Blade Runner Page #6

Gaff is pop-eyed with instant fury. He hits the spinner

lights and flashes them.

CUT TO:

EXT. OVER CITY - MORNING

The Ferrari Spinner zips right around a huge smokestack

and shoots insolently off into the distance.

CUT TO:

INT. SPINNER - MORNING

Gaff sputters and fumes as he guides the spinner around

the same stack.

Deckard looks at Gaff. It's too early in the morning

for all this energy.

CUT TO:

EXT. SPINNER - MORNING

The Spinner makes a sharp bank, drops into a steep

curve and slides toward the vast plain of industrializa-

tion, the menacing shapes on the horizon, stacks

of belching flames five hundred feet into the sky the

color of cigar ash, towards a large pyramid shaped

building.

CUT TO:

EXT. THE PYRAMID - MORNING

The spinner is in a holding pattern.

CUT TO:

INT. SPINNER - MORNING

Traffic control purrs its SOFT ELECTRONIC INSTRUCTION

into the cockpit as the spinner rocks gently lower,

spiralling into the vortex.

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CONTINUED:

Now we see for the first time, Rachael, a beautiful

woman in her late twenties dressed with taste and

dignity.

DECKARD:

Replicants are like any other

machine. They can be a benefit

or a hazard. If it's a benefit,

it's not my problem.

RACHAEL:

May I ask a personal question?

DECKARD:

Go ahead.

RACHAEL:

Have you ever retired a human by

mistake ?

Deckard blinks... hesitates before answering the

question.

DECKARD:

No.

RACHAEL:

But in your position that is a risk.

An OWL flaps around the huge marble office.

TYRELL (os)

Is this to be an empathy test?

Capillary dilation of the so-called

blush response.. fluctuation of the

pupil involuntary dilation of

the iris......

DECKARD:

We call it Voight Kampff for short.

Deckard turns to see an older man, very distinguished

very well tailored has entered the huge marble office.

TYRELL!

RACHAEL:

Mr. Deckard. Dr. Eldon Tyrell.

Tyrell has extended his hand to Deckard. Deckard shakes.

TYRELL:

Demonstrate it. I want to see it

work.

DECKARD:

Where's the prototype ?

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 indicates Rachael.

TYRELL:

Try her.

Deckard looks at Rachael. She's a beauty alright. He

shrugs.

DECKARD:

It's too bright in here.

Tyrell hits a button.

The windows darken, a polaroid effect that seems to

give Tyrell the power to turn off the sun.

Deckard is placing the Voight Kampff case on the table.

The Voight Kampff opens like a butterfly as the room

darkens.

INT. TYRELL'S OFFICE - A LITTLE LATER

Rachael's eye fills the screen, the iris brilliant,

shot with light, the pupil contracting. We hear

Deckard's voice and we have the impression the test

has been going on for a while.

DECKARD (O.S.)

You are given a calfskin wallet

for your birthday...

Tyrell stands silhouetted behind Deckard, who sits in

front of Rachael.

The needles in both gauges swing violently past green

to red, then subside.

RACHAEL:

I wouldn't accept it, also I'd

report the person who gave it to me

to the police.

DECKARD:

You have a little boy. He shows

you his butterfly collection, plus

the killing jar.

Again the gauges register, but not so far.

RACHAEL:

I'd take him to the doctor.

DECKARD:

You're watching TV and suddenly

you notice a wasp crawling on

your wrist.

RACHAEL:

I'd kill it.

Both needles go red. Deckard makes a note, takes a

sip of coffee and continues.

DECKARD:

In a magazine you come across a

full-page photo of a nude girl.

RACHAEL:

Is this testing whether I'm a

replicant or a lesbian?

DECKARD:

You show the pciture to your

husband. He likes it and hangs

it on the wall. The girl is lying

on a bearskin rug.

RACHAEL:

I wouldn't let him.

DECKARD:

Why not?

RACHAEL:

I should be enough for him.

Deckard frowns, then smiles. His smile looks a little

like a grimace or the other way around.

DECKARD:

Last question. You're watching

an old movie. It shows a banquet

in progress, the guests are enjoying

raw oysters.

RACHAEL:

Ugh.

Both needles swing swiftly.

DECKARD:

The entree consists of boiled

dog stuffed with rice.

Needles move less.

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