A QUIET PLACE: DAY 1-477: STORY AND TIMELINE

DAY ONE: June 18, 2020

Numerous meteor showers of asteroid fragments enter Earth’s atmosphere all around the globe without warning. Initially landing in China, Mexico, New York City, and Millbrook, New York. Shortly afterwards an aggressive Alien species starts attacking anything and anyone making noise, quickly decimating whole populations caught by surprise and completely unprepared.

Sam is a terminally ill hospice care patient who went to New York City with her cat Frodo and her Hospice group to watch a show. She is caught alone outside the theater as the aliens attack. Henri, who Sam met during the show, comes out of the theater and motions for her to be quiet and come back inside. She reunites with members of her Hospice group and her cat and everyone settles in quietly for the night.

Evelyn and Lee Abbott live in a farmhouse on the outskirts of Millbrook, New York with their children, deaf daughter Regan, and two sons Marcus and Beau. They are in town attending Marcus’ baseball game when they see the meteor showers enter the atmosphere. It is quickly decided to call the game and everybody heads home. Before they can get very far the aliens attack the little town and start decimating everyone and everything in sight.

DAY TWO: June 19, 2020

Sam decides that she is going to leave the theater by herself and go home to Harlem. As she makes her way with her cat, she gets separated from Frodo. Frodo runs into Eric who follows Frodo to where Sam is. Eric, being from out of the country and going to school, is terrified and wants to tag along with Sam and Frodo. They make it to Harlem and Sam’s apartment where they rest for the night.

Day Three: June 20,2020

Sam and Eric head for the waterfront where the military has been staging boats to evacuate those stranded in the city. The military learned very quickly that the aliens can’t swim so they blew up all the bridges leading out of Manhattan. Now catching one of the boats is the only chance of survival. When they get there Sam tells Eric to take her cat and get to the boat. She will stay behind and distract the aliens so Eric and Frodo can make it. Henri, who is on one of the boats sees Eric running towards the water and yells for the boat to stop for Eric, who makes it. Sam heads back to Harlem where she plays Nina Simone real loud so the aliens can kill her.

Day 89: September 15, 2020

The Abbott family, having survived so far, are in town getting supplies. They leave things that make noise such as chips, toys, etc., but get essential supplies they need. They wear backpacks and walk barefoot on sand paths they made to keep things from crunching under their feet and making noise. They all converse in sign language and gestures they had learned previously because Regan is deaf. As they are leaving town and about to cross the bridge towards their farm, little Beau turns on the noisy space shuttle toy that he snuck out of the store. Lee runs to try and save him before the aliens come but he doesn’t make it.

Day 472: October 3, 2021

The Abbott’s are going about their daily routine on the farm. Evelyn is pregnant and Regan assists her with the chores, laundry, food prep, etc. Lee uses his engineering talents to try to make an earpiece for Regan out of old transistor parts. He does maintenance around the farm and tries to figure out what he can about the aliens. Marcus plays very quietly around the farm after his home schooling sessions with Evelyn. They eat dinner down in the basement being very quiet and then settle in for the night.

Day 473: October 4, 2021

The next day Lee and Marcus go to the river to catch fish, while Evelyn and Regan stay and do chores around the farm. Evelyn’s water breaks and in her panic, steps on a nail and draws the attention of a nearby alien. She turns on the red emergency lighting that is draped around the farm and makes it upstairs to the cast iron tub. The alien is not far behind and she struggles to keep quiet as the baby tries to be born. Lee and Marcus return from the river and see the red lighting and realize there is trouble. Marcus goes to the emergency fireworks rocket and lights it, and the alien takes off after the noise leaving Evelyn to give birth in the tub.

Lee makes sure Evelyn is ok and then tries to find Regan and Marcus. He finds them by the silo but an alien has heard them and they are trapped. Lee sees no choice but to distract the alien so that his children can escape to safety. Lee perishes as Regan and Marcus make it back to the farmhouse. There they discover Evelyn is trapped by an alien. Remembering the high pitched noise the earpiece Lee made her makes, she decides to use the loudspeaker mike to broadcast it. It hurts the alien and Evelyn shoots it while it is defenseless.

Day 474: October 5, 2021

Lee gone and the farm destroyed, Evelyn, Regan, Marcus and the baby decide to head to the nearest bonfire light Lee had marked on a map. They find it is tended by their old friend Emmett. Regan hears a song on Emmett’s radio “Beyond The Sea” that plays over and over again. She figures out that it is coming from a radio station on an island just off the coast. She thinks she can reach it in a day and a half, and plans to head out alone the next morning with her earpiece with the intention of using the radio transmitter to kill any aliens within hearing range.

Day 475: October 6, 2021

The next morning Marcus realizes Regan has left and tells Evelyn. She convinces Emmett he has to go bring her back. Emmett catches up with Regan but she refuses to go back. She convinces Emmett that they need to get the earpiece to the transmitter on the island. It is their only hope of defeating the aliens. They hold up in a train station for the night to rest for the journey.

Day 476: October 7, 2021

Evelyn leaves Marcus alone with the baby and heads into town to get medical supplies and oxygen. Marcus tends to the baby and accidently makes noise and draws the aliens attention. Regan and Emmett head to the coast to get to the island. They make it to a dock and get hijacked by local bad guys. Emmett manages to get loose and dives into the water and tells Regan to do the same. They manage to get on a boat and make it to the island, where they meet Henry and the rest of the people that went there on the boats from the city on DAY ONE. Evelyn fights off the alien and is reunited with Marcus and the baby for the night in Emmett’s bunker.

Day 477: October 8, 2021

Having told Henri about the earpiece and Regan’s plan they decide to head to the radio station but quickly realize an alien hitched a ride on the boat and is on the island. They race to get to the radio station before the alien can stop them. An alien kills Henri but Regan and Emmett make it into the radio station and use the earpiece to transmit over the air the high pitched noise that kills the aliens. Just as Evelyn and Marcus are battling an alien in the bunker, the signal comes on, disables the alien and Marcus kills it.

Some final notes about the Aliens.

It is surmised they came from a hostile planet that blew up and they managed to ride out the journey on the asteroid fragments. When they got to earth the noises were seen as threats so they killed and destroyed whatever made noise. They seemed to be herbivores and not carnivores. They never ate any humans but did eat plants that came with them on the asteroid fragments. The hostile environment they came from made them blind because of it’s lack of light. That’s why they developed extraordinary hearing abilities, which turned out to be their Achilles’ heel. Earth’s atmosphere was lighter than where they came from so they were much stronger here. They could not swim being way too dense, so they would sink when they went in water.

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