Like Blade Runner before it, most of Blade Runner 2049‘s characters inhabit a motivational grey area.
The successor to Dr. Tyrell, who was murdered by Roy Batty in the first Blade Runner, Niander Wallace is the new top-level manufacturer of robots and robotic engineering.
Whose actions and motivations as defined on-screen make it difficult to make a case that there’s any way of redeeming them – one Niander Wallace (Jared Leto).
Wallace’s new line of robots have restored a semblance of basic order to the bleak dystopia of Blade Runner’s Los Angeles, and everything is humming along.