Luv goes to Las Vegas, destroys Joi, captures Deckard and brings him to meet Wallace. Build Upĭeckard reveals that he had to give “the child” up because he was being hunted. K travels to the remnants of Las Vegas to pursue a lead on the figurine - where he finds former blade runner Rick Deckard. In response to this new information, K fails his baseline test.
Ana Stelline, a memory builder who tells him that his memory of the wooden horse figurine is real, not created. After he finds the wooden horse figurine to be real, he begins to suspect that he may be the missing child that he’s supposed to be hunting.
K recalls an implanted memory of a “wooden horse figure” that coincides with the exact date he found on the grave marker. K goes back to the farm and discovers the grave was marked with a date, 28 years prior to the current day. Niander Wallace instructs Luv to find the missing “child” so that he can understand how Tyrell gave replicants the ability to procreate. His investigation starts at Wallace headquarters - the former Tyrell Corporation - where he meets a young replicant woman named Luv, who subtly suggests that a former police officer named Deckard may be involved. K is told that he must find and “retire” the child of the replicant. But K is called back into work before he’s able to spend time with her and is told that the gravesite at the farm contained the bones of a woman who died in childbirth. K uses the proceeds from his bonus to buy an emanator so that he can expand the functionality of his AI girlfriend JOI. Before K leaves, he discovers a farm gravesite and orders an excavation squad to investigate.
Here is the story structure for the Blade Runner 2049 screenplay: Blade Runner 2049 Opening Text & ExpositionĪn LAPD officer (K) “retires” an outdated “replicant” who went AWOL from his post. STORY BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE OF THE BLADE RUNNER 2049 SCREENPLAY