At the end of the film, Deckard finally meets his daughter Ana Stelline, a scientist who designs memories for replicants.Īccording to M. The pursuit of the child by different groups is the main driving force of the plot. Deckard was forced to leave the child, a girl, with a replicant freedom movement and scrambled the child's birth records to protect her before disappearing. Prior to the events of the film, Deckard's replicant lover Rachael became pregnant with his child but died in childbirth. If the viewer takes the perspective that Deckard is a replicant then the "ex-wife" only becomes an implanted memory.įord reprised the role for the sequel, portraying an older Deckard who is hiding in the radioactive ruins of Las Vegas, violently resisting intrusion. However the voice-over has been removed from subsequent versions and so this detail is not mentioned. The voice-over in the theatrical release indicates Deckard is divorced, as it mentions an ex-wife. Viewers have to make up their own minds as to whether Deckard is a human or replicant and therefore has a past. The novel depicts Deckard as an obsequious and officious underling who is human and has a wife, but because of the many versions of the film and because of script, the backstory of the movie version of Rick Deckard becomes unclear. In the film, the bounty hunters are replaced by special police personnel called "Blade Runners", and the androids are called "replicants", terms not used in the original novel. Harrison Ford portrayed Deckard in the 1982 film. She descends into a depression over the state of humanity, and is able to find the empathy necessary to care for an electric toad at the end of the novel. He begins the story as a selfish, self-involved cop who seemingly sees no value in android life, but his experiences cause him to develop empathy toward androids and all living things.ĭeckard is married to Iran, one of the more empathetic characters in the novel. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who becomes a specialist plainclothes police officer with the San Francisco Police Department in the early 21st century, responsible for killing androids that escape from off-world colonies. James Purefoy voiced the character in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 adaptation. Harrison Ford portrayed the character in the 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner, and reprised his role in the 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Rick Deckard is a fictional character and the protagonist of Philip K. Police officer / bounty hunter / Blade Runner Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in the 1982 filmĭo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
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