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   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant Eberhard Schefold covertly transmitting a message to   
   renegade friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >Gnomus wrote:   
   >   
   >> I suspect that Rachel "vanished" from work, so she may have been   
   >> missing for quite a while longer.  It's just that no one has started   
   >> searching for her.  Although that does beg the question:  Why answer   
   >> the phone if you're on the lam?   
   >>   
   >> Oh, the inconsistencies in this movie!   
   >   
   >Yes, it it inconsistent. Rachael is not supposed to know she’s a   
   >replicant, so she doesn’t have any particular reporting duties beyond   
   >those that humans have. If she doesn’t show up for work and doesn’t call   
   >in, she’s neglecting her contractual duties, but normally, you don’t get   
   >a death mark for that, so it happens. And, as mentioned, she readily   
   >does answer the phone.   
      
   No, it is not inconsistent.  Rachael is not a secretary who will be   
   missed the next morning.  She is a top-level Replicant experiment and   
   quite likely closely monitored.  If she has actually ever been out of   
   the Tyrell building before, it was probably with close supervision   
   (that she may not have even been aware of).  BUT, she may never have   
   actually been out before - just have implanted memories of it.  SO,   
   her leaving her apartment thus sets off an alarm to those monitoring   
   the experiment and Tyrell is advised and he says report her to   
   Rep-Detect as he is already thinking about refinements for the next   
   experimental model.  Of course Rachael herself doesn't know all this   
   and would take a phone call and leave the building thinking it   
   perfectly okay to do so.  And, if Deckard is monitored (as he himself   
   says) then Bryant can easily receive the phone call and meet Deckard   
   in the same time as it takes Rachael to get there.   
      
   >> I like what Ned says about there being two societies in LA.  That's   
   >> further reinforced by Bryant's "If you're not cop, you're little   
   >> people."  The people left behind on the street are not the cream of the   
   >> crop.   
   >   
   >I think, too, that the bystanders are not necessarily aware that the   
   >person killed is a replicant. First, they simply try to keep out of the   
   >trouble, then, when the Police arrives, they see that the killer   
   >obviously can give a valid reason to them, so they pass without any care.   
      
   The bystanders surely would have no idea she is a Replicant, but she   
   is shot, policemen quickly surround the scene and the man with the big   
   gun who shot her makes it obvious he is also law enforcement.  I don't   
   see anyone on the street in this area asking any questions.  There   
   won't be any big investigation as soon as it is established Rep-Detect   
   'retired' an illegal Replicant.  The press, (if they still exist in   
   any sensible form), won't get near it.   
      
   I can't see why anyone would think this the least bit far-fetched.  It   
   happens now in many places around the world and I don't see it being   
   too much of a step in the USA.  Following the World catastrophe which   
   is followed by a large exodus Off-World, I think things are quite a   
   bit different for the general populace left on Earth.   
      
   Netrunner   
      
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