Summary
John Krasinski’s Lee Abbott died six years ago inA Quiet Place, but a new reveal inA Quiet Place: Day Onemakes his death a lot darker than before. The first installment in the sci-fi/horror franchise released in 2018 was built around the family dynamic of the Abbotts.A Quiet Place: Day Onetakes the franchise in a different direction by going back to the firstday that the aliens invaded. This meant not including the Abbott family, as their experience on Day One was already explored inA Quiet Place Part II’s opening.
Just becauseJohn Krasinski and Emily Blunt aren’t inA Quiet Place: Day One, new revelations about the Abbott family’s story still are possible. This comes through larger details about the world of the franchise. While Lee Abbott’s sacrificial death does not happen for more than a year after the prequel in the officialA Quiet Placetimeline, what happens on one of the earlier days has larger implications for the series. This includes changing how audiences see Krasinski’s character’s death in the first movie.
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A Quiet Place: Day One Reveals The Aliens Use Humans As A Food Source
They Harvest The Bodies
One of the biggest lore reveals in the prequel movie comes withA Quiet Place: Day One’s alien pouchesthat Eric (Joseph Quinn) finds one night. He stumbles upon a field of eggs that the aliens are growing while looking for the lost cat, Frodo. Thealiens are shown eating out of the pouchesonce they are ready, confirming the aliens' food source at last. However, viewers might not have noticed that the eggs are grown from the bodies of humans the aliens have killed.
It was never previously confirmed that the aliens took and ate humans
It is through this reveal thatA Quiet Place: Day Oneconfirmshumans are connected to the aliens' primary food source. Director Michael Sarnoski explainedA Quiet Place: Day One’s pinkish eggsand his interest in answering what happened to the human bodies after the aliens killed them. It was never previously confirmed that the aliens took and ate humans, although that was a common theory. The prequel now confirms humanity’s role in the aliens' survival, as Sarnoski said they are"using the organic material of people to grow what is their food source."
A Quiet Place: Day One Changes How You’ll See John Krasinski’s Death
Lee Abbott Likely Became Alien Food
It is thanks toA Quiet Place: Day One’s alien reveal that Lee Abbott’s death becomes darker.The previous movies did not confirm what happened to Lee’s bodyafter he died, as the movie cuts right as the alien leaps for him. This left the door open for the Abbott family to have buried him betweenA Quiet PlaceandA Quiet Place Part IIor that his body was left where he died. Based on whatA Quiet Place: Day Onereveals, it is now all but confirmed that Lee was turned into an alien food source after his death.
This does not change the heroic and sacrificial nature of Lee’s death, but it does reshape how to process what happened to him next. Krasinski’s character went from being the family’s protector against the aliens and someone looking to stop them to a piece of their ecosystem built to keep them alive. There is no opportunity for a deserved burial or chance to remember him, as other aliens potentially whisked his body away to feed themselves as shown inA Quiet Place: Day One.
