Zhora Salome

A serpent in the neon night, hunted for the crime of wanting to live.

Zhora Salome is a rogue Nexus-6 replicant who works as an exotic dancer at Taffey Lewis's Snake Pit Bar in Los Angeles. She is one of the four surviving renegade replicants from the off-world colonies that blade runner Rick Deckard is assigned to retire. Deckard finds her at the bar and kills her after a chase.

Reader's Guide

Zhora Salome is a pivotal antagonist in the narrative of Blade Runner, representing the tragic plight of the Nexus-6 replicants. Trained for an off-world murder squad, she has an A physical level (superhuman endurance) and a B mental level. Her role in the story shifts from a mysterious figure in a nightclub to a desperate fugitive seeking an extension of her life.

She gets a job as an exotic dancer at Taffey's bar, performing with an artificial snake.

Zhora's arc culminates in her confrontation with Rick Deckard. When Deckard tracks her down she attacks him, nearly choking him with his own tie, and then runs into a busy street.