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While the first sight of a spinner in BR82 brought a sense of wonderment, here, a group of them evokes a sense of foreboding.

Their slow, methodical traversal of the desert is symbolic for a number of reasons. They echo Wallace’s augmented eyes, show the vastness of his reach and highlight the insurmountable struggle that Replicants have against their masters. They are not safe anywhere.

Luv makes a return, beating down K and destroying Joi.

It’s here that Joi accomplishes her ultimate purpose. In achieving impermanence, she becomes real to K. Her final words: “I love you” are genuine in that it’s the last message she wishes to convey at the end of her existence. This echoes the earlier sentiments of Morton and K: it’s only at the point of losing life that we realize the purpose of it.

Hardship is an essential component of the human condition. It’s through struggles and challenges that we truly exist. In K’s case, he could never appreciate his relationship with Joi while she had digital immortality. Her permanence cheapened her existence. Once she became “like a real girl” K realized how much Joi meant to him.

At this moment in the film, K is at his lowest point, and it’s here that the most symbolic shot of the Replicant - human relationship is shown, however it is so brief that it is most likely missed upon first viewing.

It represents everything that has gone before, a visual depiction of the Replicants existence in service to humanity:

The embers float away in the darkness, fading into the crumbling mega city. Replicant lives are used to feed the machine that perpetuates human existence. Crushed dreams, Replicant enslavement and a repressed urge to live are simply fuel for a decaying society. To their creators, Replicants are nothing but a sub class upon which humanity can offload its collective regrets and failures.

But this is not the case for all of humanity. We see the opposite when Deckard confronts his past.