Blade Runner

Police

Bryant: "Come on, don't be an asshole, Deckard. I've got four skin-jobs walking the streets."

Bryant: "He can breath ok as long nobody unplugs him."

Bryant: "Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. You're not cop, you're little people."

Cop: "Have a better one." (Possible first appearance in popular culture.)

Gaff: "You've done a man's job, sir!"

Gaff: "Too bad she won't live ... but then again, who does?"

Voiceovers

These were expunged from the Director's Cut version. It has been said that both Scott and Ford were unhappy with the dialogue, as it was forced by the studio and was written by another scriptwriter (Roland Kibbee) not associated with the project. They can still be found in International editions, and all were spoken unenthusiastically by Deckard.

• "They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer."

• "Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me...cold fish."

• "The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him."

• "Skin jobs. That's what Bryant called Replicants. In history books he's the kind of cop who used to call black men niggers."

• "I'd quit because I'd had a belly full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than a victim, and that's exactly what Bryant's threat about little people meant. So I hooked in once more thinking if I couldn't take it I'd split later. I didn't have to worry about Gaff. He was brown nosing for a promotion, so he didn't want me back anyway."

• "Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had...a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings...neither were Blade Runners. What the hell was happening to me? Leon's pictures had to be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a Replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael...they need memories."

• "The report would be routine retirement of a Replicant. Which didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back. There it was again...feeling in myself...for her...for Rachael."

• "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 was the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I can do is sit there and watch him die."

• "Gaff had been there and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me she was special, no termination date. I didn't know how long we had together...who does?"