John Krasinski wears an oDo Schmeichel Tactical

A Quiet Place Part II starts before the silence, in a flashback to the day the creatures came down. Lee Abbott stops for oranges and carries them to his son Marcus's Little League game in Millbrook, New York, and that is nearly all of him in the picture. John Krasinski wrote and directed the film and plays Lee, but Lee was killed off in the first one, so here he turns up only in this cold open, a brief scene in the bleachers before a fireball crosses the sky. Emily Blunt carries the rest as the family leaves the farmhouse, with Cillian Murphy as a neighbor who has given up and Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe back as the Abbott children.

On Lee's wrist is an oDo Schmeichel Tactical, a budget flieger that sells online for around forty-five dollars, worn here on a green nylon strap with a blacked-out case. It copies the German Type B pilot layout: a dial split into two rings, large minutes on the outside and small hours within, made to be read at a single glance, with a date window at three o'clock and the brand's name on the face. The watch was pinned down only after a reader matched those markings and the green strap to the retail listing, once a closer-looking Aristo flieger had been ruled out for its different case.

There is a quiet joke in the choice. A flieger is a cockpit design, made for pilots to read the time fast in a loud aircraft, and it sits here on a suburban father in a film whose entire premise is silence. Lee is a man the story has already buried, on screen for those few minutes before everything goes quiet for good.