If there was ever a DWOHT mv I’d want it to be like a mini movie. A branch off from the Bad Blood mv. Taylor and Karlie sparred against each other as she was training to beat Selena. Imagine using DWOHT as a song to explore running into each other again years later whilst spying it up.
Like imagine a mv where Taylor is on assignment collecting intel that leads her to an underground high roller casino. She is in disguise and has a contact on the inside. She’s scoping out the space trying to find out who runs this operation. While she’s surveying the room Karlie appears from a back room on the arm of the owner of the casino. Karlie is going around the room mingling with guests. Taylor clocks Karlie and her brain flashes back to the bad blood sparring match and other moments from training we didn’t see.
Taylor’s contact at the location walks her over to the bar and tells her Karlie is the wife of the casino owner. They’ve been running this operation together for years. Taylor takes in the information and observes as the camera pans to Karlie at a craps table socializing and throwing the dice. As she throws, the camera slows down and follows along the sight line of her eyes from the dice up to Taylor’s eyes at the bar. And for just a millisecond she freezes before going back to socializing. Taylor turns around to ask her contact another question and when she looks back to the craps table Karlie is gone.
Taylor says to the contact “I need to get into that office. Is there any other way in? The contact says the couple has private parties in the back room that leads to the office but you have to be invited in.”
Taylor spots the owner’s rich drunk friend and starts making conversation and flirting. He tells the owner to let her in so he can get lucky. Once inside the blue and red lit private space, the drunk rich guy starts trying to make a move on Taylor. Just as she starts to rebuff Karlie appears in front of their booth with a couple of drinks. She sits down without being invited and the drunk friend straightens up in her presence. Karlie never breaks eye contact with Taylor. Karlie tells her she has a familiar face that she just cannot place. She starts listing off possible events where they could’ve met.
Taylor’s contact also made it into the private room and created a distraction. Karlie got up to check on things and Taylor used the opportunity to make her way to the back office. She slips in unseen and begins going through drawers and snapping photos of papers. She finds a laptop and plugs in a flash drive to copy all the files.
The scene cuts back to Karlie returning to the booth only to find the drunk rich guy passed out on the table and Taylor no where to be seen. Karlie looks towards the door just as the owner comes to talk to her. Meanwhile Taylor is waiting for the files to copy and keeping an eye on the door.
Karlie and the owner start making their way to the back office. Karlie stops to talk to someone and the owner keeps going. The owner comes in just in time to catch Taylor pulling out the flash drive and in the surprise she drops the flash drive. He charges towards her and is about to call for help when Karlie appears behind him and sticks him with a syringe that knocks him out immediately.
Karlie and Taylor stare at each other in silence for a good few seconds. Then Karlie says “took you long enough.” And Taylor says “well you’re the one that wanted to chat at the booth.” Karlie replies, “well sorry for trying to save you from Gropes Mcgee back there.” Taylor cuts back, “I don’t need you to save me.” “And yet here we are…” as Karlie motions to the passed out owner on the floor. “Fair.”
The next scene is Taylor back at headquarters with Mariska Hargitay as the commander is congratulating her on the successful mission. Taylor asks why no one told her Karlie was so deep undercover. Mariska says “she’s not undercover. She left the organization years ago.” In that moment Taylor checks the flash drive and realizes there’s a paper thin clear tracker on it. Taylor’s memory flashes back to Karlie picking up the flash drive and handing it back to her. Taylor is shocked back to the present when the security breach alarms start blaring. Mariska starts screaming for everyone to get to the safe bunker. Taylor doesn’t follow. Then the entire headquarters explodes.
The scene cuts to Taylor’s hands around a mug in her kitchen with natural light pouring in through the window. She brings the mug up to sip as the camera pulls back to show her full body in frame. Another set of hands appear wrapping around her belly from behind. It is Karlie.
Their escape plan was both of them getting out and leaving everything else behind.