OVERLAY REPORT

At the end of *Blade Runner 2049*, the protagonist K (also known as Joe) dies on the steps of the Stelline Laboratories. Here are the specific details of how his journey concludes: **The Final Conflict** K engages in a brutal fight with Luv, Niander Wallace’s enforcer, on a sinking transport ship in the ocean. During the struggle, Luv stabs K deep in the abdomen with a blade. Despite this mortal wound, K manages to overpower and drown Luv, saving Rick Deckard from being taken off-world to be tortured for information. **The Decision** Although the replicant resistance (led by Freysa) had ordered K to kill Deckard to protect the secret of the miracle child, K chooses a more "human" path. He decides to reunite Deckard with his daughter, Dr. Ana Stelline. **The Final Moments** K drives Deckard to the laboratory where Ana works. Because K is dying from his internal injuries and blood loss, he remains outside while Deckard goes in to meet his daughter for the first time. The film ends with these specific visual and auditory cues: * **The Setting:** K sits down on the snow-covered steps of the facility. * **The Symbolism:** As he lies back, he looks up at the falling snow. This heavily mirrors the death of Roy Batty from the original film, who died in the rain. * **The Music:** The score plays a variation of "Tears in Rain" (the theme from Roy Batty’s death scene), reinforcing the parallel between the two replicants who found meaning in their final moments. * **The Contrast:** The scene cuts between K’s peaceful, solitary death in the cold and the warm, emotional moment inside the lab where Ana is creating a memory of snow, unaware that her "father" is standing behind her and the man who saved them both is dying outside. K’s death signifies his ultimate realization: that while he was not the "chosen" biological child he once thought he was, he became "real" through his own selfless actions and his choice to sacrifice his life for someone else.