Luv

"You can't hold back the tide with a broom."

- Luv to Lt. Joshi "I'm the best one!"

- Luv fighting K Luv is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 neo-noir science fiction film Blade Runner 2049, the second installment of the Blade Runner franchise after the original cult classic movie Blade Runner.

She is the personal assistant and bodyguard of the CEO of Wallace Corporation, Niander Wallace, she and her boss are in a quest to find the only replicant biologically born, the child of former Blade Runner, Rick Deckard and deceased replicant and former assistant of Eldon Tyrell, CEO of the extint Tyrell Corporation, Rachael.

She was portrayed by dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks

BLADE RUNNER 2049
After the death of Eldon Tyrell, founder and CEO of Tyrell Corporation, the company responsible for the creation of the replicants, Niander Wallace, the blind CEO of Wallace Corporation bought the company and released a new generation of replicants, more strong, obediant and safe, Luv is a replicant who only purpose is to protect and serve Wallace.

In 2049 a Nexus-9 replicant named K works for the LAPD as a 'blade runner', an agent who hunts down and 'retires', or eliminates rogue replicants. He lives with a holographic girlfriend Joi, an artificial intelligence product of the Wallace Corporation.

K's investigation into a growing replicant freedom movement leads him to a farm, where he retires Sapper Morton, a rogue Nexus-8 replicant. K finds a box buried on the farm containing bodily remains; forensic analysis reveals they are the remains of a female Nexus-7 replicant who died during an emergency caesarean section, contradicting the belief that all replicants are sterile. Fearful that this knowledge could lead to war between humans and replicants, K's superior Lieutenant Joshi orders K to destroy the evidence and to find and retire the replicant child.

K visits the headquarters of Wallace Corporation, where the deceased female is identified from DNA archives as Rachael, an experimental replicant designed by the inventor of replicants, Dr. Tyrell. K learns of Rachael's romantic ties with former blade runner Rick Deckard. Wallace, wants to discover the secret to reproduction in replicants in order to support interstellar colonization, and to this end he sends Luv to steal Rachael's remains from LAPD headquarters (killing one employee in the way) and follow K to find Rachael's child.

Returning to Morton's farm, K finds Rachael's date of death, and recognizes it from one of his childhood memories about a wooden toy horse. Joi insists that this coincidence is evidence that K was born and not created as a replicant, which only have implanted memories. While searching through records from that year, he discovers that twins were born on that day with identical DNA except for the sex chromosome, but only the boy is listed as alive. K tracks the child to an orphanage in ruined San Diego, when he arrives, the outcasts attack him but he is rescued by Luv who sends an attack drone so K could continue looking for the child but K discovers its records from the relevant year have been removed. K also recognizes the orphanage from his memories, and finds the wooden horse where he remembers hiding it.

K seeks out Dr. Ana Stelline, the leading designer of replicant memories, who confirms that his memory of the orphanage is real. This leads K to believe that he is Rachael's son. At LAPD headquarters, K fails a test for his replicant obedience, but claims that he failed the test because he was emotional from completing his mission to kill the child. Joshi gives him 48 hours before he is retired, pending the results of his next test. Preparing to flee, K transfers Joi to a mobile emitter on her request. K has the wooden horse analyzed, which reveals traces of radiation that lead him to the ruins of Las Vegas. There he finds Deckard, who reveals that he is the father of Rachael's child and that he scrambled the birth records to protect the child's identity before leaving it in the custody of the replicant freedom movement.

Luv looks for K on his apartment but doesn't find him so she visits the LAPD police department and interrogates Joshi, who refuses to talk so Luv tortures her by making her tighten broken glass, Joshi still refuses to talk so Luv kills her by slitting and stabbing her in the stomach, the she uses her computer to locate K, Luv and her men track K to Deckard's location, Deckard and K try to fight them but they are outnumbered, Deckard is taken and K gets beaten by Luv, Joi begs her to stop but Luv destroys the emitter in front of K's eyes, then they leave him to die. He is rescued by the replicant freedom movement and their leader Freysa informs him that Rachael's child is female. In order to ensure that Deckard does not lead Wallace to Rachael's daughter or to the replicant freedom movement, Freysa orders K to kill Deckard. Meanwhile, Deckard is brought before Wallace, who offers him a clone of Rachael as a reward for revealing what he knows. When Deckard refuses to cooperate, Wallace orders Luv to escort him off-world to be tortured for information and then Luv kills Rachael clone.

K returns to L.A and decides to rescue Deckard and reunite him with his daughter. K intercepts Deckard as he is being escorted off-world, K manages to take down Luv's flying car but it falls on the sea wall with the tides rising, Deckard is handcuffed to the car and K gets into a shootout with Luv, they end up both injured but Luv still has strenght, they fight outside the car with the tides hitting them, Luv mortally wounds K stabbing him on the side and then returns with Deckard, but the tides have dragged the car closer to the sea, now they have the water up to the neck, K makes one last attempt and attacks Luv, she tries to drawn K but K fight back and sinks Luv, slowly drowning her until she dies.

Epilogue
K stages Deckard's death to protect him from both Wallace and the replicants. He then leads Deckard to Stelline's office, having deduced that she is his daughter. The two part ways with K lamenting that his best memories belong to her. While K peacefully succumbs to his wounds, Deckard cautiously enters the office and approaches Stelline.

TriviA

 * Sylvia Hoeks is the second Dutch actor to be cast in a Blade Runner movie as a villainous Replicant; Dutch actor Rutger Hauer famously played Roy Batty in the first Blade Runner .
 * In an interview in Dutch magazine Algemeen Dagblad actress Sylvia Hoeks explained her hair was dyed black to give her "an Asian appearance". Hoeks: "I became the Japanese version of myself. My best friend and I even started to greet each other in Japanese."
 * Sylvia Hoeks plays a character named Luv. Coincidentally, there was a popular girl pop group called Luv' in the 70s and 80s in the Netherlands, where Hoeks is from.