He had seen that she was hurt and so he had brought her back to his house. When Cassie awakens, Evan tells her that he had found her off the side of the road during one of his hunting trips. He treated her gunshot wound and stitched it up. He then goes and carries her back to his family's home and takes care of her until she can move again. She eventually gets out under the truck and makes a run for it but passes out. He decided to not kill her and help her because he has fallen in love with her courage, strength and beauty, so he shoots her leg forcing her to hide and try to stop the bleeding. He is first introduced as the silencer that shoots Cassie Sullivan on the highway. He is portrayed by Alex Roe in the film adaptation. He helps Ben and the others get settled to live a new life before he embarks on a solo mission to eliminate the remaining Silencers and military bases before they could regroup to kill the remaining humans.Įvan serves as a narrator in The Infinite Sea and The Last Star. He returns to normal due to Ringer and Ben Parish giving him his consciousness back but learns that Cassie has sacrificed her life to stop the 5th Wave. Over time, he gets captured by Vosch and drained of his memories and consciousness to make him into a blank slate and killing machine. He has been classified as a threat by Vosch. He has strength, speed and endurance greater than that of normal humans as well as a neural connection to the Others' spaceship. It is soon discovered that Evan, along with the other silencers, are truly humans but were enhanced by the Others from when they were still in the womb by use of alien nanotechnology.

He ultimately chooses to side with Cassie and her friends against Vosch. As time goes on, Evan begins to question his place as a Silencer in the Others' Invasion. Those feelings are soon returned but become complicated when she learns that he isn't truly human. He eventually becomes Cassie's love interest. He first came upon Cassie Sullivan as one of his targets, but after wounding her he instead chooses to care for and then love her. He is a silencer and one of the Others who have come to Earth. I have the heart to do what I have to do.Įvan Walker is one of the main characters in The 5th Wave trilogy by Rick Yancey.

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