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Possible plot hole regarding Luv?


As much as I love this movie, rewatching it, I think I've found a plot hole, but let me know if I've missed something. So, when K goes to the orphanage in San Diego, we're shown that Luv is following him closely with her drone and even using it to protect him so that he can find the child in question.

After returning home and talking to Joi, K's next stop is the upgrade clinic where THE child is. So why wasn't Luv following him on this trip when she knows he's searching for the child? It would have led her straight to her target, especially if she questioned Dr. Stelline. For some reason, after the orphanage scene, Luv has trouble tracking K and has to resort to breaking into the LAPD to access their computer. And if Luv couldn't track K's moves, then how did she know he was going to the orphanage earlier?

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I can't remember as it has been months, but was he using the same vehicle?

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It's strongly implied that he's using the same spinner, yes. It does get shot down with an EMP weapon on his way to the orphanage. But given the distance between there and his home in LA, we can only assume the spinner resumed working after a while so he could make the trip back.

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his spinner is destroyed.

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This is how i see it, after one viewing (I need to see it again to really be sure):

i think Luv tracked K to the upgrade clinic but "the child's" identity was still unclear, so Luv was letting it play out at that point and just observing before making a move. Even a fellow replicant wasn't able to tell that "the memory maker" was Deckerd's daughter, only K was able to put together the pieces much later of the fragmented memory that was hers as a child implanted into him. Maybe most importantly, I'm not sure Deckerd's daughter even knew herself of her own, natural-born origins, as much effort had been made to obscure and misdirect the birth records, aided even more by the Blackout that wiped most records clean a few decades before.

I think Luv truly lost track of K When he destroyed Joi's antenna so she could inhabit the emulator permanently (like a portable flash drive) when they went to the ruins of Las Vegas. Luv had been tracking him the entire time through his interactions with Joi, a Wallace product, though I'm sure through other devices as well. Right after K breaks the antenna they cut to a scene of Luv angrily storming off to Madame Joshi's office for their (deadly) confrontation, demanding to know where he is.

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makes sense 👍

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