Ivy. She tricks it into falling into a deep hole to its death. The creature is Noah wearing one of the costumes, which he discovered under the floorboards of the room where he had been confined after stabbing Lucius. As she travels through the woods, Ivy's parents unlock a box and look at photographs of the elders outside a counseling center, revealing that it is the early 21st century instead of the 19th century. After she climbs over the wall at the edge of the woods, Ivy encounters a park ranger driving a patrol car who is shocked to hear that she has come out of the woods. Ivy gives the ranger a list of medicines that she must acquire. The ranger talks to his boss, not mentioning his encounter with Ivy. The village was founded in the late 1970s by Edward Walker, then a professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania. Recruiting people he met at a grief counseling clinic, they join in creating a place where they would live and be protected from any aspect of the outside world. Edward's family fortune purchased a wildlife preserve, built Covington in the middle, funded a ranger corps to make sure no one got in, and even paid off the government to make it a no-fly zone. The park ranger retrieves the requested medicine from the ranger station and Ivy returns to the village, unaware of the truth of the situation. During her absence, the Elders secretly open their black boxes, each containing mementos from their lives in the outside world, including items related to their past traumas as crime victims. They gather around Lucius's bed when they hear that Ivy has returned and that she killed one of the monsters. Edward points out to Noah's grieving mother that his death will allow them to continue deceiving the rest of the villagers that there are creatures in the woods. Cast Bryce Dallas Howard as Ivy Elizabeth Walker Joaquin Phoenix as Lucius Hunt Adrien Brody as Noah Percy William Hurt as Edward Walker Sigourney Weaver as Alice Hunt Brendan Gleeson as August Nicholson Cherry Jones as Mrs. Clack Celia Weston as Vivian Percy Frank Collison as Victor Jayne Atkinson as Tabitha Walker Judy Greer as Kitty Walker Fran Kranz as Christop Crane Liz Stauber as Beatrice Michael Pitt as Finton Coin Jesse Eisenberg as Jamison M. Night Shyamalan as Guard