John Krasinski’s Lee Abbott died six years ago in A Quiet Place, but a new reveal in A Quiet Place: Day One makes 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 One takes the franchise in a different direction by going back to the first day that the aliens invaded. This meant not including the Abbott family, as their experience on Day One was already explored in A Quiet Place Part II‘s opening.

Just because John Krasinski and Emily Blunt aren’t in A 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 official A Quiet Place timeline, 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.

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 with A Quiet Place: Day One‘s alien pouches that 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. The aliens are shown eating out of the pouches once 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 is through this reveal that A Quiet Place: Day One confirms humans are connected to the aliens’ primary food source. Director Michael Sarnoski explained A Quiet Place: Day One‘s pinkish eggs and 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 to A 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 body after 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 between A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II or that his body was left where he died. Based on what A Quiet Place: Day One reveals, 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 in A Quiet Place: Day One.