Prior to the events in the movie numerous companies had been working on trying to make realistic robots. Finally the Nexus project was able to get a lot closer than anyone before. The sixth version of the Nexus model (Nexus-6) was so life-like that it was able to fool almost everyone into thinking it was real however some individuals were still able to tell them apart just by looking. Various Nexus-6 were used in a variety of jobs but everyone was told who they were so nobody worried about it. That was until a handful went rogue and started leaving their post and trying to settle down and have a normal life with a family and so on. That's when the police started using the Voigt-Kampff test to tell the robots apart from people so the rogue robots could be caught. Obviously they needed a method to get hard evidence rather than just a bunch of people claiming they could tell the difference and that someone was a robot. Unfortunately some of the robots that went rogue turned violent and so the Blade Runners, a team of elite police officers were dispatched to hunt them down. They were ruthless killing machines though human so were only given the jobs that required a lot of force. Due to public fear the Nexus-6 project was scrapped much to the dismay of its creator however some of them were still in circulation including some in the army which upon realizing they had a limited life span went AWOL to find their creator and extend their life and thus begins the movie.
However one event prior to the movie is not mentioned but between the book and the film you can piece it together. The main character was one of the best Blade Runners there was and was sent to catch a Nexus-6. In the confusion the regular police capture the Blade Runner instead assuming he was a robot. Confident the Voigt-Kampff test would prove his innocence he took it only to find that the test said that he was a robot. Like the other violent rogue robots he was destroyed only for the police to realize to their horror that they had killed a human being. Naturally the police covered it up but then they obviously had to explain where the real Blade Runner had gone and they also didn't want to lose such a good officer so a robotic replacement was made. However the company was told that the real Blade Runner had simply gone missing so they added the false memory of seeing a unicorn to the Blade Runner so people could tell them apart. However the Blade Runner was able to explain it as being a robot so he still managed to fool people into believing he was real. Another officer who constantly leaves little mementos behind where he goes leaves a unicorn behind after seeing the Blade Runner where the Blade Runner remembers him saying "It's too bad she wont live, but then again who does?". That's because all this time the other officer has known the Blade Runner is also a Nexus-6 and is warning him that his lifespan is short. The other Blade Runner officer in the movie that interviews one of the robots and gets blasted to hell is actually dead right there and then, but if you remember the other officer says that he's hospitalized. This is their explanation as to how they will replace him with a Nexus-6 robot in future. The creator of the Nexus-6 robots is able to tell the Blade Runner was a robot immediately and asked "Did you ever take the test yourself? You might be surprised by the results.". Obviously he knows because he made him. He also says "Has a human ever failed the test?" because he knows why they asked for a robotic replacement of the Blade Runner. The Blade Runner responds with "Once" because that's what he was told, but even he himself doesn't know who it was and what happened. That's why the creator's next question is "Did anybody die?" because he wants to know whether the Blade Runner is aware of the events that lead up to his creation.
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