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Hello, it's Denis again.

I have been given the amazing opportunity to direct Blade Runner 2049, which picks up 30 years after the first film.

So with that in mind I decided to ask a couple of artists, that I respect, to create three short stories

that dramatize some key events that occured after 2019, when the first Blade Runner takes place,

but before 2049, when my new Blade Runner story begins.

I am honoured that Watanabe, whose work I deeply admire,

agreed to create this short anime for you.

I hope you enjoy this special glimpse into Blade Runner 2022.

Get them!

I'll strangle you!

- Well, look what we have here...

An angel.

- You don't have to be so cold...

- It's ok, this is what you're made for.

- What the hell are you doin'?

- ...And this is what I was made for.

- Huh?

- We currently know of five NEXUS 8 models that have escaped from Calantha.

- Soldiers? Dealing with deserters is the military's job now.

Not our concern.

- Well, something needs to happen. They have no special units to handle this case.

- Damn Skin-Jobs. Isn't that why we branded them?

You just couldn't let it go back then, could you Deckard?

- Omega-4 confirmed.

Johnny's in the basement.

Heading to the opera house.

- Where to, Iggy?

- On a drive.

A long, long drive.

- Ren... is it real?

- Of course not.

- Just like me...

- You worried Trixie?

- No...

- Because I'm human?

I get it. Humans are selfish, stupid liars.

But Replicants are different... so pure... so perfect.

Never betrays.

More human than a human.

- Launch authorization confirmed.

- Initiating protocol: X-9-9-K-1-5-X

- That's affirme. Initiate step one.

- Roger!

- Once we trigger the launch command, the rest is up to Ren.

The explosion will generate an EMP, shutting everything down.

A darkness that the humans have never known.

- In three, two, one, turn!

- Our job is to destroy all magnetic backups in the archives.

Other cells will start the fireworks at the remaining datacenters.

All records on the ground will be erased.

- Then we're almost human?

- All except our perfect right eye.

I saw the truth on the fields of Calantha.

Copy? Do you copy?

Electromagnetic interference! Radar is down! Comms dow...

- That's when I realized both sides were NEXUS.

Nothing more than toy soldiers in a sandbox.

We may live longer than old NEXUS... But life doesn't mean living.

I am for living. That's what we fight for.

- If we die... we go to heaven?

- No heaven or hell for us.

This world is all we've got.

- What the hell's going on now?

- We've lost control of the missile sir!

- We've what?

- Possible course over L.A. sir!

- You! What have you done?

- It's too late, now.