What Are Those Alien Pouches In A Quiet Place: Day One?
A Quiet Place: Day One expands on alien lore by including a scene where Eric finds Alien Pouches. These pouches are a mystery that was left unanswered in the prior films.
A Quiet Place: Day One provides many answers about how the Aliens take over the world. One of the only scenes focused on the aliens instead of humans comes toward the end of the movie. When Eric goes to the pharmacy, he doesn’t realize that Frodo, the cat, is following him. After the cat runs off, he enters a building to save him, where he finds the aliens gathered around a bunch of seemingly organic pouches.
These round sacs likely came down on the meteors that brought the aliens to Earth. They look slightly like egg sacs, but the aliens tear them apart. The pouches look stringy and seem to be made of organic material. Because Eric has to get out of there safely, the movie doesn’t linger too long on the pouches. Still, that doesn’t make them any less significant to the world-building in A Quiet Place: Day One.
Are The Pouches The Alien's Food Or Babies?
The pouches in A Quiet Place: Day One are the first big hint about the creatures' biology. The most obvious explanation for the pouches is that they are food that sustains the aliens until they acclimate to their new food chain on Earth. The aliens tear the pouches apart with their sharp teeth. They also don’t have an established food source, as they aren’t shown eating the humans they kill.
The other primary theory about the pouches was that the sacs were related to the aliens’ reproductive process. The pouches already have visual similarities to arachnid eggs. Director Michael Sarnoski confirmed the answer to the question when speaking with BJ Colangelo (via /Film).
The aliens in the A Quiet Place universe farm these pouches to eat, fertilizing the sacs with the bodies of the humans they kill. This explains why they aren’t shown eating their human prey. Additionally, this fits with the sci-fi narrative of the franchise. While using humans as fertilizer is generally risky, there’s nothing to say the aliens in A Quiet Place would be susceptible to human pathogens.
The Pouches Answer A Major Alien Mystery In A Quiet Place: Day One
The pouches shown in A Quiet Place: Day One add fear and suspense while answering a large mystery in the franchise – how the aliens eat. Humans are likely the easiest prey to fertilize their farms because they are located on almost every part of the planet. However, if the aliens killed off all the humans, they could still rely on other animals to keep their farms going. They simply need organic matter to fertilize their sacs, which is abundant on Earth. This answer in A Quiet Place: Day One continues to grow the franchise's lore.
The glimpse of the aliens’ food source also potentially provides an exciting jumping-off point for a future movie. John Krasinski could provide a closer examination of the aliens from a human perspective, in the same vein as the Alien franchise. Alternatively, he could give an origin story for the A Quiet Place aliens, starting from their planet and leading up to their arrival on Earth.
