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blade runner series - Is K's bonus actually Joi's emanator?


When K passes his baseline test at the beginning of Blade Rrunner 2049, the interrogator says, "You can pick up your bonus." In the next scene, he brings home an emanator for Joi.


Someone on the Internet suggested (I don't have the patience to find the link at the moment) that the emanator is K's bonus. If that's so, it implies that LAPD knows an awful lot about K's inner life. This would make sense since the Replicants are kept on a short leash (and Gaff even appears to know about Deckard's unicorn dream in the first film), but it's still creepy.


The other explanation would be that they gave him a more standard cash bonus, and he went shopping on the way home. Is there any direct evidence in the film itself, or in any ancillary materials, to support one reading over the other?



Answer





It is revealed in the final (undated) shooting script that K gets a cash bonus after bringing in Sapper['s eye]:



JOSHI (ON SCREEN)
Between the retirement and the bleed
you’ll see a tidy bonus. Less mine.


K
Can I get it today?


JOSHI (ON SCREEN)
I don’t know what you all do with cash in

pocket anyway. Come on home for your
baseline.
-Final Shooting Script (undated), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Fancher, H. and Green, M.



And later, after passing his 'baseline' test and collecting his cash bonus, we see him carrying the 'newly purchased package':



EXT. CITY STREET.
A POLICE SPINNER glides low overhead. A small ADVERTISEMENT
DRONE hovers like an insect, projecting 3D ads in the smoggy
atmosphere. A HUGE SNOW MELTING MACHINE moves down the

street, clearing the slush. It passes to REVEAL --

K. He pushes past the occlusion of PEOPLE buttoned against
the cold. Crosses the windblown street. Gutters heaped with
dirty snow as more dirty snow falls. Fat, sooty flakes.
He carries a newly purchased PACKAGE under his arm.
-Ibid.



[all emphases mine]


The package, as we learn, turns out to be the emanator.


This also points out, as Joshi mentions, that at least she is not interested in what he does in his spare time.


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