After the events of Blade Runner 2, Deckard and Sarah Tyrell (who Deckard believed to be the replicant Rachael) had left to travel to the distant off-world colonies. Deckard has also taken a job as a consultant to a movie company, which is producing a film about his experiences as a Blade Runner - a direct analogue of the real-world movie Blade Runner. Deckard learns that the replicant character Leon is being played by an actual replicant, who is retired live on camera. Outraged, Deckard goes to find the movie director, a man named Urbenton, and finds that he has been locked in a storage closet, and did not sanction the retirement.