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   Netrunner to All   
   Re: More about this part of the movie (R   
   11 Jun 08 14:24:46   
   
   From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   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...   
      
   >Netrunner wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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. [...]   
   >   
   >I don't see why they would go through all the trouble and make Rachael   
   >as human as possible, and then terminate the expensive experiment when   
   >all she does is show human behaviour.   
      
   She was identified as a Replicant by Deckard - hence the experiment   
   failed and Tyrell moves on to the next incarnation.  Hence not   
   terminated for being too human, but not human enough.   
      
   >> 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'm just not sure why you're telling me this. I agree with you.   
      
   Well maybe I was talking to lots of people and *I* was simply agreeing   
   with *you*.   
      
   Netrunner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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