Blade Runner 2049 What is baseline [closed]

As far as I could tell, the strange debriefing process he had to do was to monitor his baseline obedience, rather than actively try to correct it. By the looks of it, the police department simply retire replicants if they deviate from baseline, rather than spending time and effort correcting them, as seen in the way Madam gives K a chance to run away, knowing his inevitable fate.

The technology, like a lot of the technology in the Blade Runner universe, is bizarre and difficult to decipher. I did wonder if it was related to the strange, almost archaic 'crystal' technology the Tyrell Corp used to backup their data - it looks like a piece of kelp in a snowglobe! After K finishes the baseline test, we see Madam look at a display on a computer, from which she determines that K is not where he should be in terms of baseline obedience, but it looks more like an x-ray or microscope image than binary data. So it's hard to know what baseline is, and how they maintain it.

It's there to detect, not to bring him back. He wasn't killed when he failed it because the head chief 'Madam' liked him. She then granted him an opportunity to run because he said he completed what she asked for.