When people ask me, he is a replicant, isn he?
.” Some of the standard arguments put forward suggesting that Deckard is indeed a replicant include: – Gaff seems to follow Deckard everywhere – he is at the scene of Zhora and Roy’s retirement almost immediately, and he is always with Bryant when Bryant is speaking to Deckard. The argument is that Gaff is the real blade runner, and that he is monitoring Deckard as he carries out his assignment. If Deckard is a Nexus 7, then Gaff could be observing Deckard as an experimental subject. – In the scene in his bathroom, when Rachael asks Deckard if he would follow her if she left, he says he wouldn’t and then leaves the room, but he stops, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “But someone would.” When he says this, Deckard’s eyes have a red glow, the same effect seen in the other replicants’ eyes and in Tyrell’s owl. In relation to this scene, Ridley Scott maintains that that effect was purposely set up and executed on the set, but Harrison Ford denies this, saying it was unintended. In a
