Shots of the girl screaming, the bowl of potato chips dropping, Conan lurking, Conan upside down, inside his car, in the red hallway, in his dark dancing spot, and with the two tied up behind him are included rapidly to wrap up the storyline and song. The song softens and Conan is shown breaking into the home, and surprising the two love interests. The boy stands up to look for something and Conan finishes his dancing by glaring clutching his heart as, вЂњYouвЂ™re gonna wish you never harmed me,вЂќ is sung, before glaring at the camera. He stands outside of their window, slides the Barbie dolls away from himself, eats the Wheat Flakes he held in the store he followed them into earlier and looks at his own hands in fear. He rips off his cardigan, which differs from the dancing earlier in the video, which looked slightly more like the way he performs at his concerts.Д¬onan stands outside the house where the two were earlier, right in front of their car from earlier as the lyric, вЂњAnd IвЂ™ma wreck your carвЂќ is sung.

Conan continues to jump around in the previous locations, his rage growing stronger. The couple is shown lying together on a couch, before the camera quickly pans away, almost similar to the camera work in a horror film, warning the viewer of that which lurks on the outside. The chorus picks up again, and the moshing continues this time with a quick shot of the Barbies in a compromising position. He holds the Barbie dolls up threateningly, as though heвЂ™s plotting to perform some sort of voodoo, and glares at the person across the table from him at the bowling alley.ДЄs the chorus softens for a moment, the boy from the car is shown smiling at the camera, before it slowly slips off, as though he sees something disturbing approaching. He dances the way one does while listening to the song. The chorus then picks up and Conan is shown thrashing about and yelling in each of the previous locations. The lyric вЂњyeah baby you should really runвЂќ is whispered as Conan holds two Barbie dolls, each looking strikingly like his love interests. Again, the video has threatening shots, such as the molded ceiling and ConanвЂ™s hand slipping away from their balled-up fists.

He laughs along with their jokes but often looks away to the camera with an angry expression. Conan sits for pizza with both the boy and the girl, separately.

The song continues and a bowling alley is introduced. Conan peeks through shelves, holds up a box of Wheat Flakes, and stares into the camera through a mirror вЂ“ all while the chorus rages on, вЂњвЂ™Cause IвЂ™ve gotten tired of the games that you play/When you tell me you love me then you throw me away/So cry me a river till you drown in the lake/ вЂCause you may think youвЂ™re winning but checkmate.вЂќ The couple is shown outside of the store kissing in their car while Conan looks on from within his own car before looking away with rage, as though heвЂ™s piecing things together. A shot of a security camera and a wall of ropes are included, foreshadowing the threatening element of the video and song. The chorus begins and Conan follows the couple into a store. The video then cuts to Conan in his car, staring dead into the camera, mouthing, вЂњIвЂ™m gonna ruin your lifeвЂќ while dragging his fingers across his throat to signify a threat. He sings in the red hallway and sits on the floor of the home while playing with lamp вЂ“ switching it on from dark to light. Image via the вЂњCheckmateвЂќ music videoД¬onan begins to sing as different shots are displayed to establish the early 2000s world of nostalgia within the music video: a girl running to get in a car, Conan playing with his Wheat Flake cereal in the previous bedroom, Conan singing in a red hallway and the boy from the car slyly looking into the camera over his shoulder.Д¬onan watches the couple get out of their car from within his own. As Conan lifts the tiny Discman headphones up to his ears, вЂњCheckmateвЂќ begins to play. Conan is then seen in a 1990s bedroom watching a horror film and playing chess on what appears to be an iMac G3, circa 1998. Two voices are heard over the phone, offering excuses as to why they are canceling on him, and he grows visibly irked before the video cuts to the two main love interests (or victims, perhaps) of the video. The video opens with Conan sitting in front of a freeway listening to his phone, as voicemails are played.

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