Some androids rebel, kill their owners, and escape to Earth, where they hope to remain undetected in human society. Deckard (an android bounty-hunting officer) is tasked with retiring (killing) six Nexus-6 model androids. These androids are almost impossible to distinguish from humans, and only two methods can definitively tell if someone is an android: a posthumous bone marrow analysis, and the Voigt-Kampff Test, a machine which measures the biological and emotional response of a suspected android to ethical questions to determine if they feel empathy (which androids are not capable of).
Deckard starts to question and ponder on the morality of his job and the nature of humanity. What humanity is left in a bounty hunter who seeks out androids and mercilessly “retire” them? As Deckard moves to kill all the rogue androids, he gets wrongly arrested and detained because the policemen were unable to identify that he was a bounty hunter. At the station, he was accused as an android with implanted memories.
He meets Rachael Rosen, an advanced Nexus-6 android from the Rosen Corporation, who offers to help him track down the other androids, though her motives are unclear.
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