
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Rachael : Mr. Deckard, Dr. Elden Tyrell.
Tyrell : Demonstrate it. I want to see it work.
Deckard : Where is the subject?
Tyrell : I want to see it work on a person. I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive.
Deckard : What's that gonna prove?
Tyrell : Indulge me.
Deckard : On you?
Tyrell : Try her.
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Deckard : That's no way to treat a friend.
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Deckard : [to Zhora] I'm from the, uh, Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses.
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Deckard : [presents scale for examination] Fish?
Cambodian lady : [examines scale with microscope] I think it was manufactured locally... finest quality... superior workmanship. There is a maker's serial number... 9-9-0-6-9-4-7-X-B-7-1. Interesting. *Not* fish. *Snake* scale!
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Deckard : Taffey!
[flashes badge]
Deckard : I'd like to ask you a few questions.
Taffey Lewis : Blow.
Deckard : You ever buy snakes from the Egyptian, Taffey?
Taffey Lewis : All the time, "pal".
Deckard : [flashes picture of Zhora] You ever see this girl, huh?
Taffey Lewis : Never seen her. Buzz off!
Deckard : Your licenses in order, pal?
Taffey Lewis : [to bartender] Hey Louie, the man is dry. Give him one on the house, OK?
Taffey Lewis : [to Deckard] See ya!
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Deckard : No choice, huh?
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Deckard : No, four! Two, two, four! And noodles.
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Deckard : [narrating] The report read "Routine retirement of a replicant." That didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back.
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Deckard : [Deckard and Rachel have left Los Angeles and are driving across the countryside through the mountains] Gaff had been there and let her live. 4 years he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachel was special. No termination date. I didn't know how long we had together. Who does?
[Film ends]
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Deckard : [narrating] They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
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Deckard : [narrating] Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me - cold fish.
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Deckard : [Narrating - original version of the happy ending] We're in the clear. Running fast. North on the old Richter route passed the mountains. I told her about Batty on the roof dying, making every second count. I told her I loved her. She told me it was the happiest day of her life. She told me she loved me too. I figured I wouldn't get the headaches or the shakes anymore, not for a while. It was good enough for me, I hope it was good enough for her.
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Deckard : [Holding up his badge] Deckard. B26354.
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Deckard : They call me The Blade Runner.
