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Series Synopsis: Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity. For the first time on Blu-ray watch the entire season one in chronological order as it was released with all commercials professionally edited out. The entire season on one convenient Blu-ray with the addition of a bonus “Making of Blade Runner Black Lotus” entitled “Benefit or Hazard” that was released prior to the season premiere. Please note product photo was an early interpretation it is since been corrected now listing “episodes 1 – 13” otherwise artwork is exactly as it will appear with your order.
Quality is unmatched as it is sourced digitally in FULL Widescreen 1.66:1 (Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio) FULL 1080p HD Picture.
LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH and is commercial free
The Making of BLADE RUNNER BLACK LOTUS: “Benefit or Hazard” Air Date: Nov 06, 2021: A special behind-the-scenes look into the making of Blade Runner: Black Lotus from the creators of the new anime series in this 7-minute short film documentary.
Episode Description:
Episode 101 · “City of Angels” Air Date: Nov 14, 2021
An amnesiac named Elle enters Los Angeles, carrying only a locked data device that may hold the secrets of her past.
In October 2032, Elle wakes up in the back of a transport vehicle, with a black lotus tattoo on her back shoulder and unable to recall her memories. She carries with her an encrypted data device as she reaches Los Angeles. Wondering around the city, she is attacked by a gang, during which she experiences flashbacks and remembers her name. As she remembers where she lives, Elle is directed to an now-unfamiliar building where she encounters Doc Badger, who welcomes her into his shop. Elle hides as her attackers barge in, asking Doc if he had seen Elle or the data device, to which he denies. After they leave, Elle asks Doc if he can unlock the device as she believes it will help her recover her memories. He agrees to help her if she prevents the gang from giving him trouble again. Elle confronts the gang and incapacitates them, killing their leader and demanding the rest leave Doc alone. This prompts another flashback of her killing the man who she recalled as attacking her in the desert. Elle returns to Doc’s shop, and he informs her that he is unable to decode the device. However, he tells her an upstairs neighbor may be able to help them. He takes her to the top floor of the apartment complex, where they find Joseph drunk and passed out on his couch.
Episode 102 · “All We Are Not” Air Date: Nov 14, 2021
Haunted by traumatic memories, Elle recognizes a familiar face; upon tracking him down she uncovers a shocking truth about herself and her memories.
Elle and Doc wake Joseph and show him the encrypted data device. He reluctantly agrees to help decrypt it. As Joseph performs the decryption, Elle looks at the television, where a meeting between Senator Bannister and Niander Wallace, Sr. is shown. She recognizes Bannister as someone who hunted her in the desert. She abruptly leaves the apartment with the data device. Elle tracks down Bannister and steals a taxi to pursue him after he boards a spinner. Following him to a boxing arena, she manages to disable his security and confront him inside a private balcony. Bannister informs Elle that she is a replicant and a fight ensues. Proclaiming she is human and further recalling being hunted by Bannister, Elle manages to overpower him and drops him off the balcony, killing him. At Wallace company headquarters, Wallace Sr. discusses Niander Wallace Jr.’s lack of progress in the memory development field. Wallace Sr. receives a call informing him of Bannister’s death. Meanwhile, Officer Alani Davis arrives at the crime scene of Bannister’s murder. She tries to stop Elle and notices her tattoo, but gives up to investigate the scene. Later, another police officer chases Elle down an alley and she manages to escape. In the alley, she experiences an upsetting and vivid flashback of being hunted in the desert alongside other replicants. She then notices Joseph approaching her. He raises a gun and shoots her, incapacitating her.
Episode 103 · “The Human Condition” Air Date: Nov 21, 2021
With help from the mysterious J, Elle learns more startling truths about the nature of her identity.
Elle awakes in Joseph’s apartment, who explains that he found her by using a police radio and has gone back to decoding her data device. Elsewhere after a brief scuffle, Officer Davis gets Drove to speak to her regarding his gang’s encounter with Elle. Back at the apartment, Elle asks Joseph what a replicant is, believing she might be one. Joseph checks her eye for a serial number, a hallmark of Nexus-8 replicants. Since Elle is still unsure, Joseph brings out a machine to perform a Voight-Kampff test on her. When asked if she recalls being in love, Elle recalls someone who gave her the black lotus tattoo, saying it a symbol of purity. Joseph ends the test, assuring her that she is not a replicant. At Wallace headquarters, Wallace Jr. stressed that Senator Bannister’s death would make it less likely for replicant production to be legalized, though Wallace Sr. is not so worried. After a rest in the apartment, Elle awakes and discovers the data device is finally decrypted, uncovering footage of a replicant hunting trip by Bannister and Hooper. Someone in the recording notes that the replicants they hunt were created to be fully submissive to humans.
Episode 104 · “The Doll Hunt” Air Date: Nov 28, 2021
Elle’s memories come flooding back, revealing the truth of what happened to her in the desert; LAPD Officer Davis puts together the clues that will lead her to Black Lotus.
Elle lays next to a pool, receiving a tattoo from her boyfriend. She awakes confused in the same location, now completely dilapidated. Once outside, she finds group of replicants who also have no recollection of how they got there. A group of hunters – Bannister, Hooper, Earl Grant, and Josephine Grant – open fire on the group and they panic and disperse. Elle hides with a girl named Miu, and they find their opportunity to take one of the hunter’s buggy and flee with two additional replicants. As the hunters give chase, the replicants find a rifle in the back, but are unable to shoot their pursuers. Elle loses control of the vehicle and it crashes. Elle and Miu survive the wreck and Hooper is left alone by the hunters to conduct an experiment. He kills Miu to see if Elle attacks in retaliation. After kicking her multiple times, Hooper is shocked when Elle begins retaliation and stabs him to death with his knife. Elle takes his camera and hops on a transport vehicle. As her memory fully returns in the present, Elle vows to find and kill all the hunters as revenge. At LAPD headquarters, Officer Davis confronts Chief Grant about her belief that a replicant killed Bannister. Grant shrugs her statements off and asks her to leave the evidence she gathered. He examines Davis’ sketch of Elle’s tattoo, cursing as he tosses it back down.
Episode 105 · “Pressure” Air Date: Dec 05, 2021
Elle plots her revenge with help from J, but Police Chief Grant mobilizes a massive LAPD manhunt to find and eliminate her. Blade Runner Marlowe stops a bus, where a replicant resides inside.
Marlowe pulls out a shotgun and fires at the replicant before getting out of the bus and shooting again, killing him. Meanwhile, Chief Earl Grant reports to Niander Wallace, Sr. that Elle had survived the hunt and promises to eliminate her. Back at the apartment complex, Elle again asks Joseph for his help in tracking down the hunters and he agrees, but advises that she drop the pursuit. Later, as Elle sharpens the katana from Doc’s shop, Joseph uses an Esper to help identify the remaining members of the hunting party. Elle goes to Doc Badger to receive print outs of the hunters. Grant commands any available officers to hunt down and eliminate Elle, referred to by the department as Black Lotus. Officer Davis suggests he warn them that Black Lotus is potentially a replicant, but he firmly insists that she is human. As police officers flood the streets searching for Elle, Grant learns from Davis’ evidence that Elle may have connections to Doc Badger. Grant orders a SWAT team on his shop. The SWAT breaks into the shop, but find only Joseph inside, while Doc Badger prints the photos for Elle up in Joseph’s apartment. Grant receives a call from his wife, who is concerned about the rogue replicant and requests more protection. Meanwhile, Elle makes her way toward the Grants’ apartment complex.
Episode 106 · “The Persistence of Memory” Air Date: Dec 12, 2021
In her quest for revenge, Elle breaks into the home of her next target and is forced to take a hostage; Chief Grant calls in reinforcements. Josephine expresses insecurity with her husband on their apartment’s current security detail.
Officer Alani Davis sees Chief Grant leave headquarters and tails him. Meanwhile, Marlowe tells the officers to release Joseph, as they will not find anything on him. Marlowe receives a call from Chief Grant, ordering him to go to his apartment. Josephine spots Elle inside her apartment and runs to an office, grabbing a handgun and firing, but missing. Elle manages to subdue her and tie Josephine to a chair, who insists she was only a spectator in the hunt and that they were invited by her husband’s friend, Doctor M, and does not know who planned it. Chief Grant arrives at the apartment and tracks them into the office. He puts his gun away in attempt to make Elle put her guard down, and suddenly attacks her. After a brief struggle, Elle manages to stab Grant with her blade. As he dies, he fires his gun, which misses Elle and hits his wife in the chest. As Josephine dies, she tells Elle that her emotions are not real. Alani Davis arrives into the office with Elle having already killed her hunters. Marlowe arrives and crashes through the window while the two have a conversation. He pursues and fights Elle through the apartment, which ends up in the kitchen. His shotgun is fired into the wall, breaking open a gas line above the stove. Elle uses the opportunity to spark a flame, causing an explosion that blasts her out of the complex. On the streets, Elle ponders Josephine’s last words, thinking that if her emotions were not real, revenge should hurt less.
Episode 107 · “Reality” Air Date: Dec 19, 2021
In her quest for revenge, Elle breaks into the home of her next target and is forced to take a hostage; Chief Grant calls in reinforcements.
Injured from the explosion, Elle stumbles back to Joseph’s apartment, where he treats her wounds. Officer Davis arrives and Elle hides in an adjacent room. Davis tries to question Joseph about the Black Lotus case and mentions his past as an Blade Runner, but he denies this. Extracting useless information from Joseph, Davis exits the apartment. Joseph goes to retrieve Elle, but finds that she has left through a window. At Wallace headquarters, Niander Wallace, Jr. indicates to his father that he has been locked out of his office. Due to Elle’s slayings, Wallace Sr. intends to cover the company’s tracks, as their company created her. Wallace Sr. informs his son that the company will be selling its Tyrell assets, including the replicant program. Wallace Jr. insists that his replicants are flawless and that Sr. would soon realize this. Elle makes her way to Doctor M’s work office building. Inside, she incapacitates a guard and trips a laser, which allows Doctor M to stun her. She awakes restrained to a machine, which Doctor M and his colleague Goodman use to view her memories, making note that some are remembered by Elle differently than were programmed and some were given to her by someone else. While trying to question her directly, Elle breaks free from the restraints and grabs Goodman. Doctor M shoots Goodman in the shoulder and Elle unhands him. He attempts to shoot her again, but a bullet hits the machine, which releases smoke, allowing Elle to move in on him. Holding her blade to his neck, she learns from Doctor M that Niander Wallace, Sr. orchestrated the doll hunt. Security guards burst into the room and Elle fatally slashes Doctor M before knocking out the guards. A frightened Goodman confirms to her that Wallace Sr. organized the hunt and that her memory of being by the pool with her boyfriend was real.
Episode 108 · “The Davis Report” Air Date: Jan 02, 2022
Frustrated that no one believes her theory about Black Lotus, Officer Davis lands in hot water while presenting her findings to the department.
On request of the L.A. civilian police oversight commission, Officer Alani Davis is interrogated by Investigator Alan Chen due to her proximities to the deaths of Senator Bannister and Chief Grant. She recounts her investigation and pursuit of Black Lotus. Chen expresses doubt in Davis’ account and her assertion that Black Lotus is a replicant. Davis insists that Black Lotus is different from Nexus-8 models and concludes that someone has illegally resumed replicant production. Davis discovered that the Grants’ and Hooper’s vacation dates lined up and Hooper’s last-known coordinates placed him in the Nevada desert. Chen agrees to investigate the area, where they find the remains of replicants. Although Chen suggests that she will be commended, upon her return to the LAPD, Davis learns she has been placed on leave for at least three months due to alleged delusional behavior. She finds a newspaper that reports rumors of Tyrell assets being put up for sale by the Wallace Corporation.
Episode 109 · “Free Will” Air Date: Jan 09, 2022
Elle goes after the final target to complete her mission of revenge, the man responsible for the Doll Hunt.
Regretting orchestrating the doll hunt, Wallace Sr. states to Jr. that they need to end this, and his son responds that it’s already ending. Wallace Jr. bids his father farewell and leaves. Elle returns to Joseph’s apartment and informs him on her intent to assassinate Niander Wallace, Sr., a task that Joseph believes to be impossible, suggesting that Elle should leave the city. Elle informs him that she plans on carrying out this plan with or without his help. After she leaves, Joseph speaks to someone on the phone, asking if he were to go through with the plan, would “she” be freed afterward. Elle gains entry to the Wallace Corp inside of a delivery truck. She enters the building’s ventilation system and drops into a hallway, where she incapacitates two guards to enter the elevator. She shoots a camera inside of it, which alerts Wallace Corp’s security agent Hignight to the breach, prompting him to lock all doors and elevators and seal Wallace Sr. in his penthouse. Elle manages to escape the locked elevator from the ceiling shaft. In the server room, she is confronted by a group of guards and escapes thanks to sniper support by Joseph. She reaches the aviary, where Marlowe arrives. After a brief scuffle, Marlowe manages to gain the upper hand and attempts to execute Elle, but is shot in the shoulder by Joseph, allowing Elle to escape. Allowed entry by a hand scanner that identifies her as Wallace Jr., Elle enters the penthouse and searches for Wallace Sr., who manages to shoot her several times with his handgun. Writhing in pain, Elle asks Wallace why he organized the hunt, but Sr. instead expresses his misgivings about her insistence to have free will as a replicant. Elle tells him that she can feel pain despite being a replicant. Delighted at this, Wallace Sr. opens fire, but Elle dodges and a struggle ensues, ending when Elle forces Sr.’s gun underneath his chin and fires. Hignight and several security guards arrive to the penthouse to find Elle diving out the window and caught by Joseph, who flies them away on his bike.
Episode 110 · “Clair de Lune” Air Date: Jan 16, 2022
As Elle struggles with not knowing which of her memories are real and which are artificial, J opens up about his own past.
Elle awakes in Joseph’s apartment and is frustrated at her inability to forget. Acknowledging that replicant memories do not fade, Joseph points out that sometimes human memories also linger. In a flashback, Joseph sits at a bar as he listens to a singer named Selene perform. He follows Selene to her dressing room, where Selene immediately reveals that she has figured that Joseph is a policeman. Admitting that she did not run because she was always curious of what her short life as a replicant would bring next, she tells Joseph to come back the next night. Joseph continues to visit the bar several nights in a row without retiring Selene until he encounters Marlowe, who inquires about his failure to retire his target. Figuring that he has fallen for her, Marlowe demands Joseph retire her that night, or else he take care of it himself. Marlowe proceeds to tell Selene that it will be her last performance. As such, Selene bids farewell to her audience before singing one last song. Outside, Joseph and Selene kiss before Joseph shoots her dead. Back in the present, Joseph tells Elle that he cannot shake this memory, that he remembers the bar every night. In her memories, Elle recalls being with her boyfriend at the pool and asks him why he has not been searching for her. The boyfriend suggests that perhaps it is she who should be looking for him. Elle proclaims her desire to find the man in her memory, prompting him to retrieve a device from Doc Badger’s shop, which allows her to draw a sketch of the man. Elle takes all night making the sketch, to which Joseph recognizes as the man as Niander Wallace, Jr. As Jr. puts a black lotus tattoo on another replicant at the same pool, Joseph calls him. He learns that their arrangement was to help Jr., as Joseph had originally believed. Joseph proceeds to ask what happens next.
Episode 111 · “All the Best Memories” Air Date: Jan 23, 2022
All the Best Memories Desperately lost and searching for peace, Elle hatches a radical plan to put her haunted memories to rest.
Wallace Jr. commands Joseph to retire Elle. After he hangs up, Elle catches him staring at her sketch of Jr. and asks if she knows him, to which he claims he does not. As the news eulogizes Wallace Sr., Wallace Jr. reflects on his new freedom and his plans to create a perfect world, in addition to tying up his loose ends. As Elle examines the sketch, she recalls Goodman and wonders if he can help her remember the man. Joseph suggests that she instead have Goodman erase her bad memories so that she can be free from them. They go his lab, where they informed there is no safe way for select replicant memories to be purged and that Elle would need to erase all of them. She decides to go through with this and is put into Goodman’s memory machine, being reassured by Joseph that he will be there when she awakes. While inside, Joseph calmly states that Wallace Jr. was the man from her memory and that he had created her in order to kill his father, with Joseph being assigned to guide Elle to the assassination. He breaks his promise with Elle and leaves. Joseph calls Jr. and tells him that Elle had been retired. After hanging up, Wallace expresses his distrust of Joseph and assigns Water Lily to kill Elle. Officer Alani Davis is paged by Joseph, who tells her that Elle is at Goodman’s lab and asks her to arrest and protect her. As Elle sheds a tear recalling memories with Joseph, Water Lily kills the guards outside of the lab. She enters the lab and kills Goodman, who manages to shut down the machine before succumbing to the injury. Water Lily slices the tank off of the machine. Meanwhile, Joseph returns to his apartment and calls Marlowe to talk to him about Black Lotus. At the lab, Elle slips from the tank and dodges an attack by Water Lily.
Episode 112 · “Artificial Souls” Air Date: Jan 30, 2022
All the Best Memories Desperately lost and searching for peace, Elle hatches a radical plan to put her haunted memories to rest.
A battle between Elle and Water Lily commences. The two fight until LAPD officers burst in, prompting the two to escape the facility. In an alley, Elle is met by Alani Davis, who tells Elle of her discovery of replicant bodies in the desert. Davis offers her protection so she can help bring Wallace Jr. to justice, but Elle does not trust her and flees. Meanwhile, Marlowe flies his spinner to Joseph’s apartment. Davis goes to call the acting chief of police and report Wallace Jr.’s involvement in the Black Lotus case. However, she is impaled by Water Lily before she can relay the information. Water Lily hangs up and uses the phone to call Jr. to inform him of Elle’s escape. Wallace Jr. commands her to stop pursuing Elle and is confident she will find her way to him herself. After the call, Water Lily turns around to find that Davis is gone. Marlowe arrives at Joseph’s apartment and asks where Elle is, knowing Joseph has developed feelings and is protecting her. Joseph opens fire on Marlowe and the two exchange gunfire as they slip from the apartment into the building’s atrium. Joseph comments on Marlowe’s lack of emotion, who proceeds to recall that it was actually him who retired Selene years ago. Joseph is shot in the shoulder and flees into the elevator. The two fight hand-to-hand until Marlowe goes to pick up his gun, allowing Joseph to ascend to the rooftop. On the roof, Joseph and Marlowe continue to exchange gunfire. After being hit several times, Joseph drags himself to the edge of the building and manages to hide and ambush Marlowe. The two fight until Joseph picks up Marlowe’s shotgun and shoots him several times, with the final shot sending Marlowe into the building’s atrium and several stories down to the ground. Joseph collapses and falls unconscious. Elle reaches the rooftop and awakes Joseph, who learns that Elle didn’t receive the memory wipe. Joseph advises that she finally leave the city. However, Elle points out that Wallace Jr. poses a constant threat to them as long as he lives, and vows to end the conflict once and for all.
Episode 113 · “Time To Die” Air Date: Feb 06, 2022
Left with no other option, Elle faces off against the architect of her suffering.
Elle infiltrates the former building of Tyrell Corp, disabling guards on her way to Niander Wallace Jr. Inside his office, Elle questions his motivations, but he comments upon her success in becoming exactly what he intended for her. Elle attempts to attack him, but fails to do so due to her programming. Water Lily attacks and the two replicants engage in a sword fight. Elsewhere, Joseph enters the replicant manufacture room to plant explosives. Wallace Jr. slips away from the fight to find Joseph, having collapsed to the floor. Wallace Jr. monologues about his plans for his replicants to replace humanity and Joseph feigns having a detonator. Wallace Jr. takes the detonator from Joseph as Elle runs to the room, pursued by Water Lily, and the two continue fighting. After a brutal scuffle where Elle appears victorious, Wallace Jr. embraces Water Lily, but notes that she is flawed, and fatally stabs her with her sword. Elle again unsuccessfully attempts to kill Wallace Jr. He then offers her a place by his side and Elle withdraws her sword before instantly pulling it out again to slash his eyes. Joseph apologizes to Elle for any hurt he has brought, but Elle points out that good memories outweigh the pain. Elle retrieves the detonator for Joseph and they make their way out. However, Joseph pushes Elle out of the room and seals himself inside before detonating the explosives, seemingly killing himself in the process. One month later, Officer Davis returns to work in a wheelchair, as her colleagues welcome her back with applause. A now blind Wallace Jr. talks to a worried secretary and assures her that despite his father’s death and sudden loss of his vision, the company will not be set back. He hangs up and faces the window, stating that he sees “limitless possibilities”. Doc Badger barges into Joseph’s apartment, searching for him, only to find Elle’s sword. Elle leaves Los Angeles, driving out into the desert on Joseph’s motorbike.
FULL Widescreen 1.66:1 (Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio) FULL 1080p HD Picture
ALL COMMERCIALS PROFESSIONALLY EDITED OUT
Total Running Time is 293 Minutes or 4 Hours 52 Minutes
CREDITS
Directors: Shinji Aramaki, Kenji Kamiyama
Writer: Philip K. Dick
Starring: Brian Cox, Wes Bentley, Peyton List, Jessica Henwick, Will Yun Lee, Josh Duhamel
The opening theme is “Feel You Now” by Alessia Cara
Characters and Cast
Elle: Voiced by: Arisa Shida (Japanese); Jessica Henwick (English)
A female replicant created for a secret and unknown purpose.
Joseph: Voiced by: Shinshu Fuji (Japanese); Will Yun Lee (English)
A mysterious figure who owns a spare parts junkyard in Los Angeles.
Alani Davis: Voiced by: Takako Honda (Japanese); Samira Wiley (English)
A fresh LAPD recruit.
Niander Wallace Sr.: Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese); Brian Cox (English)
Founder and CEO of the Wallace Corporation.
Niander Wallace Jr.: Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese); Wes Bentley (English)
Brilliant scientist working for his father.
Marlowe: Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki (Japanese); Josh Duhamel (English)
A deadly Blade Runner.
Josephine Grant: Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese); Peyton List (English)
The wife of the police chief.
Earl Grant: Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka (Japanese); Stephen Root (English)
Police Chief of the LAPD.
Doc Badger: Voiced by: Takayuki Kinba (Japanese); Barkhad Abdi (English)
A black market dealer. Barkhad Abdi reprises the same role he played in Blade Runner 2049.
Senator Bannister: Voiced by: Masane Tsukayama (Japanese); Gregg Henry (English)
A politician with strong feelings on replicant production.
Doctor M: Voiced by: Akio Nojima (Japanese); Henry Czerny (English)
A brilliant doctor and professor of medicine.
Hooper: Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (Japanese); Jason Spisak (English)
A journalist in the pocket of the Wallace Corporation.
Featuring songs that appear on the “Blade Runner: Black Lotus Soundtrack:
- Feel You Now – Alessia Cara
- Water – X-Ambassadors
- Home – Walk Off The Earth
- Evil – Daya
- By My Side – A7S
- After You – Grey
- Save Myself – Kiana Ledé
- Intuition – salem ilese
- Rescue Me – Alesso & Danna Paola
- What Happens Next – Tori Kelly
- Thrash – G-Eazy
- Circles – iann dior
- Perfect Weapon – 070 Shake
- Last Goodbye – Alessia Cara
- Supahuman – Michael Hodges & Lord Netty
Martin Chabot (verified owner) –
For fans of the movies or sci fi anime from Japan. This series takes place 13 years after the first movie Blade Runner. The imagery is beautiful and respect the environment and futuristic styles of the movies. The story is cool but the pace is a little slow. But I was satisfied. A great addition to the Blade Runner’s World!
I recommend this RARE Blu-ray for fans of the genre.