Evelyn Abbott

Evelyn lives with Lee and the kids on a New York farm. After the death of her youngest, Beau, she is pregnant again, a risky choice in a world where a cry can be fatal. When labor starts, she is home alone. In the basement she steps on a nail, drops a picture frame and draws a creature into the house.

She switches on the red warning lights and lures the creature away with a kitchen timer, holding back the pain without a sound. Lee and the kids arrive, the baby is born and everyone hides in a shelter in the barn. Marcus and Lee set off fireworks away from the house to lure the creature, the agreed signal so Evelyn can give birth. When the shelter floods and the creature shows up, Evelyn uses the falling water to mask the newborn's sound. The film ends with her shotgun raised.

More than a year later, Lee and Beau are dead and the house is destroyed. Evelyn takes Regan, Marcus and the baby in search of other survivors. Crossing a fenced area, she trips an alarm by accident, and Marcus steps into a bear trap. They shelter in an abandoned foundry and depend on Emmett, an acquaintance who lost his family and doesn't want to help.

When Regan sets off alone for an island, Evelyn goes out for medicine for Marcus and leaves the baby and her son in the shelter. Marcus, exploring, finds the body of Emmett's wife, makes a noise and hides with the baby in an airtight compartment. Evelyn returns in time to save them from a creature that got into the foundry. At the crunch, Marcus uses the radio signal Regan discovered to weaken the creature, and the family fights back together.

Emily Blunt was the one who suggested that John Krasinski, her real-life husband, direct the first film.