The second part of the book...I did not expect at all. SPOILER (If you haven't read it): Rick Deckard does end up retiring all of the androids. But we see him struggle through it. Going back to the conversation he had with Phil Resch, he is still troubled by his growing "empathy" towards androids (but really just the female androids). I say empathy loosely because according to Resch, it's not empathy but he has sex on the mind. Which I would agree with wholeheartedly especially since Deckard ends up copulating with Rachael Rosen, who is in fact an android. Once he does, he starts thinking about how he doesn't think he can retire androids anymore. Which Rachael sort of reveals is the purpose that she does show up to the hotel with him. She also reveals that he is not the first bounty hunter that she has done that with. Deckard also finds out that Phil Resch was one of those bounty hunters. He starts to understand why Resch is the way he is towards androids - cold and calculating, almost similar to an android.
We follow Deckard through this struggle and end up a bit surprised (just like Deckard is) that Deckard was able to kill Pris, the Rachael prototype. That's when he realizes that he will still be able to do his job and that he can complete the one he currently has.
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