Summary
As he waits at the hotel for Rosen, Deckard reads the profiles of two of the remaining three androids. Roy Baty was posing as a pharmacist on Mars, and Deckard contemplates the androids’ difficult and laborious jobs on Mars as manual laborers for the humans and considers their illegal flight from the outpost as a probable attempt to achieve independence from their servile positions. Baty had also served as a leader of the escaped androids, organizing their flight and administering drugs that he believed would allow them to share in an experience similar to that of the empathy box. Deckard feels empathetic towards his attempt to share in an experience of which androids are mechanically incapable, but this feeling of empathy quickly fades as Deckard continues to read about the android's murder of humans in response to his failed attempt at fusion.

Rosen swings open the door of the hotel room where Deckard is waiting and pulls a bottle of pre-war bourbon out of her purse. Deckard tells her that the most dangerous of the eight androids is still alive and hands her the files on them. She reads them over then unsteadily tells Deckard that he might be surprised by the third android on the list. He asks her why, and Rosen ignores his question. Instead, she opens the bourbon. Rosen then reminds Deckard that he promised to give up on his mission if she met him that night at the hotel.

Deckard continues to press Rosen on the android. Rosen removes her jacket.
Deckard sits next to Rosen on the bed and takes her hand. Rosen tells him that the third android, Stratton Stratton, is the same type as her, and that they will probably look identical. Rosen speculates that Deckard would have gone mad at the site of the android had he not already been told about her own status as an android. She then mentions that she knows that the remaining three androids are probably hiding together, following Roy's directions for a planned final defense against retirement, and that she doesn’t know if she can handle witnessing Stratton’s retirement. Deckard then kisses her. Rosen continues to say the she feels something for Stratton because of their commonalities. Deckard offers the term “empathy” to help her describe her feelings. Rosen agrees but then says that she feels a loss with the knowledge that she is just a representation of one type of android, a type of which many exist. In an attempt to console her, Deckard offers the example of identical twins. Rosen explains that twins are different because they relate to one another and have an empathic bond.

The conversation over, Rosen leans back on the bed and asks Deckard if he knew the real reason she chose to come tonight. Deckard answers that the Rosen Association probably wants her to observe how androids fail the Voigt-Kampff test. Rosen confirms this then continues to say that once the next Nexus-7 model is released then caught, that more modifications will be made until the association figures out how to produce an android that will pass all methods of detection. Deckard asks Rosen if she’s ever heard of the Boneli Reflex-Arc Test. She responds that the Rosen Association has already begun working on spinal ganglia and that the Boneli test will soon become as obsolete as the rest.

Rosen then claims that she is drunk and unable to go with Deckard on his mission. She offers to wait in the hotel room until he returns. Deckard explains that he needs her help to retire Roy. But she...