The music video tells a story through a series of scenes: a woman emerges alone in a forest raising questions; a car searches for someone at night; the woman experiences a shocking memory in black and white. Subsequent scenes show the woman running in fear from an unknown pursuer and being hit by an approaching car. At the end, she gains power by throwing a Molotov cocktail at her attacker. The repetition of the song title suggests the woman is now worse off than when she first entered the forest.

1. Run For Cover
The Killers

2. The first scene shows a woman emerging from the mist in the forest, as the
title of the song shows on the screen. The woman emerges in slow motion
and immediately raises the question of why she is there. The shot type used
in these scene is a low angle shot, and the way she is dressed constructs the
mis-en-scene to show that she is nicely dressed, which adds to the question
of why she is in the forest.

3. This is a dashboard camera angle. From the darkness around the scene
and the headlights being the only source of light, it suggests that the
person driving this car is searching for someone or something, most
likely the woman in the forest we saw before.

4. This is another slow motion scene. The mis-en-scene of this scene indicates
that the woman has seen something which has put her in shock, with the
dropping of the glass as an indication. The black and white shows that this
scene is showing a flashback or a memory, possibly resulting in her running
through the forest. Through the three scenes I have analyzed, the video shows
an action/drama based genre.

5. This scene is in colour, indicating its in real time and took place after she
has discovered what she did. This shows the woman running from the
source of light again, but the man in the background is displayed as an
enemy of some kind due to the low angle shot and that you cant make
out who it is.

6. In this scene you see the car again, but it is approaching the woman on
the road, whom you can vaguely see in the centre of the shot. This
represents that her fears are catching up to her.

7. This scene takes place after the car hits the woman, she stands up and throws
a Molotov cocktail at the car. This is a panning shot moving to the right
following the woman's direction in which she is walking. This indicates that she
has gained the power.

8. At the end of the music video they show the title again. This is mostly to
illiterate it but it could also be an indication that the woman is worse off
from before, due the the title being the same from the beginning when she
discovered what she did, and now at the end when she has just killed a
man.