A Quiet Place Part II has many similarities to the first film, but it smartly avoids ruining Lee Abbott’s heartbreaking death scene. The original A Quiet Place film tells the story of a family dealing with a post-apocalyptic world of sound-sensitive aliens. In the movie, Lee (John Krasinski) and Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) attempt to keep their children, Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe), safe from monsters all while welcoming a new baby into the world. Unfortunately, things don’t go smoothly. In the end, Lee ends up sacrificing his life to keep his kids safe, drawing the monsters away from them with a scream. Thankfully, Regan eventually realizes that feedback from her hearing device is a weapon against the creatures, and Evelyn kills the monsters while they’re vulnerable.

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The sequel picks up where the original film left off. After killing the monsters, Evelyn and her kids realize the aliens destroyed their home, and they take the new baby in search of another place to live. After drawing the attention of the monsters, the Abbott family goes on the run and bumps into their former friend Emmett (Cillian Murphy), who reluctantly helps them. Though Emmett initially wants the family to leave him alone, he eventually accompanies Regan on her quest to play her hearing device feedback over the radio, thus helping others fight against the monsters.

The A Quiet Place sequel makes a point of not diminishing Lee’s death. Regan and Emmett eventually get to a radio station in the sequel, hoping to play her hearing device feedback over the airwaves. However, one of the monsters is threatening them, and Emmett puts himself in harm’s way to try to protect Regan and give her time to set up the radio. When the monster finally closes in and is about to kill Emmett, Regan plays her feedback over the speakers, incapacitating the beast enough for her to kill it. By letting Emmett live, the movie avoids copying Lee’s A Quiet Place death.

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If Emmett would’ve died in the same way as Lee, it could’ve hurt the original movie. Emmett is the opposite of Lee in the sequel, cowardly hiding from the monsters and trying to keep himself safe over others. Highlighting the point, Regan tells him in the film that he’s nothing like her father. Though he later does help Regan, putting her safety over his, he’s still no replacement for her dad. If anyone’s like Lee, it’s Regan, not Emmett. If Emmett would’ve died in the same way as Lee, it would’ve been predictable, made Lee’s death more forgettable, and gone against the message that Emmett wasn’t Lee.

The death would’ve also undermined the sequel’s ending. The final scenes of A Quiet Place 2 are a direct role reversal from the first film. The adults keep the kids safe in the first movie, sacrificing themselves and killing the aliens to defend their children. The sequel takes the opposite approach, with the kids protecting the adults. While Regan is busy saving Emmett, Marcus is also saving Evelyn from the aliens. The end of A Quiet Place Part II is all about the kids stepping up, and Cillian Murphy doing his best John Krasinski impression wouldn’t fit that too well.

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