In the narrative as to how Leon Kowalski smuggled his gun into the Voight-Kampff test, and how he escaped from the building, given that the whole incident was on videotape, and occurred on an upper floor, The 110 story New York City World Trade Center that made headlines when it was bombed in February 1993, and again when it was hit by two hijacked planes on September 11, 2001 housed roughly 50,000 workers, with around 200,000 people per day passing through as visitors. According to Future Noir, the Tyrell pyramid is 700 to 900 stories high, reaching over a mile into the sky (page 236). Since the top of the pyramid is apparently several times larger than the footprint of the World Trade Center, the base is considerably larger. Additionally, it is surrounded by four buttresses, each of which must be greater in volume than the World Trade Center. From this, it can be speculated that Dr. Elden Tyrell's pyramid must be larger than the World Trade Center by a factor of 100 or more, and as such, it could house somewhere in the region of 5 to 10 million people. It would be easy to get lost in a crowd that size. After Leon shoots Dave Holden, he would only need to mingle amongst the masses to reach the exit, as finding him in this throng would an impossible task. As for how he got the weapon into the building in the first place, we know that the Tyrell Corporation security is not perfect because, (1) Bryant tells Rick Deckard two replicants got fried on an electrical fence or other type of barrier trying to break in, but the others got away, and (2) Roy Batty gets in and kills Dr. Tyrell (Joe Turkel) with relative ease, using J.F. Sebastian's security clearance. Taking all of this together, it would not have been impossible for Leon to smuggle a weapon into the building, shoot Holden, and escape.
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