PLOT
The year is 2049 and humans have been biologically modified and now called 'replicants' and have been incorporated into the society as the survival of humanity has been necessitated by such biological modifications. K is a latest model designed to work and obey the LAPD as a blade-runner, hunting down and retiring rogue older model replicants.
K's investigation into a replicant freedom movement leads him to a farm, where he retires rogue replicant Sapper Morton and finds a buried box with what appears to be human remains inside. Forensic analysis reveals they are of a female replicant who died as the result of the complications from an emergency caesarian section. K finds this unsettling as pregnancy in replicants was originally thought to be impossible.
K is ordered to destroy all evidence related to the case and to retire the child by his superior, Lieutenant Joshi, who believes the knowledge that replicants are able to reproduce to be dangerous. K, disturbed by his orders, visits the headquarters of replicant manufacturer Niander Wallace who identifies the body as Rachel. In the process, he learns of her affair with former blade runner Rick Deckard, who has disappeared. Believing that reproduction in replicants can bolster his production, but unable to give them this ability himself, Wallace sends his replicant enforcer Luv to steal Rachel's remains from LAPD headquarters and follow K to find Rachael's child. Wallace hopes to use the child to engineer replicant reproduction and expand his off-world operations.
Returning to Morton's farm, K finds a hidden date that matches a childhood memory about hiding a toy horse. K later finds the toy horse at an orphanage, suggesting that his memories, which he thought were implants, are real. While searching birth records for that year, he discovers an anomaly: "twins" were born on that day with identical DNA except for the sex chromosome; only the boy is listed as alive. K human's real memories, leading K to believe he might be Rachel's son. After failing a test of his replicant behaviour, K is suspended by Joshi, but explains that he failed the test because he completed his mission in killing the child.
Undeterred, K has the toy horse analyzed and finds traces of radiation that lead him to the ruins of Las Vegas, where he finds Deckard. Meanwhile, Luv kills Joshi after threatening her to disclose K's location. Deckard reveals that he scrambled the birth records to cover his tracks and was forced to leave a pregnant Rachel with the replicant freedom movement to protect her. Luv and her men arrive to kidnap Deckard and leave a badly injured K for dead. K's virtual companion, Joi is destroyed by Luv during the conflict. K is later rescued by the replicant freedom movement and told by their leader, Freysa, that Rachael's child is actually a girl. This leads K to realize Steline is the daughter, as she is the only one capable of creating the memory and implanting it into him. Freysa urges K to prevent Wallace from uncovering the secrets of replicant reproduction by any means necessary, including killing Deckard.
In Los Angeles, Deckard is brought before Wallace, who suggests Rachael's feelings for him were
engineered by her creator, Dr. Eldon Tyrell, to test the possibility of a replicant becoming pregnant. Deckard refuses to cooperate with Wallace , even when promised a replicant recreation of Rachel. Luv escorts Deckard to one of Wallace's off-world outposts to be tortured for information. K intercepts them before fighting and killing Luv. He stages Deckard's death to protect him from both Wallace and the replicants, and leads Deckard to Stelline's office. K encourages Deckard to meet his daughter and laments that all the best memories are hers. Deckard cautiously enters the office and approaches Stelline, while K, severely wounded, lies down on the steps and stares up at the falling snow.
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