It seems to me that the hypothesis that Deckard is really a replicant makes BLADE RUNNER a far less interesting film. There already is a replicant, Rachel,who thinks she's human and whom the viewer at first believes to be human, so there's no real need for another deluded replicant--we've already got the idea that replicants can pass for human. Conversely, it does make sense, structurally and esthetically, for there to be a human character, Deckard, so limited in his emotional life that he could well be a replicant. And it is these two characters, who approach the threshhold of humanity from both sides, who go off together at the end. Also, if Deckard is a replicant, then replicant leader Roy Batty's death scene and final speech to Deckard become far less significant and/or interesting and certainly less moving. Instead of a human learning about humanity from a replicant, we would then have a replicant who thinks he's human being informed about what he's still missing by a somewhat more aware replicant. Batty would be be demonstrating not that he is in fact in some ways more human than his human listener Deckard but only that he was a more evolved (or, depending on your viewpoint, flawed) replicant than the replicant listening to him. Deckard being a replicant might have some impact if the ending signalled that replicants were going off to reproduce on their own and thereby replace humans as a race, but that issue does not seem to be raised or even to be possible within the givens of the story. Richard J. Leskosky University of Illinois ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]